Menus and navigation

User interface orientation

Features, menus and options vary depending on your solution and the MediaKind products installed.

Home page and dashboard overviews

The Home page displays a dashboard with overviews for services, servers, templates and alarms. Click an overview to link to the related page.

Collapse/expand button

The button collapses or expands the Menu panel to either hide or display menu text.

Menu panel

Access information and configuration options. Menu options may vary depending on the products you have installed.

Full/Collapsed menu

Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs are navigational links to previous pages. Breadcrumbs display above the viewing screen.

System center menu

The System center menu drops down after clicking the icon.

Health indicator and alarms banner

The Health indicator and alarms banner displays in the upper right corner of the screen.

Health indicator status

• Green: everything is OK.
• Amber: something needs attention.
• Red: something isn't working. Functionality could be limited. If the indicator is amber or red, alarms will also be triggered.

Alarms and events

The Alarms menu is a link to a page that centralizes alarms and events. There are other types of alarm pages (services, failover, etc.) that show alarm information in a similar table display.

Templates

Templates are saved service configurations. Templates simplify the creation of services that share common settings and ensure configuration consistency across services. This menu only displays if Live Encoder component is used.

Related information
Create a service from a template

Failover

You can configure Failover settings and groups for redundant systems. Go to the Failover display table to view running states and alarm statuses.

Settings

You can access additional menus from the Settings menu. This menu only displays if Packager, Prisma or Live Encoder components are used.

Health

The Controller utilizes Prometheus and Grafana to enhance monitoring capabilities. The Health page presents a dashboard with various indicators to effectively monitor your solution. This page will look different depending on the deployment type.

• The At a glance section displays key indicators for the Controller framework and service health including Disk Space Used. Alarms are triggered at 60% disk space usage, with critical alarms at 90%. Health indicators are also provided for the key-value store (etcd), the database (Mongo) and the message queue (Rabbit), as well as uptime CPU, CPU and memory usage.

• Details on any alerts raised by the Controllers are also shown.

• Additional expandable indicators offer more detailed information for advanced troubleshooting.

At the top of the page, variables allow control over the displayed data. The Data source is particularly useful as it determines which Controller is used to serve the data.

Jobs

The jobs menu allows you to access a jobs overview. You can monitor on going, queued, aborted, completed or uncompleted jobs all from the same jobs overview page. This menu only displays if On-Demand Encoder component is used.

Related information
Manage jobs

Reports

The reports menu provides access to specific information and to export the report to a .csv file.

External links to third-party tools

Access third-party tools directly from the Controller. Once added to the system, external links are available from the left side menu panel.

System Center for solution administration

The System Center menu provides access to administration features. Administrators can manage users, system backups and restore options, as well as monitor servers, and manage settings.

To access the System Center, click the in the top right corner. The displayed menu includes a number of options for system administration and monitoring.

Features are available depending on your user rights.

Editing the number of rows displayed

For most menu pages available in the Controller UI, you can display more or less rows in the table by selecting the number of rows to display.

1. Use the left-side Menu panel to display a specific page.

2. Scroll to the bottom of the selected page and edit the number of rows to display per page.

   

Using the search bar

The Search bar displays in pages with table displays.

1. Use the left-side Menu panel to display a specific page.

2. Enter one or several keywords in the Search bar to filter the table.

   Search requirements:

   • Keyword based
   • No wildcard

   Example: Server page