Understand the Administration user interface

This section describes the buttons and modules in the Administration window.

Banner

The banner in Administration contains the following.

UI Element	Description
	Settings. Opens the Settings dialog box, enabling you to configure the display format used in Administration. Select the date and time field format to use. Note: The changes only affect the administration site.
	Enables you to select the following options: Help Center. Opens the online help center help. About . Displays version information. Suggest an Idea. Opens the Idea Exchange where you can submit ideas, vote on submissions, and collaborate with colleagues, partners, and product teams.
<user name>	User options. Displays the current administrator user name. Select one of the following: Accessibility. Opens the Accessibility window which enables you to activate and deactivate the keyboard shortcuts and change the color theme. For details, see Keyboard shortcuts and Set the color theme. Sign out. Logs you out of the Administration window

UI Element

Description

Settings. Opens the Settings dialog box, enabling you to configure the display format used in Administration. Select the date and time field format to use.

Note: The changes only affect the administration site.

Enables you to select the following options:

Help Center. Opens the online help center help.
About . Displays version information.
Suggest an Idea. Opens the Idea Exchange where you can submit ideas, vote on submissions, and collaborate with colleagues, partners, and product teams.

<user name>

User options. Displays the current administrator user name. Select one of the following:

Accessibility. Opens the Accessibility window which enables you to activate and deactivate the keyboard shortcuts and change the color theme. For details, see Keyboard shortcuts and Set the color theme.
Sign out. Logs you out of the Administration window

Modules

This section describes the modules in Administration.

Dashboard

The Dashboard area Maintenance area button provides a top level summary view of resources, including projects, runs, Vusers, load generators used, and license usage.

Maintenance

This table describes the Maintenance area Maintenance area button .

UI Element	Description
Hosts	Enables you to define, manage, and maintain the testing resources used for server-side testing. Hosts. Enables you to view and manage the hosts used for the test run. For user interface details, see View or edit host details. Pools. Enables you to view and manage host pools. For details, see Manage host pools. Locations. Enables you to view and manage host locations. For details, see Manage host locations. MI Listeners. Enables you to view and manage MI Listeners. For details, see Specify MI Listeners.
Runs	Enables you to view and manage test runs across all projects. For details, see Manage test runs.
Timeslots	Enables you to reserve hosts for performing maintenance tasks. For interface details, see Manage timeslots.
System Health	Enables you to check the health of each component in your system. For details, see Maintain system health.

Configuration

This table describes the Configuration area Configuration area .

UI Element	Description
Integrations	Enables you to add and manage the following integrations: Analysis Servers to enhance online graph views and capabilities, and provide data for offline graphs. For details, see InfluxDB analysis servers. Disruption Providers which provide simulated attacks on your services and environments. For details, see Chaos testing. Observability support enables you to push observability metrics and data from performance test runs to an OpenTelemetry Collector. For details, see Splunk monitor.
Orchestration	Enables you to manage the orchestrators and host images which are used for dynamic provisioning of Dockerized hosts. For details, see Provision Docker hosts automatically.
Cloud	Enables you to add external cloud accounts and create and modify the templates used to provision dynamic cloud hosts. For details, see Manage elastic cloud hosts.
Licenses	Enables you to manage licenses, VUFDs, and hosts. For details, see Manage licenses.
Servers	Enables you to manage the servers in your performance testing environment. For details, see Configure servers.
Alerts	Enables you to manage automatic notification alerts to keep track of test start and end times, test failures, and idle timeslots. For details, see Activate alerts.
Site Configuration	Enables you to configure the authentication method for users and define the project file repository. For details, see Site configuration.

Management

This table describes the Management area Maintenance area button .

UI Element	Description
Roles and Permissions	Enables you to control access to projects by defining the user roles, and by determining the types of tasks each role performs according to permission levels. For details, see Assign project roles and permissions to users.
Users	Enables you to add and customize users, and assign them to roles and projects. For details, see Manage users in a project.
Projects	Enables you to create projects, and define the limits and other settings for the project. For details, see Create domains and projects and Manage projects.
Audit	Enables you to view a list of changes made to entities (Projects, Pools, Users, Tests, and Runs) and track user login and logout times on the site. For details, see Audit entities and user connections.

