Understand the Administration user interface

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

Masthead

This section describes the buttons in the LoadRunner Enterprise Administration masthead, available at the top of the window.

UI Elements	Description
	Settings. Opens the Settings dialog box, enabling you to configure the display format used in LoadRunner Enterprise 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. Displays help for LoadRunner Enterprise. It also enables you to open additional online LoadRunner Enterprise resources. About LoadRunner Enterprise. Displays LoadRunner Enterprise version information. Suggest and Idea. Opens the Idea Exchange where you can submit ideas, vote on submissions, and collaborate with colleagues, partners, and product teams.
<user name>	Displays the current administrator user name. Click the drop-down arrow, and select one of the following: Accessibility. Opens the Accessibility window which enables you to activate and deactivate the keyboard shortcuts (see Keyboard shortcuts) and change the color theme (see Set the color theme). Logout. Logs you out of the LoadRunner Enterprise Administration window

UI Elements

Description

Settings. Opens the Settings dialog box, enabling you to configure the display format used in LoadRunner Enterprise 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. Displays help for LoadRunner Enterprise. It also enables you to open additional online LoadRunner Enterprise resources.
About LoadRunner Enterprise. Displays LoadRunner Enterprise version information.
Suggest and Idea. Opens the Idea Exchange where you can submit ideas, vote on submissions, and collaborate with colleagues, partners, and product teams.

<user name>

Displays the current administrator user name. Click the drop-down arrow, and select one of the following:

Accessibility. Opens the Accessibility window which enables you to activate and deactivate the keyboard shortcuts (see Keyboard shortcuts) and change the color theme (see Set the color theme).
Logout. Logs you out of the LoadRunner Enterprise Administration window

Modules

This section describes the modules in LoadRunner Enterprise Administration, available on the left-side of the window.

UI Elements	Description
Dashboard	Provides a top level summary view of LoadRunner Enterprise resources, including projects, runs, Vusers, load generators used, and license usage.
Maintenance	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 test execution. 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 individual test runs across all projects in LoadRunner Enterprise. 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 you LoadRunner Enterprise system. For details, see Maintain system health.
Configuration	Integrations	Enables you to add and manage the following LoadRunner Enterprise integrations: Analysis servers to enhance online graph views and capabilities, and provide data for offline graphs. For details, see Manage analysis servers. Disruption providers which provide simulated attacks on your services and environments. For details, see Chaos testing.
	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 your external cloud accounts to LoadRunner Enterprise 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 for LoadRunner Enterprise, VUFDs, and hosts. For details, see Manage licenses.
	Servers	Enables you to manage the various 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 LoadRunner Enterprise users and define the project file repository. For details, see Site configuration.
Management	Roles and Permissions	Enables you to control access to LoadRunner Enterprise 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 in LoadRunner Enterprise, 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 LoadRunner Enterprise 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.
Reports	Reporting Summary	Enables you to generate usage reports to help monitor and manage usage of LoadRunner Enterprise resources. For details, see Reports.
	Resource Utilization
	License Usage

Entity details menu

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

To open the menu, click the vertical ellipsis in the upper-right corner of the entity's details page. If a user type does not have permissions to perform specific actions, those actions are grayed out.

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 Manage 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 LoadRunner Enterprise server. For details, see Check server. Delete Server. Deletes the selected LoadRunner Enterprise server. This option is not available if there is only one LoadRunner Enterprise 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 of LoadRunner Enterprise. 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 dropdown 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).

Understand the Administration user interface

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Entity details menu

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