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Storage administrators manage ECS using the ECS Portal and provisioning services. ECS provides a web-based GUI (WebUI) to manage, license, and provision ECS nodes. The portal has comprehensive reporting capabilities that include:
The ECS dashboard provides overall system-level health and performance information. This unified view enhances overall system visibility. Alerts notify users about critical events, such as capacity limits, quota limits, disk or node failures or software failures. ECS also provides a command-line interface to install, upgrade, and monitor ECS. Access to nodes for command-line usage is done using SSH. The following figure shows the ECS dashboard:
Detailed performance reporting is available in the UI under the Advance Monitoring folder. The reports are displayed in a Grafana dashboard. There are filters available to drill into specified Namespaces, Protocols, or Nodes. The following figure shows an example of an S3 protocol performance report:
ECS can also be managed using RESTful APIs. The management API allows users to administer ECS within their own tools, scripts, and new or existing applications. The ECS web UI and command-line tools are built using the ECS REST Management APIs.
ECS supports the following event notification servers which can be set using the web UI, API, or CLI:
The ECS Administrator’s Guide has more information and details on configuring notification services.