ActiveScale

Cloud Management 3.2

Cloud Management User Guide
6-68832-01, Rev. A
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Contents

List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
About this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Supported hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Document map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Related documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Revision history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Documentation feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

1 Introducing ActiveScale Cloud Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

1.1 About ActiveScale Cloud Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.2 User interface components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.2.1 Tool bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.2.2 Dashboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.2.3 Breadcrumb trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.2.4 Log in and log out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.2.4.1 Logging in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.2.4.2 Logging out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.2.5 Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.3 User roles and permissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.3.1 Persona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.3.2 Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.4 Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.5 Re-ordering table columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.6 Searching on ActiveScale CM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.6.1 Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1.6.1.1 Filtering search results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

2 Install Base Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

2.1 Install base panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.2 Managing the Install Base panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.2.1 Filtering the Install Base Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.2.2 Viewing a Specific System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.3 Monitoring storage usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.3.1 Viewing all storage capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.3.2 Viewing individual storage capacities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.4 Monitoring object sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
2.4.1 Viewing all object sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2.4.2 Viewing individual object sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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2.5 Using the Platforms panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

2.5.1 Viewing platform types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.6 Managing the Storage Capacity Forecast panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.6.1 Viewing all storage capacity forecasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
2.6.2 Viewing individual storage capacity forecasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.7 Monitoring system I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2.7.1 Viewing all transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.8 Viewing individual transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.9 Using the Systems Deployed panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.9.1 Viewing Types of Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.10 Monitoring transaction availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
2.10.1 Viewing the availability of all systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.10.2 Viewing the Availability of individual systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.11 Using the Software Versions panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.11.1 Viewing software versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

3 Customer Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.1 Customer Dashboard Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.2 Managing the All Systems Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.2.1 Filtering the All Systems Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3.2.2 Viewing Capacity Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.2.3 Viewing the Telemetry Status of a System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.2.4 Viewing the Telemetry Status of a Rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.2.5 Viewing the Telemetry Status of Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.2.6 Viewing Hardware Failure Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.3 Using the Storage Capacity Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.3.1 Viewing Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
3.4 Using the Workload Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
3.5 Monitoring System I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3.5.1 Viewing Reads Percentages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.5.2 Viewing Writes Percentages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3.5.3 Viewing Deletes Percentages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.6 Monitoring Meta-data Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.6.1 Viewing used capacity percentages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3.6.2 Viewing total capacity percentages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.7 Viewing system outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.7.1 Managing outliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.8 Viewing S3 users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3.9 Viewing Buckets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3.10 Managing the Recommendations panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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3.10.1 Managing recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

3.11 Monitoring transaction availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
3.12 Viewing objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
3.13 Viewing average object size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

4 System dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4.1 System dashboard panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
4.2 Managing the System Racks panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.2.1 Viewing rack serial numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.2.2 Monitoring rack telemetry status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.2.3 Monitoring Node Telemetry Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.3 Viewing platform information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
4.4 Viewing system hardware components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
4.5 Using the Storage Capacity panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.6 Using the Metadata Capacity panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
4.6.1 Viewing used and total metadata capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4.7 Monitoring system throughput . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4.8 Monitoring response time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4.9 Monitoring the number of transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4.10 Viewing file types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
4.11 Viewing S3 users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.11.1 Sort Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4.11.2 Search Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4.12 Viewing Buckets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
4.12.1 Bucket Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
4.12.1.1 Capacity Used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
4.12.1.2 Object Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.12.2 Sort Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.12.3 Search Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.13 View Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
4.13.1 Capacity Used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
4.13.2 Object Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4.13.3 Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
4.13.4 Sort Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.13.5 Search Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.14 Monitoring system availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
4.15 Managing the Hardware Failures panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

5 Operational Reports dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

5.1 Operational Reports dashboard panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
5.2 Monitoring bucket I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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5.3 Monitoring system workload . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

5.4 Performing system queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.4.1 Performing queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
5.5 Viewing file sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
5.6 Viewing files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

6 System tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
6.1 System Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
6.2 About system resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
6.2.1 X100 storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
6.2.1.1 X100 storage enclosure summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
6.2.1.2 X100 storage enclosure inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
6.2.1.3 X100 storage node summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
6.2.1.4 X100 storage node inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
6.2.1.5 X100 system node summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
6.2.1.6 X100 system node inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
6.2.1.7 X100 system interconnect summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
6.2.1.8 X100 system interconnect inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
6.2.2 P100 storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
6.2.2.1 P100 system interconnect summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
6.2.2.2 P100 system interconnect inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
6.2.2.3 P100 system node summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
6.2.2.4 P100 system node inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
6.2.2.5 P100 storage node summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
6.2.2.6 P100 storage node inventory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
6.2.3 Drive analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
6.2.3.1 Working with drive analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
6.2.3.2 Drive analytics types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
6.2.3.3 Comparing drives on the P100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
6.2.3.4 Comparing drives on the X100 and SA-7000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
6.3 System Usage Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
6.3.1 About usage patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
6.3.1.1 Usage pattern statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
6.3.1.2 Usage Pattern Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
6.3.2 Storage usage pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
6.3.3 Compute usage pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
6.3.4 Network usage pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
6.4 Viewing correlations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
6.5 Hardware Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
6.6 Log Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
6.6.1 Log details for the X100 and SA-7000 racks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

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6.6.2 Log details for the P100 rack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

6.7 System Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
6.7.1 Transactions performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
6.7.2 Throughput performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
6.7.3 Top Buckets performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
6.7.4 Comparing system performances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
6.8 Capacity Planner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

7 User menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
7.1 User menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
7.2 Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
7.3 Terms and Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
7.4 Open Source Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
7.5 Customer Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
7.6 Logout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Contacting Quantum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

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List of Figures
Figure 1-1. Customer Dashboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Figure 1-2. Tool Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Figure 1-3. Breadcrumb trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Figure 1-4. Log In and Log Out Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Figure 1-5. User Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Figure 1-6. Search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Figure 1-7. Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Figure 2-1. Install Base panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Figure 2-2. Top Customers panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Figure 2-3. Object Sizes panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Figure 2-4. Platforms panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Figure 2-5. Storage Capacity Forecast panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Figure 2-6. Activity panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Figure 2-7. Systems Deployed panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Figure 2-8. Availability panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Figure 2-9. Software Versions panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Figure 3-1. All Systems Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Figure 3-2. Storage Capacity Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Figure 3-3. Workload Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Figure 3-4. Activity Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Figure 3-5. Metadata Capacity panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Figure 3-6. Outliers panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Figure 3-7. S3 Users Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Figure 3-8. Total Buckets Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Figure 3-9. Recommendations panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Figure 3-10. Availability panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Figure 3-11. Object Count panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Figure 3-12. Average Object Size panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Figure 4-1. System Racks panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Figure 4-2. Platform & Versions panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Figure 4-3. Hardware Components panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Figure 4-4. Storage Capacity panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Figure 4-5. Metadata Capacity panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Figure 4-6. Throughput panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Figure 4-7. Response Time panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Figure 4-8. Transactions/Second panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Figure 4-9. Writes for Top 10 File Types panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Figure 4-10. S3 Users Icon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Figure 4-11. User Trends Dialog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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Figure 4-12. S3 User Expanded View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Figure 4-13. Total Buckets Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Figure 4-14. Bucket Features Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Figure 4-15. Buckets Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Figure 4-16. Capacity Used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Figure 4-17. Object Count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Figure 4-18. S3 Accounts Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Figure 4-19. Account Trends Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Figure 4-20. Capacity Used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Figure 4-21. Object Count Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Figure 4-22. Operations Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Figure 4-23. Availability panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Figure 4-24. Hardware Failures panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Figure 5-1. Top Buckets panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Figure 5-2. Workload panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Figure 5-3. Recent Queries panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Figure 5-4. File Size panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Figure 5-5. Top Files panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Figure 6-1. Resources page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Figure 6-2. Drives selected for analytics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Figure 6-3. Storage Usage Pattern panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Figure 6-4. Compute Usage Pattern panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Figure 6-5. Network Usage Pattern panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Figure 6-6. Correlated Events panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Figure 6-7. Hardware Changes panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Figure 6-8. Log Timeline panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Figure 6-9. X100 and SA-7000 Log Details Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Figure 6-10. P100 Log Details panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Figure 6-11. Transactions Performance panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Figure 6-12. Throughput Performance panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Figure 6-13. Top Buckets Performance panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Figure 6-14. Compare Performance panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Figure 6-15. Storage Capacity Forecast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Figure 6-16. Storage Capacity Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Figure 7-1. User menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Figure 7-2. Profile panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

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ActiveScale™ Cloud Management User Guide About this document

About this document

ActiveScale Cloud Management (ActiveScale CM) is a cloud based portal that provides advanced system
insights and analytics for ActiveScale and Active Archive object storage systems. This document provides
information about how to use ActiveScale CM.

Supported hardware
ActiveScale CM supports the following hardware.
• ActiveScale P100
• ActiveScale X100
• Active Archive SA-7000

Document map
The following figure shows the ActiveScale™ Cloud Management User Guide document map.

Related documents

Title Description
CM Agent 5.x Upgrade Procedure 5.x agent upgrade
ActiveScale CM Release Notes 3.2 release notes
ActiveScale OS Administration Guide Instructions for using ActiveScale OS.

Revision history

Date Revision Description

May 2020 3.2 Re-branding for Quantum Acquisition

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Date Revision Description

June 2019 3.1 UI changes
February 2019 3.0 UI changes
February 2017 2.0

Documentation feedback
To provide technical feedback on this document, or to report an error or omission, send your comments to
us. See Points of Contact on page 87. Quantum appreciates your feedback.

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1 Introducing ActiveScale Cloud Management

Topics:
• About ActiveScale Cloud Management on page 13
• User interface components on page 13
• User roles and permissions on page 16
• Passwords on page 17
• Re-ordering table columns on page 17
• Searching on ActiveScale CM on page 17

1.1 About ActiveScale Cloud Management

ActiveScale Cloud Management (CM) provides cloud-based, advanced system insights and analytics for
ActiveScale X100 and P100, and Active Archive object storage systems. When you’re managing explosive
data growth across diverse geographies, traditional support structures simply cannot keep up. With
ActiveScale CM, you can view all your ActiveScale systems to monitor your service level agreements and
system health. This is the way to manage petabyte-scale storage. For example, you can detect periods of
peak utilization of the object storage systems and verify the corresponding performance statistics.
Additionally, you can monitor buckets and storage capacity.
All data, except for the ActiveScale CM user information, is obtained by collecting system telemetry data.
The telemetry agent collects key system logs and metrics, encrypts them, and uploads it to the ActiveScale
CM portal.

Note: The content that you see in ActiveScale CM depends upon your persona.
The actions that you may perform depend on your role.

1.2 User interface components

The ActiveScale CM user interface is divided in two sections:
• The tool bar.
• The dashboards that contain various panels.
The following figure shows the ActiveScale Customer dashboard.

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Figure 1-1. Customer Dashboard

1.2.1 Tool bar

The tool bar is at the top of the ActiveScale CM application. The tool bar contains tools for managing the
application. The following figure shows the tool bar.
Figure 1-2. Tool Bar

1.2.2 Dashboards
Following are the dashboards in ActiveScale CM:
• Install Base dashboard
• Customer dashboard
• System dashboard
Each dashboard consists of multiple panels which contain the information in chart format. For more
information about any panel, hover over the help icon.
Where applicable, some information may be downloaded via the panel:
• Tables—Click the Export to CSV link in the panel to download the data in CSV format.

1.2.3 Breadcrumb trail

You navigate through the application by using the breadcrumb trail. The following figure shows the
breadcrumb trail.

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Figure 1-3. Breadcrumb trail

To navigate—The initial dashboard when you first log in as an admin or OEM is the Home dashboard.
Click on a customer in the install base panel to go to the next where you will the All Systems panel in the
top left corner. On the Dashboard, there are links used to navigate to panes. These panes contain features
and functions that you can use to manage your object storage system:
• Resources
• Hardware Changes
• Log Viewer
• System Performance
• Capacity Planner

1.2.4 Log in and log out

You log into ActiveScale CM using the fields on the initial page of the application. The following figure
shows the fields.
Figure 1-4. Log In and Log Out Fields

You log out of ActiveScale Cloud Management by clicking the link on the user menu. The following figure
shows the link.
Figure 1-5. User Menu

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1.2.4.1 Logging in
The following steps provide instructions for logging into ActiveScale Cloud Management.
1. Double-click the program icon.
The ActiveScale CM start page displays.
2. Enter an appropriate user name in the Username field.
3. Enter the appropriate password in the Password field.
4. Click the Login button.
You are logged in and the ActiveScale Cloud Management home page displays.

1.2.4.2 Logging out

The following steps provide instructions for logging out of ActiveScale Cloud Management.
1. Click on the user icon that displays on the top left corner of the tool bar.
The user menu displays.
2. Click the Log Out link on the menu.
You are logged out and the ActiveScale Cloud Management start page displays.

1.2.5 Help
Help for ActiveScale CM is provided in the form of tool tips. The panes in the UI contain the following
tool tip icon.

You hover over the icon to view the tool tip.

1.3 User roles and permissions

Every user in ActiveScale CM is associated with an account and has two specific parameters which define
the level of viewing and action privileges.

1.3.1 Persona
The persona identifies the user type and defines the information that is available to this user. There are
three types of persona:
• admin—A user who is an admin has access to the object storage system data of all of their customers.
These users are typically company personnel.
• partner—A user who is of type partner belongs to a special type of customer. This customer is
typically a Quantum partner, for example a service provider or reseller. The partner provides
ActiveScale CM to their customers. This user has access to the accounts and to the object storage
system data of all of their customers.
• customer—A user who is of type customer has access only to the object storage system data of their
own account.

1.3.2 Roles
Role in ActiveScale CM defines the privileges of the user. There are two roles in ActiveScale CM.

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• user—The user role has only operational rights on the object storage system data.
• super user—The super user role has both user rights and user management rights.

1.4 Passwords
You can change your password two ways in ActiveScale CM:
• In your profile
• On the login page

1.5 Re-ordering table columns

You can re-order table columns in almost all of the ActiveScale Cloud Management panels and pop-ups.
The one exception is the Platform and Versions panel on the System dashboard.

1.6 Searching on ActiveScale CM

If you are looking for specific events, system logs, or inventory information in ActiveScale CM, you can
rely on the search functionality to help you out. Use the search icon on the tool bar to perform a search. The
following figure shows the icon on the tool bar.
Figure 1-6. Search

When you click the icon, the search query field appears. In addition, the search drop-down menu appears.
Use these two features to perform a search. The menu contains the following search types.
• Log Search－Search for a specific log.
• Inventory－Search for object storage system devices.
3.

1.6.1 Filtering
In the Filters pane, you can narrow down the number of results by selecting other filters. The following
figure shows the Filters pane.
Figure 1-7. Filters

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The filters are located on the right-hand side of the results window. Each of the items indicates the number
of results it will return when selecting the filter item.

1.6.1.1 Filtering search results

This task explains how to filter search results.
1. Click a filter in the Filters pane.
The search results narrow down to that period.
2. (Optional) Clear a result by clicking on it.
3. (Optional) Clear results by clicking on Reset Filters.

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2 Install Base Dashboard

The ActiveScale CM Install Base dashboard displays information about all the storage systems in the
customer installation base.
Topics:
• Install base panels on page 19
• Managing the Install Base panel on page 19
• Monitoring storage usage on page 21
• Monitoring object sizes on page 23
• Using the Platforms panel on page 24
• Managing the Storage Capacity Forecast panel on page 25
• Monitoring system I/O on page 26
• Viewing individual transactions on page 27
• Using the Systems Deployed panel on page 27
• Monitoring transaction availability on page 28
• Using the Software Versions panel on page 30
• Using the Features panel on page 31

2.1 Install base panels

The Install Base dashboard contains the following nine panels.
• Install Base
• Top Customers
• Object Sizes
• Platforms
• Storage Capacity Forecast
• Activity
• Systems Deployed
• Availability
• Software Versions
• Features

2.2 Managing the Install Base panel

Use the Install Base panel on the Install Base dashboard to view and manage the ActiveScale object
storage systems that you monitor. The Install Base panel displays a list that shows all of your customers.
This list also shows the number of systems the customer has deployed.
The following figure shows the Install Base panel.
Figure 2-1. Install Base panel

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The Install Base panel contains the following features.

• Filter field—Use the field to pare the customer column down to displaying just one customer.
• Customer column—Displays the name of the customer.
• Channel column—Displays the name of the sales channel.
• Region column—Displays the name of the region in which the object storage system is deployed.
• Systems column—Displays the number of systems that a customer has deployed.
• Telemetry Enabled column—Displays the number of telemetry-enabled systems in the deployment.

2.2.1 Filtering the Install Base Panel

This task provides instructions for filtering the customer list in the Customer column.
1. In the Filter field, enter a customer name.
2. Press the Enter key.
The Customer column now displays a list containing only the customer that you entered in the Filter
field.

2.2.2 Viewing a Specific System

This task provides instructions for viewing all the systems your customer has deployed. Additionally, it
provides instructions for viewing specific systems.
1. In the Install Base pane, click on the appropriate customer name link.
The All Systems panel displays, showing all the systems that the customer has deployed.
2. In the All Systems panel, click on the appropriate object storage system name link. The System
Dashboard displays, showing the system information panels.

2.3 Monitoring storage usage

Use the Top Customers panel on the Install Base dashboard to audit storage usage in all the ActiveScale
object storage systems that you monitor. The Top Customers panel displays a bar chart that shows the
customers with the most storage. This chart shows the amount of storage in petabytes.

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The following figure shows the Top Customers panel.

Figure 2-2. Top Customers panel

The Top Customers panel contains the following features.

• All link—Use this link to display all the customers storage in a pop-up.
• Total icon—Use the icon to display one type of capacity.
• Used icon—Use the icon to display one type of capacity.

Note: The Top Customers panel excludes object storage systems that are not
enabled to upload telemetry data.

2.3.1 Viewing all storage capacities

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1. In the Top Customers pane, click the All link.

The Top Customers - All Customers pop-up displays.
2. Scroll the chart to locate the system whose capacities you want to view.
3. Hover over the set of bars in the chart that are associated with the system you located.
A small pop-up appears displaying storage capacities

2.3.2 Viewing individual storage capacities

This task provides information about how to view individual storage capacities in an object storage
systems.
1. Hover over any set of bars in the chart.
A small pop-up appears displaying storage capacities.
2. (Optional) Click the Total icon to view only the used capacity.
3. (Optional) Click the Used icon to view only the total capacity.

2.4 Monitoring object sizes

Use the Object Sizes panel on the Install Base dashboard to audit object size in the ActiveScale object
storage systems that you monitor. The Object Sizes panel displays a bar chart that shows object sizes as a
percentage. This chart shows both the object size ranges and the amount of objects for individual
customers.
The following figure shows the Object Sizes panel.
Figure 2-3. Object Sizes panel

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• All link—Use the link to display all object sizes in a pop-up.

• 0 MB to 2 MB icon—Click the icon to subtract this size range bar.
• 2 MB to 1 GB icon—Click the icon to subtract this size range bar.
• > 1 GB icon—Click the icon to subtract this size range bar.

2.4.1 Viewing all object sizes

This task provides information about how to view all the different object sizes individually.
1. In the Object Sizes pane, click the All link.
The Object Sizes - All Customers pop-up displays.
2. Scroll the chart to locate the system whose object sizes you want to view.
3. Hover over the set of bars in the chart that are associated with the system you located.
A small pop-up appears displaying the object sizes.

2.4.2 Viewing individual object sizes

This task provides information about how to view individual object sizes.
1. Hover over any set of bars in the chart.
A small pop-up appears displaying object sizes.
2. (Optional) Click different icons to subtract different percentages from each set of bars.

2.5 Using the Platforms panel

Use the Platforms panel on the Install Base dashboard to audit the platform types deployed in the
ActiveScale object storage systems that you monitor. The Platforms panel displays a pie chart that shows
the platform types as a percentage of the whole install base. This chart also shows the platform types the
install base has deployed.
The following figure shows the Platforms panel.
Figure 2-4. Platforms panel

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The Platforms panel contains the following features.

• ActiveScale P100 area—Displays the percentage of ActiveScale P100 systems.
• ActiveScale X100 area—Displays the percentage of ActiveScale X100 systems.
• SA-7000 area—Displays the percentage of SA-7000 systems.

2.5.1 Viewing platform types

This task provides information about how to view the number of systems that have the same platform type.
1. Hover over any of the sections in the pie chart.
A small pop-up displays.

