The CA Virtual Assurance user interface provides flexible access to an extensive array of features and functions. User interface features include banner links, Search, Dashboard, Management/Dashboard toggle; Explore tree, tab-based views, management panes, Quick Start menus, and wizards.
The Search feature provides a natural language access to CA Virtual Assurance resources and functions. To display a list of related CA Virtual Assurance objects and functions, enter a word or phrase and click Search.
The CA Virtual Assurance user interface only displays features for installed components and integrations.
The CA Virtual Assurance user interface contains the following primary tabs:
Provides a graphical view of the systems managed by CA Virtual Assurance. The dashboard provides several views that contain information including service status, utilization history, and recent events. The Dashboard adds a Quick Launch panel for common system functions, and a Jobs pane that lets jobs run in the background so that you can continue working.
You can configure the dashboard to display the views that are the most useful to you.
Lets you discover, view, and manage physical and virtual resources. This tab contains details about each discovered system and virtual resource, and subtabs let you perform management, policy, provisioning, and configuration tasks for virtual resources. Remote Deployment lets you deploy monitoring agents, such as SystemEDGE, to multiple systems in one operation.
Policy menus let you configure metric collection for each physical and virtual resource and create policy that automates specified actions when specified rule criteria are met.
Provisioning menus let you add VMs, IBM LPARs, vCenter Server, Hyper-V, HMC/IVM, and Solaris Zones provisioning servers.
Lets you view utilization and inventory reports for managed virtual platforms.
Lets you view the status of CA Virtual Assurance components, configure settings such as SNMP communities, add important resources such as vCenter Server, HMC/IVM, and Solaris Zones servers, and configure user groups and user access.
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