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Storage administrators manage ObjectScale appliances using the ObjectScale portal and provisioning services. ObjectScale provides a web-based GUI (WebUI) to manage, license, and provision.
The ObjectScale dashboard provides overall system-level health and performance information. This unified view enhances overall system visibility. Alerts and logs in the dashboard notify users about different events, such as capacity limits, quota limits, disk and/or node failures, and software failures.
Note: Hardware alerts are enabled by default in the appliance model. Users can enable or disable hardware alerts in the UI.
The following figure shows the ObjectScale dashboard:
Detailed performance reporting is displayed in a Grafana dashboard. You can access ObjectScale overview reports by clicking Metrics on the dashboard. ObjectScale also provides metrics details for each individual object store by clicking the Metrics link for each object store. The following figure shows an example of an object store performance report:
See the Dell ObjectScale 1.3.x Administration Guide for more information of viewing metrics using Grafana.
ObjectScale can also be managed using RESTful APIs. The management API allows users to administer ObjectScale with their own tools, scripts, and new or existing applications. For more information, see the Dell ObjectScale 1.3.x Rest API Reference.