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Logging in

  1. Using your web browser of choice, navigate to the URL which points to your HyperCloud installation e.g. https://hypercloud.softiron.com This will bring you to the HyperCloud management dashboard GUI (Graphical User Interface).

  2. Enter your login credentials into the relevant text fields. Your login prompt will look similar to the image below.

Login Screen

User interface

The dashboard view will vary for each user type. If you are logging into the HyperCloud dashboard as a cloud administrator user type, your dashboard will provide a concise view of the virtual objects managed by your cloud instance. From here you can instantiate new resources and check the status of already-deployed resources, as well as quickly identify issues such as failed provisioning attempts, potential resource contention, and failed hardware.

Dashboard Admin View

An administrator view of the HyperCloud dashboard, providing a quick overview of VM instances, users and groups, images, virtual networks and hosts, along with their resources.

Logging into the dashboard

The dashboard view can be configured for four types of user:

  • administrator,
  • groupadmin,
  • user, or
  • cloud.

These views can be customized to display the information deemed appropriate or most important for the target user type.

The administrator view exposes a complete view of the HyperCloud, giving administrators and elevated users full access and control of the physical and virtual resources on the cloud. Conversely, the cloud view is a pared-down presentation that allows management of the virtual resources without the access or requirement to manage the physical resources.

Accessing the user menu

To view settings relating to the current logged-in user, find the persistent drop-down menu at the top-right hand part of the HyperCloud dashboard. This is the user menu.

User Dropdown Menu

User settings and authentication

The user menu contains the links for user settings, signing out, views available to the user, and groups the user belongs to.

Click on the settings section of the user menu to view information relevant to the currently logged-in user.

Settings Menu Auth

The Info tab displays the User ID, Name, Language, View, and other related information.

The Auth tab displays the user's authentication methods for both logging into the dashboard or initiating an SSH session (required for command line interface connections). Here, the user password and their public SSH key can be altered by clicking on the pad and pen icon and then updating the fields with the new information.

Clicking the blue View button will present a salted hash value of the current password.

Danger

Never delete admin or serveradmin users. This will cause irreparable damage to the cluster and require a support ticket with SoftIron to recover the cluster.