openstack-manuals/doc/common/section_dashboard_access.xml
Deepti Navale 26b676b753 Updated the section-dashboard-access.xml file
Updated the dashboard access section to include new screenshots
for the Admin and Project tabs and also the new options available to
users in the Havana release.
Removed the old dashboard-project.png and dashboard_admin_overview.png images.

Change-Id: Ida3cc07a2d0f4cba1aee559597352ebf97461c61
2013-09-27 14:54:48 +10:00

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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xmlns:raxm="http://docs.rackspace.com/api/metadata" version="5.0"
xml:id="log_in_dashboard">
<?dbhtml stop-chunking?>
<title>Log in to the dashboard</title>
<para>The dashboard is available on the node with the
<literal>nova-dashboard</literal> server role.</para>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>Ask the cloud operator for the host name or public
IP address from which you can access the dashboard,
and your user name and password.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Open a Web browser. Make sure that JavaScript and
cookies are enabled.</para>
<note>
<para>To use the Virtual Network Computing (VNC)
client for the dashboard, your browser must
support HTML5 Canvas and HTML5 WebSockets. The VNC
client is based on noVNC. For details, see <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/blob/master/README.md"
>noVNC: HTML5 VNC Client</link>. For a list of
supported browsers, see <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/wiki/Browser-support"
xlink:show="embed">Browser
support</link>.</para>
</note>
</step>
<step>
<para>In the address bar, type the host name or IP address
for the dashboard:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>https://<replaceable>IP_ADDRESS_OR_HOSTNAME</replaceable>/</userinput></screen>
<note>
<title>Certificate Warning</title>
<para>If a certificate warning appears when you try to
access the URL for the first time, a self-signed
certificate is in use, which is not considered
trustworthy by default. Verify the certificate or
add an exception in the browser to bypass the
warning.</para>
</note>
</step>
<step>
<para>On the <guilabel>Log In</guilabel> page, enter your
user name and password, and click <guibutton>Sign
In</guibutton>.</para>
<para>The top-level row shows your user name. You can also
access <guilabel>Settings</guilabel> or sign out of
the dashboard.</para>
<para>The visible tabs and functions in the dashboard
depend on the access permissions, or <emphasis
role="italic">roles</emphasis>, of the user you
are logged in as.</para>
<para>If you are logged in as an end user, the main screen
shows the <link linkend="dashboard_project_tab"
>Project</link> tab.</para>
<para>If you are logged in as an administrator, the main
screen shows the <link linkend="dashboard_project_tab"
>Project</link> tab and <link
linkend="dashboard_admin_tab">Admin</link>
tab.</para>
</step>
</procedure>
<section xml:id="dashboard_project_tab">
<title>OpenStack dashboard&mdash;Project tab</title>
<para>Select a project from the <guilabel>CURRENT
PROJECT</guilabel> drop-down list on the left side to
view and manage resources in that project.</para>
<para>The <guilabel>Project</guilabel> tab displays the
details of the selected project.</para>
<informalfigure xml:id="dashboard_project_user">
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="figures/dashboard-project-tab.png"
format="PNG" contentwidth="6in" width="6in"/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</informalfigure>
<para>Access the following tabs:</para>
<para><guilabel>Manage Compute</guilabel> tab</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Overview</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View reports for the project.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Instances</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View, launch, create a snapshot from, stop,
pause, or reboot instances, or connect to them
through VNC.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Volumes</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View, create, edit, and delete
volumes.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Images &amp;
Snapshots</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View images, instance snapshots, and volume
snapshots created project users, plus any
images that are publicly available. Create,
edit, and delete images, and launch instances
from images and snapshots.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Access &amp;
Security</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Use these tabs to complete these
tasks:</para>
<formalpara>
<title><guilabel>Security Groups</guilabel>
tab</title>
<para>View, create, edit, and delete security
groups and security group rules.</para>
</formalpara>
<formalpara>
<title><guilabel>Keypairs</guilabel>
tab</title>
<para>View, create, edit, and import keypairs,
and delete keypairs.</para>
</formalpara>
<formalpara>
<title><guilabel>Floating IPs</guilabel>
tab</title>
<para>Allocate an IP address to or release it
from a project.</para>
</formalpara>
<formalpara>
<title><guilabel>API Access</guilabel>
tab</title>
<para>View API endpoints.</para>
</formalpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para><guilabel>Manage Network</guilabel> tab</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Networks</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Create and manage public and private networks.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Routers</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Create and manage subnets.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Network Topology</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View the network topology.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para><guilabel>Object Store</guilabel> tab</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Containers</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Create and manage object storage.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para><guilabel>Orchestration</guilabel> tab</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Stacks</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Use REST API to orchestrate multiple composite cloud
applications</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</section>
<section xml:id="dashboard_admin_tab">
<title>OpenStack dashboard&mdash;Admin tab</title>
<para>Enables administrative users to view usage and manage
instances, volumes, flavors, images, projects, users,
services, and quotas.</para>
<informalfigure xml:id="dashboard_admin_project_tab">
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata
fileref="figures/dashboard-admin-tab.png"
format="PNG" contentwidth="6in" width="6in"/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</informalfigure>
<para>Access the following categories to complete these tasks:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Overview</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View basic reports.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Resource Usage</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Use these tabs to view the following usages:</para>
<formalpara>
<title><guilabel>Global Disk Usage</guilabel>
tab</title>
<para>View the global disk usage for all tenants as an
average over the last 30 days.</para>
</formalpara>
<formalpara>
<title><guilabel>Global Network Traffic Usage</guilabel>
tab</title>
<para>View the global network usage for all tenants as
an average over the last 30 days.</para>
</formalpara>
<formalpara>
<title><guilabel>Global Object Storage Usage</guilabel>
tab</title>
<para>View the global object storage usage for all
tenants as an average over the last 30
days.</para>
</formalpara>
<formalpara>
<title><guilabel>Global Network Usage</guilabel>
tab</title>
<para>View the global network usage for all tenants as
an average over the last 30 days.</para>
</formalpara>
<formalpara>
<title><guilabel>Stats</guilabel>
tab</title>
<para>View the statistics of all resources.</para>
</formalpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Hypervisors</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View the hypervisor summary.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Instances</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View, pause, resume, suspend, migrate, soft
or hard reboot, and delete running instances
that belong to users of some, but not all,
projects. Also, view the log for an instance
or access an instance through VNC.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Volumes</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View, create, edit, and delete volumes and
volume types.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Flavors</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View, create, edit, view extra specs for,
and delete flavors. A flavor is size for an
instance.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Images</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View, create, edit properties for, and
delete custom images.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Networks</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View, create, edit properties for, and
delete networks.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Routers</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View, create, edit properties for, and
delete routers.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Defaults</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View default quota values. Quotas are
hard-coded in OpenStack Compute and define
the maximum allowable size and number of
resources.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>System Info</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Use these tabs to view the service info:</para>
<formalpara>
<title><guilabel>Services</guilabel> tab</title>
<para>View a list of the services.</para>
</formalpara>
<formalpara>
<title><guilabel>Compute Services</guilabel> tab</title>
<para>View a list of all Compute services.</para>
</formalpara>
<formalpara>
<title><guilabel>Availability Zones</guilabel>
tab</title>
<para>View the availability zones.</para>
</formalpara>
<formalpara>
<title><guilabel>Host Aggregates</guilabel> tab</title>
<para>View host aggregates.</para>
</formalpara>
<formalpara>
<title><guilabel>Network Agents</guilabel>
tab</title>
<para>View the network agents.</para>
</formalpara>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Domains</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View domains.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Projects</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View, create, assign users to, remove users
from, and delete projects.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Users</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View, create, enable, disable, and delete
users.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Groups</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View, create, enable, disable, and delete
groups.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Roles</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View, create, enable, disable, and delete
roles.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</section>
</section>