Cloud end user - using My Cloud Services Console

This section provides an overview of how you use the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management – My Cloud Services Console. From this console, you can perform the following actions on the services that your cloud administrator makes available to you.

• Logging on to My Cloud Services Console
• Requesting cloud services
• Managing cloud services
• Monitoring cloud services

This topic provides the following overview information:

My Services tab

When you log on to My Cloud Services Console, the default view displays the My Services tab:

The My Services tab displays the status of your provisioned service requests. The My Services tab contains the following sub-tabs:

• Services
• Servers
• Storage
• PaaS

The link bars allow you to see details regarding these types of resources.  For example, you can view commission end dates for provisioned services, load balancer pools for servers, or attached servers for network disks, among many other details.

Services

The Services link bar displays the status of your provisioned services. When you select a service in the list:

• Detailed information about the service is displayed in the Details pane on the right side of the window, including:
  • Summary details about the server
  • Related Requests
  • Price
  • Applications
• The lower pane gives you the option of displaying information about server or PaaS resources.
  • When you click PaaS in the heading of the lower pane, an icon for each provisioned database is displayed.
  • When you click Servers in the heading of the lower pane, an icon for each server that is part of the service is displayed. Using these icons, you can: 
    
    Using the icons you can click the Remote Connect icon to start a remote terminal session on the server or you can click the Details icon to display detailed information about the server. Information about servers is displayed on the Servers link bar and information about database is displayed on the PaaS link bar. In either case, information is filtered to show only information about the selected server or database.

Servers

The Servers link bar displays all of the servers that comprise your services. Click a service for details about that service. For more information about the actions you can perform on servers, see Managing servers in a service.

Storage

The Storage link bar displays all of the network disk storage attached to any of the servers that are part of one of your services. You can view block devices or file systems.

PaaS

The PaaS link bar displays all of your platform as a service (PaaS) resources. Click a resource for details about the resource. For more information about the actions you can perform, see Managing PaaS resources.

Service Catalog tab

The Service Catalog tab shows the list of services made available to you by your cloud administrator.  The service catalog is where you begin the process of requesting a cloud service, such as a Windows server or additional storage.

Activities tab

The Activities tab displays the status of the resources that you requested, depending on which link bar you select.  For example, to see the status of a request to start a server, click the Servers link bar.