3311c7127f
More changes to match the Admin Guide with the Icehouse GUI. Also cleaning up some wording and other editing stuff. Relatively small changes to smallish files, for the most part. ...and some niceness fixes that I thought I'd gotten earlier. Added Diane's fixes Change-Id: I867cb38629803be1993a318e933416e2bca3e87c
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE book [
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<!ENTITY % openstack SYSTEM "../common/entities/openstack.ent">
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%openstack;
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]>
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
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xml:id="dashboard_manage_instances">
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<?dbhtml stop-chunking?>
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<title>Manage instances</title>
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<para>As an administrative user, you can manage instances for
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users in various projects. You can view, terminate, edit,
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perform a soft or hard reboot, create a snapshot from, and
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migrate instances. You can also view the logs for instances or
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launch a VNC console for an instance.</para>
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<para>For information about using the dashboard to launch
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instances as an end user, see the <link
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xlink:href="http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/"
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><citetitle>OpenStack End User
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Guide</citetitle></link>.</para>
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<section xml:id="dashboard_instance_snapshots">
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<title>Create instance snapshots</title>
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<procedure>
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<step>
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<para>Log in to the dashboard and choose the
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<guilabel>admin</guilabel> project from the
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drop-down list at the top of the page.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>On the <guilabel>Admin</guilabel> tab, click the
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<guilabel>Instances</guilabel>
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category.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>Select an instance to create a snapshot from it.
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From the <guilabel>Actions</guilabel> drop-down
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list, select <guilabel>Create
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Snapshot</guilabel>.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>In the <guilabel>Create Snapshot</guilabel>
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window, enter a name for the snapshot. Click
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<guibutton>Create Snapshot</guibutton>. The
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dashboard shows the instance snapshot in the
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<guilabel>Images & Snapshots</guilabel>
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category.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>To launch an instance from the snapshot, select
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the snapshot and click
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<guibutton>Launch</guibutton>. For information
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about launching instances, see the <link
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xlink:href="http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/"
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><citetitle>OpenStack End User
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Guide</citetitle></link>.</para>
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</step>
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</procedure>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="dashboard_control_instance_states">
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<title>Control the state of an instance</title>
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<procedure>
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<step>
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<para>Log in to the dashboard and choose the
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<guilabel>admin</guilabel> project from the
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drop-down list at the top of the page.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>On the <guilabel>Admin</guilabel> tab, click the
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<guilabel>Instances</guilabel>
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category.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>Select the instance for which you want to change
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the state.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>In the <guilabel>More</guilabel> drop-down list
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in the <guilabel>Actions</guilabel> column, select
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the state.</para>
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<para>Depending on the current state of the instance,
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you can choose to pause, un-pause, suspend,
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resume, soft or hard reboot, or terminate an
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instance (items in red are disabled).</para>
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<figure>
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<title>Dashboard—Instance Actions</title>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata
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fileref="../common/figures/change_instance_state.png"
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format="PNG" contentwidth="4in"/>
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</imageobject>
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</mediaobject>
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</figure>
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</step>
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</procedure>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="dashboard_track_usage">
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<title>Track usage</title>
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<para>Use the <guilabel>Overview</guilabel> category to track
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usage of instances for each project.</para>
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<para>You can track costs per month by showing metrics like
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number of VCPUs, disks, RAM, and uptime of all your
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instances.</para>
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<procedure>
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<step>
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<para>Log in to the dashboard and choose the
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<guilabel>admin</guilabel> project from the
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<guilabel>CURRENT PROJECT</guilabel> drop-down
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list.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>On the <guilabel>Admin</guilabel> tab, click the
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<guilabel>Instances</guilabel>
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category.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>Select a month and click
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<guibutton>Submit</guibutton> to query the
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instance usage for that month.</para>
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</step>
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<step>
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<para>Click <guibutton>Download CSV
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Summary</guibutton> to download a CSV
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summary.</para>
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</step>
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</procedure>
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</section>
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</section>
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