View or modify details for your virtual appliances
to suit the changing needs of your environment.
Before you begin
You must be assigned System level, Cloud group administration role with permission to View all cloud resources (Read-only permission) to
perform these steps.You
must be assigned one of the following permissions to perform these
steps:
- System level, Cloud group administration role with permission to View all cloud resources (Read-only)
- System level, Cloud group administration role with permission to View all cloud resources (Read-only permission)
- Resource level administration role with Read access rights permission (ACL) to view a specific instance
- Resource level administration role with Write or All access rights permission (ACL) to view and manage a specific instance
About this task
You can use the console or the command line interface to complete this task. For the command line information, see the Related information section.
Procedure
- Click .
- Select a virtual appliance to view. You can view or modify
the following fields. Editable fields display either edit or remove
links, or are underlined with a dash line.
- Jobs
- Specifies the pending and started jobs associated with the virtual appliance instance.
Click the underlined numbers to view the specific jobs. Click View
Details to view the Job Queue pane.
- Description
- Specifies a description of the virtual appliance instance.
When there is no description, (none) is located
in this field. Click (none) to add a description.
- Status
- Specifies the state of the virtual appliance instance.
Its values are:
- Available
- Indicates that the virtual appliance instance is
available for redeployment.
- Unavailable
- Indicates that the virtual appliance instance is
stopped but remains available for redeployment in the future.
- Created on
- Specifies the date and time when the virtual appliance instance was
created.
- Updated on
- Specifies the date and time when the virtual appliance instance was
last updated.
- In cloud group
- Specifies the cloud group where this virtual machine is located
by providing a link to the cloud group details pane. You can click
the link to display the details of the cloud group where this virtual appliance instance is
running.
- Virtual machine configurations
- Lists the virtual machines that are included in this virtual appliance instance.
To modify the virtual machine configuration, click Add
more in the Virtual machine configurations menu.
- Access granted to
- Shows a list of users and groups with access to this virtual appliance instance.
The user who first deployed the virtual appliance instance is
automatically granted all access to the virtual image as the
owner. You can add more users to access this virtual appliance instance.
For more information about user permissions, see Understanding security roles for Cloud Pak System.
- Comments
- Specifies optional information that a user can append to a virtual appliance instance.