Oracle^® ZFS Storage Appliance Administration Guide, Release OS8.7.x

Browser User Interface (BUI)

The Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Browser User Interface (BUI) is the graphical tool for administration of the appliance. The BUI provides an intuitive environment for administration tasks, visualizing concepts, and analyzing performance data. The BUI provides an uncluttered environment for visualizing system behavior and identifying performance issues with the appliance.

Direct your browser to the system using either the IP address or host name you assigned to the NET-0 port during initial configuration as follows: https://ipaddress:215 or https://hostname:215. The login screen appears.

The online help linked in the top right of the BUI is context-sensitive. For every top-level and second-level screen in the BUI, the associated help page appears when you click the Help button.

Changing a filesystem's properties by moving it into another project using the Projects side panel.

The masthead contains several interface elements for navigation and notification, as well as primary functionality. At left, from top to bottom, are the Sun/Oracle logo, a hardware model badge, and hardware power off/restart button. Across the right, again from top to bottom: login identification, logout, help, main navigation, and subnavigation.

System alerts appear in the Masthead as they are triggered. If multiple alerts are triggered sequentially, refer to the list of recent alerts found on the Dashboard screen or the full log available on the Logs screen.

Use the main navigation links to view between the Configuration, Maintenance, Shares, Status, and Analytics areas of the BUI. Use sub-navigation links to access features and functions within each area.

If you provide a session annotation, it appears beneath your login ID and the logout control. To change your session annotation for subsequent administrative actions without logging out, click on the text link. For details about session annotations, see Configuring Users.

The title bar appears below the Masthead and provides local navigation and functions that vary depending on the current view.

For example, the Identity mapping service title bar enables the following:

• Navigation to the full list of services through the side panel

• Controls to enable or disable the Identity Mapping service

• A view of Identity Mapping uptime

• Navigation to the Properties, Rules and Logs screens for your Identity Mapping service

• Button to Apply configuration changes made on the current screen

• Button to Revert configuration changes applied on the current screen

To quickly navigate between Service and Project views, open and close the side panel by clicking the title or the reveal arrow.

To add projects, click the Add... link in the sidebar.

To move Shares between Projects, click the move icon and drag a filesystem Share to the appropriate Project in the side panel.

Note that dragging a share into another project will change its properties if they are set to be inherited from its parent project.

Most BUI controls use standard web form inputs; however, there are a few key exceptions worth noting:

Table 1  Key Web Form Exceptions

Summary of BUI Controls Modify a property Click the edit icon and complete the dialog Add a list item or property entry Click the add icon Remove a list item or property entry Click the remove icon Save changes Click the Apply button Undo saved changes Click the Revert button Delete an item from a list Click the trash icon (hover the mouse over the item row to see the icon) Search for an item in a list Click the search icon at the top right of the list Sort by list headings Click on the bold sub-headings to re-sort the list Move or drag an item Click the move icon Rename an item Click the rename icon View details about your system Oracle logo or click the model badge to go to the oracle.com web page for your model Automatically open side panel Drag an item to the side panel

When setting permissions, the RWX boxes are clickable targets. Clicking on the access group label (User, Group, Other) toggles all permissions for that label on and off.

To edit Share properties, deselect the Inherit from project checkbox.

To view controls for an item in a list, hover the mouse over the row.

All modal dialogs have titles and buttons that identify and commit or cancel the current action at top, and content below. The modal content area follows the same interface conventions as the main content area, but are different in that they must be dismissed using the buttons in the title bar before other actions can be performed.

Icons indicate system status and provide access to functionality, and in most cases serve as buttons to perform actions when clicked. It is useful to hover your mouse over interface icons to view the tooltip. The tables below provide a key to the conventions of the user interface.

The status lights are basic indicators of system health and service state:

Table 2  Status Indicators

Icon Description Icon Description on warning off disabled

The following icons are found throughout the user interface and cover most of the basic functionality:

Table 3  BUI Icons

Icon* Description Icon* Description -- rename (edit text) -- sever -- move -- clone edit -- rollback destroy -- appliance power add -- apply remove -- revert cancel/close -- info -- error -- sort list column (down) -- alert -- sort list column (up) on/off toggle first page restart previous page -- locate next page disable/offline last page lock -- search -- wait spinner menu -- reverse direction panel

* Disabled icons are shown at left.

The following icons are used to distinguish different types of objects and provide information of secondary importance.

Table 4  Miscellaneous Icons

Icon Description Icon Description allow SAS deny SAS port storage pool