IBM Cloud Pak foundational services Administration panel

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The IBM Cloud Pak® foundational services console includes Administration panel that provides an overview of a cluster at a glance to Cluster Administrators. From this UI console, you can view key metrics for specific components of the IBM Cloud Paks and IBM Cloud Pak foundational services that are deployed to the cluster.

As a Cluster Administrator, this at a glance view of key details provides you with the capability to quickly identify and understand anomalies and take related actions to address these issues. Administration panel content is accessible by users with the Cluster Administrator role or the Cloud Pak Administrator role.

Administration panel provides details on all IBM Cloud Paks and IBM Cloud Pak foundational services that are deployed to the cluster and is separate from any overview-related pages that are included with a specific IBM Cloud Pak. For some metrics and components, you can select view more details within a side-panel and go to other UI dashboards, pages, or consoles, such as the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web console, to complete associated actions.

Administration panel is available by default and is automatically deployed as a part of installing IBM Cloud Paks and IBM Cloud Pak foundational services. This console can be accessed from opening the main navigation for the console and clicking Home. Depending on the IBM Cloud Pak that is installed, you might need to expand an Administration category in the main navigation menu and click Administration Hub instead of Home. The Administration panel can also be accessed from clicking the Cloud Pak switcher (9-dot icon) in the upper-right corner of the toolbar and clicking Administration panel.

Administration panel is composed of three sections:

• The collapsible welcome widget in the console header.
• The quick navigation section below the welcome widget and to the left of the Overview section.
• The Overview section, which comprises the remainder of the page.

Welcome widget

This collapsible widget displays in the console header to provide you with a list of quick actions that you can take.

The listed quick actions are based on the IBM Cloud Pak foundational services that are deployed to the cluster. This list includes links to the dashboard, page, or side-panel where you can complete associated tasks. This list can include one or more of the following links depending on the services that are installed:

• Manage identity providers, which opens the Identity providers page of the of the Identity and Access dashboard for the Identity and Access Management (IAM) service. You can use this page to configure an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) connection for your product cluster, and to view and edit existing connections.

• Manage licenses, which opens the Licensing dashboard, where you can view the usage statistics for any deployed IBM Cloud Pak within a selected reporting period. From this dashboard, you can also view, manage, and create reports for licenses that are being used on a cluster.

For more information about the services that are related to any quick action, view the documentation for that service within the documentation for your deployed IBM Cloud Paks or the IBM Cloud Pak foundational services documentation.

Note: Previously this widget included cluster summary and cluster inventory data. This data now displays within separate summary cards in the Overview section of Administration panel.

Quick navigation

The Quick navigation section includes links for quickly accessing key sites or tools, such as for obtaining support or accessing the IBM Documentation for Administration panel.

Overview

The Overview section includes individual summary cards for surfacing the key details for services and components.

The individual summary cards display high-level details for different critical subjects for your deployed IBM Cloud Paks and IBM Cloud Pak foundational services. For your deployed IBM Cloud Pak foundational services, you can view one or more of the following summary cards:

Summary cards

• Cluster summary

  The Cluster summary card displays the cluster capacity with a breakdown of how much storage memory is used by any deployed IBM Cloud Paks or other deployed objects, and how much memory remains. You can click the card title to open the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web console dashboard for the cluster.

• Cluster inventory

  The Cluster inventory card includes statistics to identify the number of nodes, pods, and persistent volume claims (PVC) on the cluster. Clicking the card title link opens the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web console where you can view more details and work with the inventory objects. Clicking each object type opens a different page in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web console:

  • Clicking the Nodes link opens the Nodes page of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web console.
  • Clicking the Pods link opens the Pods page of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web console.
  • Clicking the Persistent Volume Claims link opens the Persistent Volume Claims page of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web console.

• Cloud Pak deployment

  Displays the instances of IBM Cloud Paks that are deployed in the cluster. When you click View details you can view more details about each instance, including the version of the IBM Cloud Pak that is deployed, the namespace, and the list of pods for the instance. You can click on each pod to open the Pods page of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web console to work with the pod.

• CPU monitoring trends

  This card shows the current load usage trend for the past five minutes. This card also shows the load average over the past 24 hours and the pod that is responsible for the largest increase in load usage over that period. You can click the pod to open the open the Pods page of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web console to work with the pod. You can also click the View Grafana Dashboard link to open that dashboard and review additional monitoring data.

• Workload summary

  The Workload summary card shows a breakdown of the CPU, memory, and network usage by any deployed IBM Cloud Paks. Click View details to view a side-panel with additional details. This side-panel displays the three pods with highest utilization of each resource type, CPU, Memory, or Network (network transfer in/out), for the deployed IBM Cloud Paks. You can click any pod to open the OpenShift Metrics page of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web console. This page displays related metrics for the resource types.

• System utility status

  Displays the status of key services. You can click View details or the service status to open the System utility status side-panel to view the following details for the installed services:

  • Status for each service
  • Failed pod count (if the services is not running)
  • Restart count (if the services is not running)

  • Failed pods (if the services is not running)

    You can click any listed failed pods to open the page for that pod in the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web console. You can also open the main Pods page for that web console from this side-panel.

• Licensing

  Displays the number of IBM pods that are missing license reporting and the number of products reported. You can click View details to open a side-panel that identifies the individual products reported and associated values, such as the number of Virtual Processor Cores (VPC), the Managed Virtual Server (MVS), or other metrics. This panel also lists the specific IBM pods that are missing license reporting.

  Notes:

  • The metric units that are displayed on the side panel represent the current license usage of the product. To view the highest license usage in the reporting period, go to the Licensing dashboard.

If License Service Reporter is deployed on the cluster, you can also click **View license usage report** to open the _Licensing_ dashboard. From this dashboard, you can view the usage statistics for any deployed IBM Cloud Pak within a selected reporting period.

• System events

  This card shows the latest event notifications for the cluster. You can click View all to open the Events page of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform web console to see all recent notifications.

• Identity and user access

  Displays the number of active users and the number of total users. From this card you can click different links to open dashboards to manage user access to the platform and to configure any additional user access that is required to use console features for installed IBM Cloud Paks.

    * The IBM Cloud Pak link within the _Manage platform user access_ section of the card opens the _User management_ dashboard for adding users, creating and assigning roles and permissions, creating user groups, and more.
    * The **Identity providers** link opens the _Identity providers_ dashboard, which you can use to create LDAP connections for user authentication.
    * The **Teams and service IDs** link opens the _Teams_ dashboard, which you can use to create and manage your teams. From this view you can also click **Manage service IDs** to open the _Service IDs_ dashboard for creating and managing those IDs.
  

  This summary card was previously known as User management.

• Diagnostics

  Displays a list of recently generated diagnostics reports, which you can download. You can also select to gather diagnostics and generate a new report. When you click Gather diagnostics, a side-panel opens. In this panel, you can select the group or groups of diagnostic statistics that you want to gather into a report. If you select to gather Cloud Pak data, you must also specify the namespace where the data is located.

For your deployed IBM Cloud Paks, additional summary cards can be available. For more information about the specific services and subject matter that is shown on these cards, refer to the associated IBM Cloud Pak documentation.

Summary card layout

You can customize the layout of the individual summary cards to make identifying the most critical information for you easier to view quickly.

To rearrange the layout, click the Move icon that is in the upper-right of the Overview section. You can now drag the individual cards where you want them to display. When you are finished, click Done.