2. In the pop-up, view the number of systems with the same platform type.

2.6 Managing the Storage Capacity Forecast panel

Use the Storage Capacity Forecast panel on the Install Base dashboard to view storage forecasts for the
ActiveScale object storage systems that you monitor. The Storage Capacity Forecast panel displays a list
that shows the customer name and the time to storage full estimate. This chart displays the estimate as
quarter and year.
The following figure shows the Storage Capacity Forecast panel.
Figure 2-5. Storage Capacity Forecast panel

The Storage Capacity Forecast panel contains the following features.

• All link—Use this link to display all estimates.
• Customer Name column—Displays the name of the customer.
• Time to Full column—Displays the time when the storage will reach the full state.

2.6.1 Viewing all storage capacity forecasts

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1. In the Storage Capacity Forecast panel, click the All link.

The Storage Capacity Forecast - All Customers pop-up displays.
2. (Optional) In Filter, enter a customer name to pare the list of forecasts. You can also re-order the list
by clicking the Customers title.
3. (Optional) In the Storage Capacity Forecast - All Customers list, click a customer. The Customer
dashboard displays. The All Systems panel displays all your systems.

2.6.2 Viewing individual storage capacity forecasts

This task provides information about how to view individual storage capacity forecasts.
1. In the Storage Capacity Forecast panel, click a customer link.
The Customer dashboard appears, displaying your system pool.
2. View the storage capacity forecast in the Time to Full column.
3. (Optional) Click a system name.
The System dashboard appears displaying the Storage Capacity panel.

2.7 Monitoring system I/O

Use the Activity panel on the Install Base dashboard to view the activity in the ActiveScale object storage
systems that you monitor. The Activity panel displays a bar chart that shows the amount of network
transactions as a percentage. This chart shows the amount of reads, writes, and deletes in all customer
systems.
The following figure shows the Activity panel.
Figure 2-6. Activity panel

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The Activity panel contains the following features.

• All link—Use the link to display all activities in a pop-up. Click the icon again to add the percentage
back into the chart.
• Reads icon—Use the icon to subtract the reads percentage bars.
• Writes icon—Use the icon to subtract the writes percentage bars.
• Deletes icon—Use the icon to subtract the deletes percentage bars.

2.7.1 Viewing all transactions

This task provides information about how to view all network transactions.
1. In the Activity pane, click the All link.
The Activity - All Customers pop-up displays.

2. Scroll the chart to locate the system whose activities you want to view.
3. Hover over the set of bars in the chart that are associated with the system you located.
A small pop-up appears displaying the read, write, and delete percentages.

2.8 Viewing individual transactions

This task provides information about how to view reads, writes, or deletes.
1. In the Activity panel, hover over any set of bars in the chart.
A small pop-up appears displaying the activities for each system.
2. Click the Reads icon to view only the writes and the deletes.
3. Click the Writes icon to view only the reads and the deletes.
4. Click the Deletes icon to view only the reads and the writes.

2.9 Using the Systems Deployed panel

Use the Systems Deployed panel on the Install Base dashboard to audit the number of systems deployed
in the ActiveScale object storage systems that you monitor. The Systems Deployed panel displays a pie
chart that shows the number of systems deployed as a percentage of the whole install base. This chart also
shows the system type the install base has deployed, either Multi-Site or Single-Site.

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The following figure shows the Systems Deployed panel.

Figure 2-7. Systems Deployed panel

The Systems Deployed panel contains the following features.

• Multi-site area—Displays the percentage of multi-site systems deployed.
• Single-site area—Displays the percentage of single-site systems deployed.

Note: The Systems Deployed panel excludes object storage systems that are not
enabled to upload telemetry data.

2.9.1 Viewing Types of Deployment

This task provides information about how to view different types of deployment.
1. Hover over either of the two areas in the chart.
A small pop-up displays.

2. In the pop-up, view the number of systems with the same platform type.

2.10 Monitoring transaction availability

Use the Availability panel on the Install Base dashboard to view the availability of the ActiveScale object
storage systems that you monitor. The Availability panel displays a bar chart that shows the availability of
systems as a percentage. This chart shows how much time the individual systems are available for S3
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The following figure shows the Availability panel.

Figure 2-8. Availability panel

The Availability panel contains the following features.

• All link－Use the link to display a chart that shows all the systems.

Note: NA on the chart means that data is not available for that particular
customer.

2.10.1 Viewing the availability of all systems

This task provides information about how to view the availability of all systems.
1. In the Availability panel, click the All link.
The Availability - All Customers pop-up displays.
2. Scroll the chart to locate the system pool whose percentages you want to view.
3. Hover over the set of bars in the chart that are associated with the system pool you located.
A small pop-up appears displaying the percentage of availability.

2.10.2 Viewing the Availability of individual systems

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1. Hover over any set of bars in the chart.

A small pop-up appears.
2. Click the Total icon to view only the used availability.
3. Click the Used icon to view only the total availability.

2.11 Using the Software Versions panel

Use the Software Versions panel on the Install Base dashboard to view software versions on all systems
in the ActiveScale object storage systems that you monitor. The Software Versions panel displays a pie
chart that shows all the versions. This chart displays the versions as a percentage of the entire install
base.

The following figure shows the Software Versions panel.

Figure 2-9. Software Versions panel

The Software Versions panel contains the following features.

• Pie chart sections—Displays the version number and percent installed.

Note: The Software Versions panel excludes systems that are not enabled to
receive telemetry data.

2.11.1 Viewing software versions

This task provides information about how to view installed software versions on systems in terms of
numbers.
1. Hover over any section of the pie chart.
A small pop-up displays.
2. In the pop-up, view the number of software versions.

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ActiveScale CM can collect replication data from the object storage systems that run ActiveScale OS 5.5
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3 Customer Dashboard
The Customer dashboard displays information about the storage systems in a single customer installation
base.
Topics:
• Customer Dashboard Panels on page 32
• Managing the All Systems Panel on page 32
• Using the Storage Capacity Panel on page 34
• Using the Workload Panel on page 35
• Monitoring System I/O on page 36
• Monitoring Meta-data Capacity on page 38
• Viewing system outliers on page 39
• Viewing S3 users on page 40
• Viewing Buckets on page 40
• Monitoring transaction availability on page 42
• Viewing average object size on page 44

3.1 Customer Dashboard Panels

The Customer dashboard contains the following twelve panels.
• All Systems
• Storage Capacity
• Workload
• Activity
• Metadata Capacity
• Outliers
• S3 Users
• Total Buckets
• Recommendations
• Availability
• Object Count
• Average Object Size

Note: The Customer dashboard is customizable. You can move panels around.
Additionally, you can re-size them. When you logout, the application will save
your changes. There is no button to automatically reset the panels to the default
configuration.

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Use the All Systems panel on the Customer dashboard to view and manage the ActiveScale object storage
systems that you monitor. The All Systems panel displays a lists that shows individual systems. This list
shows all the individual systems in the selected customers group of systems.
The following figure show the All Systems panel.
Figure 3-1. All Systems Panel

The All Systems panel contains the following features.

• Filter tool—Use the field to pare the System Name column down to displaying just one customer.
• Platforms drop-down menu—Use the menu to display different types of systems.
• System Name column—Displays the name of the system.
• Capacity Usage column—Displays the percentage of storage in use.
• Time to Full—Displays the time when the object storage system is predicted to reach 80% of its
storage capacity.
• Sleds column (SA-7000 and ActiveScale X100 only)—Displays the total number of sleds in the
system.
• Columns column (ActiveScale P100)—Displays the total number of columns in the system.
• Deployment column—Displays the type of system. This can be either Single-Site or Multi-Site.
• Version column—Displays the software version number.
• Racks column—Displays the total number of racks that make up the object storage system.
• Telemetry Status column—Displays the status of the telemetry. A green icon indicates that the last
upload was good (successful). An orange icon indicates that the last upload provided only partial data.
A red icon indicates that the last upload was bad (failed).
• Hardware Failures column—Displays any hardware failures that were detected during the last
telemetry. Green indicates that there were no hardware failures detected. Orange indicates hardware
failures were detected. Red indicates that hardware has failed.

3.2.1 Filtering the All Systems Panel

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1. To filter the list by system name, enter a system name in the Filter field.
The All Systems panel now displays a list containing the customer names that you entered in the
Filter field.
2. To filter the list by system type, click the Platforms drop-down menu and de-select any platform
types in the menu.
The All Systems panel now displays a list containing the system types that you left selected.

3.2.2 Viewing Capacity Usage

The following instructions provide information about how to view capacity usage.
1. Hover over any green progress bar in the Capacity Usage column in the All Systems panel.
2. View the capacity usage that displays in a small pop-up.

3.2.3 Viewing the Telemetry Status of a System

The following instructions provide information about how to view the telemetry status of a system.
1. Hover over any icon in the Telemetry Status column on the All Systems panel.
2. View the status message that displays in a small pop-up.

3.2.4 Viewing the Telemetry Status of a Rack

The following instructions provide information about how to view the telemetry status of a rack.
1. Click on a system name in the System Name column on the All Systems panel.
The System Racks panel on the System dashboard displays.
2. In the System Racks panel, hover over any round icon in the Telemetry Status column.
3. View the telemetry status that displays in a small pop-up.

3.2.5 Viewing the Telemetry Status of Nodes

The following instructions provide information about how to view the telemetry status of nodes.
1. Click on a system name in the System Name column on the All Systems panel.
The System Racks panel on the System dashboard displays.
2. Click the blue icon in the Telemetry Status column in the System Racks panel. The Telemetry
Status for Nodes pop-up displays.
3. View the telemetry status that displays in the pop-up.

3.2.6 Viewing Hardware Failure Status

The following instructions provide information about how to view the telemetry status of a system.
1. Hover over any icon in the Hardware Failures column on the All Systems panel.
2. View the hardware failure status that displays in a small pop-up.

3.3 Using the Storage Capacity Panel

Use the Storage Capacity panel on the Customer dashboard to view the storage capacity in the
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shows the amount of storage capacity as a percentage. This chart shows the amount of storage capacity in
the selected customers group of systems. The following figure shows the Storage Capacity panel.
Figure 3-2. Storage Capacity Panel

The Storage Capacity panel displays the following features.

• Used pie chart area—Displays the percentage of used storage capacity.
• Free pie chart area—Displays the percentage of unused storage capacity.

