openstack-manuals/doc/common/section_dashboard_access.xml
zhangchunlong 887c5c505f misusing the word "Containers" in Orchestration tab
the word "Containers" should be the word "Stacks"

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<!DOCTYPE section [
<!ENTITY % openstack SYSTEM "entities/openstack.ent">
%openstack;
]>
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
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 for your user name and password.</para>
</step>
<step>
<para>Open a web browser that has JavaScript and cookies
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"
>Browser
support</link>.</para>
</note>
</step>
<step>
<para>In the address bar, enter the host name or IP
address for the dashboard.</para>
<screen><userinput>https://<replaceable>ipAddressOrHostName</replaceable>/</userinput></screen>
<note>
<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 of the window displays 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.<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>If you are logged in as an end user, the <link
linkend="dashboard_project_tab"
>Project</link> tab is
displayed.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>If you are logged in as an administrator, the <link
linkend="dashboard_project_tab"
>Project</link> tab and <link
linkend="dashboard_admin_tab"
>Admin</link> tab are
displayed.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
</step>
</procedure>
<section xml:id="dashboard_project_tab">
<title>OpenStack dashboard&mdash;Project tab</title>
<para>Projects are organizational units in the cloud, and are
also known as tenants or accounts. Each user is a member
of one or more projects. Within a project, a user creates
and manages instances.</para>
<para>From the <guilabel>Project</guilabel> tab, you can view and manage
the resources in a selected project, including instances and images.
You select the project from the <guilabel>CURRENT PROJECT</guilabel>
list at the top of the tab.</para>
<figure xml:id="dashboard_project_user">
<title>Project tab</title>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="figures/dashboard-project-tab.png"
format="PNG" contentwidth="6in" width="6in"/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
<para>From the <guilabel>Project</guilabel> tab, you can
access the following tabs:</para>
<informaltable rules="all" width="75%">
<col width="30%"/>
<col width="70%"/>
<thead>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" align="center"><guilabel>Compute</guilabel> tab</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Overview</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View reports for the project.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Instances</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View, launch, create a snapshot from, stop, pause, or
reboot instances, or connect to them through VNC.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Volumes</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Use the following tabs to complete these
tasks:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Volumes</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View, create, edit, and delete volumes.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Volume Snapshots</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View, create, edit, and delete volume snapshots.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Images</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View images and instance snapshots created by project
users, plus any images that are publicly available. Create,
edit, and delete images, and launch instances from images
and snapshots.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Access &amp; Security</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Use the following tabs to complete these tasks:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Security Groups</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>View, create, edit, and delete security
groups and security group rules.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Key Pairs</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>View, create, edit, import, and delete key
pairs.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Floating IPs</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>Allocate an IP address to or release it
from a project.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>API Access</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>View API endpoints.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" align="center"><guilabel>Network</guilabel> tab</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Network Topology</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View the network topology.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Networks</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Create and manage public and private networks.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Routers</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Create and manage subnets.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" align="center"><guilabel>Object Store</guilabel> tab</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Containers</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Create and manage containers and objects.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" align="center"><guilabel>Orchestration</guilabel> tab</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Stacks</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Use the REST API to orchestrate multiple
composite cloud applications.</para></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</informaltable>
</section>
<section xml:id="dashboard_admin_tab">
<title>OpenStack dashboard&mdash;Admin tab</title>
<para>Administrative users can use the
<guilabel>Admin</guilabel> tab to view usage and to
manage instances, volumes, flavors, images, projects,
users, services, and quotas.</para>
<figure xml:id="dashboard_admin_project_tab">
<title>Admin tab</title>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata
fileref="figures/dashboard-admin-tab.png"
format="PNG" contentwidth="6in" width="6in"/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
</figure>
<para>Access the following categories to complete these tasks:</para>
<informaltable rules="all" width="75%">
<col width="30%"/>
<col width="70%"/>
<thead>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" align="center"><guilabel>System Panel</guilabel> tab</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Overview</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View basic reports.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Resource Usage</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Use the following tabs to view the following usages:</para>
<!--Lots of updates happening to the dashboard. Leaving these for
now. Know from talking to Devs that there are some big changes to
Resource Usage tab. Want to retain these for now. And remove once
confirmed that these options will not be retained anymore -->
<variablelist>
<!-- <varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Global Disk Usage</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View the disk usage for all tenants as an average over
the last 30 days.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Global Network Traffic Usage</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View the network usage for all tenants as an average over
the last 30 days.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Global Object Storage Usage</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View the object storage usage for all tenants as an average
over the last 30 days.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Global Network Usage</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View the network usage for all tenants as an average
over the last 30 days.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>-->
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Daily Report</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View the daily report.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Stats</guilabel></term>
<listitem>
<para>View the statistics of all resources.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Hypervisors</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View the hypervisor summary.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Host Aggregates</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View, create, and edit host aggregates. View the list of
availability zones.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Instances</guilabel></para></td>
<td><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></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Volumes</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View, create, edit, and delete volumes and
volume types.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Flavors</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View, create, edit, view extra specifications for, and
delete flavors. A flavor is size of an instance.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Images</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View, create, edit properties for, and delete custom
images.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Networks</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View, create, edit properties for, and delete networks.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Routers</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View, create, edit properties for, and delete routers.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>System Info</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>Use the following tabs to view the service information:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Services</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>View a list of the services.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Compute Services</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>View a list of all Compute services.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Network Agents</guilabel></term>
<listitem><para>View the network agents.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><guilabel>Default Quotas</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>
</variablelist></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th colspan="2" align="center"><guilabel>Identity Panel</guilabel> tab</th>
<!--Lots of updates happening to the dashboard. Leaving these for now.-->
</tr>
<!-- <tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Domains</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View domains.</para></td>
</tr>-->
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Projects</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View, create, assign users to, remove users from, and
delete projects.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Users</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View, create, enable, disable, and delete users.</para></td>
</tr>
<!-- <tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Groups</guilabel></para></td>
<td>
<para>View, create, enable, disable, and delete groups.</para></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><para><guilabel>Roles</guilabel></para></td>
<td><para>View, create, enable, disable, and delete roles.</para></td>
</tr>-->
</tbody>
</informaltable>
</section>
</section>