Document Purpose: How to customize, build, and run the OpenBMC Web UI
Audience: Developer familiar with HTML, CSS and JS
Prerequisites: Current Linux, Mac, or Windows system
The webui-vue repository will replace phosphor-webui once it is deprecated. Webui-vue uses the Vue.js framework to interact with the BMC via the Redfish API.
Visit README.md to learn more about why the Vue.js application was created, features needed to reach parity and why it is replacing the Angular.JS application.
Visit CONTRIBUTING.md to find information on project set-up, design information, and contributing processes.
Visit the OpenBMC Web UI Style Guide to find information on:
Visit the OpenBMC Web UI Themes Guide - How to customize to learn how to create custom builds to meet your branding and customization needs for:
Connect to Web UI in QEMU
You will need the QEMU session running per instructions in the "Download and Start QEMU Session" section of dev-environment.
Assuming you used the default of 2443 for the HTTPS port in your QEMU session, you will point your web browser to https://localhost:2443.
Login with default username and password and verify basic Web UI features are working as expected.
Note You will need to approve the security exception in your browser to connect. OpenBMC is running with a self-signed SSL certificate.
The phosphor-webui repository provides a web-based interface for an OpenBMC. It uses the AngularJS framework to interact with the BMC via REST API calls. It allows users to view hardware information, update firmware, set network settings, and much more.
See directions below to learn how to customize phosphor-webui.
Phosphor-webui was built on AngularJS and AngularJS goes End of Life June 30, 2021.
Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/openbmc/phosphor-webui.git
Install appropriate packages and start web UI
Follow the directions in the phosphor-webui README to install the required packages and start the web UI. You can use the development environment created in dev-environment or your own system assuming you install the required packages noted in the README.
Customize the web UI login screen and verify
Kill your npm run from the previous step using Ctrl^C. Grab a png that you will use to represent your customized version of OpenBMC. Feel free to use any .png you wish for this step.
wget http://www.pngmart.com/files/3/Free-PNG-Transparent-Image.png
Copy your new .png into the appropriate directory
cp Free-PNG-Transparent-Image.png app/assets/images/
Point to that new image in the web UI HTML
vi app/login/controllers/login-controller.html # Replace the logo.svg near the top with Free-PNG-Transparent-Image.png <img src="../../assets/images/Free-PNG-Transparent-Image.png" class="login__logo" alt="OpenBMC logo" role="img"/>
Start up the server with your change
npm run-script server
Load web browser at https://localhost:8080 and verify your new image is on the login screen.
Kill your npm run using Ctrl^C.
Customize the header with the new image and verify The header is on every page in the web UI. It has a smaller version of the logo in it which we are changing with this step.
Similar to the previous step, modify the appropriate HTML for the header:
vi app/common/directives/app-header.html # Replace logo.svg with Free-PNG-Transparent-Image.png again <div class="logo__wrapper"><img src="../../assets/images/Free-PNG-Transparent-Image.png" class="header__logo" alt="company logo"/></div>
Start up the server with your change
npm run-script server
Browse to https://localhost:8080 and verify your new image is on the header.
Note that you will need to log in to view the header. Point the web UI to your QEMU session by typing the QEMU session (e.g. localhost:2443) in the "BMC HOST OR BMC IP ADDRESS" field.
Note that in the HTML where you're replacing the images, there is also the corresponding text that goes with the images. Changing the text to match with your logo is also something you can easily do to customize your creation of an OpenBMC system.
And that's it! You've downloaded, customized, and run the OpenBMC phosphor-webui code!