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<section id="default-template">
    <title>The Default Template</title>
    <para>&PRODUCT; includes a CentOS template. This template is downloaded by the Secondary Storage VM after the primary and secondary storage are configured. You can use this template in your production deployment or you can delete it and use custom templates.</para>
    <para>The root password for the default template is "password".</para>
    <para>A default template is provided for each of XenServer, KVM, and vSphere.  The templates that are downloaded depend on the hypervisor type that is available in your cloud.  Each template is approximately 2.5 GB physical size.</para>
    <para>The default template includes the standard iptables rules, which will block most access to the template excluding ssh.</para>
    <programlisting># iptables --list
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  anywhere             anywhere

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination
RH-Firewall-1-INPUT  all  --  anywhere             anywhere

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination

Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references)
target     prot opt source               destination
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere             anywhere
ACCEPT     icmp --  anywhere        anywhere       icmp any
ACCEPT     esp  --  anywhere        anywhere
ACCEPT     ah   --  anywhere        anywhere
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere        224.0.0.251    udp dpt:mdns
ACCEPT     udp  --  anywhere        anywhere       udp dpt:ipp
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere        anywhere       tcp dpt:ipp
ACCEPT     all  --  anywhere        anywhere       state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
ACCEPT     tcp  --  anywhere        anywhere       state NEW tcp dpt:ssh
REJECT     all  --  anywhere        anywhere       reject-with icmp-host-
</programlisting>
</section>