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3. Log in to the Power User Portal

Now that you have created a Power User who has full permissions to an existing virtual machine, log in as rhevpower to the User Portal. You can use either the same client that you are using for the administration portal, or any Red Hat Enterprise Linux client running Mozilla Firefox.
If you are using a Red Hat Enterprise Linux client, install the SPICE plug-in before logging in to the User Portal. Run:
# yum install spice-xpi
To log in to the User Portal
  1. Open your browser and navigate to https://rhevm.demo.redhat.com:8443/UserPortal.
  2. The login screen displays. Enter your User Name and Password, and select the ipadomain.demo.redhat.com domain in the drop-down menu. Click Login.
You have now successfully logged into the User Portal. Here, you can access and monitor all the virtual machines that are available to you. The functions are briefly described in the following figure and list:
The Power User Portal
Figure 34. The Power User Portal

  1. Title bar: This bar displays the name of the User logged in to the portal and the Sign out button.
  2. Portal view: The Extended view of the User Portal displays by default for power users. You can also switch to the Basic view, which is the default for users with basic permissions. You will be using the Basic portal in Advanced Lab 8 - Virtual Desktops.
  3. Navigation pane: This pane toggles between displaying Virtual Machines, Templates and Resources. When a tab is selected, the available virtual resources display. This example uses the Virtual Machines tab.
  4. Management bar: The buttons on this bar enable you to create and make changes to virtual machines.
  5. Virtual machine name: This list displays the virtual machine's name, operating system logo and status of the virtual machine (running, paused or powered off).
  6. Power buttons: These buttons allow you to play, stop, pause or power off a virtual machine.
  7. Connect button: The Console button allows you to connect to virtual machines.
  8. Details pane: Clicking on a virtual machine displays its statistics in this pane. You can view a virtual machine's details in the General, Events, Applications and Monitor subtabs, and make configuration changes in the Network Interfaces, Virtual Disks, Snapshots and Permissions subtabs.
Once you are familiar with the layout of the power user portal, you can start creating virtual machines, as instructed in the next section.