Chapter 1. The Red Hat OpenStack Platform Dashboard service (horizon)
The Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) Dashboard (horizon) is a web-based graphical user interface that you can use to manage RHOSP services.
To access the browser dashboard, you must install the Dashboard service, and you must know the dashboard host name, or IP, and login password. The dashboard URL is:
http://HOSTNAME/dashboard/
1.1. The Admin tab
In the Admin tab you can view usage and manage instances, volumes, flavors, images, projects, users, services, and quotas.
The Admin tab displays in the main window when you log in as an admin user.
The following options are available in the Admin tab:
Table 1.1. System Panel
Parameter name | Description |
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Overview | View basic reports. |
Resource Usage | Use the following tabs to view the following usages:
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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 with the console. |
Volumes | View, create, edit, and delete volumes, and volume types. |
Flavors | View, create, edit, view extra specifications for, and delete flavors. Flavors are the virtual hardware templates in Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP). |
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. |
Floating IPs | View allocated floating IP addresses for all projects. |
Defaults | View and edit the default quotas (maximum limits) for resources in the environment. |
Metadata Definitions | Import, view, and edit metadata definition namespaces, and associate the metadata definitions with specific resource types. |
System Information | Contains the following tabs:
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1.1.1. Viewing allocated floating IP addresses
You can use the Floating IPs
panel to view a list of allocated floating IP addresses. You can access the same information from the command line with the nova list --all-projects
command.
1.2. The Project tab
In the Project tab you can view and manage project resources. Set a project as active in Identity > Projects to view and manage resources in that project.
The following options are available in the Project tab:
Table 1.2. The Compute tab
Parameter name | Description |
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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:
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Images | View images, instance snapshots, and volume snapshots that project users create, and any images that are publicly available. Create, edit, and delete images, and launch instances from images and snapshots. |
Access & Security | Use the following tabs to complete these tasks:
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Table 1.3. The Network tab
Parameter name | Description |
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Network Topology | View the interactive topology of the network. |
Networks | Create and manage public and private networks and subnets. |
Routers | Create and manage routers. |
Trunks |
Create and manage trunks. Requires the |
Table 1.4. The Object Store tab
Parameter name | Description |
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Containers | Create and manage storage containers. A container is a storage compartment for data, and provides a way for you to organize your data. It is similar to the concept of a Linux file directory, but it cannot be nested. |
Table 1.5. The Orchestration tab
Parameter name | Description |
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Stacks | Orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications with templates, through both an OpenStack-native REST API and a CloudFormation-compatible Query API. |
1.3. The Identity tab
In the Identity tab you can view and manage projects and users.
The following options are available in the Identity tab:
- Projects - View, create, edit, and delete projects, view project usage, add or remove users as project members, modify quotas, and set an active project.
- Users - View, create, edit, disable, and delete users, and change user passwords. The Users tab is available when you log in as an admin user.
For more information about managing your cloud with the Red Hat OpenStack Platform dashboard, see the following guides: