Monitoring and Managing the IBM Elastic Storage Server Using the GUI

Monitoring and Managing the IBM Elastic Storage Server Using the GUI

by Markus Rohwedder, Alexander Wolf-Reber, Stefan Roth, Liju Jose, Przemyslaw Podfigurny
Released November 2019
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: 9780738458199

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Book description

The IBM® Elastic Storage Server GUI provides an easy way to configure and monitor various features that are available with the IBM ESS system. It is a web application that runs on common web browsers, such as Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. The ESS GUI uses Java Script and Ajax technologies to enable smooth and desktop-like interfacing.

This IBM Redpaper publication provides a broad understanding of the architecture and features of the ESS GUI. It includes information about how to install and configure the GUI and in-depth information about the use of the GUI options. The primary audience for this paper includes experienced and new users of the ESS system.

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  3. Preface
    1. Authors
    2. Now you can become a published author, too!
    3. Comments welcome
    4. Stay connected to IBM Redbooks
  4. Chapter 1. Overview
    1. 1.1 ESS GUI architecture
      1. 1.1.1 GUI node requirements
      2. 1.1.2 Network requirements
    2. 1.2 Role-based access control with GUI users
    3. 1.3 Integration hub for configuration, health, and performance data
    4. 1.4 Support matrix
      1. 1.4.1 Operating system levels
      2. 1.4.2 ESS GUI software requirements
  5. Chapter 2. Installing and configuring the ESS GUI
    1. 2.1 Enabling performance monitoring tools in ESS GUI
    2. 2.2 Setting up the component database
    3. 2.3 Securing the ESS GUI
      1. 2.3.1 Firewall recommendations and supported ports
      2. 2.3.2 Creating and using an HTTPS certificate to secure communications between GUI web server and web browsers
      3. 2.3.3 Root privilege considerations for the ESS GUI
    4. 2.4 Configuring GUI to use sudo wrapper
    5. 2.5 Node classes used for the management GUI
    6. 2.6 Modifying GUI property file
    7. 2.7 Distributed GUI preferences
  6. Chapter 3. Understanding the GUI options
    1. 3.1 Login
    2. 3.2 Navigation
    3. 3.3 Header area
    4. 3.4 Understanding the features associated with a GUI page
  7. Chapter 4. Monitoring options available in the GUI
    1. 4.1 Monitoring hardware details
      1. 4.1.1 Servers
      2. 4.1.2 Disk enclosures
      3. 4.1.3 Edit rack components
      4. 4.1.4 Replace broken disks
      5. 4.1.5 Configure hardware monitoring
    2. 4.2 Monitoring performance
      1. 4.2.1 GUI Statistics page display options
      2. 4.2.2 Using dashboard to view performance charts
      3. 4.2.3 Custom Dashboards
      4. 4.2.4 Display options
      5. 4.2.5 Widget options
    3. 4.3 Monitoring waiters
    4. 4.4 Monitoring capacity
      1. 4.4.1 Capacity data obtained from the GPFS quota database
      2. 4.4.2 Capacity data collected through the performance monitoring tool
      3. 4.4.3 Capacity information for file systems, pools, NSDs, and filesets
    5. 4.5 Monitoring system health
    6. 4.6 Monitoring nodes
      1. 4.6.1 Nodes tables
      2. 4.6.2 Performance monitoring of nodes
      3. 4.6.3 Creating and managing user-defined node classes
    7. 4.7 Monitoring Transparent Cloud Tiering
    8. 4.8 Monitoring active file management
      1. 4.8.1 Gateway nodes
    9. 4.9 Monitoring file systems
    10. 4.10 Monitoring filesets
    11. 4.11 Monitoring pools
    12. 4.12 Monitoring NSDs
    13. 4.13 Monitoring networks by using GUI
    14. 4.14 Monitoring remote cluster through GUI
    15. 4.15 Monitoring thresholds
    16. 4.16 Monitoring physical disks
    17. 4.17 Monitoring virtual disks
    18. 4.18 Monitoring declustered arrays
    19. 4.19 Monitoring command audit log
  8. Chapter 5. Configuring and managing ESS by using the GUI
    1. 5.1 Creating file systems
    2. 5.2 Mounting a file system through GUI
    3. 5.3 Unmounting a file system through GUI
    4. 5.4 Creating filesets
    5. 5.5 Creating and managing snapshots
      1. 5.5.1 Scheduling snapshot creation by using snapshot rules
      2. 5.5.2 Deleting snapshots
    6. 5.6 Configuring quota
    7. 5.7 Information Lifecycle Management
      1. 5.7.1 Creating and applying policy
      2. 5.7.2 Editing a policy by using text editor
      3. 5.7.3 Defining the policy run settings
      4. 5.7.4 Log files
    8. 5.8 Managing storage
    9. 5.9 Managing access control lists
    10. 5.10 Managing Object Storage, SMB shares, and NFS exports
    11. 5.11 Managing IBM services
      1. 5.11.1 GPFS daemon
      2. 5.11.2 CES
      3. 5.11.3 CES network and CES IPs
      4. 5.11.4 NFS
      5. 5.11.5 SMB
      6. 5.11.6 Object
      7. 5.11.7 File authentication
      8. 5.11.8 Object authentication
      9. 5.11.9 Hadoop connector
      10. 5.11.10 GUI
      11. 5.11.11 Performance monitoring
      12. 5.11.12 File auditing
      13. 5.11.13 Message queue
    12. 5.12 Configuring role-based access for GUI users
      1. 5.12.1 Managing GUI users locally in the ESS system
      2. 5.12.2 Managing GUI administrators in an external authentication server
  9. Chapter 6. Troubleshooting options in GUI
    1. 6.1 Monitoring events
      1. 6.1.1 Event deduplication
      2. 6.1.2 Event Filtering
      3. 6.1.3 Marking events as read
      4. 6.1.4 Running fix procedure
    2. 6.2 Monitoring tip events
    3. 6.3 Configuring event notifications
      1. 6.3.1 Configuring email notifications
      2. 6.3.2 Configuring SNMP manager
    4. 6.4 Collecting diagnostic data through GUI
    5. 6.5 Configuring Call Home using GUI
      1. 6.5.1 GUI logs
    6. 6.6 Directed maintenance procedures
    7. 6.7 Troubleshooting issues with capacity data displayed in the GUI
  10. Appendix A. GUI limitations
  11. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Other publications
    3. Online resources
    4. Help from IBM
  12. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: Monitoring and Managing the IBM Elastic Storage Server Using the GUI
  • Author(s): Markus Rohwedder, Alexander Wolf-Reber, Stefan Roth, Liju Jose, Przemyslaw Podfigurny
  • Release date: November 2019
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: 9780738458199