2.3. Deprecated Features

As of Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4, the existing Red Hat Gluster Storage Console management infrastructure is supported through the current Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.x life cycle, which ends on October 31, 2019. Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration is now the recommended monitoring tool for Red Hat Storage Gluster clusters.

For information on Red Hat Gluster Storage life cycle, see Red Hat Gluster Storage Life Cycle.

For Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration installation instructions, see the Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration Quick Start Guide and for instructions to monitor your Gluster servers, see the Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration Monitoring Guide

As of Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4, Nagios is considered deprecated. Nagios plugins and Nagios server are no longer maintained and would not be provided in releases post Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4. Nagios remains supported for this release, but Red Hat no longer recommends its use, and plans to remove support in future versions of Red Hat Gluster Storage.

Nagios is being deprecated because of the limited capabilities of monitoring and aggregation of results for a gluster cluster. These limitations are addressed in Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration.

Red Hat Gluster Storage users need to set up Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration in order to monitor a cluster. There is no migration path for the data collected in Nagios.

For Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration installation instructions, see the Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration Quick Start Guide and for instructions to monitor your Gluster servers, see the Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration Monitoring Guide.

gstatus is deprecated. The gstatus command provided an overview of the health of Red Hat Gluster Storage clusters and volumes. To view health of Red Hat Gluster Storage clusters and volumes, access the Grafana Dashboard integrated to the Web Administration environment.

As of Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4, Parallel NFS is considered unsupported and is no longer available as a Technology Preview. Several long-term issues with this feature that affect stability remain unresolved upstream. Information about using this feature has been removed from Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.4 but remains available in the documentation for releases that provided Parallel NFS as a Technology Preview.