As a Service Mesh user, I have documentation that tells me how to access the Kiali web console to validate the status of the Control Plane components.  Once the ServiceMeshControlPlane has been created, guide users to access the Kiali web console to validate the status of the Control Plane components.  (Note that you cannot access Kiali if the control plane hasn't deployed correctly!)

https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.9/service_mesh/v2x/ossm-create-smcp.html

Add a module "Validating the Control Plane components" to the ossm-creates-smcp.adoc assembly

Document:

Permissions needed to view istio-system and SMCP components  (cluster-admin and/or dedicated-admin Not sure if developers can view?)

Accessing the Kiali console

Viewing the istio-system namespace on the Overview page

Navigating to the istio-system namespace on the Graph page

Viewing istio-system Workloads

Viewing istio-system Services