endif::manvolnum[]
{pve} is simple. There is no need to install a separate management
-tool, everything can be done via your web browser (Latest Firefox and
-Google Chrome is preferred). To access VM/CT console, a built in HTML5
-console is used. As alternative, SPICE can be used.
+tool, and everything can be done through your web browser (Latest
+Firefox or Google Chrome is preferred). A built-in HTML5 console is
+used to access the guest console. As an alternative,
+https://www.spice-space.org/[SPICE] can be used.
-As we use Proxmox Cluster file system (pmxcfs),you can connect to any
-node to manage the whole cluster.
+Because we use the Proxmox cluster file system (pmxcfs), you can
+connect to any node to manage the entire cluster. Each node can manage
+the entire cluster. There is no need for a dedicated manager node.
-To use the Central Web-based Management, you need a modern browser,
-this includes:
-
-* Firefox, a release from the current year, or the latest Enterprise
-* Support Release Chrome, a release from the current year
-* Microsoft currently supported versions of Edge Browser
-* Apple currently supported versions of Safari
-
-If {pve} detect you're connecting from a mobile device, you will
-redirected to a light weight touch based UI.
+You can use the web-based administration interface with any modern
+browser. When {pve} detects that you are connecting from a mobile
+device, you are redirected to a simpler, touch-based user interface.
The web interface can be reached via https://youripaddress:8006
-(default login is: root, the password is specified during the
-installation).
+(default login is: 'root', and the password is specified during the
+installation process).
Features
--------
-* Seamless integration and management of Proxmox VE 4.x Cluster
+* Seamless integration and management of {pve} clusters
+
* AJAX technologies for dynamic updates of resources
-* Secure access to all Virtual Machines and Containers via SSL encryption (https)
-* Fast search-driven interface, capable of handling hundreds and probably thousands of VMs
+
+* Secure access to all Virtual Machines and Containers via SSL
+ encryption (https)
+
+* Fast search-driven interface, capable of handling hundreds and
+ probably thousands of VMs
+
* Secure HTML5 console or SPICE
-* Role based permission management for all objects (VMs, storages, nodes, etc.)
-* Support for multiple authentication sources (e.g. local, MS ADS, LDAP, ...)
-* Two-Factor Authentication
-* Proxmox VE Firewall
-* Based on Ext JS 6.x JavaScript framework
+
+* Role based permission management for all objects (VMs, storages,
+ nodes, etc.)
+
+* Support for multiple authentication sources (e.g. local, MS ADS,
+ LDAP, ...)
+
+* Two-Factor Authentication (OATH, Yubikey)
+
+* Based on ExtJS 6.x JavaScript framework
+
+
+Login
+-----
+
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-login-window.png"]
+
+When you connect to the server, you will first see the login window.
+{pve} supports various authentication backends ('Realm'), and
+you can select the language here. The GUI is translated to more
+than 20 languages.
+
+NOTE: You can save the user name on the client side by selection the
+checkbox at the bottom. This saves some typing when you login next
+time.
GUI Overview
------------
-[thumbnail="gui-datacenter-summary.png"]
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-datacenter-summary.png"]
+
+The {pve} user interface consists of four regions.
+
+[horizontal]
+
+Header:: On top. Shows status information and contains buttons for
+most important actions.
+
+Resource Tree:: At the left side. A navigation tree where you can select
+specific objects.
+
+Content Panel:: Center region. Selected objects displays configuration
+options and status here.
+
+Log Panel:: At the bottom. Displays log entries for recent tasks. You
+can double-click on those log entries to get more details, or to abort
+a running task.
+
+NOTE: You can shrink and expand the size of the resource tree and log
+panel, or completely hide the log panel. This can be helpful when you
+work on small displays and want more space to view other content.
+
+
+Header
+~~~~~~
+
+On the top left side, the first thing you see is the Proxmox
+logo. Next to it is the current running version of {pve}. In the
+search bar nearside you can search for specific objects (VMs,
+containers, nodes, ...). This is sometimes faster than selecting an
+object in the resource tree.
+
+To the right of the search bar we see the identity (login name). The
+gear symbol is a button opening the 'My Settings' dialog. There you
+can customize some client side user interface setting (reset the saved
+login name, reset saved layout).
+
+The rightmost part of the header contains four buttons:
+
+[horizontal]
+Help :: Opens a new browser window showing the reference documentation.
