Managing the system using the GUI
The Content Software for File GUI application enables you to configure, administer, and monitor the Content Software for File system. This page provides an overview of the primary operations, access to the GUI, and system dashboard.
GUI overview
The Content Software for File GUI application is the administration tool for your Content Software for File system. Use this tool for system configuration, filesystems management, user management, and investigation of alarms, events, and statistics.
Content Software for File GUI application supports the following functions:
- Configuration:
- Configure the cluster, such as data availability, license, security, and central monitoring.
- Configure the backend servers and expose the data in different protocols.
- Manage local users and set up the user directory.
- Create and manage organizations and their quotas.
- Management:
- Manage the filesystems, including tiering, thin provisioning, and encryption.
- Manage snapshots.
- Manage the object store buckets.
- Manage the filesystem protocols: SMB, S3, and NFS.
- Investigation:
- Investigate events
- Investigate overtime statistics, such as total operations, R/W throughput, CPU usage, and read or write latency.
- Monitoring:
- View the cluster protection and availability.
- View the R/W throughput
- View the backend and client top consumers.
- View alarms. View the used, provisioned, and total capacity.
- View the frontend, compute, and drive cores usage.
- View the hardware components (active/total).
Accessing the Content Software for File GUI
The Content Software for File GUI is a web application that you can access using an already configured account and has the appropriate rights to configure, administer, or view.
You can access the Content Software for File GUI with any standard browser using the address: https://<weka system or host name>:14000
For example:
https://WekaProd:14000 or https://weka01:14000.
Before you begin
Procedure
In your browser, go to https://<weka system or host name>:14000. The sign-in page opens.
Sign in with the username and password of an account with cluster administration or organization administration privileges. For details about the account types, see User management in the related topics.
The system dashboard opens.NoteThe initial default username and password are admin and admin. In the first sign-in, Content Software for File GUI enforces changing the admin password.
System Dashboard
The system dashboard contains widgets that provide an overview of the Content Software for File system, including an overall status, R/W throughput, top consumers, alerts, capacity, core usage, and hardware.
The system dashboard opens by default when you sign in. If you select another menu and you want to display the dashboard again, select Monitor > System Dashboard, or click the Hitachi logo.
Cluster Protection and Availability widget
This widget shows the overall status of the system's health and protection.
The overall status widget includes the following indications:
- Service Uptime: The elapsed time since the I/O services started.
- Data Protection: The number of data drives and protection parity drives. The color of the protection parity drives indicates their status.
- Virtual (Hot) Spares: The number of failure domains that the system can lose and still complete the data rebuild while maintaining the same net capacity.
R/W Throughput widget
This widget shows the current performance statistics aggregated across the cluster.
The R/W Throughput widget includes the following indications:
- Throughput: The total throughput.
- Total Ops: The number of cluster operations.
- Latency: The average latency of R/W operations.
- Active clients: The number of clients connected to the cluster.
Top Consumer widget
This widget shows the backend and client hosts in the system. You can sort the list of hosts by total IO operations per second or by total throughput.
Capacity widget
This widget shows an overview of the managed capacity.
The top bar indicates the total capacity provisioned for all filesystems and the used capacity. For tiered filesystems, the total capacity also includes the Object Store part.
The bottom bar indicates the total SSD capacity available in the system, the provisioned capacity, and the used capacity.
Core Usage widget
This widget shows the average usage and the maximum load level of the Frontend, Compute, and Drive cores.
Hardware widget
This widget shows an overview of the hardware components (active/total).
The hardware components include:
- Backends: The number of the servers.
- Cores: The number of cores configured for running processes in the backends.
- Drives: The number of drives.
- OBS Buckets: The number of the object-store buckets.
Switch the display time
Timestamps in events and statistics are logged internally in UTC. Weka GUI displays the timestamps in local or system time. You can switch between the local and system time.
Switching the display time may be required when the customer, Weka support, and the Weka system are in different time zones. In this situation, the customer and Weka support can switch the display to system time instead of local time, so both view the identical timestamps.
Procedure
On the top bar, point to the timestamp.
Depending on the displayed time, select Switch to System Time or Switch to Local Time.
