10.6. Validate Dashboard Installation

⁠10.6. Validate Dashboard Installation

Once the Dashboard has been successfully installed and configured, you can access the user interface with your web browser. Replace HOSTNAME with the host name or IP address of the server on which you installed the Dashboard service:

HTTPS
```
https://HOSTNAME/dashboard/
```
HTTP
```
http://HOSTNAME/dashboard/
```

When prompted, log in using the credentials of your OpenStack user. For information on creating an OpenStack user, refer to Section 3.9, “Create a Regular User Account”.

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Figure 10.3. Dashboard Login Screen

⁠10.6.1. OpenStack Dashboard - Admin Tab

The Admin tab provides an interface where the administrators can view usage and manage instances, volumes, flavors, images, projects, users, services, and quotas.

Note

The Admin tab is only displayed in the main window if you have logged in as an administrator.

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Figure 10.4. Dashboard - Admin Tab

You can access the following options available in the Admin tab.

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Table 10.2. System Panel

Parameter Name	Description
`Overview`	View basic reports.
`Resource Usage`	Use the following tabs to view the following usages: Daily Report - View the daily report. Stats - View the statistics of all resources.
`Hypervisors`	View the hypervisor summary.
`Host Aggregates`	View, create, and edit host aggregates. View the list of availability zones.
`Instances`	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 using the console.
`Volumes`	View, create, edit, and delete volumes, and volume types.
`Flavors`	View, create, edit, view extra specs for, and delete flavors. Flavors are the virtual hardware templates in OpenStack.
`Images`	View, create, edit properties for, and delete custom images.
`Networks`	View, create, edit properties for, and delete networks.
`Routers`	View, create, edit properties for, and delete routers.
`System Info`	Contains the following tabs: Services - View a list of the services. Compute Services - View a list of all Compute services. Network Agents - View the network agents. Default Quotas - View default quota values. Quotas are hard-coded in OpenStack Compute and define the maximum allowable size and number of resources.

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Table 10.3. Identity Panel

Parameter Name	Description
`Projects`	View, create, assign users to, remove users from, and delete projects.
`Users`	View, create, enable, disable, and delete users.

⁠10.6.2. OpenStack Dashboard - Project Tab

The Project tab provides an interface for viewing and managing the resources of a project. Select a project from the CURRENT PROJECT drop-down list on the top right side to view and manage resources in that project.

The Project tab displays the details of the selected project.

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Figure 10.5. Dashboard - Project Tab

Access the following tabs:

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Table 10.4. Compute

Parameter Name	Description
`Overview`	View reports for the project.
`Instances`	View, launch, create a snapshot from, stop, pause, or reboot instances, or connect to them through the console.
`Volumes`	Use the following tabs to complete these tasks: Volumes - View, create, edit, and delete volumes. Volume Snapshots - View, create, edit, and delete volume snapshots.
`Images`	View images, instance snapshots, and volume snapshots created project users, and any images that are publicly available. Create, edit, and delete images, and launch instances from images and snapshots.
`Access & Security`	Use these tabs to complete these tasks: Security Groups tab- View, create, edit, and delete security groups, and security group rules. Keypairs tab- View, create, edit, and import keypairs, and delete keypairs. Floating IPs tab- Allocate an IP address to or release it from a project. API Access tab- View API endpoints.

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Table 10.5. Network

Parameter Name	Description
`Network Topology`	View the interactive topology of the network.
`Networks`	Create and manage public and private networks.
`Routers`	Create and manage subnets.

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Table 10.6. Object Store

Parameter Name	Description
`Containers`	Create and manage storage containers. A container is a storage compartment for your data and provides a way for you to organize your data. It is similar to the concept as a Linux file directory but cannot be nested.

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Table 10.7. Orchestration

Parameter Name	Description
`Stacks`	Orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications using templates, through both an OpenStack-native REST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API.

⁠10.6.3. OpenStack Dashboard - Red Hat Access Tab

Red Hat Access tab gives you the option to sign in to the Red Hat Customer Portal and search for articles and solutions.

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Figure 10.6. Red Hat Access Tab

This tab contains a Log option that you can use to check the console log file for your instances and the Support option to check for support cases for issues. You can also use this to open new support cases using the Open a New Support Case button.