QoreStor Administration
The Administration Menu includes the options described in the table below. In addition, the Administration menu includes a status banner that indicates the status of the QoreStor service:
- Blue: Operational Mode
- Red: Manual Intervention
- Yellow: Maintenance Mode
Table 7: Operation menu options
Menu item |
Available configurations |
Network Config |
Allows you to edit the network configuration. |
Set Hostname |
Allows you to change the hostname configuration. |
Storage resize |
Allows you to increase the storage available to QoreStor. Refer to Storage resizing for more information.
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NOTE: In order for additional capacity to be available to QoreStor, QoreStor must be properly licensed for the additional capacity. | |
QoreStor services |
Provides options to check, stop, start, and restart QoreStor services. |
QoreStor Update |
Provides options to download the Qorestor update package, and update QoreStor if the package is valid. |
QoreStor Features |
Provides options to tune system performance:
- Replication Tuning - allows you to configure the number of concurrent replication streams. Default value is 1.
- Buffers TCP Tuning - allows you to change the system buffer configuration up to 1.5 GB.
- ActiveDS tuning - allows you to enable or disable ActiveDS on the metadata location.
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Operating System |
Provides options to update, restart, and shutdown the operating system. Also provides an option to update the Open VM Tools installed on the VM (refer to Additional configurations for more information). |
Troubleshooting tools |
Provides tools to troubleshoot your QoreStor machine. Consult the documentation for each utility for more information.
- EPEL Repository - Enables or disables the Oracle EPEL repository.
- top - allows you to monitor processes and system resource usage.
- atop - allows you to monitor processes and system resource usage. You will be prompted to install atop on first use.
- htop - - allows you to monitor processes and system resource usage. You will be prompted to install htop on first use.
- iotop - allows you to view I/O usage.
- iftop - allows you to view bandwidth usage. You will be prompted to install iftop on first use.
- nmon - allows you to monitor processes and system resource usage. You will be prompted to install nmon on first use.
- glances - - allows you to monitor processes and system resource usage. You will be prompted to install glances on first use.
- tree - provides a recursive directory listing with a depth-indented listing of files. You will be prompted to install tree on first use.
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NOTE: To return to the Troubleshooting tools menu from the selected monitoring tool, press q to quit. | |
Color theme |
Provides options to change the color theme settings. |
QoreStor Maintenance
The QoreStor System Maintenance menu provides access to both diagnostic and maintenance utilities for QoreStor. The QoreStor System Maintenance menu includes the utilities listed in the table below.
Table 8: QoreStor Maintenance menu options
Menu item |
Available configurations |
QoreStor Diagnostics |
- Diagnostics Show
- Diagnostics Collect
- Diagnostics Delete
- Diagnostics Delete All
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Maintenance Filesystem |
- Filesystem Scan Status
- Filesystem Scan Report
- Filesystem Scan Start
- Filesystem Scan Restart
- Filesystem Scan Stop
- Filesystem Repair Start
- Filesystem Repair Progress
- Filesystem Repair History
- Filesystem Clear Quarantine
- Filesystem Start Cleaner
- Filesystem Stop Cleaner
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QoreStor Statistics
The QoreStor Stats menu provides access to QoreStor system statistics. The QoreStor Stats menu includes the statistics listed below:
- System
- CPU
- Memory
- Container
- Storage Group
- Replication
- Cleaner
- Clients
- Servers
- Seed
Using the QoreStor command line
QoreStor includes a custom shell implementation that simplifies and secures command line access. During installation, QoreStor creates the qsadmin user account with the permissions and configurations necessary to run QoreStor commands.
To access the command line interface for QoreStor:
- Using a remote access program, connect to your QoreStor server.
- Log in using the credentials:
user: qsadmin
password: St0r@ge!
- Enter the desired command at the prompt. To view the available QoreStor CLI commands, type help.
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NOTE: Refer to the QoreStor Command Line Reference Guide for more information on the QoreStor CLI. |