3.3.1 Viewing Storage

The following instructions provide information about how to view storage in PBs.
1. Hover over the dark blue section of the pie chart in the Storage Capacity panel to view the unused
storage in PBs.
2. Hover over the aqua section of the pie chart in the Storage Capacity panel to view the used storage in
PBs.

3.4 Using the Workload Panel

Use the Workload panel on the Customer dashboard to view the workloads for the ActiveScale object
storage systems that you monitor. The Workload panel displays pie charts that shows the amount of work
as a percentage. These charts show the amount reads and writes that the selected customers group of
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The following figure shows the Workload panel.

Figure 3-3. Workload Panel

The Workload panel displays the following features.

• Small Objects pie chart—Displays the percentages of reads and writes across all of the small objects
in your object storage systems.
• Large Objects pie chart—Displays the percentages of reads and writes across all of the large objects
in your object storage systems.
• Small Objects time line－Displays a time line that shows the approximate dates that all the small
objects in your object storage systems were read from and written to.
• Large Objects time line－Displays a time line that shows the approximate dates that all the large
objects in yourobject storage systems were read from and written to.

3.5 Monitoring System I/O

Use the Activity panel on the Customer dashboard to view the activity in the ActiveScale object storage
systems that you monitor. The Activity panel displays a bar chart that shows the amount of activity as a
percentage. This chart shows the amount of reads, writes, and deletes in the selected customers group of
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The following figure shows the Activity panel.

Figure 3-4. Activity Panel

The Activity panel contains the following features.

• All link－Use the link to display all activities in a pop-up. Click the icon again to add the percentage
back into the chart.
• Reads icon－Use the icon to subtract the Reads percentage bars from the chart.
• Writes icon－Use the icon to subtract the Writes percentage bars from the chart.
• Deletes icon－Use the icon to subtract the Deletes percentage bars from the chart.

3.5.1 Viewing Reads Percentages

The following instructions provide information about how to view
1. Click the Writes icon.
2. Click the Deletes icon.
Now the Reads bars are the only bars appearing in the chart.
3. Hover over any of the Reads bars in the chart.
A small pop-up appears displaying the percentage of reads.

3.5.2 Viewing Writes Percentages

The following instructions provide information about how to view
1. Click the Reads icon.
2. Click the Deletes icon.
Now the Writes bars are the only bars appearing in the chart.
3. Hover over any of the Writes bars in the chart.
A small pop-up appears displaying the percentage of writes.

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3.5.3 Viewing Deletes Percentages

The following instructions provide information about how to view deletes percentages.
1. Click the Reads icon.
2. Click the Writes icon.
Now the Deletes bars are the only bars appearing in the chart.
3. Hover over any of the Deletes bars in the chart.
A small pop-up appears displaying the percentage of deletes.

3.6 Monitoring Meta-data Capacity

Use the Metadata Capacity panel on the Customer dashboard to view the metadata capacity in the
ActiveScale object storage systems that you monitor. The Metadata Capacity panel displays an bar chart
that shows the metadata capacity in terabytes. This icon shows the total amount of capacity in the selected
customers group of systems.
The following figure shows the Metadata Capacity panel.
Figure 3-5. Metadata Capacity panel

The Metadata Capacity panel displays the following features.

• Used icon－Displays the size of used metadata capacity.
• Total icon－Displays the size of total metadata capacity.

3.6.1 Viewing used capacity percentages

The following instructions provide information about how to view used capacity percentages.
1. Click the Used icon.
Now the Total bars are the only bars appearing in the chart.
2. Hover over any of the Total bars in the chart.
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3.6.2 Viewing total capacity percentages

The following instructions provide information about how to view total capacity percentages.
1. Click the Total icon.
Now the Used bars are the only bars appearing in the chart.
2. Hover over any of the Used bars in the chart.
A small pop-up appears displaying the

3.7 Viewing system outliers

Use the Outliers panel on the Customer dashboard to view the outliers for the ActiveScale object storage
systems that you monitor. The Outliers panel displays a list that shows all the behaviors or conditions that
are believed to be outside the norm. This list shows the messages generated by the selected customers
group of systems.
The following figure shows the Outliers panel.
Figure 3-6. Outliers panel

The Outliers panel contains the following features.

• Show More link－Use this link to display all the outliers in a pop-up.
• Message column－Displays the outliers.
• System column－Displays the name of the system the outlier is for.

3.7.1 Managing outliers

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1. In the Outliers panel, click the Show More link.

The Outliers pop-up appears displaying a complete list of outliers.
2. (Optional) In the Filter field, enter a system name to narrow the list down to outliers specific to that
system.

3.8 Viewing S3 users

The S3 Users panel displays the S3 users of the ActiveScale object storage systems you monitor. Use the
S3 Users panel to view the number of S3 users of a specific system. The panel reports data from object
storage systems that have telemetry version 1.0.183 or greater, or 2.0.10
or greater installed. You would not be able to see this panel if you did not have those telemetry versions
installed.
Figure 3-7. S3 Users Icon

The S3 Users panel contains the following features.

• S3 Users icon－Displays the number of S3 users of a specific system.

3.9 Viewing Buckets

The Total Buckets panel displays the buckets in the ActiveScale object storage systems you monitor. Use
the Total Buckets panel to view the total number of buckets in a specific system.

Note: The panel shown is reporting data from object storage systems that have
telemetry version 1.0.183 or greater, or 2.0.10 or greater installed. This panel
would not be visible if these telemetry versions were not installed.

The following figure shows the Total Buckets panel.

Figure 3-8. Total Buckets Icon

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The Total Buckets panel contains the following features.

• • Bucket icon－Displays the number of buckets.

3.10 Managing the Recommendations panel

Use the Recommendations panel on the Customer dashboard to view and manage the recommendations
made for the ActiveScale object storage systems that you monitor. The Recommendations panel displays
a lists that shows configuration recommendations for individual systems. This list shows recommendations
generated by the individual systems in the selected customers group of systems.
The following figure shows the Recommendations panel.
Figure 3-9. Recommendations panel

The Recommendations panel contains the following features.

• Show More link－Use this link to display all the recommendations in a pop-up.
• Message column－Displays the recommendations.
• System column－Displays the name of the system the recommendation is for.
• Filter field－Use this field to narrow the list to specific systems.

3.10.1 Managing recommendations

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1. In the Recommendations panel, click the Show More link.

The Recommendations pop-up appears displaying a complete list of recommendations.
2. (Optional) In the Recommendations pop-up enter a system name, to narrow the list down to
recommendations for that system.

3.11 Monitoring transaction availability

Use the Availability panel on the Customer dashboard to view the availability of the ActiveScale object
storage systems that you monitor. The Availability panel displays a bar chart that shows the availability of
systems as a percentage. This chart shows how much time the individual systems are available for S3
transactions in the selected customers group of systems.
The following figure displays the Availability panel.

Figure 3-10. Availability panel

Note: NA on the chart means that data is not available for that particular
customer.

The Availability panel contains the following features.

• All link－Use the link to display a chart that shows all the systems and percentages.

3.12 Viewing objects

Use the Object Count panel on the Customer dashboard to view the objects in the ActiveScale object
storage systems that you monitor. The Object Count panel displays an icon that shows the object count in
integer format. This icon shows the total number of objects in the selected customers group of systems.
The following figure shows the Object Count panel.
Figure 3-11. Object Count panel

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The Object Count panel contains the following features.

• Object Count Icon－Displays the total number of objects.

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Note: The panel shown is reporting data from an ActiveScale object storage
system that has telemetry version 1.0.183 or greater, or 2.0.10 or greater
installed. You would not be able to see this panel if you did not have those
telemetry versions installed.

3.13 Viewing average object size

Use the Average Object Size panel on the Customer dashboard to view the objects in the ActiveScale
object storage systems that you monitor. The Average Object Size panel displays an icon that shows the
average object size in integer format. This icon shows the average size of objects in the selected customers
group of systems.
The following figure shows the Average Object Size panel.
Figure 3-12. Average Object Size panel

The Average Object Size panel contains the following features.

• Average Object Size icon－Displays the average size of objects.

Note: The panel is reporting data from object storage systems that have telemetry
version 1.0.183 or greater, or 2.0.10 or greater installed. You would not be able to
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4 System dashboard
The ActiveScale CM System dashboard displays information about individual object storage systems.
Topics:
• System dashboard panels on page 45
• Managing the System Racks panel on page 46
• Viewing platform information on page 47
• Viewing system hardware components on page 48
• Using the Storage Capacity panel on page 49
• Using the Metadata Capacity panel on page 49
• Monitoring system throughput on page 50
• Monitoring response time on page 51
• Monitoring the number of transactions on page 51
• Viewing file types on page 52
• Viewing S3 users on page 53
• Viewing Buckets on page 55
• View Accounts on page 57
• Monitoring system availability on page 60
• Managing the Hardware Failures panel on page 60
• Viewing the Object Replication Status on page 61

4.1 System dashboard panels

The System dashboard contains the following seventeen panels.
• System Racks
• Platform and Versions
• Hardware Components
• Durability Policy
• Storage Capacity
• Metadata Capacity
• Throughput
• Response Time
• Transactions per Second
• Writes for Top 10 File Types
• Availability
• S3 Users
• Total Buckets
• Object Count

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• Average Object Size

• Hardware Failures

4.2 Managing the System Racks panel

Use the System Racks panel on the System dashboard to manage racks in the ActiveScale object storage
systems that you monitor. The System Racks panel displays a list that shows all the racks in a single
system. This list shows the racks in one customer system that you monitor.
The following figure shows the System Racks panel.
Figure 4-1. System Racks panel

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The System Racks panel contains the following features.

• Serial Numbers link—Use the link to display a complete list of serial numbers.
• Rack ID column—Displays the identification number of the rack.
• Columns column—Displays the number of columns in the rack.
• Telemetry Status column—Displays the status of the latest telemetry.

4.2.1 Viewing rack serial numbers

The following task provides instructions about how to view rack serial numbers.
1. In the System Racks panel, click the Serial Number(s) link.
The Serial Number(s) pop-up displays.
2. In the pop-up, view a list of rack serial numbers.

4.2.2 Monitoring rack telemetry status

The following task provides instructions about how to monitor rack telemetry status.
1. In the System Racks panel, hover over any round icon in the Telemetry Status column.
A pop-up displays.
2. In the pop-up, view the status message.

4.2.3 Monitoring Node Telemetry Status

The following task provides instructions about how to monitor node telemetry status.
1. In the System Racks panel, click any list icon in the Telemetry Status column.
The Telemetry Status for Nodes pop-up displays.
2. In the pop-up, view the status of each individual node.

