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title: "The Global Administrator User Interface"
slug: "the-global-administrator-user-interface-4"
tags: ["8.2", "Portal"]
updated: 2025-06-11T13:28:05Z
published: 2025-06-11T13:28:05Z
canonical: "kb.ctera.com/the-global-administrator-user-interface-4"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://kb.ctera.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The Global Administrator User Interface

The portal interface consist of the following elements: **Top bar** – The list of portals in a drop-down and the user name at the top right. Clicking the avatar or administrator initials next to the name displays additional options, such as access to the documentation. ![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-8B2HJ1OT.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A43%3A43Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A43%3A43Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=0suXNePSoLTr97OYB8ZHB%2B7574LzwCn%2BGvlaS8JrZeA%3D) **Navigation Pane** – To navigate between pages in the portal. **Content** – Displays the portal pages.

## The Main Dashboard

The dashboard displays an overview of the CTERA Portal. ![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-HX78REEO.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A43%3A43Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A43%3A43Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=0suXNePSoLTr97OYB8ZHB%2B7574LzwCn%2BGvlaS8JrZeA%3D)

### Viewing Notifications in the Main Dashboard

The dashboard displays a summary of the highest priority active notifications.

If there are notifications you can go directly to the **Notifications** page by clicking **SHOW IN NOTIFICATION MANAGER**. For more details about notifications, see [Managing Notifications and Email Templates](/v1/docs/managing-notifications-and-email-templates-7).

### Viewing Devices in the Main Dashboard

The dashboard displays a summary of devices registered with the portal. The information includes the total number of registered devices and the actual number connected at that time. A pie chart shows the different types of devices, such as workstation and server agents, and different licensed gateways with the licenses (EV16, EV32, etc.).

You can go directly to the **Devices** page by clicking **SHOW ALL DEVICES**. For more details about notifications, see [Managing Devices](/v1/docs/managing-devices-12).

### Viewing the System Status in the Main Dashboard

The dashboard displays a summary of the system over time, including the cloud storage limit and actual use, the number of users and how many new users for that day as well as details of the licenses usage.

### Viewing Licensing in the Main Dashboard

The dashboard displays a summary of each license limit, the licenses provisioned, the provisioned licenses used, and the remaining licenses available from the provisioned licenses.

## Navigating Between Portal Views

**To navigate between the administration view and a specific virtual portal view:**

1. In the view drop-down in the top bar select **All - Administration** or the virtual portal you want to manage. You can start typing the name of the portal in the drop-down to filter the names displayed in the drop-down.
          **Note**

          

If there are too many portals to list in the drop-down, you can also choose **Main > Portals** in the navigation pane of the administration view and scroll to the portal you want. Click the ![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/30792387-cdcb-4791-aa14-94929bbcd3fe/Images/Documentation/image-7A9YORWV.png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-11T04%3A43%3A43Z&se=2026-11-11T05%3A43%3A43Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=0suXNePSoLTr97OYB8ZHB%2B7574LzwCn%2BGvlaS8JrZeA%3D) icon, which is displayed when moving the mouse over the name in the **SORT BY NAME** column, to open the administration view for that CTERA Portal.

For information about administering each team portal, see the [Team Administrator Guide](/v1/docs/team-administrator-guide).