A user in the Provider Administrator role interacts with the VMware Data Services Manager Provider Console to monitor and manage details of the environment, and to perform various administrative tasks.
See Roles and Their Responsibilities.
Only users in the Provider Administrator role have access to the VMware Data Services Manager console views for the Provider.
A Provider Administrator user uses the console to view, monitor, and manage the environment for every registered organization.
The Dashboard provides an at-a-glance view of important VMware Data Services Manager metrics for your organization:
Click a Dashboard entry to drill-down and view detailed information about the object.
The VMware Data Services Manager Provider Console provides several views that enable you to configure, monitor, and manage your deployment. You can access a view of interest via the left navigation pane, and in some cases, also from the Dashboard.
The Provider Console views include:
Provider View | Description |
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Databases | Create database VMs. Monitor and manage the database VMs that use a Namespace associated with the Provider organization. |
Database Alerts | Monitor database alerts. |
Database Backups | Create database backups. Monitor and restore database backups that use a Namespace associated with the Provider organization.. |
Database Templates | Manage database templates that use a Namespace associated with the Provider organization.. |
Environment | Create, monitor, and manage the registered environments. |
Environment Alarms | Monitor environment alarms. |
Environment Events | Monitor environment events. |
External Storage | Monitor connectivity to external storage. |
Namespaces | Create, monitor, and manage Namespaces. |
Operations | Monitor database and environment operations. |
Organizations | Create, monitor, and manage the configured organizations. |
Settings | Manage system settings. |
System Audit | Monitor system audit events. |
System Logs | Manage Provider log collection. |
Update Manager | Manage Provider software updates. |
Users | Create, monitor, manage the configured users. |
VM Plans | Create, monitor, manage VM plan configurations. |