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The Home view dashboard gives you statistics and an overview of dynamic dashboards give you information about the resources you are managing on the platform. |
User dashboard
This dashboard is the first screen you will see when you log in to Abiquo. It has Metrics, Hybrid and Optimization tabs.
- You can sort tables by columns by clicking on them on the header rows
- To jump directly to a VM, virtual datacenter or virtual appliance, double-click on its name or label.
Metrics
The Metrics tab provides a general view of the resources currently being used by your virtual datacenters, as well events.
Metrics panels:
Enterprise resources - virtual datacenters shows statistics of the resources used by your virtual datacenters. Select the virtual datacenter name from the pull-down list
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As used by VMs that are currently deployed
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Key to the graph:
- Green: Used resources
- Orange: Soft limits
- Red: Hard limits
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When there is a hard limit for a resource, the resource usage bar is solid green and it can extend to the hard limit. When there is no limit for a resource, the resource usage bar is green but it continues to the end of the graph where it fades to white.
If the user exceeds the soft limit for a resource, then the platform displays the resource usage as an orange bar. |
Metrics Tables
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Hybrid
The Hybrid tab provides an overview of the distribution and cost of your resources between public cloud providers and private cloud.
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Hybrid billing widgets:
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Optimization
The Optimization tab aims to help you make best use of your cloud resources.
For more details of a VM, click on the arrow symbol beside the VM details
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Optimization panels:
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The five VMs with highest average RAM usage over the last 30 days
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Administrator dashboard
The administrator dashboard has a list of enterprises in the left panel.
By default the platform displays the Metrics tab only. To enable the Hybrid and Optimization tabs for users, assign the appropriate user privileges.
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To configure billing widgets on the Hybrid tab, see Display cloud provider billing data.
Display enterprise resources for a tenant
The administrator can display Enterprise resources with totals for the tenant as well as the virtual datacenters. The administrator can display enterprise limits.
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Privilege: Display enterprise statistics, Display enterprise limits in statistics |
Display the dashboard of another enterprise
To display the dashboard statistics of an enterprise, click on the enterprise in the Enterprise list. The name of the selected enterprise will display above the dashboard panels.
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Switch to another enterprise
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To switch to another enterprise to administer that enterprise, click the switch enterprise button beside a name in the enterprise list. The name of the enterprise that you are currently using will be displayed beneath your username in the top right-hand corner of the screen. All your actions with virtual datacenters, virtual appliances, VMs and VM templates will apply to the current enterprise until you switch to another enterprise. When you log out and log in again, the platform will not reset the enterprise, unless your environment uses LDAP or OpenID for user management, in which case the platform will reset the enterprise at login.
When you are viewing the dashboard for another enterprise, you can double-click on a virtual datacenter, virtual appliance, or VM to jump straight to it. In this case, the platform will automatically switch you to the enterprise that owns the virtual infrastructure.
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The Abiquo Home view contains dynamic dashboards to give you tables and graphical information about the resources you are managing with the cloud platform.
By default, the dashboard displays the predefined Metrics, Hybrid, and Optimization tabs.
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The administrator can fully customize the dashboard as required. It is also possible to restore the default dashboard if anything goes wrong in your experiments!
Users can create their own dashboards if they have the privileges to manage dashboards. To create a dashboard, click the + add button to the right of the current dashboards.
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All users who can manage dashboards can also customize them with a selection of widgets from the widget catalogue.
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And users can move and resize widgets according to their needs.
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For example, you can create a dashboard tab with cost control widgets for Amazon.
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And another dashboard for Azure!
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The administrator can click on a tenant enterprise name to display the dashboard for that tenant.
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The administrator can also switch to another enterprise tenant by clicking the building switch enterprises button beside the tenant name.
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