Single Node: EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable must be set?

Thanks Masanori Itoh, that solved my question.

I was hoping for a quick start...

http://nova.openstack.org/2011.2/quickstart.html

says nothing about needed variables beginning with EC2....
is there anything authoritative which covers things that are missing that doc?

E.g., i never heard of a command beginning with "euca" although trying to get up to speed with it.

Hi Chuck, that quick start is specifically intended for developers to start quickly, not for actual proof of concepts for administrators. I'd suggest you start with the Starter Guide instead - see http://docs.openstack.org/cactus/openstack-compute/starter/content/.

Hi

I am getting similar error when I run this during server1(CC) setup

euca-describe-availability-zones verbose
EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable must be set.
Connection failed

Should I have to set EC2_ACCESS_KEY and EC2_SECRET_KEY?
If yes, plz tell me how to do it.

I followed http://docs.openstack.org/cactus/openstack-compute/starter/content/Nova_Components-d1e718.html and I got stuck up in this command .
My nova.conf

--dhcpbridge_flagfile=/etc/nova/nova.conf
--dhcpbridge=/usr/bin/nova-dhcpbridge
--logdir=/var/log/nova
--lock_path=/var/lock/nova
--state_path=/var/lib/nova
--verbose
--s3_host=192.168.21.171
--rabbit_host=192.168.21.171
--cc_host=192.168.21.171
--ec2_url=http://192.168.21.171:8773/services/Cloud
--fixed_range=192.168.0.0/16
--network_size=8
--FAKE_subdomain=ec2
--routing_source_ip=192.168.21.171
--sql_connection=mysql://root:mygreatsecret@192.168.21.171/nova
--glance_host=192.168.21.171
--image_service=nova.image.glance.GlanceImageService
--iscsi_ip_prefix=192.168.

Hi Ahok,

You need to generate the credentials and source the file novarc to environment variable EC2_ACCESS_KEY and EC2_SECRET_KEY, whether it's single node or multi node installation.

You can find the instructions here,
http://docs.openstack.org/openstack-compute/admin/content/ch03s03.html#d5e314

Hi Sateesh

Thanks for ur help.

I executed these comments without error

mkdir –p /root/creds
/usr/bin/python /usr/bin/nova-manage project zipfile $NOVA_PROJECT $NOVA_PROJECT_USER /root/creds/novacreds.zip

unzip /root/creds/novacreds.zip -d /root/creds/
cat /root/creds/novarc >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

But when i execute the below it gives

euca-describe-availability-zones verbose

EC2_ACCESS_KEY environment variable must be set.
Connection failed

I logged in http://open.eucalyptus.com but i am not sure how to get EC2_ACCESS_KEY and EC2_SECRET_KEY ....
and how to add it...

Hi

Thank for all help..
Problem solved...
 No need to get EC2_ACCESS_KEY and EC2_SECRET_KEY from anywhere...I just redone the previous steps with little care...

Cool :-)