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Logging in to the management server starts the Cluster Management Console and displays the startup page. The startup page contains summary data about all managed sites and clusters in the enterprise.
:Cluster Management Console startup page
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Note
The startup page shows Enterprise summary data only if clusters are configured in the management server database. If no clusters are in the database, a different startup page appears that prompts you to configure clusters.
See Configuring clusters for management.
All pages in the Cluster Management Console are divided into areas called bars, panes, panels, and tables.
The Enterprise status page is the startup page and contains the following unique panels and tables:
Contains the linked name of each configured site. Clicking on each site names displays information about clusters that are being synchronized. The synchronization information appears at the bottom of the Sites panel.
A status icon to the left of the site name indicates the consolidated state of the clusters in the site.
Contains a bar graph and numeric totals that indicate service groups in each available state. The table title is followed by a total indicating the total number of service groups configured across all management servers. Click the table title Groups to navigate to a page that lists all service groups in the enterprise.
Contains a bar graph and numeric totals that indicate systems in each available state. The table title is followed by a numeric total indicating the total number of systems configured across all management servers. Click the table title Systems to navigate to a page that lists all systems in the enterprise.
Indicates the number of clusters from which configurational and status
The main tab bar contains a tab for each category of operations available in the Cluster Management Console. Each tab contains one or more pages of status information and controls required to administer the corresponding category of operations. The following are the tabs on the main tab bar and the operational categories that they represent:
Main tab bar
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Clicking a tab for the first time after login takes you to the default page for that tab. Clicking a tab at any other time takes you to the most recently visited page on that tab. The main tab bar always contains the same tabs.
The left pane of the console is reserved for filtering or navigation controls. On the Manage tab and Reports tab, the left pane contains a navigation tree. On the Notifications tab, the left pane contains the Event Filters panel.
A navigation tree is the main tool that you use to move among the different areas of the Manage tab and the Reports tab.
Note
On the Manage tab, the navigation tree is not populated until you configure clusters for management. If no clusters are in the database, a page appears that prompts you to configure clusters
See Configuring clusters for management.
The navigation tree on the Manage tab
The navigation tree on the Reports tab
The navigation tree is organized into levels called branches. The branches are hierarchical; that is, branches can contain one or more lower-level, or child, branches. The first branch of the navigation tree is called the root.
In the navigation tree, clicking a + (plus) sign expands a branch, enabling you to view its child branches. Clicking a - (minus) sign collapses, or hides, the children in a parent branch. You expand, collapse, and click the branches of the navigation tree to browse among cluster or reporting objects that are configured in the enterprise.
The navigation tree contains two arrow buttons, one on the upper border and one on the right border. Clicking the up-arrow button hides the tree and changes the upper border button to a down-arrow button. Clicking the left-arrow button minimizes the left pane and changes the button on the right border to a right-arrow button.
Roll-up arrow button (upper border) and maximize/minimize arrow button (right border)
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Rolling up the navigation tree hides the tree. Minimizing the navigation tree both hides the tree and maximizes the status pane, enabling you to view information that might have been partially off the screen.
About the navigation tree on the Manage tab
In the navigation tree on the Manage tab, the root is always labeled Enterprise. The tree contains only one Enterprise root. The Enterprise root represents your entire company or organization. It contains child branches that represent all sites, clusters, systems, and service groups that are configured for centralized management.
The next two branches below Enterprise are labeled with the names of a site and a cluster, respectively, that are configured in the enterprise. These site and cluster branches may also have sibling branches (branches at the same level) displayed further down the tree. Each site branch contains one or more child branches that represent clusters that are members of that site.
In the navigation tree on the Manage tab, the Enterprise and site branches function only to organize objects. They do not represent real physical or software objects in the enterprise.
The navigation tree on the Manage tab has two subtabs: Service Groups and Systems. If you select the Service Groups tab, expanding a cluster branch shows the service groups that are members of that cluster. If you select the Systems tab, expanding a cluster branch shows the systems that are members of that cluster.
The details pane is located to the right of the navigation tree. This pane contains details about the object selected in the navigation tree or one of its related objects. The Service Groups and Systems tabs filter the details pane information when you select a cluster. For example, if you select the Service Groups tab and select a cluster branch, the details pane contains details about the cluster and its member service groups. If you click the Systems tab, you can view details about the cluster and its member systems.
Service group details with cluster selected in navigation tree
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System details with cluster selected in navigation tree
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Another feature of the Manage tab navigation tree is the context (right-click) menu. The most commonly-used tasks for cluster object management are available by right-clicking a branch in the navigation tree.
About the navigation tree on the Reports tab
A navigation tree also appears on the Reports tab, which is on the main tab bar. In the navigation tree on the Reports tab, the root is labeled All Reports. All Reports contains up to two levels of branches: the first level represents the available report types, and the second level, if present, represents jobs that have been created for that report type.
In the Reports tab navigation tree, clicking the + (plus) sign expands a report type branch, enabling you to view any report jobs that have been created for it. Clicking a - (minus) sign collapses, or hides, the report jobs. You can view detail pages for a report type or a report job by clicking the type or job in the navigation tree.
Another feature of the Reports tab navigation tree is the context (right-click) menu. The most commonly-used tasks for report management are available by right-clicking a branch in the navigation tree.
The Event Filter panel is available on the Notification tab; it appears in the left pane in place of the navigation tree. The Event Filter panel enables you to specify filter criteria for the events that you want to view in the notification log. The Event Filter panel is also available when you click the Logs tab in the details pane (if available).
Event Filters panel shows the Event Filters panel:
Event Filters panel
You can collapse the Event Filters panel by clicking the up arrow in the top center of the panel. Collapsing the panel hides the panel contents, leaving only the title visible. The up arrow changes to a down arrow when the panel is collapsed. Click the down arrow to re-expand the panel.
