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This area shows detailed information about the different objects of the platform. This area It is usually divided into several tabs, that contain different views of the object at hand. If you select the Host in the tree view, information about it isshown in the details view. This information is divided into four tabs:

Host info tab

This tab displays basic For instance, in the previous image we can see information about the Host, and a summary of its available resources.

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The table on the left shows:

• Current and desired state. If they differ, the Manager will try to bring the Host to the desired state.

• Name, address and description.

• VDI address: This is the IP address reported to the VDI clients to connect to. This is required when the Host has a public and a private address.

• CPU type and Hypervisor version.

• Message provided by the Host's agent in case of error.

The graphs on the right show a summary of the available resources in this Host. Hosts provide CPU and RAM resources to Guests. The total resources offered by a Host consist of its physical resources adjusted by an overcommit factor. By overcommiting, a Host can offer more resources than actually available. It is safe to overcommit CPU resources, since they are time-shared by the Guests. On the other hand, overcommiting RAM resources is not recommended at all; do it under your own responsibility.

Resources must be first reserved by a Pool, then used by a Guest of the Pool. The bar graphs show how much resources are in use by Guests, how much are free, and how much are not reserved by any Pool. Next to the graphs there is also the same information in numeric form, and a relation of physical and overcommited resources.

Pools tab

This tab displays information about the Host resources assigned to each of the Pools.

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A Pool is a set of CPU and RAM resources available to the Guests associated to it. A Pool's resources may come from different Hosts, and each Host may contribute resources to many Pools. The list on the left contains the Pools to which this Host is contributing resources, plus the set of resources not contributed to any Pool. When you select one of the items in the list, the charts on the right reflect how many resources are free and in use in that Pool.

Guests tab

This tab shows the Guests running on the selected Host and the amount of resources allocated by them.

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You can filter the list with the input box at the top right corner, if you are looking for a specific guest. The charts on the right show the same information in a graphical way.

Network tab

Finally, this tab shows the network interfaces available to the selected Host. They can be configured with the flexVDI Config tool.

• Physical interfaces.
• Bridge interfaces.
• Bonding interfaces.
• VLAN interfaces.

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Bottom area: The tasks view

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The lower area provides information about Tasks. It consists of four tabs:

• Session: It shows all the tasks, past and present, that have been created since the Dashboard connected to the Manager.

• Pending: It shows tasks started but not finished yet.

• Finished: It only shows finished tasks.

• Scheduled: Not implemented yet.

All of them contain a table with the following information for each task:

• Object: Object of the platform targeted by the task.

• Action: Action performed by the task (Run a guest, delete an image, ...)

• State: Either running or finished.

• Result: Success or error. Additionally, if a task results in an error, its background changes to red.

• Result message: Any message returned by the task once finished. Most useful on error.

• Time of execution

If you double-click on a task, it will open a dialog with its information. Use it when the result message is too long to be correctly displayed in the table.

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