Accessing your IBM Multicloud Manager cluster from the management console

Learn about the components in the IBM Multicloud Manager management console.

Prerequisites

1. You must install IBM Cloud Private. See Installing IBM Cloud Private for more information.
2. Install IBM Multicloud Manager. See IBM Multicloud Manager installation overview.

3. Connect to the URL https://<Cluster Master Host>:<Cluster Master API Port> or https://<Cluster Master Host>:<Cluster Master API Port>/multicloud and use the appropriate credentials.

   Note that <Cluster Master Host> and <Cluster Master API Port> are defined in Master endpoints.

4. Access your cluster from a web browser. For a list of supported browsers, see Supported browsers.
5. Log in to the cluster.
6. From the navigation menu, click Multicloud Manager.

IBM Multicloud Manager console components

• Search page
• Overview page
• Topology page

Search page

You can search for Kubernetes resources on any cluster and filter your search by the resource fields.

Use the search bar to search for items in your IBM Cloud Private. For example, you can filter your search by the following categories:

• kind
• name
• namespace
• status
• memory
• cpu

You can only search for resources based on your access level. For more information on role access, see Role-based access control for IBM Multicloud Manager. If you want to save your search, click the Save disk icon. Click the New Search tab to start a new search.

Overview page

Use the Overview page to manage and reorganize the dashboard of your cluster information. You can view details of your IBM Cloud Private clusters and other cloud service providers that IBM Cloud Private supports. You can also view details about your applications. The Overview dashboard is continuously refreshed in real time.

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 cluster(s):

• 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 Expand 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 useage threshold of your nodes.

Click Expand details to view the map. The size of the color-coordinated boxes represent the amount 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

The Topology page uses information from Weave Scope probe to display Kubernetes objects within a cluster. To reduce the graphics on the page, you can filter the view by Clusters, Namespaces, Types, and Labels. You can also filter the design by selecting the icon that represents the Kubernetes controllers.