You can also collapse and expand the entire left pane by clicking the arrow button on its right border. The arrow points to the right when the panel is expanded and to the left when the panel is collapsed.
The details pane is located to the right of the left pane in the Cluster Management Console. The purpose of the details pane is to display detailed information about a currently selected management server or cluster object. For example, on the Manage tab, the details pane contains configurational and status information about a selected cluster object or one of its related objects.
In the startup page, the Enterprise root object is the default selection in the navigation tree. Therefore, the details pane contains detail information about all objects in the enterprise because they are all related to the Enterprise root object. The console displays the following information:
The details pane on the startup page
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About the details tab bar and detail links
The details tab bar is a row of tabs that displays in the details pane. Different objects have different tabbed pages of details.
Clicking tabs in the details tab bar takes you to different categories of details about the currently selected object or its related objects. Clicking these tabs may also move you up or down the current branch in the navigation tree. However, these tabs keep you in the same branch of related objects; they do not switch you to another branch.
A tab on the details tab bar may or may not contain an additional row of detail links at the top of the tab. Like the tabs, these links take you to pages that contain subcategories of detail about the currently selected object or one of its related objects. Clicking detail links may also move you up or down the current branch in the navigation tree. However, these links keep you in the same branch of related objects; they do not switch you to another branch.
The details tab bar and the detail links enable you to quickly adjust the level and type of object detail that you are viewing. Each tab or detail link always takes you to more detail about the object currently selected in the navigation tree or one of its related objects.
The following figure shows the details tab bar in the startup page and the additional detail links on the Status tab:
Details tab bar for clusters: Status tab and detail links
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Many pages in the details pane contain linked (underlined and possibly in a different color) object names in panels and tables. These links take you directly to detail pages for the linked object.
Unlike detail links under a tab on the details tab bar, these links often do switch you to another branch of the navigation tree. That is, you are not always kept in the same branch of related objects if you click a quick navigation link.
About the navigation bar on the Manage tab
The navigation bar is located along the top of the details pane. For pages on the Manage tab, it indicates the hierarchical object relationships, or lineage, of one of the following:
Selecting tabs, detail links, or quick navigation links in the details pane can take you to detail pages about many different objects. However, attributes, resources, resource types, and, depending on the navigation tree settings, either service groups or systems, are not represented in the navigation tree.
To view all the object relationships for a selected object, you must consult the navigation bar. The navigation bar always contains the complete lineage of the object that you are currently viewing in the details pane.
For example, on a cluster details page, the navigation bar contains the symbol sequence Enterprise >> Site >> Cluster and ends with the name of the cluster that you are viewing.
In the startup page, the navigation bar displays Enterprise until you select an object.
When you select an object in the navigation tree or view object details using other tabs or links, the navigation bar displays the hierarchical relationship of the object within the enterprise.
See The navigation bar: Viewing resource details.
The navigation bar: Viewing resource details
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The following are a few quick tips about using the navigation bar on the Manage tab:
About the navigation bar on tabs other than Manage
On tabs other than the Manage tab, the navigation bar offers links to pages that contain information other than cluster object data. It might show one or a mix of any of the following:
The links that the navigation bar lists are always links that are related to the most recent selection that you made in the console. Sometimes the navigation bar provides a link for convenience, not because you selected it.
For example, when you view the details of a notification policy, the navigation bar provides the following:
The navigation bar on the Notification tab
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The task menu bar in the details pane contains menus that list specific tasks that you can perform on objects in the Cluster Management Console. The task menu bar is located below the details tab bar and below any detail links that might display. (Not every page that can display in the details pane has detail links.) Common task menus on the Manage tab are Operations, Configuration, and Settings.
The task menu bar with a Configuration and Operations menu
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The name of a task menu indicates the function of the tasks that it contains. Selecting a menu item performs an action directly or starts a task wizard. A wizard is a sequence of panels on the screen that help you to perform a task.
A Configuration task menu for clusters
For pages that show details for a specific object, some task menu items might be grayed-out. Grayed-out tasks menu items can indicate the following:
About detail page filter panels
Most detail pages contain a filter panel. A filter panel enables you to view only those objects that meet the criteria that you specify. You specify the filter criteria using controls such as check boxes or drop-down lists. If you want to perform a task on only certain objects, you can first filter the view for those objects and then select the task. You can apply the filter or reset the filter to its default values at any time. The following are the possible filter names and settings; not every filter panel contains all of these settings:
Shows objects with the following values for the ConsolidatedState attribute:
Shows objects (clusters or service groups) in which some of the member objects have a fault | |
Shows objects with the specified value for the Platform attribute.
Shows objects with the specified value for the Department attribute. This drop-down list is populated with the currently-defined values for the Department attribute and the value All Departments. The default value is All Departments.
Shows objects with the specified value for the LOB attribute. This drop-down list is populated with the currently-defined values for the LOB attribute and the value All Lines of Business. The default value is All Lines of Business.
Service groups filter panel showing criteria selections
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To apply a filter to objects on a detail page
To reset a filter to its default criteria settings
Most detail pages contain data tables. An arrow next to a column name denotes the column by which the table data is currently sorted.
To sort rows in a table by data in a column
The list is sorted by the values in that column, in ascending order. An arrow that points up displays in that column heading.
The list is sorted by the values in that column, in descending order. An arrow that points down displays in that column heading.
Viewing multiple pages of a table
Tables in the details pane may contain multiple pages. You can view subsequent pages of a table using the go-to-page bar.
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Click arrows or numerals on the go-to-page bar to move forward and backward through the table pages.