4.3 Viewing platform information

Use the Platform & Versions panel on the System dashboard to view platform information about the
ActiveScale object storage systems that you monitor. The Platform & Versions panel displays a list that
shows information about a platform like telemetry version and deployment ID. This list shows the platform
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The following figure shows the Platform & Versions panel.

Figure 4-2. Platform & Versions panel

The Platform & Versions panel contains the following features.

• Software column—Displays the ActiveScale OS version number.
• Telemetry Version column—Displays the telemetry version number.
• Platform column—Displays the device type.
• Telemetry Masking column—Displays the telemetry masking status.
• Deployment ID column—Displays the deployment identification number.

4.4 Viewing system hardware components

Use the Hardware Components panel on the System dashboard to view hardware component
information about the ActiveScale object storage systems that you monitor. The Hardware Components
panel displays a list that shows information about hardware like system nodes and storage nodes. This list
shows the information for only one customer system.
The following figure shows the Hardware Components panel.
Figure 4-3. Hardware Components panel

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The Platform & Versions panel contains the following features.

• System Interconnect field—Displays the number of system interconnects.
• System Nodes field—Displays the number of system nodes.
• Storage Nodes field—Displays the number of storage nodes.

4.5 Using the Storage Capacity panel

Use the Storage Capacity panel on the System dashboard to view the storage capacity in the ActiveScale
object storage systems that you monitor. The Storage Capacity panel displays a ring chart that shows
storage capacity measured as a percentage and in bytes. This chart shows the storage capacity for only one
customer system.
The following figure shows the Storage Capacity panel.
Figure 4-4. Storage Capacity panel

The Storage Capacity panel contains the following features.

• Used icon—Displays the percentage of used storage capacity.
• Total icon—Displays the total amount of storage capacity.

4.6 Using the Metadata Capacity panel

Use the Metadata Capacity panel on the System dashboard to view the metadata capacity in the
ActiveScale object storage systems that you monitor. The Metadata Capacity panel displays a ring chart
that shows metadata capacity measured as a percentage and in bytes. This chart shows the metadata
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The following figure shows the Metadata Capacity panel.

Figure 4-5. Metadata Capacity panel

The Metadata Capacity panel contains the following features.

• Used icon—Displays the percentage of used metadata capacity.
• Total—Displays the total amount of metadata capacity.

4.6.1 Viewing used and total metadata capacity

The following instructions provide information about viewing metadata capacity.
1. Click on the Used icon to view just the total metadata capacity.
2. Click on the Total icon to view just the used metadata capacity.

4.7 Monitoring system throughput

Use the Throughput panel on the System dashboard to audit system throughput in the ActiveScale object
storage systems that you monitor. The Throughput panel displays a chart that shows system throughput
measured over time in MBs. This chart shows the throughput for only one customer system.
The following figure shows the Throughput panel.
Figure 4-6. Throughput panel

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The Throughput panel contains the following features.

• Vertical axis－Displays the seconds.
• Horizontal axis－Displays the timeline.

4.8 Monitoring response time

Use the Response Time panel on the System dashboard to audit system response times for the ActiveScale
object storage systems that you monitor. The Response Time panel displays a chart that shows system
response time measured over time in seconds. This chart shows the response time for only one customer
system.
The following figure shows the Response Time panel.
Figure 4-7. Response Time panel

The Response Time panel contains the following features.

• Vertical axis—Displays the seconds.
• Horizontal axis—Displays the timeline.

4.9 Monitoring the number of transactions

Use the Transactions/Second panel on the System dashboard to audit the number of reads and writes in
the ActiveScale object storage systems that you monitor. The Transactions/Second panel displays a chart
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The following figure shows the Transactions/Second panel.

Figure 4-8. Transactions/Second panel

The Transactions/Second panel contains the following features.

• Vertical axis－Displays the seconds.
• Horizontal axis－Displays the timeline.

4.10 Viewing file types

Use the Writes for Top 10 File Types panel on the System dashboard to view the top ten file types in the
ActiveScale object storage systems that you monitor. The Writes for Top 10 File Types panel displays a
pie chart that shows the top file types as a percentage of the total files in the system. This chart shows the
file types in only one customer system.
The following figure shows the Writes for Top 10 File Types panel.
Figure 4-9. Writes for Top 10 File Types panel

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The Writes for Top 10 File Types panel contains the following features.
• Export All to CSV link－Use this link to export all the uploaded data to a CSV file.

4.11 Viewing S3 users

The S3 Users panel displays the number of S3 users on the selected object storage system. Use the S3 Users panel to
view the S3 users of your ActiveScale object storage systems. The S3 Users panel displays an icon that displays the
number of S3 users. This chart shows the number of S3 users of one customer system that you monitor.The
following figure displays the S3 Users icon.
Figure 4-10. S3 Users Icon

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The S3 Users panel displays the users icon and the number of users. Clicking on the S3 Users Panel opens
the User Trends page as shown below.
Figure 4-11. User Trends Dialog

The S3 User Trends page displays a table with the following columns,
• User ID: Canonical ID of the S3 user.
• Reads: Total number of reads issued by this user.
• Write: Total number of writes issued by this user.
• Deletes: Total of deletes issued by this user.
The User Trends Dialog Box table will show a maximum of 100 rows.
Left clicking on a user row will display the time series trend for the operations performed by the user. The
granularity of the data represented in the time series is one data point per day for a duration of last 60 days.
The granularity drops to one data point per week on selecting the ‘From’ date which is older than 60 days.
The following figure provides an example of the expanded view of one of the S3 users.
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4.11.1 Sort Capability

The User Trends table can be sorted on the Reads, Writes, and Deletes columns. By default, the table is
sorted on the Reads column, and will show the top users issued the maximum number of reads. To sort a
column, left click the header of column. For example, to sort the table by number of writes, the left click
the ‘Writes’ symbol on the column header. The table will display the top users issued the maximum
number of writes.

4.11.2 Search Capability

The user trends page has search capabilities. A search tab is located on the banner of the User Trends
dialog. The search key is the User ID. Any user in the system can be searched by entering the user id. The
search will result in an expandable row. Clicking on the row results in displaying the operations trends of
that user.

4.12 Viewing Buckets

Use the Total Buckets panel on the Customer dashboard to view the buckets in the ActiveScale object
storage systems being monitored. The Total Buckets panel displays an icon that shows the total number of
buckets in integer format. This icon shows the total number of buckets in the selected customers group of
systems.
The following figure shows the Total Buckets panel.
Figure 4-13. Total Buckets Panel

The following figure shows the Bucket Features panel.

Figure 4-14. Bucket Features Panel

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Clicking on the panel displays the bucket trends page containing a list with following columns:
• Bucket Name: The name of the Bucket. The table can be sorted on this column. By default the table
is sorted on this column.
• Objects Count: Number of objects inside this bucket.
• Capacity User: Capacity consumed by the objects inside this bucket.
• Date Created: Date on which this bucket was created.
• Average Object Size: Average object size inside this bucket.
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Figure 4-15. Buckets Page

4.12.1 Bucket Trends

Left clicking on a user row will display the following trends:

4.12.1.1 Capacity Used

The Capacity used displays the trend of the capacity inside the bucket. The granularity of the data is one
data point per day for the last 60 days. On selecting a period longer than 60 days the granularity drops to
one data point per week. The following figure displays the Capacity Used trend:

Figure 4-16. Capacity Used

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4.12.1.2 Object Count

The Object Count displays the trend of the number of objects inside the bucket. The granularity is the same
as the capacity trend. The following figure displays the Object Count trend.
Figure 4-17. Object Count

4.12.2 Sort Capability

The bucket table can be sorted on object count, the capacity used, and the average object size column. To
sort a column, left click the header of column.

4.12.3 Search Capability

The bucket trends page has search capabilities. A search tab is located on the banner of the Bucket Trends
dialog. The search key is the bucket name. Any bucket in the system can be searched by entering the
bucket name. The search will result in a expandable row. Clicking on the row in the resulting panel
returned by the search will show the trends of that user.

4.13 View Accounts

Use the S3 accounts panel to view the accounts in your ActiveScale object storage systems. The S3
Accounts panel displays the total number of S3 accounts in the customer system being monitored. The
following figure displays the S3 Accounts panel:

Figure 4-18. S3 Accounts Panel

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The S3 Accounts panel displays the accounts icon and the number of accounts. Clicking on the S3
Accounts panel displays the account trends page. The following figure displays the S3 Account Trends
Page:
Figure 4-19. Account Trends Panel

The table displays a maximum of 100 rows. The default display is sorted on the Capacity Used column.
The columns listed are as follows:
• Account ID: Displays the canonical Id of the S3 account.
• User Counts: Represents the number of users inside this account.
• Buckets Count: Represents the number of buckets inside this account.
• Capacity Used: Displays the capacity consumed by the objects inside this account.
Left clicking on an Account Id will display the trends of that account.

4.13.1 Capacity Used

Capacity Used displays the trend of the capacity inside the account. The granularity of the data is one data
point per day for the last 60 days. On selecting a period longer than 60 days the granularity drops to one
data point per week. The following figure displays the Capacity Used trend:
Figure 4-20. Capacity Used

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4.13.2 Object Count

The Object Count represents the trend on the objects count in this S3 account. The data granularity scheme
is same as the capacity used trend. The following figure displays the Object count trend:
Figure 4-21. Object Count Trends

4.13.3 Operations
The Operations trend provides the trend of the operations performed by the selected S3 account ID. The
data granularity scheme is the same as the capacity used trends. The following figure displays the
Operations trend:
Figure 4-22. Operations Trends

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4.13.4 Sort Capability

The Accounts table can be sorted on the Users Count and Buckets Count columns. To sort a column, left
click the header of column. The maximum number of user or buckets is displayed when the associated
column is sorted.

4.13.5 Search Capability

The Account Trends page has search capabilities. A search tab is located on the banner of the Account
Trends dialog. The search key is the account ID. Any account in the system can be searched by entering
the bucket name. The search will result in a expandable row. Clicking on the row in the panel resulting
from the search will display the trends of that user.

4.14 Monitoring system availability

Use the Availability panel on the System dashboard to audit the availability of the ActiveScale object
storage systems that you monitor. The Availability panel displays a chart that displays system availability
measured over time. This chart shows the availability of only one customer system. The following figure
shows the Availability panel.
Figure 4-23. Availability panel

The Availability panel contains the following features.

• Vertical axis －Displays system availability indicators, that is, 0 and 1. When the chart tops out at 1,
the system is available. When the chart bottom outs at 0, the system is unavailable.
• Horizontal axis－Displays the timeline.

4.15 Managing the Hardware Failures panel

Use the Hardware Failures panel on the System dashboard to manage hardware failures in the
ActiveScale object storage systems that you monitor. The System Racks panel displays a list that shows
all the hardware failures. This list shows the failures in only one customer system.
The following figure shows the Hardware Failures panel.
Figure 4-24. Hardware Failures panel

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The Hardware Failures panel contains the following features.

• Component－The device type.
• Rack ID－The rack ID in which the failure occurs.
• Node ID－The node ID in which the failure occurs.
• Model－The model number/type of the component.
• Serial－The serial number of the component.
• Disk Status－The status of the disk.
• Slot－The slot number in the enclosure.

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5 Operational Reports dashboard

The ActiveScale CM Operational Reports dashboard displays various network object storage statistics.
Topics:
• Operational Reports dashboard panels on page 63
• Monitoring bucket I/O on page 63
• Monitoring system workload on page 64
• Performing system queries on page 65
• Viewing file sizes on page 66
• Viewing files on page 67

5.1 Operational Reports dashboard panels

The Operational Reports dashboard contains the following five panels.
• Top Buckets
• Workload
• Recent Queries
• File Size
• Top Files

5.2 Monitoring bucket I/O

Use the Top Buckets panel on the Operational Reports dashboard to audit buckets in the ActiveScale
object storage systems that you monitor. The Top Buckets panel displays an icon that shows the buckets
that are used the most. This icon shows the buckets in only one customer system.
The following figure shows the Top Buckets panel.
Figure 5-1. Top Buckets panel

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The Top Buckets panel contains the following features.

• Bucket Name—The name of the bucket.
• Reads—The percentage of read operations during the selected period.
• Writes—The percentage of write operations during the selected period.
• Total—The percentage of read and write operations during the selected period.
• Average Response Time—The average time it takes for the bucket to respond.
• Date—The date the report was made.

5.3 Monitoring system workload

Use the Workload panel on the Operational Reports dashboard to audit workloads in the ActiveScale
object storage systems that you monitor. The Workload panel displays pie charts and timelines that
identify the number of reads and writes for small and large objects. This panel shows the workload for only
one customer system.
The follow figure shows the Workload panel.
Figure 5-2. Workload panel

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The Workload panel contains the following features.

• Small Objects pie chart—Displays the percentages of reads and writes.
• Large Objects pie chart—Displays the percentages of reads and writes.
• Small Objects time line—Charts the number of reads and writes over time.
• Large Objects time line—Charts the number of reads and writes over time.

5.4 Performing system queries

Use the Recent Queries panel on the Operational Reports dashboard to create custom operational reports
about the ActiveScale object storage systems that you monitor. The Recent Queries panel displays a query
field that can take a typed query. This query is for only one customer system.
The following figure shows the Recent Queries panel.

Note: This panel is also found by clicking the Operational Reports button that
displays on the Customer dashboard tool bar.

Figure 5-3. Recent Queries panel

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The Recent Queries panel contains the following features.

• Query field—Use to form a custom query.
• Recent Queries list—Use to run that query.

5.4.1 Performing queries

Perform the following steps to run a query.
1. Enter the query in the query field.
2. Press Enter.

5.5 Viewing file sizes

Use the File Size panel on the Operational Reports dashboard to audit file size in the ActiveScale object
storage systems that you monitor. The File Size panel displays a bar chart that shows the different file
sizes. This panel shows the file sizes in only one customer system.
The following figure shows the File Size panel.
Figure 5-4. File Size panel

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• Vertical axis—Displays the percentage of types.

• Horizontal axis—Displays the three different file type ranges.

5.6 Viewing files

Use the Top Files panel on the Operational Reports dashboard to view files in the ActiveScale object
storage systems that you monitor. The Top Files panel displays a list that shows the top files which have
been used most frequently in S3 requests. This panel shows the top files in only one customer system.
The following figure shows the Top Files panel.
Figure 5-5. Top Files panel

The Top Files panel contains the following features.

• Export to CSV link—Use this link to export all the file data to a CSV file.
• File Name—The name of the file.
• Size—The size of the file.
• OPS—The number of operations on the file.

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6 System tabs
The System Tabs provide detailed information about object storage systems.
Topics:
• System Dashboard on page 68
• About system resources on page 68
• System Usage Patterns on page 77
• Viewing correlations on page 81
• Hardware Changes on page 82
• Log Viewer on page 83
• System Performance on page 86
• Capacity Planner on page 89

6.1 System Dashboard

The System dashboard contains the following seven tabs.
• System Resources
• Usage Patterns
• Correlated Events
• Hardware Changes
• Log Viewer
• System Performance
• Capacity Planner

6.2 About system resources

Use the Resources tab on the System dashboard to view system information about the ActiveScale object
storage systems that you monitor. The System Racks panel displays a list that shows all the physical
components and system like CPU type and software version. It also shows the complete rack.
The following figure shows the Resources page.
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The Resources tab contains the following features.

• Rack graphic—Displays the nodes in the rack.
• Summary area—Displays information about the system.
• Inventory area—Displays the components of the system.
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6.2.1 X100 storage

The following sections list ActiveScale™ X100 enclosure and node summaries.

6.2.1.1 X100 storage enclosure summary

The storage enclosure Summary area contains the following details.
• Fans—Displays the number of fans in the selected enclosure.
• I/O Module—Displays the number of I/O modules in the selected enclosure.
• MFC—Displays the Microsoft Foundation Class version number.
• Part Number—Displays the part number of the selected enclosure.
• Product—Displays the product type of the selected enclosure.
• SAS Address—Displays the SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) network address of the selected enclosure.
• Serial Number—Displays the serial number of the selected enclosure.
• Sleds—Displays the number of sleds in the selected enclosure.
• Type—Displays the type of the selected enclosure.
• Vendor—Displays the name of the vendor of the selected enclosure.

6.2.1.2 X100 storage enclosure inventory

The storage enclosure Inventory area contains the following details.
• Export to CSV—Click this link to export enclosure information to a comma-separated value file. A
link to the file displays at the bottom left corner of the application.
• Fans—Displays the number of fans in the selected storage enclosure.
• I/O Module—Displays the number of I/O modules in the selected storage enclosure.
• Power Modules—Displays the number of power modules in the selected storage enclosure.
• Drive Analytics—Click this link to perform drive analytics. You must select at least two drives to
perform this test.
• Show All Drives－Click this link to show all the drive sleds.

6.2.1.3 X100 storage node summary

The storage node Summary area contains the following details.
• Summary—Displays the identification number of the selected node.
• BIOS—Displays the name of the BIOS manufacturer of the selected node.
• IP Address—Displays the IP addresses for the selected node.
• Motherboard—Displays the product number of the motherboard in the selected node.
• CPU—Displays the CPU type in the selected node.
• Memory—Displays the type and size of the memory in the selected node.
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6.2.1.4 X100 storage node inventory

The storage node Inventory area contains the following details.
• Fans—Displays the number of fans in the selected node.
• I/O Module—Displays the number of I/O modules in the selected node.
• Power Modules—Displays the number of power modules in the selected node.
• Export to CSV—Click this link to export storage node information to a comma-separated value file.
A link to the file displays at the bottom left corner of the application.
• Drive Analytics—Click this link to perform drive analytics. You must select at least two drives to
perform the test.
• Show All Drives—Click this link to highlight all the drive sleds.

6.2.1.5 X100 system node summary

The system node Summary area contains the following details.
• Summary—Displays the identification number of the selected node.
• BIOS—Displays the name of the BIOS manufacturer of the selected node.
• IP Address—Displays the IP addresses for the selected node.
• Motherboard—Displays the product number of the motherboard in the selected node.
• CPU—Displays the CPU type in the selected node.
• Memory—Displays the type and size of the memory in the selected node.
• Network—Displays the type of network interfaces in the selected node.

6.2.1.6 X100 system node inventory

The system node Inventory area contains the following details.
• Filter—Click in this field to enter a filter word or phrase. The word or phrase is used to filter the
inventory list.
• Export to CSV—Click this link to export node information to a comma-separated value file. A link
to the file displays at the bottom left corner of the application.
• Component—Lists the components in the selected node. This can be network cards, motherboard,
CPUs, BIOS, memory, or disks.
• Vendor—Lists the vendor of the component in the selected node.
• Model—Lists the model number of the component in the selected node.
• Serial—Lists the serial number of the component in the selected node.
• Description—Lists a description of the component in the selected node.
• Firmware—Lists the firmware installed on the component in the selected node.
• Slot—Lists the slot in which the component is inserted in the selected node. This can be N/Aif the
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6.2.1.7 X100 system interconnect summary

The system interconnect Summary area contains the following details.
• Burned In MAC Address—Displays the hard-coded MAC (Media Access Control) address for the
selected interconnect.
• Machine Model—Displays the model number of the selected interconnect.
• Part Number—Displays the part number of the selected interconnect.
• Software Version—Displays the version of software that has been installed on the selected
interconnect.
• System Name—Displays the name of the rack the interconnect is installed in.
• Interface Status—Displays the status of the interconnect network interface. This can be Up or Down.
• Operating System—Displays the version of Linux OS software that is running on the selected
interconnect.
• Serial Number—Displays the serial number of the selected interconnect.
• System Description—Displays a description of the selected interconnect.
• System Up Time—Displays the amount of time the selected interconnect has been running.

6.2.1.8 X100 system interconnect inventory

The system interconnect Inventory area contains the following details.
• Filter—Click in this field to enter a filter word or phrase. The word or phrase is used to filter the
inventory list.
• Export to CSV—Click this link to export interconnect information to a comma-separated value file.
A link to the file displays at the bottom left corner of the application.
• Port—Lists the identification number of the port on the selected interconnect.
• Name—Lists the name of the port on the selected interconnect.
• Flow Control Status—Lists the status of the port on the selected interconnect. This can Active or
Inactive.
• Link State—Lists the status of the link to the port on the selected interconnect. This can be Up or
Down.
• Physical Mode—Lists the mode of the port on the selected interconnect.
• Media Type—Lists the network interface type of the port on the selected interconnect.
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6.2.2 P100 storage

The following sections list ActiveScale™ P100 enclosure and node summaries.

