Profiles

Profiles 

The Profiles page allows the user to register a soft edge cluster profile to provision cloud hosted (AWS and Azure) VMs as Akridata soft edges.

Add Profile

To add a profile, follow the below instructions:

1. Click button located on the top right corner of the screen.
   The Add Profile window opens.
   Add Profile 
2. Enter the Name.
3. To choose the Provider click on the dropdown arrow.
4. To set the Max Clusters value click on the up-down control to increment or decrement the value. The ‘Max clusters’ specify the maximum number of soft edge clusters that can be created using this profile. 
5. To choose the Credential Namespace click on the dropdown arrow.
6. To choose the Credential key click on the dropdown arrow.
7. Enter configuration parameters as a list of ‘key-value’ pairs with the Key field and value in the Value field.
   • Click button to add a new key and value.
   • Click button to delete a key and its value.
      

     For AWS: Add four key pairs.
     Key	Key Value
     access_key	aws_access_key
     secret_key	aws_secret_key
     region Note: Enter name as per region	aws_region Note: Enter value as per region
     Key_pair Note: If a key pair exists, it is reused.	aws_key_pair_name

      

     For Azure: Add seven key pairs. Note: The below key values are supplied by the customer and used to create virtual machines.
     Key	Key Value
     client_id	azure_client_id
     client_secret	azure_client_secret
     tenant_id	azure_tenant_id
     subscription_id	azure_subscription_id
     resource_group	azure_resource_group_name
     Region Note: Enter name as per region	azure_region Note: Enter value as per region
     key_pair	azure_key_pair_name

8. Click Create Profile to add the profile and save to AkriManager. The saved profile is displayed in the Profiles page.
9. Click button to add another profile and repeat instructions 1 to 6.
10. Click icon to close the window and go back to Libraries>Profiles page.

In the Profiles page, following fields are displayed,

• • Name: The profile names are displayed in this column.
  • Provider: Provider details are displayed in this column.
  • # of cluster(s): Number of clusters is displayed in this column.
  • # of instance(s): Number of instances is displayed in this column.
  • Actions: This column displays options to,

View Profile

To view a profile, follow the below instructions:

1. Clickicon in the Actions column. The profile details are displayed.
2. Click icon to close the window and go back to the Libraries>Profiles page.

Delete Profile

To delete a profile, follow the below instructions:

1. Clickicon in the Actions column. A dialogue box with Delete and Cancel buttons is displayed.
2. Click Delete to delete the profile or Cancel to go back to Libraries>Profiles page.

Edit Profile

To edit a profile, follow the below instructions:

1. Clickicon in the Actions column. The Edit Profile window opens.
   
   Edit Profile
   

    Name and Provider details are displayed.

2. To set the Max Clusters value click on the up-down control to increment or decrement the value.
3. To set the Max Instances value click on the up-down control to increment or decrement the value.
4. Click Update Profile to save the changes.
5. Click icon to close the window and go back to Libraries>Profiles page.