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Horizon Dashboard
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The Horizon Dashboard is the main interface to interact with OpenStack.

.. note:: 
 Every cloud infrastructure at CINECA has a separate instance of the Horizon Dashboard, 
 please refer to the :ref:`cloud/systems/index_system_specifics:Cloud Specifics` to know how to access a specific system.

As a first step, you are asked to login using your HPC credentials and 2FA (see :ref:`general/users_account:hpc credentials`).

The dashboard gives users a graphical interface to monitor and manage the cloud 
resources associated to your projects. 

.. image:: ../../_img/openstack_dashboard_overview.png

You find the current active project on the top left of the screen, next to the CINECA
logo. By clicking on the drop-down menu, you can choose the project you want to 
interact with, while the overview panel shows available quotas and the used resources 
for the selected project.

On the left menu, you have various pages to interact with each OpenStack component.

In each page, you have the list of all the resources of the corresponding type that 
have been created inside the project. For example, the *"Instances"* page shows all the 
virtual machine instances that are currently in the project, with some information on 
their status:  

.. image:: ../../_img/openstack_instances_overview.png

For each of these pages, you usually find on top of the page a search toolbar and a 
button to create new resources. The main tool to interact with OpenStack resources 
is the drop-down menu in the **"Actions"** column (on the right side). This gives you all 
the possible actions that can be performed on the specific resource.

Clicking on the name of the resource opens a dedicated page that allows you to inspect 
all the resource's properties.