System Overview
Describes each piece of data featured on the tiles and on the System Overview.
The System Overview displays in the content pane of the View for ClusterStor graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI appears as shown in the following figures. Refer to the table that follows for explanations of the GUI elements.
The System Overview is displayed as a collection of rectangular tiles, as shown in Figure 1. Each tile presents information for a specific ClusterStor system.
When the number of tiles for monitored ClusterStor systems exceeds the display area of the browser, the tiles change into a row-based format, as shown in Figure 2.
| Ref. No. | Description | ||||||||
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| 1 | Header - Displays the View for ClusterStor logo and the icons described in the rows below. | ||||||||
| 2 | Menu - Select to display the System Overview, Alarms Table, or Alarms Definitions Table in the content pane. See General GUI Layout for reference information about the content pane. | ||||||||
| 3 | Monitored system tiles. | ||||||||
| 4 | IB (InfiniBand) icon - Select to open the IB Page in Kibana. The icon will indicate the state of the IB network with the colored icons:
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| 5 | Alarms icon - Select to open the Alarms Table to display all alarms for all monitored systems. The icon will indicate:
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| 6 | Settings icon - Select to add new users, set permissions, change passwords. | ||||||||
| 7 | Help icon - Select to launch online help. | ||||||||
| 8 | User icon - displays currently logged in user name. Select to log out. | ||||||||
| 9 | Add icon - Use to add a ClusterStor system for monitoring. | ||||||||
| 10 | Hover to display the build information for the installed version of View for ClusterStor in a larger, darker font. Select to copy the build information. |
System Tiles
The System Overview provides a high-level status of each ClusterStor system being monitored. Each information block of a system tile provides navigation to more detailed metrics and information about the associated ClusterStor system. Values displayed in the System Overview tiles represent the last 15 minute time period at the point when the was last refreshed. The System Overview does not refresh automatically. To refresh it manually, reload the browser page.
Please refer to the following diagrams and the table that follows for explanations of the information blocks and the navigation action that occurs when selecting the block.
| Ref. No. | Description | Navigates to: | ||||||||
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| 1 | Name of the monitored system. Hovering over this in a tile turns the tile header black and displays the Pencil and Trash icons. Hovering over this when the tiles appear in the row format highlights the entire tile and displays the Pencil and Trash icons. | ClusterStor Storage Overview Dashboard (Grafana) | ||||||||
| 2 | Pencil icon - Select to change the configuration of the monitored system. The Pencil icon is only displayed when admin users are logged into View for ClusterStor. | Edit window | ||||||||
| 3 | Trash icon - Select to remove the monitored system from View for ClusterStor. | Opens a confirmation window. | ||||||||
| 4 | OST I/O information block:
| Lustre File System Performance Dashboard (Grafana) Displays information specific to the selected ClusterStor system. | ||||||||
| 5 | Metadata ops information block: Average ops requests per second for all MDTs. | Lustre File System Metadata Dashboard (Grafana) Displays information specific to the selected ClusterStor system. | ||||||||
| 6 | Capacity information block: Percentage of free file space capacity across all OSTs. The capacity bar graph will show used space in colors that depict capacity status. See Capacity Color Legend. | Lustre File System Capacity Dashboard (Grafana) Displays information specific to the selected ClusterStor system. | ||||||||
| 7 | Jobs information block: Displays total jobs and number of jobs with warnings. | Jobs Table Displays information specific to the selected ClusterStor system. | ||||||||
| 8 | OST information block: Displays total number of OSTs and number of OSTs with warnings. | OSTs Table Displays information specific to the selected ClusterStor system. | ||||||||
| 9 | Health information block: Provides overall system health at a glance.
| Health Page (Kibana) Displays information specific to the selected ClusterStor system. | ||||||||
| 10 | Alarms information block: Indicates number of alarms whose state is Alarm. These alarm indicators are specific to the system being monitored by the tile.
| Alarms Table
Displays information specific to the selected ClusterStor system. To view alarms for all monitored systems, select the Alarms option from the main menu, or select the Alarms icon from the GUI header. | ||||||||
| 11 | Logs information block: Select to access collected ClusterStor system logs. | Logs Page (Kibana) Displays information specific to the selected ClusterStor system. |
| COLOR | DESCRIPTION | |
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| Light Gray |  | Normal state; capacity mostly unused. |
| Light Blue |  | Normal state. |
| Orange |  | Warning state; capacity available below threshold. |
| Red |  | Critical state; capacity almost full. |