Exasol Admin
This article describes the web-based administration interface in Exasol.
Introduction
Exasol Admin is an easy-to-use web interface that allows you to carry out common administration tasks such as monitoring your database, generating and analyzing logs, creating backup schedules, updating Exasol, and managing files in BucketFS.
Exasol Admin is only available in Exasol 8 2025.1.0 and later.
In a new deployment of Exasol, you must enable the Exasol Admin UI server in the deployment configuration during the installation procedure. To learn more, see Install Exasol - step by step.
If you are upgrading to Exasol 2025.1.0 or later from an earlier rolling release version of Exasol 8, you need to manually enable Exasol Admin after the update. For more information, contact Support.
This article provides an overview of how to use Exasol Admin. For more details about each function, use the links to the related sections in the documentation.
How to access Exasol Admin
In a new deployment Exasol Admin is available on all cluster nodes (if enabled in the configuration). To access the interface, open a web browser and enter the IP address of a node and port 8443. For example: https://203.0.113.123:8443
To log in to Exasol Admin, enter the username admin
and the password that you specified when you deployed the cluster. For more information about passwords, see Create a configuration.
Databases
The Databases page presents a list of all databases in the cluster and the status of the cluster nodes. Detailed health statistics for the currently selected database are presented in the lower half of the window. If there are more than one database in the cluster, the first database in the list is selected by default. To select a database, click on .
| Support archive | Opens a page where you can create an archive with logs and other system information that will be required by our Support team if you open a support case. To learn more, see Log Files for Support. |
| Update | Enables you to easily update your database to a new version of Exasol. To learn more, see Update Exasol. |
| Test | Click to test the status of the connection to the database. |
Logs
On this page you can view system logs from the cluster. You can select which logs to retrieve, the log level and time interval, and filter by text or regular expressions.
To learn more about logs and how to monitor your system, see Monitoring.
Backups
This page lists all backups on archive volumes associated with the databases in the cluster.You can shoose to show all backups on a selected archive volume, or only the backups for a specific database. The backups that can be used to restore the currently selected database are indicated with a green checkmark.
To learn more about how to use backups in Exasol, see Backup and Restore.
The page only lists the backups. You cannot remove a backup or start a manual backup from this page.
Schedules
This page allows you to create and manage backup schedules for your databases. You can create, delete, enable and disable schedules as needed. To learn more, see Create Backup Schedule.
BucketFS
This page enables you to upload and manage files such as drivers and scripts in BucketFS on the database.
To learn more about how to use BucketFS, see BucketFS.
