Navigating the VAST Web UI

When you log into the VAST Web UI, the Dashboard page is displayed. The dashboard shows the overall status of the cluster, as detailed in Dashboard.

To navigate to a VAST Web UI page, you can either browse or search for it:

If you don't have permission to access a page, the page name appears in gray in the menu. Contact your administrator to request permissions you need.

Tip

To return to the dashboard at any time, click the VAST logo in the top left corner of any VAST Web UI page.

The VAST Web UI is organized by pages that are divided into tabs per resource type. For example, the Element Store page contains several tabs: Views, View Policies, Lifecycle Rules, Quotas, Locks, and so on. Each tab typically enables you to view all configured resources of a specific type, and to create, modify and delete the resources. The resources are typically listed in a grid.

In many pages and tabs, you can apply filters to select specific resources. You apply the filters to columns and this filters the entire table.

Click in the column on which you wish to filter. You can then select from these additional options:

Select to show the filter options available for the column. These include options to filter for specific text or values.. The options vary according to the field. Select the options to apply. When you have applied a filter, the column header appears highlighted with a filter symbol, like this .

You can apply filters to more than one column in a page or tab.

Note

When you navigate away from a page or tab, your filter selections are cleared.

You can sort the rows in a page in ascending or descending alphabetical order according to any column.

To sort, click in the column to be used as the basis for the sort. This sorts the page in ascending order. The column shows to indicate this. Click this symbol to reverse the sort, to descending. The column shows .

To sort on a different column, click for that column. This cancels the sort on the previous column.

You can select which columns are shown in a page or tab, adjust the width of columns, and drag columns to a different position in the page.

Any changes will be saved, and also used the next time the page is opened.

To view more complete details of a resource than you can see in the table, right-click the resource and select View. A dialog similar to the dialog for modifying the resource opens for read-only viewing.

The dialog may be split up into sections if there are many fields. In this case, a menu is shown on the left of the dialog, to help navigate the sections. The menu has indications whether there are mandatory fields in sections that are unfilled, or whether a section is enabled or disabled, according to the fields in the section.

Some display fields are links to resources listed on other pages. You can click the link to browse to the page that lists the related resource. For example, the view tab displays each view's view policy  in a column, and the displayed view policy links to the view policy page. You can click the view policy to look at the view policy's configuration on the view policy page. To return to the original page, browse back.

The pages and tabs for resources include an Inspect panel, which shows more detail for a selected resource. This panel is open by default when the page or tab is opened (but can be closed). The detail appears as labels, for the attributes of the resource. Some of the labels are links to other tabs, where you can see more detail for the specific attribute.

For example, in the image below, click on the Protocols link to see detail for the protocol (in this case NFSv3).

The Inspect panel for resources in the Infrastructure page also show a Tree view of the cluster and its subcomponents, with the selected resource highlighted. For example, in the image below, the Tree view highlights the selected CBox (cnode-3-173, in this case).

Note

The Infrastructure pages display the Inspect panel for clusters that have no more than eight DBoxes.

In many pages or tabs, you can create new resources by clicking a Create button in the top right corner of the page.

Alternatively, you can click and select Create new, or right-click a row in the grid and select Create new.

Any of these methods open a dialog in which you can configure a new resource. After saving the configuration, the new resource appears in the list of resources displayed by the corresponding page.

To modify a resource, go to the page that lists the resources of the type you want, right-click the resource in the grid and select Edit. The Update dialog for the resource opens. Modify the settings as needed and click Update to save your changes.

To delete a resource, go to the page that lists the resources of the type you want, right-click the resource and select Remove. The resource is deleted and no longer shows on the page.

To download a CSV containing the resources in a page or tab, go to the page that lists the resources of the type you want, and click at the top right of the page. The downloaded file includes the resource listing filtered with any applied filters.

Right-click on a resource to access a menu of actions that you can do to the resource.  This typically includes view, edit and remove and may include additional actions specific to the type of resource.

Some VAST Web UI pages support bulk operations on items selected in the grid. For example, you can activate or deactivate multiple CNodes or DNodes with a single bulk action in the Infrastructure page.

To perform a bulk action: