Log in to the dashboard

The dashboard is available on the node with the nova-dashboard server role.

1. Ask the cloud operation for the host name or public IP address from which you can access the dashboard, and for your username and password.
2. Open a webbrowser that has JavaScript and cookies enabled.
   Note! To use the Virtual Network Computing (VNC) client for the dashboard, your browser must support HTLM5 Canvas and HTLM5 WebSockets. The VNC client is based on noVNC. For details, see  noVNC: HTML5 VNC Client. For a list of supported browsers, see Browser support.
3. In the address bar, enter the host name or IP address for the dashboard.
   portal.elits.com
   
   
4. On the Log In page, enter your username and password and click Sign In.
   The top of the window displays your username. You can also access settings or sign out of the dashboard. 
   The visible tabs and functions in the dashboard depend on the access permissions, or roles, of the user you are logged in as.

• If you are logged in as end user, the Project tab is displayed.
• If you are logged in as an administrator, the Project tab (OpenStack dashboard—Project tab) and Admin tab (OpenStack dashboard—Admin tab) are displayed.

OpenStack dashboard - Project tab

Project 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.

From the Project tab, you can view and manage the resources in a select project, including instances and images. You select the project from the Current Project list at the top of the tab.

Project tab
From the Project tab, you can access the following tabs:

Compute tab

Overview: View reports for the project.
Instances: View, launch, create a snapshot from, stop, pause, or reboot instances, or connect to them trough VNC.
Volumes: Use the following tabs to complete these tasks:

• Security Groups: View, create, edit, and delete security groups and security group rules.
• Key Pairs: View, create, edit, import and delete key pairs.
• Floating IPs: Allocate an IP address to or release it from the project.
• API Access: View API endpoints.

Access & Security: Use the following tabs to complete these tasks:

• Security Groups: View, create, edit and delete security groups and security group rules.
• Key Pairs: View, create, edit, import and delete key pairs.
• Floating IPs: Allocate an IP adress to or release it from a project.
• API Access: View API endpoints.

Network tab
Network Topology: View the network topology.
Networks: Create and manage public and private networks.
Routers: Crate and manage subnets.

Object Store tab
Containers: Create and manage containers and objects.

Orchestration tab
Stacks: Use the REST API to orchestrate multiple composite cloud applications.

OpenStack dashboard - Admin tab

Administrative users can use the Admin tab to view usage and to manage instances, volumes, flavors, images, projects, users, services and quotas.

Admin tab
Access the following categories to complete these tasks:

System Panel tab
Overview: View basic reports.
Resource Usage: Use the following tabs to view the following usages:
Daily Report: View the daily reports.
Stats: View the statistics of all resources.
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 trough VNC.
Volumes: View, create, edit and delete volumes and volume types.
Flavors: View, create, edit, view extra specifications for and delete flavors. A flavor is size of an instance.
Images: View, create, edit properties for and delete networks.
Networks: View, create, edit properties for and delete networks.
Routers: View, create, edit properties for and delete routers.
System info: Use the following tabs to view the service information:

• Services: View a list of the services.
• Compute Services: View a list of all Compute services

Network Agents: View the network agents.
Default Quotas: View default quota values. Quotas are hard-coded in OpenStack Compute and define the maximun allowable size and number of resources.

Identify Panel tab
Projects: View, create, assign users to, remove users from and delete projects.
User: View, create, enable, disable and delete users.

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Changes were made based on the original Openstack User guide