Viewing the Home Page
After you connect to MC and sign in, the Home page displays. This page is the entry point to all Vertica database clusters and users managed by MC. Information on this page, as well as throughout the MC interface, will appear or be hidden, based on the permissions (access levels) of the user who is logged in. The following image is what an MC super administrator sees.
Tasks
Operations you can perform in Management Console are grouped into the following task-based areas:
- Provision Databases. Create and import databases, and connect this includes creating new empty databases and importing existing database clusters into Management Console. You can also set up an Ambari connection to import a Vertica cluster that resides in a Hadoop environment. See Managing Database Clusters.
- Existing Infrastructure. View all the clusters and databases monitored by MC, stop and remove databases, and view details about databases and clusters. See Managing Database Clusters.
- MC Settings. Configure MC and user settings, as well as use the MC interface to install Vertica on a cluster of hosts. See Managing MC Settings.
- Message Center. View, sort, and search database messages and optionally export messages to a file. See Monitoring Database Messages in MC.
- Diagnostics. View and resolve MC-related issues, as well as browse Vertica agent and audit logs. See Troubleshooting with MC Diagnostics.
Recent Databases
The Recent Databases section displays all databases that you created on or imported into the MC interface. You can install one or more databases, on the same cluster or on different clusters, but you can have only one database running on a single cluster at a time. UP databases appear in green and DOWN databases are red. An empty space under Recent Databases means that you have not yet created or imported a database into the MC interface, or do not have permission to view any databases managed by MC.