Starting the Cloud App Management UI

Log in to the Cloud App Management console from the IBM® Cloud Private UI by launching your service instance. You can use the Cloud App Management console to monitor applications and services in the dashboards.

Before you begin

Important: If IBM Cloud Private is configured to use a proxy external load balancer, you must ensure that the URL that you are using to log in to the Cloud App Management console includes the configured external proxy name or IP address otherwise when you try to log in to the Cloud App Management console, the page times out.
  • To ensure that the user interface is not truncated, use a minimum resolution of 1280 x 1024
  • For optimal performance, use the latest release of one of the following supported browsers:
    • Apple Safari
    • Google Chrome
    • Mozilla Firefox
    • Microsoft Edge

Procedure

You can open the Cloud App Management console by entering the dashboard URL, which is obtained when creating the service instance, in a browser window. For more information, see Creating your service instance. You can also obtain the dashboard URL by running the following command:
kubectl describe serviceinstance <instance_name> --namespace=<namespace> | grep Dashboard | awk '{ print $3 }'
Where <instance_name> is the service instance name and <namespace> is the namespace that the PPA file is loaded to.

Alternatively, complete the following steps to open the Cloud App Management console from within the IBM Cloud Private console.

  1. Open a browser window and enter the following URL to access the IBM Cloud Private console: 
    https://icp_console_ipaddress/console/
    where icp_console_ipaddress is the IP address to access to the IBM Cloud Private console.
  2. In the Username and Password fields, enter the IBM Cloud Private user name and password.
  3. Expand the menu in the left-hand navigation and click Workloads > Brokered Services.
  4. Click Launch next to the specific service instance that you created for your Cloud App Management deployment, such as ibmcloudappmgmt.

Results

After you successfully log in, the Cloud App Management Welcome page is displayed.

What to do next

You can select the Get Started link to view the Getting Started scenarios for monitoring the health of your applications in the Cloud App Management console. For more information, see User interface.

You can also select Go to my Incidents to launch the Incidents page to review and act on the incidents that are assigned to you. For more information, see Events and incidents.

You can start deploying your agents and data collectors as described in Step 6: Deploy the agents and data collectors.