Getting Started with PumaMesh: Your First Login and the Dashboard
Sign in to the PumaMesh console, get oriented on the Dashboard, and learn what each module does.
PumaMesh is a Zero Trust data mesh that moves, labels, and governs data across nodes. This guide gets you from your first sign-in to a confident tour of the console so you know where everything lives before you configure anything.
Signing in
Open your PumaMesh node URL in a browser (for example, https://your-node.example.net). Enter the username and password provided by your administrator and sign in. For security, PumaMesh does not store your password in the browser, so enter it yourself each session. After login, your effective tags are auto-resolved from your LDAP attributes, which determines which files you can see.
Tour of the Dashboard
The Dashboard is your live overview, refreshed automatically. Key cards include Transfer Tracking (total, active, and completed transfers), Errors & Failures, Data Transferred (sent and received), Node Health, Certificate Status, and Current Throughput. Below those, the System card shows CPU, Memory, and Disk usage, while Peer Sync Status shows how many peers are synced. Transport Protocol indicates the active protocol (PumaMesh Flow), and QUIC Connections and QUIC Data Volume report live connection counts and shard volume.
The navigation modules
The left navigation groups every capability. PumaMesh Pulse provides live monitoring and metrics. PumaMesh Find searches your indexed data. PumaMesh Discover surfaces and classifies new data. PumaMesh Label applies tags and classifications. PumaMesh Transit manages data movement and transfers. PumaMesh Replicator handles replication between nodes. PumaMesh Fabric manages the mesh topology and peers. Alerts collects notifications, and Profile holds your personal settings. Administration includes PumaMesh Settings, Banner Settings, Transit, and Certificates.
Next steps
If you still need to stand up a node, follow the Installation Guide for RHEL, Rocky Linux, and AlmaLinux. To control who can see which files, read Configuring Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) Policies. If you run into errors on the Dashboard, the Diagnostic Codes Reference explains each error and alert message.