Using the Mesh console

View topology

• Visualize application resources and infrastructure resources through the canvas view.
• View the details of the resources such as locations, applications, services, and edge gateways at a glance, through corresponding side panels.
• Understand the connections between resources and diagnose problems by visualizing the network's topology and relationships through the topology view.
• View the details of external applications and services, including whether the application or service comes from a cluster or an external deployment.
• View metrics for application-to-service traffic, including total bytes.

Manage resources

• View applications, services, and registered locations so that Mesh can manage their connectivity.
• View deployment environments and choose the environments for which Mesh manages the network connectivity.
• Create resource groups to set access for all the resources in a group by a single action.
• View details of applications, services, deployment environments, locations, and clouds in the list or card view.
• View managed and unmanaged resources.
• Filter applications by labels.
• Filter deployment environments by:
  • Cloud
  • Location
  • Type
  • Labels
• Filter locations by:
  • Cloud
  • Type
  • City
  • Country
  • Labels
• Filter clouds by the provider

Manage connection policies

• Create, view, delete connection policies to control the network connectivity access between applications and services.
• Filter the connection policies by application, service, and labels.

Viewing network traffic metrics in Grafana

• Visualize real-time application network traffic through Grafana.
• View charts of outgoing bytes and packets for an app, and incoming bytes and packets for a service.
• View the gateway incoming or outgoing rate that corresponds to the tenant.

Mesh console home page

The Mesh console home page contains the elements that are listed in the following table.

Table 1. Elements on the Mesh console home page

Element	Description
Navigation panel	Displays the navigation options available to the logged-in user. For more information, see Mesh console navigation panel.
Edition title	Displays the edition of Mesh that you are using, for example, IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh Essentials.
Take a tour link	Click Take a tour to view guided tours of how to do basic tasks in the Mesh console. For example, you can see how register a secret or a cloud.
Help icon	Click this icon to open a help panel, from which you can search and open the documentation, go to the IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh community, and submit a ticket.
Profile icon	Click this icon to see your instance ID and tenant name, to view your subscription usage in the IBM SaaS Console, and to log out. Note: You can view your subscription usage only in Mesh Essentials edition.
Register cloud link	Click Register cloud to register a new cloud and enable autodiscovery of cloud resources.
Deploy gateway link	Click Deploy gateway to provide connectivity between deployment environments or to associate a gateway that is already deployed with a cluster.
Create policy link	Click Create policy to enable connectivity from all namespaces or from specific namespaces in a network segment to a service.
Applications	Displays the number of applications on your enterprise network and the most recently updated applications. To view all your applications, click View all. You can view the network segment and the numbers of deployments and services that are associated with your applications on the Applications tab.
Policies	Displays the number of connection policies on your enterprise network and the most recently updated policies. Click View all to view the connection policies you created on the Connection policies page. You can also click the name of a policy to view, edit, or delete the policy on the policy details page.
Deployment environments	Displays the number of Environments on the user's enterprise network and a list of environment names and the last update date. Click View all to view all the deployment environments listed on the Deployment environments page. You can also click the name of a deployment environment to view the deployment environment details on the Deployment environment details page.
Gateways	Displays the number of registered gateways. Click View all to view all the gateways listed on the Gateways page. You can also click the name of a gateway to view the cloud details on the Cloud details page.
Clouds	Displays the number of registered clouds. Click View all to view all the clouds listed on the Clouds page. Click Register cloud to register a new cloud. You can also click the name of a cloud to view the cloud details on the Cloud details page.
Locations	Displays the number of registered locations. Click View all to view all the locations listed on the Locations page. You can also click the name of a location to view the location details on the Location details page.

Mesh console navigation panel

The following table describes the navigation options available on the Mesh console.

Table 2. Options on the Mesh console navigation panel

Element	Description
Home	Click to go to the Mesh console home page.
Topology	Click to go to the Mesh console Topology list page to view the interconnected pattern of network elements across clouds.
Policies	Click to go to the Connection policies list page. Connection policies define which applications can use a service. They enable connectivity between the namespaces in a network segment and a service that you specify. Click a policy to see more details or if you want to edit or delete the policy.
Applications & services	Click to go to the Applications and services list page. Click the Applications or Services tabs to view a list of all the applications or services on your enterprise application network. In the Applications tab, you can view the network segment and the numbers of deployments and services that are associated with your applications. Click an application to see more details, including the associated services, connection policies, deployments, and instances. In the Services tab, you can view the network segment, the port and protocol, the application, and the number of connection policies that the service is associated with. Both cluster-based services and external services are listed. Click a service to see more details, including the port, protocol, endpoints and labels.
Deployment environments	Click to go to the Mesh console Deployment environments list page, listing the Kubernetes clusters, virtual private clouds (VPCs), hosts and other targets where applications run.
Cloud	Click to go to the Mesh console Clouds list page to view the registered clouds.
Locations	Click to go to the Mesh console Locations list page to view cloud locations.
Gateways	Click to go to the Mesh console Gateways list page to view all the registered gateways along with the associated deployment environments.
Network segments	Click to go to the Mesh console Network segments list page to view all the registered network segments. You can then click a network segment. The Network segment details page displays all the resources, such as gateways, applications, namespaces, and policies. This page makes it easier to view and troubleshoot the resources in a network segment.
Manage	Click to start managing your resource groups, API keys, secrets, identities, and roles.
Events	Click to go to the Mesh console Events list page to view events created by Mesh.