System#

System → System is one page with four tabs: Overview, Settings, History and Audit log. The tiles and the header buttons are the same on every tab.

Tab	What it shows	Page
Overview	Version, hardware, power, updates and system images	this page
Settings	The router's own settings: general, time synchronisation, SSH, router accounts, remote logging, SNMP, kernel parameters and scheduled tasks	Settings
History	Every configuration the router has applied, what each change did, restoring an earlier one, and the Git export	History
Audit log	Who did what through the web interface and the API, and whether it worked	Audit log

The tab is not part of the page's address, so a reload returns to Overview.

The router's certificate authorities and certificates have a page of their own, System → Certificates, described in Certificates.

The header#

The subtitle is the host name and the product version, for example edge-1 · Wheelhouse 0.9.1.

When the router has found a newer release, a badge beside the tabs names it (0.9.2 available). Selecting it opens the Overview tab, where the Updates panel says what is new and how to install it.

Download configuration#

Saves the router's configuration in the browser as <host name>-config.boot. Only an administrator can use it; for every other role the button is disabled. The file is complete: it carries every secret in the configuration, including private keys and pre-shared keys.

If the router returns no configuration, the page says "The router returned no configuration to download." rather than saving an empty file.

Save configuration#

Applying changes from the bar at the bottom of the page changes the configuration the router is running. It does not save it: the router starts with the configuration that was last saved, so changes that were applied and not saved are lost at the next restart.

Save configuration makes the running configuration the one the router starts with. It acts at once rather than adding to the pending changes, needs the operator role and a licence, and is recorded in the audit log as "Saved the configuration for the next start". When it has worked, the page says "Configuration saved. The router starts with it from now on."

The tiles#

Tile	Shows
Uptime	How long the router has been running, with its load averages over one, five and fifteen minutes.
Memory used	Memory in use, of the total.
Disk used	Disk space in use, the filesystem it is on, and a meter.
Configuration revisions	How many revisions the configuration history holds.

Overview — Version#

Row	Shows
Product	The product name and version.
Built on	When the running image was built.
Architecture	The processor architecture.
Boot via	How the running image was started.
Host name	The router's host name.
Base platform	The version of VyOS the image is built on, with its release train when the version does not already name it.

Below it: "Built on VyOS, free software under the GNU General Public License, version 2. Credits and source code are on the About page." The About link in the panel's header opens About, which has the full build details and the credits.

Overview — Hardware#

Vendor, Model, CPU, Cores, Clock, Memory, Filesystem, and Disk (used, of the total), as the router reports them.

Overview — Power, Updates and System images#

The third panel on the Overview row is Power. Below the row are Updates, System images and Factory reset. They have their own pages:

Power — Restart router and Shut down, confirmed by typing the host name. Administrators only; both act at once.
System images and updates — whether a newer release exists, installing a new agent package in place, and adding, choosing and deleting system images.
Factory reset — returns the router's Wheelhouse data to how it was installed, confirmed by the host name and the administrator's own password.

None of them goes through the pending changes. Each action is recorded in the audit log.

Integration offers#

If Prometheus is installed from the catalogue, a card appears under the header: "Scrape Wheelhouse itself". It changes nothing on the router. See integration offers and Telemetry.

In Advanced mode#

With Advanced mode turned on (Account → Preferences), the page header also shows the part of the configuration the page covers, system, and the Updates panel lists the commands that install a new system image by hand.