+
+Create VM :: Opens the virtual machine creation wizard.
+
+Create CT :: Open the container creation wizard.
+
+Logout :: Logout, and show the login dialog again.
+
+
+[[gui_my_settings]]
+My Settings
+~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-my-settings.png"]
+
+The 'My Settings' window allows you to set locally stored settings. These
+include the 'Dashboard Storages' which allow you to enable or disable specific
+storages to be counted towards the total amount visible in the datacenter
+summary. If no storage is checked the total is the sum of all storages, same
+as enabling every single one.
+
+Below the dashboard settings you find the stored user name and a button to
+clear it as well as a button to reset every layout in the GUI to its default.
+
+On the right side there are 'xterm.js Settings'. These contain the following
+options:
+
+[horizontal]
+Font-Family :: The font to be used in xterm.js (e.g. Arial).
+
+Font-Size :: The preferred font size to be used.
+
+Letter Spacing :: Increases or decreases spacing between letters in text.
+
+Line Height :: Specify the absolute height of a line.
+
+
+
+Resource Tree
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+This is the main navigation tree. On top of the tree you can select
+some predefined views, which changes the structure of the tree
+below. The default view is *Server View*, and it shows the following
+object types:
+
+[horizontal]
+Datacenter:: Contains cluster wide setting (relevant for all nodes).
+
+Node:: Represents the hosts inside a cluster, where the guests runs.
+
+Guest:: VMs, Containers and Templates.
+
+Storage:: Data Storage.
+
+Pool:: It is possible to group guests using a pool to simplify
+management.
+
+
+The following view types are available:
+
+[horizontal]
+Server View:: Shows all kind of objects, grouped by nodes.
-The GUI has 3 sections:
+Folder View:: Shows all kind of objects, grouped by object type.
-* On the left side is the navigation bar. On the top, you can select one of 4
- views. Those views change the structure of the tree below. The default
- selection is *Server View* and it has the following 4 types of elements.
-** Datacenter: contains all the settings belonging to all machines.
-** Nodes: represent the host where the VM/CT runs on. It is named like
- the hostname. Normally the name was set by the installation.
-** Entity: can be a VM, container, a template or a storage.
-** Logical pools: it is possible to group entities to a group for easy management.
-* On the right side is the main management center, where all content
- of the selected entity form the navigation bar is shown.
-* On the bottom is the task log section, where all tasks are shown.
+Storage View:: Only show storage objects, grouped by nodes.
+Pool View:: Show VMs and Containers, grouped by pool.
-Dataceter Level
----------------
-[thumbnail="gui-datacenter-search.png"]
+Log Panel
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+The main purpose of the log panel is to show you what is currently
+going on in your cluster. Actions like creating an new VM are executed
+in background, and we call such background job a 'task'.
+
+Any output from such task is saved into a separate log file. You can
+view that log by simply double-click a task log entry. It is also
+possible to abort a running task there.
+
+Please note that we display most recent tasks from all cluster nodes
+here. So you can see when somebody else is working on another cluster
+node in real-time.
+
+NOTE: We remove older and finished task from the log panel to keep
+that list short. But you can still find those tasks in the 'Task
+History' within the node panel.
+
+Some short running actions simply sends logs to all cluster
+members. You can see those messages in the 'Cluster log' panel.
+
+
+Content Panels
+--------------
+
+When you select something in the resource tree, the corresponding
+object displays configuration and status information in the content
+panel. The following sections give a brief overview of the
+functionality. Please refer to the individual chapters inside the
+reference documentation to get more detailed information.
+
+
+Datacenter
+~~~~~~~~~~
+
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-datacenter-search.png"]
On the datacenter level you can access cluster wide settings and information.
* *Summary:* gives a brief overview over the cluster health.
+* *Cluster:* allows to create/join cluster and shows join information.
+
* *Options:* can show and set defaults, which apply cluster wide.
* *Storage:* is the place where a storage will add/managed/removed.
cluster wide, so you do not care about where the VM/Container are on
your cluster at schedule time.
+* *Replication:* shows replication jobs and allows to create new ones.
+
* *Permissions:* will manage user and group permission, LDAP,
MS-AD and Two-Factor authentication can be setup here.
If you like to have more information about this see the corresponding chapter.