6.2.2.1 P100 system interconnect summary

The system interconnect Summary area contains the following details.
• Burned In MAC Address—Displays the hard-coded MAC (Media Access Control) address for the
selected interconnect.
• Machine Model—Displays the model number of the selected interconnect.
• Part Number—Displays the part number of the selected interconnect.
• Software Version—Displays the version of software that has been installed on the selected
interconnect.
• System Name—Displays the name of the rack the selected interconnect is installed in.
• Interface Status—Displays the status of the selected interconnect network interface. This can be Up
or Down.
• Operating System—Displays the version of Linux OS software that is running on the selected
interconnect.
Serial Number—Displays the serial number of the selected interconnect.
• System Description—Displays a description of the selected interconnect.
• System Up Time—Displays the amount of time the selected interconnect has been running.

6.2.2.2 P100 system interconnect inventory

The Inventory area contains the following details.
• Filter—Click in this field to enter a filter word or phrase. The word or phrase is used to filter the
inventory list.
• Export to CSV—Click this link to export interconnect information to a comma-separated value file.
A link to the file displays at the bottom left corner of the application.
• Port—Lists the identification number of the port on the selected interconnect.
• Name—Lists the name of the port on the selected interconnect.
• Flow Control Status—Lists the status of the port on the selected interconnect. This can be Active or
Inactive.
• Link State—Lists the status of the link to the port on the selected interconnect. This can be Up or
Down.
• Physical Mode—Lists the mode of the port on the selected interconnect.
• Media Type—Lists the network interface type of the port on the selected interconnect.
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6.2.2.3 P100 system node summary

The system node Summary area contains the following details.
• Summary—Displays the identification number of the selected node.
• BIOS—Displays the name of the BIOS manufacturer of the selected node.
• IP Address—Displays the IP addresses for the selected node.
• Motherboard—Displays the product number of the motherboard in the selected node.
• CPU—Displays the CPU type in the selected node.
• Memory—Displays the type and size of the memory in the selected node.
• Network—Displays the type of network interfaces in the selected node.

6.2.2.4 P100 system node inventory

The Inventory area contains the following details.
• Search－Click in this field to enter a search word or phrase. The word or phrase is used to search the
inventory list.
• Export to CSV－Click this link to export system node information to a comma-separated value file.
A link to the file displays at the bottom left corner of the application.
• Component－Lists the components in the selected node. This can be network cards, motherboard,
CPUs, BIOS, memory, or disks.
• Vendor－Lists the vendor of the component in the selected node.
• Model－Lists the model number of the component in the selected node.
• Serial－Lists the serial number of the component in the selected node.
• Description－Lists a description of the component in the selected node.
• Firmware－Lists the firmware installed on the component in the selected node.
• Slot－Lists the slot in which the component is inserted in the selected node. This can be N/A if the
component is not mounted in a slot.

Note: Click on all seven column headings to reorder a column.

6.2.2.5 P100 storage node summary

The storage node Summary area contains the following details.
• Summary—Displays the identification number of the selected node.
• BIOS—Displays the name of the BIOS manufacturer of the selected node.
• IP Address—Displays the IP addresses for the selected node.
• Motherboard—Displays the product number of the motherboard in the selected node.
• CPU—Displays the CPU type in the selected node.
• Memory—Displays the type and size of the memory in the selected node.
• Network—Displays the type of network interfaces in the selected node.

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6.2.2.6 P100 storage node inventory

The storage node Inventory area contains the following details.
• Drives—Displays the hard drives in the selected node.
• Drive Analytics—Click this link to perform drive analytics. You must select at least two drives to
perform this test.
• Export to CSV—Click this link to export interconnect information to a comma-separated value file.
A link to the file displays at the bottom left corner of the application.
• Filter—Click in this field to enter a filter word or phrase. The word or phrase is used to filter the
inventory list.
• Physical Slot #—Displays the physical slot number in the selected node.
• % Used—Displays the percentage of the slot used in the selected node.
• Type—Displays the type of device that is inserted in the slot in the selected node.
• Logical Name—Displays the logical name of the device that inserted in the slot in the selected node.
• Size—Displays the size of the device that inserted in the slot in the selected node.
• Serial—Displays the serial number of the device that inserted in the slot in the selected node.

Note: You can click on all six column headings to reorder a column.

6.2.3 Drive analytics

ActiveScale CM provides analytics for the drives in a storage enclosure. With the drive analytics tool, you
can compare up to 15 drives at a time.

6.2.3.1 Working with drive analytics

In the storage enclosure Drive Analytics dashboard, you can manipulate the charts in the following ways:
• Set period—You can update the period of the analytics on top of the Drive Analytics dashboard.
Either choose one of the predefined periods (1 Week or 1 Month) or set a custom period by defining
a start and end date in the respective From and to fields.
• Select/Deselect Drives—In any of the analytics, the chart of the selected drives are displayed. You
can deselect drives by clicking on the drive number at the bottom of the chart. The drive number is
then grayed out and no longer visible in the chart. To show the drive again in the chart, click the
grayed out name again.
• Zoom—You can zoom in the chart by selecting a part of the chart. When you have zoomed in, there is
a horizontal scroll bar to move back and forth in time on the chart. To reset to the normal zoom level,
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6.2.3.2 Drive analytics types

ActiveScale CM has five types of drive analytics:
• Read Bytes Processed—The number of bytes processed in read operations.
• Write Bytes Processed—The number of bytes processed in write operations.
• Temperature—The disk temperature.
• Read Errors Corrected with Possible Delays—The number of read errors that have been corrected.
• Write Errors Corrected with Possible Delays—The number of write errors that have been corrected

6.2.3.3 Comparing drives on the P100

Explains how to compare disk drives.
1. Select the appropriate P100 object storage system in All Systems panel.
2. Click the Resources link.
3. Select the appropriate storage node in the rack that appears.
4. Select two or more drives.
The Drive Analytics link enables.
5. Click the Drive Analytics link.
Five charts display—Read Bytes Processed, Write Bytes Processed, Temperature, Write Errors
Corrected with Possible Delays, and Read Errors Corrected with Possible Delays. View these charts to
see the results of the comparison.

6.2.3.4 Comparing drives on the X100 and SA-7000

1. Open the Storage Enclosure inventory via the Resources tab of the object storage system (Home >
"customer" > "system" > Resources).
2. Select up to 15 drives in the storage enclosure overview. These can be randomly chosen over the
various sleds.
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Note: There can be several enclosures per system. This is a partial view, not the
entire rack or multiple multi-site racks.

Note: Click on Show All Drives to display all the drives individually. The sleds
fill in with blue and only the drives are visible. Additionally, clicking on the letter
on top of the sled displays all drives in that sled. The sled fills in with blue and
only the drives are visible.

3. Click Drive Analytics.

A new window appears with the five analytics—Write Bytes, Read Bytes, Temperature, Write
Errors, and Read Errors.

6.3 System Usage Patterns

6.3.1 About usage patterns
The Usage Patterns tab contains the graphics of all storage related actions. These actions are divided into
three levels—storage, compute and network.
At the top of the tab, you can filter the data by date and you can select the statistics that you want to see. By
default, the following statistics are displayed.
• Storage Total Writes
• CPU Usage
• Network Usage Patterns
The default data is taken from the last uploaded telemetry data.
Click on 1 week or 1 Month to return respectively one week or one month back in time.

6.3.1.1 Usage pattern statistics

ActiveScale CM has the following usage statistics. You can select them from the Select Stats menu at the
top of the System dashboard.
For the SA-7000:
• CPU Usage
• Memory Usage
• Total CPU Usage
• Network Rx
• Total Received Packets
• Total Transmitted Packets
• Total Writes
• Total Read/Writes
• Total Reads

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For the ActiveScale X100 and P100:

• User CPU utilization
• System CPU Utilization
• I/O Wait
• TX
• RX
• Total Received Packets
• Total Writes
• AvgReq Sector Count
• Total Reads

6.3.1.2 Usage Pattern Charts

The Usage Pattern tab contains a number of panels.
In the left panel, you find the statistics in a time series, divided between Controller and Storage Nodes. On
the right you find the issues in chronological order on the Controller Nodes and the Storage Nodes. At the
bottom of the panels you can make selections. By default the average (Avg) is displayed, but you can select
one or more specific nodes to compare against the average performance of the nodes. If the name of the
node is grayed out, the node is not displayed in the panel.
The time series panel also notifies of any issues on the nodes, indicated by orange (error) or yellow
(warning) icons. When you click an issue in the time series, the bullet turns green and the issue is displayed
in the corresponding controller or storage panel.
The zoom level of the time series chart depends on the date range you have selected at the top of the
System dashboard. In each of the time series chart, you can zoom in to a specific period. Click Reset
Zoom to return to the default zoom level.
Keep in mind that zooming in on the time series may update the scale units on the Y-axis.
For example when the Y-axis has a range of 0 to 50k and you create a selection with the lower boundary at
10k, the origin of the Y-axis then starts at 10k and not the original 0.
The time series chart displays the statistics over a period in time.
The content of the issue details panel may be graphical or textual. If the content is graphical, you can click
on the node names underneath the chart to disable (gray out) or enable (bold) the node's information.

Tip: It may occur that you have to scroll down in the details panel to view all
content.

When you open the details of an issue, click to return to the list of issues.

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6.3.2 Storage usage pattern

ActiveScale CM provides three different usage patterns for storage:
• Total Writes (default): an average of all write operations across all the Controller Nodes and Storage
Nodes.
• Total Read/Writes: an average of all read and write operations across all the Controller Nodes and
Storage Nodes.
• Total Reads: an average of all read operations across all the Controller Nodes and Storage Nodes.
Toggle the node name at the bottom of each chart to display or hide the node's data. This allows you to
compare the specific node's values against the average values.
The Y-axis of the chart indicates the number of operations.
The following chart displays an example of a total writes statistic.
Figure 6-3. Storage Usage Pattern panel

6.3.3 Compute usage pattern

There are three different usage patterns at the compute level:
• CPU Usage (default)－Average CPU utilization (user CPU usage) across all controller and storage
nodes.
• Total CPU Usage－Average of all CPU utilization (kernel/system CPU usage and user CPU usage)
across all controller and storage nodes.
Toggle the node name at the bottom of each chart to display or hide the node's data. This allows you to
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The following chart gives you an example of the CPU usage statistics:
Figure 6-4. Compute Usage Pattern panel

6.3.4 Network usage pattern

You can consult the network usage pattern of a object storage system via three statistics:
• Rx (default): an average of all received data in kilobytes (KB) across all Controller Nodes and Storage
Nodes.
• Total Received Packets: an average of all received packets across all Controller Nodes and Storage
Nodes.
• Total Transmitted Packets: an average of all transmitted packets across all Controller Nodes and
Storage Nodes.
Toggle the node name at the bottom of each chart to display or hide the node's data. This allows you to
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The following chart is an example of the received data network performance:

Figure 6-5. Network Usage Pattern panel

6.4 Viewing correlations

Use the Correlated Events tab on the System dashboard to view correlations in your ActiveScale object
storage systems. The Correlated Events tab displays charts that shows the correlations between
transmitting, receiving, and writes in the system. This list shows the charts for one customer system that
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The following figure shows the Correlated Events panel.

