Red Hat SummitChapter 1. Overview
Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration provides monitoring and metrics infrastructure for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3.1 and is the primary method to monitor your Red Hat Gluster Storage environment. The Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration is based on the Tendrl upstream project and utilizes Ansible automation for installation. The key goal of Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration is to provide deep metrics and visualization of Red Hat Storage Gluster clusters and the associated physical storage elements such as storage nodes, volumes, and bricks.
Key Features
- Monitoring dashboards for Clusters, Hosts, Volumes, and Bricks
- Top-level list views of Clusters, Hosts, and Volumes
- SNMPv3 Configuration and alerting
- User Management
- Importing Gluster cluster
1.1. Web Administration System Components
The Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration environment consists of the following system components.
Web Administration Server
The Web Administration server system hosts the Web Administration user interface, the API and etcd. The Web Administration server is the system on which the Ansible installation process is run.
Red Hat Gluster Storage Node
The system on which Red Hat Gluster Storage is installed. Multiple systems with Red Hat Gluster Storage forms a storage cluster and is monitored by the Web Administration server. Web Administration node agents are installed on the storage nodes.
Client System
Any external system that accesses the Web Administration user interface on a compatible web browser.
