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{{site.data.keyword.cloud_pak_mcm}} {{site.data.keyword.gui}} components

Learn more about a few of the {{site.data.keyword.gui}} components that you can use to view, manage, or customize your {{site.data.keyword.gui}}.

See Accessing your cluster by using the {{site.data.keyword.gui}} to access your cluster {{site.data.keyword.gui}}.

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Getting started

{: #get_started}

From the {{site.data.keyword.cloud_pak_mcm}} getting started page, you can view descriptions and tasks, and you can install various CLI tools.

From the Header, click the Help (?) icon to view the About page, the documentation, and more. From the User menu, you can access the Configure Client page.

Overview

{: #mcm_overview}

Use the Overview page to view, manage, and reorganize the dashboard of your cluster information. You can view details of your clusters and other cloud service providers that {{site.data.keyword.cloud_pak_mcm}} supports. You can also view details about your applications. The Overview dashboard is continuously refreshed in real time. {: shortdesc}

Reorganizing your dashboard

You can personalize your view of the Overview dashboard by reorganizing the resource overview cards. You can view the following information about your clusters:

  • Name of the cloud service with the number of clusters
  • Cluster compliance
  • Pod details
  • Pod status
  • Cluster resources (VCPU/Memory usage)
  • Storage usage

Viewing application details

You can view the information of each application. Click Show details to view the following information:

  • Number of clusters
  • Number of Kubernetes types
  • Number of regions
  • Number of nodes
  • Number of pods

Viewing your pod health

View the pod health for all of your clusters by expanding the Heatmap. The Heatmap displays color-coordinated boxes that represent the VCPU usage threshold of your nodes.

Click Show details to view the map. The size of the color-coordinated boxes represents the number of nodes on your cluster. Hover your cursor over the box to view the response time of your cluster.

Filtering your results

You can personalize the Overview page more with the filtering feature. Click Filter results to specify what information is displayed on your page.

Topology page

{: #mcm_topology}

The Topology page uses information from Weave Scope probe to display Kubernetes objects within a cluster. You can view hub cluster resources. As you configure managed clusters, you see more clusters in the Topology view.

To reduce the graphics on the page, you can filter the view by Clusters, Namespaces, and Labels. You can also filter the design by selecting the icon that represents the Kubernetes objects.

Learn more about the tabs that are available from the Topology page:

  • Clusters: You can monitor your cluster network, object network, applications, and security policies in a graphical format. View your hub clusters, all your managed clusters, and monitor security violations.

  • Networking: View Kubernetes objects for each cluster and any networks between your Kubernetes objects. Objects display changes if they were recently started. Pods also indicate pending and failed status.

  • Applications: View the deployables, services, deployments, charts, subscriptions, and pods that comprise each application. You can select any component from the topology view to view more details.

  • Policies: View the policy, policy placement, and clusters that are being validated. Check for violations for the selected policy.

Search

{: #search}

Search provides visibility into your resources across all your clusters. You need to install the ibm-search-prod chart to use Search.

Note: You can type any text value in the Search box and results include anything with that value from any property, such as a name or namespace. For example, if you search for IBM, you can receive results such as IBM123.

For more specific search results, include the property in your search. For example, search for name:IBM to search only in the name property.

  1. Click the Search icon in the Header.
  2. Type a word in the Search box, then Search finds your resources that contain that value.

  • As you search for resources, you receive other resources that are related to your original search result, which help you visualize how the resources interact with other resources in the system.

  • Search returns and lists each cluster with the resource that you search. For resources in the hub cluster, the cluster name is displayed as local-cluster.

  • Your search results are grouped by kind, and each resource kind is grouped in a table.

  • Your search options depend on your cluster objects. See the following examples: name, namespace, status, and other resource fields. Auto-complete provides suggestions to refine your search.

  • Any user can search for resources, but results are based on your role-based access control assignment. Additionally, if you save and share a Search query with another user, returned results depend on access level for that user. For more information on role access, see role-based access control.

  • You can refine your results with specific fields. See the following example:

    • Search for a single field, such as kind:pod to find all pod resources.
    • Search for multiple fields, such as kind:pod namespace:default to find the pods in the default namespace.

  • You can also search with conditions by using characters, such as >, >=, <, <=, !=.

    See the following example:

    • Search for kind:pod status:!Running to find all pod resources where the status is not Running.
    • Search for kind:pod restarts:>1 to find all pods that restarted at least twice.
  1. If you want to save your search, click the Save disk icon.

Governance and risk

{: #grc}

Use the Governance and risk dashboard to create and manage policies and policy controllers. For more information, see {{site.data.keyword.product}} Governance and risk.