Exploring the Web Interface

Once you have successfully signed in, the Kraken Web interface opens to the Dashboard. From here, you can use the Navigational Menus to access the Streaming, Settings, and Security sections. 
For further details on stream and system monitoring from the Dashboard, see Navigating the Dashboard. 

Navigational Menus

• Select Streaming from the sidebar to set up Configuring Streams, Configuring Inputs, Configuring Transcoders, Configuring Outputs, or Configuring Metadata Capture. 

• Select Settings from the sidebar to:

  • View or configure the Configuring Network Settings

  • Manage Archive Locations

  • View or manage Reporting (status/events) 

  • Manage Licensing

  • View or configure Enabling and Disabling Services

  • View or Update the current software

• Select Security from the sidebar to manage:

  • Managing User Accounts

  • Managing Certificates

  • Managing Security Policies

• Select Help Center from the sidebar to access online help. You will be re-directed to the Haivision InfoCenter website, which contains the Kraken documentation. See How to use the InfoCenter for tips and tricks for browsing the site.

Note

To access the most up-to-date documentation, Kraken routes users to documentation resources within doc.haivision.com. 

For disconnected environments (i.e. if no external internet connection is available), the Kraken UI checks for an asset on the documentation portal, specifically 'https://assets.doc.haivision.com/assets/images/favicon.png', and will guide users to the local offline help when this asset is unavailable.

• Click the Signing Out icon

  

  to sign out of your current session.

• Click the Saving and Loading Presets dropdown to manage device presets. 

Tip

Kraken provides pop-up notifications for most actions taken from the web interface.

These notifications appear on the top-right of the screen and confirm/describe the status of the action. It is important to take note of these pop-ups, as some may contain messages or alerts that require user action.

System Monitoring

The dashboard provides users with key system information, including:

• An Overall Bandwidth chart, displaying the overall bandwidth in Mb for Inputs (purple) and Outputs (teal).

  

• The percentage of CPU and Memory Resources being used.

  

• A Capacity Card, demonstrating the Stream and/or Bypass capacity load.

  

• The Device Status Information, including: Version, Uptime, Stream Load, and Active Transcoder.

  

Related Topics:

• Navigating the Dashboard

• Managing Kraken from the Web Interface

• System Security