Signing in to the Grid Manager

You access the Sign In page for the Grid Manager by entering the web address or host name defined by your system administrator into the address bar of a supported web browser.

Before you begin

You must have an authorized user name and password.
You must have the IP address or fully qualified domain name of an Admin Node.
You must have access to a supported web browser.
Cookies must be enabled in your web browser.
You must have specific access permissions. For details, see information about controlling system access with administration user accounts and groups.
You had the default security certificate created during installation, or you have a custom certificate.

About this task

When you sign in to the Grid Manager, you are connecting to an Admin Node. Each StorageGRID Webscale system includes one primary Admin Node and any number of non-primary Admin Nodes. You can connect to any Admin Node, and each Admin Node displays a similar view of the StorageGRID Webscale system. However, the Admin Nodes are not entirely equivalent:

Alarm acknowledgments made through one Admin Node are not copied to other Admin Nodes. Therefore, the Grid Topology tree might not look the same for each Admin Node.
Some maintenance procedures can only be performed from the primary Admin Node.

Steps

Launch a supported web browser.
In the browser’s address bar, enter the IP address or fully qualified domain name of the Admin Node.
The StorageGRID Webscale system's Sign In page appears.
If you are prompted with a security alert, view and install the certificate using the browser’s installation wizard.
The alert will not appear the next time you access this URL.
Enter your case-sensitive username and password, and click Sign In.
The home page of the Grid Manager appears, which includes the Dashboard.