Administration Portal Overview

The Administration Portal in Contrail Service Orchestration (CSO) provides a Web-based UI that service providers (SPs) and operating companies (OpCos) can use to manage physical and virtual resources, add and manage tenants, monitor system performance, perform administrative tasks (such as manage users and roles), and so on.

Administration Portal supports role-based access control (RBAC), which means that the roles assigned to users determine their access privileges and the actions that they can perform. The following predefined roles are available in Administration Portal:

SP Admin (SP Administrator)
SP Operator
OpCo Admin (OpCo Administrator)
OpCo Operator

Administrator users have read access and write access to the Administration Portal UI and API capabilities, whereas operator users only have read access. Administrators can also create more users with specific roles and access privileges.

Note:

In the cloud-hosted version of CSO (managed by Juniper Networks), the SP Admin and SP Operator roles are available only for Juniper Networks.

Administration Portal supports both local authentication and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)-based authentication for single sign-on (SSO).

When you log in to Administration Portal, the main menu (left sidebar) that is displayed and the actions that you can perform depend on your access privileges. Table 1 displays the main menu available in the Administration Portal and a brief description of each menu item, and a link to the relevant topic in the Contrail Service Orchestration Administration Portal User Guide.

Table 2 lists the icons on the top right corner of the Administration Portal and a brief description of each icon.

Table 1: Administration Portal Main Menu
Main Menu	Description
Favorites	View the list of pages that you have marked as favorite. You can mark pages that you frequently visit to Favorites. To mark a page as favorites, click the star icon on the right corner of each page.
Dashboard	Access a user-configurable dashboard that you can customize with available widgets (also known as dashlets). For more information, see About the Administration Portal Dashboard.
Monitor	Monitor or view the following: POPs: See About the Monitor Overview Page. Alerts and alarms: See About the Generated Alerts Page and About the Alarms Page. Service-level agreement (SLA) performance (only for SD-WAN tenants): See About the SLA Performance of All Tenants Page. Jobs (ongoing or completed): See About the Jobs Page.
Resources	Manage the following resources: POPs: See About the POPs Page. Tenant and provider hub device: See About the Tenant Devices Page and About the Provider Hub Devices Page. Device and virtualized network function (VNF) images, and packages: See About the Device Images Page. Device templates: See About the Device Template Page. Configuration templates: See About the Configuration Templates Page.
Configuration	Configure or manage the following: SLA-based and path-based steering profiles: See About the SLA-Based Steering Profiles Pageand About the Path-Based Steering Profiles Page Application traffic type profiles: See About the Application Traffic Type Profiles Page. SD-WAN breakout profiles Shared objects (for example, application signatures): See About the Application Signatures Page. Network services: See About the Network Services Page. Note: You use the Network Designer tool (part of the Designer Tools) to create and publish network services.
Tenants	Manage tenants and OpCos: See About the Tenants Page and About the Operating Companies Page.
Administration	Perform various administrative tasks including the following: Set up authentication: See About the Authentication Page. Manage users and roles: See About the Users Page in Administration Portal and About the Roles Page. Monitor audit logs: See About the Audit Logs Page. Configure dynamic mesh thresholds: See Configuring Dynamic Mesh Tunnel Thresholds for all Tenants. Manage device and CSO licenses: See About the Device License Files Page and About the CSO Licenses Page. Download signature databases: See About the Signature Database Page. Configure SMTP server: See Configuring SMTP Settings. Update terms of use: See Updating the Terms of Use. Customize e-mail templates: See Customizing E-mail Templates. Personalize the portals: See About the Display Preferences.

Table 2: Administration Portal Icons
Icons	Description
Running Jobs	Displays the list of jobs that are currently in progress. Click Review All to view the list of all jobs on the Jobs page. For more information on the Jobs page, see About the Jobs Page.
Scheduled Jobs	Displays the list of jobs that are scheduled. Click Review All to view the list of all scheduled jobs on the Jobs page. For more information on the Jobs page, see About the Jobs Page.
Scope	Displays the scope of a user. If you are an SP administrator or an OpCo administrator, you can change the scope from All Tenants to a specific tenant. For more information on switching the scope, see Switching the Tenant Scope.
Alarms and Alerts	Displays the following two tabs: Alarms—Displays the list of alarms that are generated by the device along with the timestamp and the severity of the alarm. Click Review All to view the details about the generated alarms on the Alarms page. For more information about the Alarms page, see About the Alarms Page. Alerts—Displays the list of alerts that are generated by the device along with the timestamp and the severity of the alert. Click Review All to view the details about the generated alerts on the Alerts page. For more information about the Alerts page, see About the Generated Alerts Page
Feedback	Click this icon to provide feedback about the product or report any issues that you are facing.
User Name	Displays the user name of the user who has currently logged into CSO.
Resize	Click this icon to resize the page to full screen.
Help Menu (?)	Click this icon to access the following panels and online help documentation: Getting Started panel What’s New panel Quick Help panel Help Center Release Notes About Panel

Administration Portal Overview

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