The Administration Portal allows you to monitor, create and maintain your Red Hat Storage platform using an interactive graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI functions in two modes, tree or flat, allowing you to navigate to the system's resources, either hierarchically or directly. The powerful Search feature ensures that you can locate any resource in the enterprise, wherever it may be in the hierarchy; and you can use Tags and Bookmarks to help you to store the results of your searches for later reference.
It is assumed that you have correctly installed Red Hat Storage Console, including servers, and have logged into the Administration Portal. If you are attempting to set up Red Hat Storage Console, it is recommended that you read the Red Hat Storage Console 2.0 Installation Guide.
After you have successfully logged into Red Hat Storage Console, the Administration Portal displays. The graphical interface consists of a number of contextual panes and menus, and can be used in two modes, tree mode and flat mode. Tree mode allows you to browse the object hierarchy of a cluster, and is the recommended manner of operation. The elements of the GUI are shown in the diagram below.
User Interface Elements
Header The Header Bar contains the name of the current logged in user, the button, the button, and the button. The button provides access to version information. The button allows you to configure user roles. 
Search Bar The Search bar allows you to quickly search for resources such as servers and volumes. You can build queries to find the resources that you need. Queries can be as simple as a list of all the servers in the system, or much more complex. As you type each part of the search query, you will be offered choices to assist you in building the search. The star icon can be used to save the search as a bookmark. 
Resource Tabs All Resources, such as Servers and Clusters, can be managed using the appropriate tab. Additionally, the Events tabs allow you to manage and view events across the entire system. Clicking a tab displays the results of the most recent search query on the selected object. For example, if you recently searched for all servers starting with "M", clicking the server tab displays a list of all servers starting with "M". The Administration Portal uses the following tabs: Clusters, Servers, Users, and Events. 
Results list Perform a task on an individual item, multiple items, or all the items in the results list, by selecting the item(s) and then clicking the relevant action button. If multiple selection is not possible, the button is disabled. Details of a selected item display in the details pane. 
Details Pane The Details pane displays detailed information about a selected item in the Results Grid. If multiple items are selected, the Details pane displays information on the first selected item only. 
Bookmarks Pane Bookmarks are used to save frequently-used or complicated searches for repeated use. Bookmarks can be added, edited, or removed. 
Alerts/Events Pane The Alerts pane lists all events with a severity of Error or Warning. The system records all events, which are listed as audits in the Alerts section. Like Events, Alerts can also be viewed in the lowermost panel of the Events tab, by re-sizing the panel and clicking the Alert tab. This tabbed panel also appears in other tabs, such as the Server tab.
Minimum Supported Browser Resolution for Working with the Administration Portal
The minimum supported resolution viewing the Administration Portal in a web browser is 1024x768. When viewed at a lower resolution, the Administration Portal will not render correctly.
The Administration Portal provides two different modes for managing your resources, tree mode and flat mode. Tree mode displays resources in a hierarchical view per cluster, from the highest level of the cluster, down to the individual volumes. Tree mode provides a visual representation of the storage system. Working in tree mode is highly recommended for most operations.
Flat mode offers powerful search functionality and allows you to customize how you manage your system. It gives you access to any resource, regardless of its position in the enterprise. In this mode the full power of the search feature can be used. Flat mode does not limit you to viewing the resources of a single hierarchy, but allows you to search across clusters, or storage domains. For example, you may need to find all servers that are using more than 80% CPU across clusters, or locate all servers that have the highest utilization. Flat mode makes this possible. In addition, certain objects are not in the cluster hierarchy, so they will not appear in tree mode. Users are not part of the cluster hierarchy, and can be accessed only in flat mode.
To access flat mode, click on the "System" item in the pane on the left-hand side of the screen. You will know that you are in flat mode if the "Users" resource tab appears.