Report

This table describes the Reports area .

Sub node	Description
Reporting Summary	Enables you to generate reports. For details, see Reports.
Project Limit vs. Actual Use Report	Displays concurrent resource usage per project and whether resources are used within the licensing limits. For details, see Project Limit vs. Actual Use report.
VUFDs Overall Usage report	Displays VUFDs license usage for all projects over time and information about VUFD usage per day for each project. For details, see VUFDs Overall Usage report.
Protocol Granularity Report	Displays the Vuser script's protocol usage. For details, see Protocol Granularity report.
Resource Summary Report	Displays aggregated data showing how projects used the system resources. For details, see Resource Summary report.
Resource by User Report	Displays details about resource usage by user. For details, see Resource by User report.
Resource by Project Report	Displays details about resource usage by project. For details, see Resource by Project report.
Concurrency Report	Displays concurrent resource usage by date. For details, see Concurrency report.
Host Activity Utilization Report	Displays host usage by test runs. For details, see Host Activity Utilization report.
Elastic Docker Utilization report	Displays Elastic Docker host usage by test runs. For details, see Elastic Docker Utilization report.
Elastic Cloud Utilization report	Displays Elastic Cloud host usage by test runs. For details, see Elastic Cloud Utilization report.
Timeslot Usage Report	Displays usage of resources associated with a timeslot. For details, see Timeslot Usage report.
Cloud Operations report	Displays the provision and terminate operations on your cloud hosts. For details, see Cloud Operations report.

Entity details menu

You can perform actions on an entity in Administration using the menu in the entity's details page.

To open the menu, click the Actions button Actions button in the entity's details page. If a user type does not have permissions to perform specific actions, those actions appear dimmed.

The following table lists the actions that can be performed in each module.

Module	Action
Hosts	Delete Host. Deletes the selected host. For details, see Delete hosts. Check Host. Checks the connections to the selected host. For details, see Check connections to testing hosts. Reconfigure Host. Reconfigures the selected host. For details, see Reconfigure hosts. Reboot Host. Reboots the selected host. For details, see Restart hosts.
Runs	Delete Run. Deletes the selected run. For details, see Delete Run. Stop Run. For details, see Stop Run.
Integrations	Delete Analysis Servers. Deletes the selected analysis server. For details, see InfluxDB analysis servers. Add Chaos Server. Enables you to add a chaos server. For details, see Chaos testing. Delete Chaos Server. Deletes the selected chaos server. For details, see Chaos testing.
Orchestration	Delete Orchestrator. Deletes the selected orchestrator. For details, see Provision Docker hosts automatically. Delete Docker Image. Deletes the selected Docker host image. For details, see Provision Docker hosts automatically.
Cloud	Delete Cloud Account. Deletes the selected cloud account. For details, see Delete a cloud account. Delete Host Template. Deletes the selected host template. For details, see Delete host templates.
Servers	Check Server. Checks the status of the selected server. For details, see Check server. Delete Server. Deletes the selected server. This option is not available if there is only one server in the Servers list.
Alerts	Delete Alert. Deletes the selected alert. For details, see Activate alerts.
Users	Delete User. Deletes the selected user. For details, see Delete users.
Projects	Delete Project. Deletes the selected project. For details, see Delete a project. Remove Project. Removes the selected project. For details, see Remove a project. Activate Project. Activates the selected project. For details, see Activate a project. Deactivate Project. Deactivates the selected project. For details, see Deactivate a project. Upgrade Project. Upgrades the project to the latest version. For details, see Upgrade projects to a new version.

Note: For the list of action you can perform from the entity details menu in Site Management, see Perform actions from the entity details menu.

Breadcrumbs

When you open the details page for an entity in a module, a breadcrumb is displayed at the top of the entity's details page.

You can use the breadcrumb menu to search for entities in the group by name (or ID for runs), and to switch between different entities in the group to view their details. To return to the entity group page, click the parent link in the breadcrumb.

Note: Searches for an ID in the Runs module are performed using exact matches. All other searches are performed using partial matches (matching text in any part of the name).