-Node Level
-----------
+Nodes
+~~~~~
+
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-node-summary.png"]
-[thumbnail="gui-node-summary.png"]
+Nodes in your cluster can be managed invidiually at this level.
-All belongs of a node can be managed at this level.
+The top header has useful buttons such as 'Reboot', 'Shutdown', 'Shell',
+'Bulk Actions' and 'Help'.
+'Shell' has the options 'noVNC', 'SPICE' and 'xterm.js'.
+'Bulk Actions' has the options 'Bulk Start', 'Bulk Stop' and 'Bulk Migrate'.
* *Search:* it is possible to search anything on the node,
this can be a VM, Container, Storage or a pool.
* *Summary:* gives a brief overview over the resource usage.
-* *Shell:* log you in the shell of the node.
+* *Notes:* is where custom notes about a node can be written.
-* *System:* is for configuring the network, dns and time, and also shows your syslog.
+* *Shell:* logs you into the shell of the node.
-* *Updates:* will upgrade the system and informs you about new packets.
+* *System:* is for configuring the network, DNS and time, and also shows your syslog.
+
+* *Updates:* will upgrade the system and inform you about new packages.
* *Firewall:* on this level is only for this node.
-* *Disk:* gives you an brief overview about you physical hard drives and
+* *Disks:* gives you a brief overview about you physical hard drives and
how they are used.
-* *Ceph:* is only used if you have installed a Ceph sever on you
+* *Ceph:* is only used if you have installed a Ceph server on your
host. Then you can manage your Ceph cluster and see the status
of it here.
-* *Task History:* here all past task are shown.
+* *Replication:* shows replication jobs and allows to create new ones.
+
+* *Task History:* here all past tasks are shown.
* *Subscription:* here you can upload you subscription key and get a
system overview in case of a support case.
+
+Guests
+~~~~~~
+
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-qemu-summary.png"]
+
+There are two different kinds of guests and both can be converted to a template.
+One of them is a Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) and the other one a Linux Container (LXC).
+Generally the navigation is the same, only some options are different.
+
+In the main management center the VM navigation begins if a VM is selected in the left tree.
+
+The top header contains important VM operation commands like 'Start', 'Shutdown', 'Reset',
+'Remove', 'Migrate', 'Console' and 'Help'.
+Some of them have hidden buttons like 'Shutdown' has 'Stop' and
+'Console' contains the different console types 'SPICE', 'noVNC' and 'xterm.js'.
+
+On the right side the content switches depending on the selected option.
+
+On the left side.
+All available options are listed one below the other.
+
+* *Summary:* gives a brief overview over the VM activity.
+
+* *Console:* an interactive console to your VM.
+
+* *(KVM)Hardware:* shows and set the Hardware of the KVM VM.
+
+* *(LXC)Resources:* defines the LXC Hardware opportunities.
+
+* *(LXC)Network:* the LXC Network settings.
+
+* *(LXC)DNS:* the LXC DNS settings.
+
+* *Options:* all guest options can be set here.
+
+* *Task History:* here all previous tasks from the selected guest will be shown.
+
+* *(KVM) Monitor:* is the interactive communication interface to the KVM process.
+
+* *Backup:* shows the available backups from the selected guest and also create a backupset.
+
+* *Replication:* shows the replication jobs for the selected guest and allows to create new jobs.
+
+* *Snapshots:* manage VM snapshots.
+
+* *Firewall:* manage the firewall on VM level.
+
+* *Permissions:* manage the user permission for the selected guest.
+
+
+Storage
+~~~~~~~
+
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-storage-summary-local.png"]
+
+In this view we have a two partition split-view.
+On the left side we have the storage options
+and on the right side the content of the selected option will be shown.
+
+* *Summary:* shows important information about storages like
+'Usage', 'Type', 'Content', 'Active' and 'Enabled'.
+
+* *Content:* Here all content will be listed grouped by content type.
+
+* *Permissions:* manage the user permission for this storage.
+
+
+Pools
+~~~~~
+
+[thumbnail="screenshot/gui-pool-summary-development.png"]
+
+In this view we have a two partition split view.
+On the left side we have the logical pool options
+and on the right side the content of the selected option will be shown.
+
+* *Summary:* show the description of the pool.
+
+* *Members:* Here all members of this pool will listed and can be managed.
+
+* *Permissions:* manage the user permission for this pool.
+
+
ifdef::wiki[]
See Also
projects / pve-docs.git / blobdiff