QoreStor 7.0.1 - User Guide

This topic describes how you can monitor the current state of QoreStor operations on the Dashboard page.

The Dashboard page contains graphics that show key information about the current state of your QoreStor instance. This page automatically refreshes every 30 seconds.

To use the Dashboard page, follow these steps.

1. Click Dashboard in the navigation menu of the QoreStor GUI.
2. You can view the following graphs:
   • Compression—displays a total compression in percentage (combining both deduplication and compression) over a time period (for example, every hour, which is the default).
   • Swap memory Usage—displays the amount of swap memory used.
   • Physical Capacity—displays total used space, free space, and used and encrypted space in GBs and TBs.
   • Network throughput—displays performance information for the configured NICs.
   • Throughput—displays the throughput volume (reads and writes) in Mebibytes/second (MiB/s) based on time (for example, every hour, which is the default).
   • Storage capacity—displays the amount of used and free storage space.
   • System Information—displays information on the QoreStor system, including:
     • System State
     • Hostname
     • System ID
     • Dictionary Type
     • Number of Storage Groups
     • Number of Containers
     • Operating System
3. At the top of the Dashboard page, you can also view the System Summary section, which lists key information about the current QoreStor system, including:
   • Cleaner status—The current cleaner status as one of the following states:
     • Pending—displayed when there is any scheduled window set and the current time is outside the scheduled window for the Cleaner operation.
     • Running—displayed when the Cleaner operation is running during a scheduled window.
     • Idle—displayed only if there is no Cleaner operation running during a scheduled window.
   • Total number of files in all containers
   • Current savings
   • Number of containers
   • Capacity used
   • Number of Storage Groups
   • Physical Capacity
4. To change the time display in the graphs, click History within the graph you want to view, and then select the time increment to view.