User Interface Overview
This section provides a general overview of the Protector user interface.
User Interface Structure
The Ops Center Protector user interface follows a general pattern for the hierarchical layout of pages. Understanding this hierarchy will help you navigate the UI more effectively, enabling you to locate, create and edit resources quickly and easily.
Page Type | Description |
Main Banner | The Main Banner appears at the top of all pages in the user interface and provides links to all the frequently accessed monitoring and administration dashboards and inventories. |
Navigation Sidebar | The Navigation Sidebar appears at the left of all pages in the user interface and provides links to all the frequently accessed management, configuration and design dashboards and inventories. |
Dashboard | Dashboard pages (e.g. Default Dashboard) are used when information needs to be grouped together into related sets of resources and functions. From a dashboard it is possible to view the inventories of resources. |
Inventory | Inventory pages (e.g. Nodes Inventory) list collections of resources of the same type. They can be filtered to display the entire set or a specific subset of those resources. From an inventory page it is possible to create, view and delete resources and perform other available actions on them. |
Detail | Detail pages (e.g. Node Details) display all the properties of a particular resource. If a resource is a composite of other resources (e.g. policies are a composite of classifications and operations) then its detail page may contain inventories of those sub-resources. From a detail page it is possible to edit the resource and perform other available actions on them. |
Wizard | Wizard pages (e.g. Node Type Wizard) are an ordered collection of dialogs that guide the user through the creation or modification of a resource. A dedicated wizard is provided for creating and editing each type of resource. If a resource is a composite of other resources then its wizard may invoke wizards for creating those sub-resources. |
User Interface Page Layout
Control | Description |
1. Banner | The banner remains visible and active at all times. It contains links to frequently used monitoring and administrative functions. Refer to the Main Banner description for more details. |
2. Breadcrumbs | The breadcrumbs remain visible and active at all times. They provide an indication of where you are in the hierarchy of pages and allow easy navigation to related pages. Refer to the Navigation Breadcrumbs description for more details. |
3. Pop-up Session Notifications | One or more color coded session notification messages may appear
down the right hand side of the page, these messages are displayed in response to
user interaction via the UI:
The session messages are removed after a few seconds, but can be viewed in the Session Notifications list displayed via the Main Banner. When a session notification message appears, check for entries in the Logs Inventory if further information is required. |
4. Sidebar | The sidebar is available at all times. It contains links to management, configuration and design functions. Refer to the Navigation Sidebar description for more details. |
5. Page Area | All pages relating to the Protector UI appear in this
area. Refer to the Inventory Page description for more details. Following logon, the Default Dashboard is displayed. It presents an overview of the current system status and contains links to the associated pages. |
Main Banner
The main banner appears at the top of all pages in the user interface and provides links to all the frequently accessed monitoring and administration functions.
Control | Description |
Dashboard | Opens the Dashboard |
Jobs | Opens the Jobs |
Logs | Opens the Logs |
Monitor | Opens the Monitor |
Storage | Opens the Storage Inventory |
Reports | Opens the Reports |
The name of the currently logged in user is displayed here. Opens the menu from which the Settings Wizard Dialog and the logout option can be accessed.Click to logout. | |
Session Notifications | Click to view the list of session notification messages. The
messages listed here are a cache of the pop-up messages displayed in the web UI. The
number of unread error notifications is displayed to the right of the button.
All unread session notifications are considered to have been
read when the list is opened then subsequently closed. All notifications can be
cleared by selecting Clear at the top of the popup list. NoteIf you have a number of browser
tabs open simultaneously, the notifications displayed here are local to the tab in
which you are currently working. |
Help | Displays a menu from which the Online Help dialog and About dialog can be accessed. |
Settings Wizard
Controls the presentation of information within the user interface.
Control | Description |
Locale | Selects the locale so that information is presented in accordance with the conventions of the associated culture. |
Time Zone | The time zone to be used to display dates and times on the UI. The Master node's time zone is not changed. |
Use 24 hour format | Displays time in HH:MM:SS format when checked, otherwise AM/PM format is used. |
Page Size | Sets the number of tiles or table entries displayed per page in the Inventory Page. |
Default Layout | Selects tile or table view as the default in all Inventory Pages. |
Cancel | Discards all changes made to the settings and reverts to those used prior to opening the Setting page. |
Save | Commits the new settings. Pages currently open in other tabs and windows will need to be reloaded before the changes are seen by the user. |
About dialog
This dialog is displayed when the
option is selected from the Main Banner.This dialog shows the build number for the Master node. You may need this when communicating with Hitachi Vantara Support.
Online Help dialog
This dialog is displayed when the
option is selected from the Main Banner.Click the link to open online help versions of the Protector User Guide in separate browser tabs. This also includes Application specific information.
Navigation Breadcrumbs
The breadcrumbs appear at the top of all pages in the user interface and show the hierarchical location of the current page. This allows the user to navigate back to a parent page by clicking on the page name.
