Navigating the VAST Web UI

When you log into the VAST Web UI, the Dashboard page is displayed. To return to the dashboard at any time,  click the VAST logo (1) at the top center of the page.

The name of your VAST Cluster (2), the installed build (3), and the cluster status (4) appear at the top left. Your username appears at the top right (5). 

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

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

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, Tenants, and QoS Policies. 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 table.

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. This will show these additional options:

Select to show the filter options available for the column. Select the options to apply. The options will vary according to the particular column. Once you have applied a filter, the column header will appear 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.

To select columns to be displayed: click in the column, and then click . This will show a list of all available columns for the page, with currently displayed ones selected. Select or deselect columns that will appear in the page.

To adjust the width of the columns: click the bar separating the columns, and drag left of right to adjust the column width. Alternatively, click in the column, then , and the select either Autosize This Column or Autosize All Columns, to automatically adjust the width of this or all columns.

To change the position of columns: click anywhere in a column header and drag it, to move the column to a different position.

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

To reset the original default column settings, click in the column, and then select Reset Columns.

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.

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.

In many pages or tabs, you can create new resources. Click +Create  in the upper right of the page. This opens a a dialog in which you configure a new resource of the type displayed on the tab.

To modify details for a resource, right-click the resource 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, 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, 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.

Several bulk actions are supported. 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: