The Grid Manager enables you to monitor the daily activities of the StorageGRID Webscale system, including its health. Alarms and notifications help you evaluate and quickly resolve trouble spots that sometimes occur during normal operation.
You can use these areas of the Grid Manager to monitor the StorageGRID Webscale system to the level of detail you need:
Dashboard
Nodes page
Support > Grid Topology pages
More information
Viewing the Dashboard
When you first sign in to the Grid Manager, you can use the Dashboard to monitor system activities at a glance. The Dashboard includes information about health and alerts, usage metrics, and operational trends and charts.
Viewing the Nodes page
When you need more detailed information about your StorageGRID Webscale system than the Dashboard provides, you can use the Nodes page to learn more about each node, such as node type, IP addresses, CPU utilization, network traffic, alarms, and more.
Viewing the Grid Topology tree
The Grid Topology tree provides access to detailed information about StorageGRID Webscale system elements, including sites, grid nodes, services, and components. In most cases, you only need to access the Grid Topology tree when working with technical support.
Understanding node icons
The Grid Manager uses the following icons to show the health of each grid node. The icons indicate whether nodes are connected to the grid and show if any alarms are active on the node.
Information that you should monitor regularly
Monitor the StorageGRID Webscale system’s key attributes regularly. Become familiar with system operations and spot trends before they turn into problems.
About alarms and email notifications
An email notification is a message automatically sent by the StorageGRID Webscale system to configured recipients, which notifies recipients of a newly triggered alarm or service state change. You can configure email notifications and set mailing lists to receive these email notifications for any particular alarm severity or state change.
Managing alarms
Customizing alarms lets you customize your StorageGRID Webscale system based on your unique monitoring requirements.
Disabling alarms
Alarms are enabled by default, but you can disable alarms that are not required.
What AutoSupport is
AutoSupport enables technical support to proactively monitor the health of your StorageGRID Webscale system.
Using reports
You can use reports to monitor the state of the StorageGRID Webscale system and troubleshoot problems. The types of reports available in the Grid Manager include pie charts (on the Dashboard only), graphs, and text reports.