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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 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.
- 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 as 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, so the administrator can display dashboards for the enterprises they administer. They can also switch enterprises and jump directly to enterprise resources.
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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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