Figure 6-6. Correlated Events panel

The Correlated Events panel contains the following features.

• Rx vs. Writes chart—Displays the correlation between received data and writes.
• Tx vs. Writes chart—Displays the correlation between transmitted data and writes.

6.5 Hardware Changes

On the Hardware Changes dashboard, you find a time line of all hardware changes that occurred on the
system.
The time line only covers the selected period The time line indicates replaced parts and added parts
information for the affected node.
The following figure shows the Hardware Changes panel.
Figure 6-7. Hardware Changes panel

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On the time line itself you find the affected device or action that has been executed. When you hover over
the icon, details about the device display like type and affected node.
• Dark orange icon—Disk in a storage enclosure.
• Light orange icon—An indication of a node restart.
• Brown icon—A power supply replacement.

6.6 Log Viewer

The Log Viewer tab contains two panels.
• Log Timeline
• ActiveScale X100 Log Details, ActiveScale P100 Log Details, or SA-7000 Log Details
On the Log Timeline panel, you can choose the day you want log files for.
Figure 6-8. Log Timeline panel

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Note: The Log Timeline looks the same for the ActiveScale X100 and P100.

Click a dot on the time line to select the day. When you have selected the day, click on the node in the rack
for the log want. If you have not selected a node in the Log Timeline, the displayed log files will be the
most recent.

6.6.1 Log details for the X100 and SA-7000 racks

On the ActiveScale X100 and SA-7000 Log Details panel, you can view logs using the rack to the left of
the panel and the log type tool bar directly to the right of the rack.
Figure 6-9. X100 and SA-7000 Log Details Panel

Different object storage system types like SA-7000 will have different names for nodes in a rack. The
preceding figure and following explanation is for the ActiveScale X100 rack.
• Rack and log type tool bar—Select any rack component. Choose from ENCL01 through ENCL06,
SE01 through SE06, or SG01 through SG03. Then select a log type from the log type tool bar. Each
type of rack component carries a different set of log types. The ENCL01 through ENCL06 storage
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storage nodes display auth, ipmi, kern, lshw, syslog, and system_config. The SG01 through SG03
control nodes display events, auth, health_check, ipmi, kern, lshw, syslog, and system_config.
• Search tool—Click this tool to search through all log files for the selected day. Type a keyword in the
search box to search for a specific log.
• Download link－Click this link to export all the uploaded data in the selected file to a CSV or JSON
file. Events, health-check, and IPMI data download as a CSV file. LSHW data downloads as a JSON
file. You can save this file to your local machine.

6.6.2 Log details for the P100 rack

On the P100 Log Details panel, you can view logs using the rack to the left of the panel and the log type
tool bar directly to the right of the rack.
Figure 6-10. P100 Log Details panel

Different object storage system types like SA-7000 will have different names for nodes in a rack. The
preceding figure and following explanation is for the ActiveScale P100 rack.
• Rack and log type tool bar－Select any rack node. Then select a log type from the log type tool bar.
Each type of rack node carries a different set of log types. The storage nodes display auth,
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nodes display events, auth, health_check, ipmi, lshw, syslog, and system_config. The object storage
system interconnect nodes display switch. The appropriate log appears.
• Search tool－Click this tool to search through all log files for the selected day. Type a keyword in the
search box to search for a specific log.
• Download link－Click this link to export all the uploaded data to a CSV or JSON file. Events, health-
check, and IPMI data download as a CSV file. LSHW data downloads as a JSON file. You can save
this file to your local machine.

6.7 System Performance

On the System Performance panel, you can analyze the performance of the object storage system, such as
the read and write requests, throughput over time, and top users. You can set a time period to facilitate the
performance analysis for the selected period.

6.7.1 Transactions performance

The Total Transactions panel displays a time series of read and write operations and their corresponding
response times. This allows you to identify network issues or a potentially degraded object storage system.
Figure 6-11. Transactions Performance panel

In the panel you can zoom in by selecting a section in the chart. When you start the selection, you see the
start date and time appear and by moving the cursor, the end date and time of your selection is displayed in
your selection.

6.7.2 Throughput performance

The Throughput panel displays a time series of throughput statistics for an object storage system. You can
consult the throughput for write operations (dark blue chart) as well as read operations (light blue chart).
Figure 6-12. Throughput Performance panel

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On top of the System Performance tab, you can define the date range for which you want to analyze the
throughput. In the widget itself you can refine your selection by zooming in on the chart. Click Reset
zoom to return to the default zoom level of the selected date range.

6.7.3 Top Buckets performance

The Top Buckets widget displays the most active buckets with regards to read and write requests.
Figure 6-13. Top Buckets Performance panel

The table contains the following parameters:

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• Bucket Name－The names of the bucket.

• Reads－The percentage of read requests on the bucket, as part of all read requests in all buckets on
the object storage system.
• Writes－The percentage of write requests in this bucket, as part of all write requests in all buckets on
the object storage system.
• Total－The total percentage of combined read and write requests in this bucket, as part of all requests
to other buckets on the object storage system.
• Average Response Time－The average response time of all read and write requests over the set time
period.
• Date－The end date of the requested date range for which you want to retrieve the top buckets
information.
• Plus icon－Click the plus icon to the left of a bucket. The Average Response Time chart appears.

Note: You can sort the data in ascending or descending order per column. For
example, if you want to sort the table by write requests, click Writes in the
header row of the table. This sorts your table by Write requests in descending
order. Click the header again to invert the order. The same applies to all other
rows of the table.

6.7.4 Comparing system performances

The Compare Performance panel displays information about object storage system performance. Use the
tools in this panel to conduct performance comparisons. There are two time period tools, Time Period 1
and Time Period 2. You can use these tools to compare your system performance over time. You can set
two different time periods to look at your systems performance over time. For example, you could set Start
Date in Time Period 1 to August 9, 2016, and set End Date to August 16, 2016. Then you could set Start
Date in Time Period 2 to August 2, 2016, and set End Date to August 9, 2016. This would allow you to
see your system performance over a period of two weeks. You can also use the 1 Month tool to set a Start
Date in Time Period 1 to June 3, 2016, and set End Date to July 3, 2016. Then you could set Start Date
in Time Period 2 to May 4, 2016, and set End Date to June 3, 2016. This would allow you to see your
system performance over a period of two months. Additionally, you can set up a performance comparison
with the install base.
The time-lines display data points. Each point is one day apart. You can hover over the point to display the
day and the number of reads or writes.

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Note: The following procedures assume that you are already on the Compare
Performance page.

• Select Data to Compare tool－Use this tool to select the type of data to be compared. Click the down
arrow on the Select Data to Compare drop-down menu and select either Throughput, Response
Time, or Total Transactions.
• Select Other Systems tool－Use this tool to compare data with the entire install base. Check the
Install Base check box.
• Time Period 1 tool－Use this tool to set the first time period. Click 1 Week or 1 Month to specify an
automatically set time period. Use the calendar icons to specify a custom time period. Click Apply to
set the time period.
• Time Period 2 tool－Use this tool to set the second time period. Use it to compare to the first time
period. Use the calendar icons to specify a custom time period. Click Apply to set the time period.
The following figure shows the Compare Performance panel.
Figure 6-14. Compare Performance panel

6.8 Capacity Planner

The Capacity Planner dashboard provides you an overview of an object storage system historic usage and
a predicted consumption for the upcoming months and years.
The Storage Capacity Usage panel visualizes the forecast of the object storage system usage and when the
storage capacity will reach its threshold. The threshold is an indicator of when additional capacity should
be added, and is by default set at 80% of total storage capacity.
With this chart, you can closely monitor the evolution of the storage consumption and plan for when to
increase the object storage system capacity.
The threshold of 80% is displayed by the orange line in the panel. You can increase or decrease the
threshold line. This automatically updates the date when the storage capacity threshold will be reached.
Click Reset to return the threshold to 80%.

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Figure 6-15. Storage Capacity Forecast

The Storage Capacity panel displays the current storage usage.

Figure 6-16. Storage Capacity Usage

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7 User menu
The user menu contains links to your profile, and it also contains links to useful information about
ActiveScale CM.
Topics:
• User menu on page 91
• Profile on page 91
• Terms and Conditions on page 92
• Open Source Software on page 92
• Customer Support on page 92
• Logout on page 92

7.1 User menu

The following figure shows the user menu.
Figure 7-1. User menu

The following lists the links on the user menu.

• Profile－Click to access your ActiveScale CM profile.
• Terms and Conditions－Click to access the EULA.
• Open Source Software－Click to access the MIT license.
• Customer Support－Click to access the Customer Technical Support and
• Logout－Click to log out of ActiveScale CM.

7.2 Profile
Your ActiveScale CM profile is a read-only field that displays your email address. Additionally, it contains
the functionality to change your password.
The following figure shows the ActiveScale CM profile panel.
Figure 7-2. Profile panel

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7.3 Terms and Conditions

Use the Terms and Conditions link to view the End User License Agreement (EULA).

7.4 Open Source Software

Use the Open Source Software link to view a list of the open source software employed by ActiveScale
CM. Each entry lists the name of the software and the MIT license.

7.5 Customer Support

Use the Customer Support link to view the Customer Technical Support and Downloads page.

7.6 Logout
Click on Logout to exit ActiveScale CM.

Note: After 10 minutes of no activity, the user will be automatically logged out
for security reasons.

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Contacting Quantum
For further assistance, contact the Quantum Contact Support Center.
Region Support Contact
North America 1-800-284-5101 (toll free)
+1-720-249-5700
EMEA +1-800-7826-8888 (toll free)
+49 6131 324 185
Asia Pacific +800-7826-8887 (toll free)
+603-7953-3010
For World Wide Support https://www.quantum.com/support

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