Control | Description |
Dashboard | The home page in the hierarchy (i.e. the Default Dashboard). Click here to navigate directly to the home page. |
1st Level Sub-page | The 1st level sub-page (e.g. Access Control) Click here to navigate directly to this page. |
2nd Level Sub-page | The 2nd level sub-page (e.g. Resource Groups). Click here to navigate directly to this page. If other related pages are available, these are shown in a pop-up menu by clicking the icon to the right of the parent page name. Click on one of the menu items to navigate directly to that page. |
Current Page | The currently displayed page (e.g. Create). |
Navigation Sidebar
The sidebar is displayed to the left of all pages in the user interface and provides links to all the frequently accessed management, configuration and design functions.
Control | Description |
Nodes | Opens the Nodes Inventory |
Node Groups | Opens the Node Groups Inventory |
Policies | Opens the Policies Inventory |
Data Flows | Opens the Data Flows Inventory |
Schedules | Opens the Schedules Inventory |
Notifications | Opens the Notifications Inventory |
Restore | Opens the Restore Inventory |
Access Control | Opens the Access Control Dashboard |
Licenses | Opens the Licenses Inventory |
Default Dashboard
For example, if 5 Errors are indicated on the Alerts tile, clicking the corresponding text will open the Logs page from the Dashboard with a filter applied such that only error level logs are displayed.
Control | Description |
Jobs | Plots the number of completed, failed and active jobs by the hour.
The chart can be filtered by clicking the legends shown at the top of the tile.
Clicking on the coloured part of a bar in the time series opens the Jobs Inventory with the appropriate filter applied. NoteThe data displayed here will be
reset if the hub service is restarted on the master node. |
RPO | Plots the RPO status for all backups. The chart can be filtered by clicking the legends shown at the top of the tile. Clicking on a segment of the pie chart opens the RPO Report with the appropriate filter applied. |
Data Flows | Clicking on a counter opens the Monitor Inventory or Data Flows Inventory with the appropriate filter applied. |
Alerts | Indicates the number of unacknowledged error and warning level log messages, and the number of offline nodes. Clicking on a counter opens the Logs Inventory or Nodes Inventory with the appropriate filter applied. |
Backup Jobs | Indicates the status of backup jobs. Clicking on a counter opens the Jobs Inventory, Jobs Report or RPO Report with the appropriate filter applied. |
Pause/Resume Dashboard Transition | When additional, user defined dashboards are added to the dashboard set, this button pauses or resumes the periodic transition between them. |
Configure User Dashboard Set | Opens the Configure Dashboard Set wizard, enabling user dashboards to be added to or removed from the dashboard set. |
Manage Dashboards | Opens the Dashboard Inventory,
enabling new dashboards to be created, edited or deleted. NoteDashboard creation requires an
in-depth understanding of the Protector REST API. Please contact
professional services if you need to add new dashboards. |
Inventory Page
Item | Description |
1. Page Title | Identifies the function or scope of the page. |
2. Tile Related Controls | Buttons displayed here represent commands that can be applied to items selected in the Tile/Table Area immediately below them. The buttons may be enabled (displayed in black) or disabled (displayed in grey) depending on the number and type of tiles selected. |
3. Page or Resource Related Controls | Buttons displayed here represent commands that apply to the page in general (e.g. email sender account settings for notifications). |
4. Layout Controls | Tile View Information about the resources displayed in an inventory are presented in tile mode. |
Table View Information about the resources displayed in an inventory are presented in table mode. | |
Filters Click this button to toggle the filter controls (5) between hidden or shown. | |
5. Filter Controls | The controls displayed here allow the results displayed in the Tile/Table Area to the left to be filtered based on the criteria selected. The filter controls can be hidden or displayed (4). Each inventory has an associated set of filters. In the majority of cases the filters are applied as you select them. For Restore inventories the filters are applied once the Search button is clicked. NoteIf the display area is limited, the filter controls will be positioned above the Tile/Table Display Area (7). |
6. Tile/Table Page Controls | When the number of items returned for the given filter criteria exceeds one page, these buttons are displayed to allow more results to be loaded. |
7. Tile/Table Display Area | The items returned for the given filter criteria are displayed here as separate tiles or rows in a table (depending on the display mode selected). Refer to Tile Control for more details about the controls displayed on tiles |
8. Select All Items Checkbox | All inventory items passing the applied filter criteria and displayed on the current page only are selected/deselected. |
Tile Control
Item | Description |
1. Select/Deselect Checkbox | This control is used to select/deselect tiles. Selected items display a check mark in this control and will have the commands (selected in the control bar above the tile area) applied to them. |
2. Supplementary Icons | For some tile types, supplementary icons may be displayed here to convey additional information (e.g. status). |
3. Item Type Icon | Each tile will have a specific icon displayed here to indicate the type of item to which it corresponds. |
4. Additional Hyperlink | For tiles that contain other items (e.g. Classifications may contain Filters) additional links to those items may me displayed here. Click the link to open the corresponding page. |
5. Item Description and Parameters | The key properties of the resource are displayed here. |
6. Item Name and Hyperlink | The name of the item is displayed here. Click on the name to open the corresponding details page. |