Developer Cloud Sandboxes solution

h1. Understanding the Sandbox

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h2. The Sandbox dashboard

The Sandbox dashboard is a Web User Interface exposing the Sandbox information and functionalities.

The Sandbox dashboard is accessible at the address:

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http://<sandbox address>/dashboard 

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The Sandbox dashboard main tabs are described below.

h3. Dashboard

The Sandbox dashboard dashboard tab contains information about the Sandbox itself:

* Sandbox Information:

** Name

** Type

** Virtual Machine ID

** Status

** Owner

* Sandbox Controls

** ...

* Security Information

** Get private key

* Network Information

** Host Name

** IP address

** Mac Address

h3. Application

The Application dashboard tab allows editing the Application Descriptor file as you would do it on a graphical XML editor (the editor features code completion).

The *Save* button will save the changes on the Application Descriptor file.

The *Reload" button will reload the Application Descriptor file e.g. if the Application Descriptor file has been edited in the Sandbox shell.

The *Deploy Service* packages the application to be deployed as a processing Service on the Web Portal (requires support from the Web Portal team).

The *Start Workflow Sample* triggers the execution of the workflow (it is equivalent to executing the ciop-simwf command from the Sandbox shell).

h3. Data

h3. Compute

The Compute dashboard tab show the Sandbox computing resources information and health:

* Sandbox total nodes

* Sandbox Service State

* CPU Usage

* Memory Usage

* Home Disk Usage

* Application Disk Usage

h3. Support

The Support dashboard tab allows submitting support issues and list the submitted issues.

The issues are managed on the Redmine support portal.