Appliance Dashboard
The Appliance Dashboard provides important status information, statistics, and quick links to the administrative consoles.
- Viewing notifications
You can view warning information about potential problems and required actions with the Notifications dashboard widget. - Viewing the cluster status
You can view a list of all the nodes in the cluster on the Cluster Status widget of the Appliance Dashboard. - Viewing and using server controls
You can view the status and control different components in the system by using the Server Control widget. - Viewing deployment statistics
You can view information about number of users, groups, services, credentials, and credential pools in the system by using the Deployment Statistics widget. - Viewing the middleware and server monitor widget
The health status of a server is determined by the state of the middleware and services. You can view the health status information with the Middleware and Server Monitor dashboard widget. - Viewing and using quick links
You can view the links for accessing the administration console application. This option is provided mainly for an appliance Administrator to validate the success of the IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager configuration. - Viewing disk usage
You can view the disk space status and remaining disk life information with the Disk Usage dashboard widget. - Viewing IP addresses
You can view a categorized list of IP addresses that the virtual appliance is listening on with the Interfaces dashboard widget. - Viewing partition information
You can view information about the active and backup partitions with the Partition Information widget. - Viewing the event logs
System events are logged when the system settings are changed and when problems occur with the system. Use the Event Log management page to view and to export system events on your network. - Viewing the memory utilization
View the memory graph to see the memory that is used by the IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance. - Viewing the CPU utilization
View the CPU graph to see the CPU that is used by the IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance. - Viewing the storage utilization
View the storage graph to see the percentage of disk space that is used by the boot and root partitions of the IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance. - Managing the SNMP monitoring
You can monitor the current IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance status with SNMP. This status shows an SNMP agent, which can be queried by any SNMP manager or monitoring tools that support SNMP to obtain the status of the running virtual appliance. - Viewing the licensing
View the licensing to see the service agreement that you accepted when you installed the IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance. - Managing the firmware settings
The IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance has two partitions with separate firmware on each partition. Partitions are swapped during firmware updates so that you can roll back the firmware updates. - Installing a fix pack
Install a fix pack on the IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance to address software maintenance updates for reliability and performance enhancements. - Viewing the About page information
View the About page to learn more about the IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance and its content. - Managing application interfaces
To manage application interfaces with the management interface, use the Application Interfaces page. - Managing hosts file
To manage hosts file with the IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance, use the Manage Hosts File page. - Configuring static routes
Configure static routes to the paired protection interfaces on your virtual appliance to enable network routers to redirect users to block pages or authentication pages. - Configuring the date and time settings
Use the Date/Time page to configure the date, time, time zone, and NTP server information of the IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance. - Configuring the administrator settings
Use the administrator settings to change the password that you use to access your IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance. Use the settings to also access the length of idle time that is granted to pass before your session times out. - Managing the snapshots
Use snapshots to restore prior configuration and policy settings to the IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance. - Managing the support files
IBM Customer Support uses support files to help you troubleshoot problems with the IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance. Support files contain all log files, temporary and intermediate files, and command output that is needed to diagnose customer support problems. - Restarting or shutting down
Use the Restart or Shutdown page to restart or shut down the IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager virtual appliance.
Parent topic: Administering