The IBM Spectrum Scale™ GUI provides an easy way to configure and monitor various features that are available with the IBM Spectrum Scale system. You can perform the following important tasks through the GUI:
- Monitor the performance of the system based on various aspects
- Monitor system health
- Manage file systems
- Create filesets
- Create, manage, and schedule snapshots
- Create rules and policies for information lifecycle management
- Monitor active file management
- Monitor storage pools
- Monitor NSDs
- Manage SMB service and SMB shares
- Manage NFS service and NFS exports
- Display and modify NFSv4ACL for files and directories
- Create users and define roles for the GUI users
- Create object users and defining roles for them
- Define default, user, group, and fileset quotas
- Monitor the capacity details at various levels such as file system, pools, filesets, users, and user groups
- Configure event notifications through emails and SNMP
- Collect diagnostic data to find the root cause and troubleshoot an issue reported in the system.
- Monitor events
- Perform directed maintenance procedures to fix certain issues or to optimize the system.
- Monitor transparent cloud tiering service
- Manage object storage, create object users and roles
The following videos provide an overview of the IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2.3 management GUI and a detailed walkthrough of some of the GUI features:
Provides an overview of the capabilities of IBM Spectrum Scale GUI. The GUI can be used to configure, manage, and monitor various features of IBM Spectrum Scale system.
Provides detailed information about the various options that are available in the IBM Spectrum Scale GUI to monitor system performance.
Explains the various system health monitoring and troubleshooting options that are available in the IBM Spectrum Scale GUI.
Explains how to create and manage snapshots using the GUI.
Reference
For information on the IBM Spectrum Scale management GUI features, see IBM Spectrum Scale GUI.
Acknowledgement
Markus Rohwedder – IBM Spectrum Scale GUI architect
Stefan Roth – IBM Spectrum Scale GUI developer
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