BrickStor SP Manager BrickStor SP Manager provides the user interface for configuring and managing your BrickStor deployment. BrickStor SP Manager is a responsive and context-aware interface that allows you to drill down and manage your BrickStor to a granular level. You can use BrickStor SP Manager to manage a single BrickStor or multiple appliances. The topics that follow provide a basic interface tour that this guide will build upon in subsequent topics: General User Layout and Conventions The Rack View Interface General User Layout and Conventions The BrickStor SP Manager interface is divided into three panes which are described below: the Connections pane the Details pane the Changes pane Connections Pane The Connections pane allows you to connect to BrickStor appliances, and navigate their pools and datasets. Details Pane The Details pane allows you to configure and manage storage, security, and compliance features. The tabs and menus available in the Details pane are based on the selection made in the Connections pane. When the top-level Appliance/Node is selected, the system displays different menu tabs than when a pool or dataset is selected for example. Also, certain tabs, such as user behavior, will not be visible if the feature is not enabled. The hierarchy of the Connections and tabs is Appliance, then Pool, and then Dataset. If a menu such as user behavior is selected at the pool level, the system will display all activity related to the pool. However, if you select it at the dataset level, the scope will be narrowed to the dataset. Menus and tabs are relative to position within the interface. Instead of taking a deep dive into the Details pane here, this documentation covers the tabs and menus herein where it aligns with particular features. Changes Pane After you make any configuration changes, they appear in the Changes pane for final review and commit. BrickStor SP Manager does not make actual changes to BrickStor until you commit those changes. Changes that make data unavailable or destroy data require you to acknowledge the possible negative effects before the commit button becomes active. Changes to high availability and resource group movements are not processed through the commit queue. Main Menu In the BrickStor SP Manager title bar, you can access the following options: About Menu Search Menu View Menu About Menu The About Menu displays BrickStor SP Manager information. By setting a value, for example 5GB, in the Trace Query and Commit box will create a local log on the machine running BrickStor SP Manager with all of the GUI requests and responses. Search Menu The Search Menu allows you to search through your current BrickStor appliance for pools, datasets, etc. View Menu The View Menu allows you to change the BrickStor SP Manager layout. You can choose between Tab View (default) and Flow View, which displays all sections next to each other. You can also view forecast data for the system. Tab view is recommended for normal administration on small screens. Finally, you can adjust Zoom properties, which change the width of columns in all views. The Rack View Interface Rack View displays a graphical representation of your current BrickStor hardware, including any controllers, enclosures, and drives that are within these appliances. To access Rack View, choose the the appliance in the Connections pane, then click the Rack View link at the bottom of the Details pane. Accessing Rack View You can use Rack View to easily view and modify your appliance hardware. Rack View allows users to add or modify pools and vdevs and gives visuals that allow users to see what changes will occur to the system’s hardware prior to committing them. It will also display various diagnostic information such as the values of temperature sensors in the system and the fan speeds. On the upper right-hand side, you can select which appliance you want to zoom to. The appliance will be highlighted in yellow when the mouse is hovered over it and left clicking will zoom to the appliance. The right-hand side of Rack View also allows you to group the drives in the appliances based on certain properties such as pool, make, and vdev type. To change the grouping type, select the dropdown under Group Drives By and then select how you want to group them. When hovering over one of these groups, affiliated drives will be highlighted and left clicking will zoom to the drives. You can also expand these groups with the arrow and select individual drives that are a part of the group. Accessing Rack View You can access Rack View from either the Connections or the Details pane. Accessing Rack View from the Connections pane To access Rack View from the Connections pane, complete the following steps: From the Connections pane, select either the appliance level or the pool level. Right-click and choose one of the following options: At the appliance level, right-click and select Open Rack View. At the pool level, right-click and select Open Pool Rack View. Accessing Rack View from the Details Pane To access Rack View, complete the following steps: From the Connections pane, select either the appliance level or the pool level. In the lower portion of the details pane, click Rack View. Toggling Identifying Lights Rack View allows you to toggle a physical indicating light on each drive to assist with identifying the correct drives on the machine. You can either select one drive by clicking directly on in it Rack View, or multiple drives using the Group Drives By interface on the right-hand side. Once the appropriate drives have been selected click the ident on button at the bottom of the screen. This will bring up the Enable bay indicator LEDs dialog box, where you can turn on the lights for either the selected bays, bays with unknown drives, or bays without drives. You can also choose to disable all other indicator lights to ensure only the desired drives have their lights enabled. Drives with their indicating LEDs enabled will have a blinking orange indicator on Rack View as well as on the physical drive on the appliance. To disable the identifying lights, select the desired drives like before and click the ident off button. This will bring up the Disable bay indicator LEDs dialog box where you can turn off the lights on either the selected bays, bays with unknown drives, bays without drives, or all bays in general. General Appliance Information BrickStor SP Manager allows you view all current problems and warnings with the node and its imported pools. From this view you can see which pools are currently imported and exported on the selected BrickStor instance. Viewing General Appliance Information To view BrickStor general information, complete the following steps: From the Connections pane, select the appliance level. In the details pane, select the General tab. Appliance Sharing Information At the appliance level, the Sharing tab allows you to view all shares currently on an appliance by protocol. In addition, you can view if the datasets are encrypted and on self-encrypting drives. This view also provides a status of the protocol services and health. Viewing Appliance Sharing Information To view BrickStor Sharing information at the appliance level, complete the following steps: From the Connections pane, select the appliance level. In the details pane, select the Sharing tab. Appliance Data Protection Information Data protection encompasses snapshots and snapshot replication. From this tab the admin can monitor data protection health and status for the node as well as configure replication and policies. This tab shows the status of data protection services, peers, policies, and recent restorations. On the Data Protection screen, you can: View the status of Data Protection and its services View and drill down into Replication Peers View the current status of Replication Tasks Viewing Appliance Data Protection Information To view BrickStor Data Protection information at the appliance level, complete the following steps: From the Connections pane, select the appliance level. In the details pane, select the Data Protection tab. Network Information BrickStor SP Manager allows you to view all of the interfaces in your BrickStor deployment. A healthy system should display a green status indicator for all vnics. Each interface displays the IP, interface name, physical interface or aggregate where the vnic resides, MTU size, and port speed. Viewing Network Information To view BrickStor network information, complete the following steps: From the Connections pane, select the appliance level. In the details pane, select the Network tab. System Information BrickStor SP Manager allows you to view system information, service status, and the BrickStor operating systems available for download and installation. On the service tab, you can find your customer ID, Serial Number and the running version of the OS when calling support. From this admins can all power off and reboot the node as well as access compliance reports. It is from this tab that the admin configures the HA Cluster once the command line steps have been completed. See HA Cluster Configuration for cluster setup details. Viewing System Information To view BrickStor system information, complete the following steps: From the Connections pane, select the appliance level. In the details pane, select the System tab.