Introduction to IBM Spectrum Scale GUI
The IBM Spectrum Scale™ management GUI provides an easy way to configure and manage various features that are available with the IBM Spectrum Scale system.
You can perform the following important tasks through the IBM
Spectrum Scale management
GUI:
- Monitoring the performance of the system based on various aspects
- Monitoring system health
- Managing file systems
- Creating filesets and snapshots
- Managing Objects and NFS and SMB data exports
- Creating administrative users and defining roles for the users
- Creating object users and defining roles for them
- Defining default, user, group, and fileset quotas
- Monitoring the capacity details at various levels such as file system, pools, filesets, users, and user groups
The following table provides an overview of the features associated
with each GUI page.
| GUI Page | Function |
|---|---|
| Provides a dashboard to display the predefined performance charts and the customized charts that are marked as favorite charts in the Performance page. | |
| Monitor the status of nodes and NSDs that are configured in the system. | |
| Monitor and troubleshoot the issues that are reported in the system. | |
| Provides a list of pre-defined performance charts to monitor the performance of the system based on various aspects. | |
| Facilitates to monitor the capacity details that are reported at various levels. | |
| View and manage file systems. File system creation through GUI is not supported in 4.2 release. | |
| Create, view, and manage filesets. | |
| Create snapshots or snapshot rules to automate snapshot creation and retention. | |
| Create and manage default, user, group, and fileset quotas at the file system level. | |
| Create, manage, and delete policies that manage automated tiered storage of information. | |
| Create and manage NFS exports. Protocols pages are displayed in the GUI only when the protocol feature is enabled on the cluster. | |
| Create and manage SMB shares. Protocols pages are displayed in the GUI only when the protocol feature is enabled on the cluster. | |
| Create and manage accounts and containers in the object storage. Object pages are displayed in the GUI only when the object feature is enabled on the cluster. | |
| Manage containers in object storage. | |
| Create object users. | |
| Define roles for the object users. | |
| Create users and groups. | |
| Define ACL templates and apply ACLs on files and directories. | |
| Configure event notifications to notify administrators when events occur in the system. | |
| Download logs to troubleshoot the issues that are reported in the system. | |
| Specify NFS server settings and start or stop NFS services. | |
| Specify SMB server settings and start or stop SMB services. | |
| Define object administrator who can manage accounts in the object storage. | |
| Specify a message that can be displayed in the login page. |
Note: The default user name and password to access the IBM
Spectrum Scale management
GUI are admin and admin001 respectively.
Assistance for understanding the features associated with a GUI page
The following three levels of assistance
are available for the GUI users:
- Hover help: When you hover the mouse over the tiny question mark that is placed next to the field label, the system displays a brief description of the feature that is associated with that field. Hover help is only available for the important and complex fields.
- Context-sensitive help: Provides a detailed explanation of the features that are associated with the page. The context-sensitive help files are available in the help menu, which is placed in the upper right corner of the GUI page.
- Knowledge Center: This is the third level of information where the users find entire details of the product. Link to the IBM Spectrum Scale Knowledge Center is also available in the help menu, which is placed in the upper right corner of the GUI page.