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The Nasuni Management Console Home page looks like this.
Figure 6-1: Home page.
The Home page appears after you log in to the Nasuni Management Console. The Home page displays a dashboard with details about the state of the Nasuni Management Console and the Nasuni Edge Appliances it manages.
The Home page also offers links to the Volumes, Filers, Account Status, Console Settings, and Notifications pages. Additional information appears on these pages and the menus and items they contain.
You can return to the Home page at any time by clicking the Nasuni logo in the top left corner.
System Health
In the System Health area, the following information appears:
Number of currently available NMC software updates. Clicking NMC update available opens the Software Update Available page. For details, see “Automatic Software Updates for NMC”on page 433.
Number of currently available Nasuni Edge Appliance software updates. Clicking “Filer updates available” opens the “Filer Software Updates” page. For details, see “Automatic SoftwareUpdates” on page 314.
Number of Nasuni Edge Appliances offline (if any) and online. Clicking “Filers offline” opens the Filers page. For details, see “Filers page” on page 298.
Note: The Edge Appliance sends a “heartbeat” to the NMC every 5 minutes. If a heartbeat is not received after 60 minutes, the Edge Appliance is flagged as offline.
Note: If a Nasuni Edge Appliance goes offline, an email alert is sent, if configured.
Number of antivirus violations. Clicking antivirus violations opens the Antivirus Violations page. For details, see “Antivirus Violations Page” on page 561.
Number of setting sync errors, namely, requested changes to Nasuni Edge Appliances that have failed for some reason. Clicking setting sync errors opens the “Outstanding Settings Updates Filers” page. For details, see “Sync Schedule” on page 273.
Number of pending notifications. Clicking pending notifications opens the Notifications page. For details, see “Notifications” on page 564.
Hardware Health
In the Hardware Health area, the following information appears:
Status of power supply. If the status is Alert, you should investigate the situation.
Status of RAID batteries. Clicking RAID batteries opens the “Filer Platform/Hardware Settings” page. For details, see “Platform Settings” on page 398. If the status is Alert, you should investigate the situation.
Status of RAID arrays. Clicking RAID arrays opens the “Filer Platform/Hardware Settings” page. For details, see “Platform Settings” on page 398. If the status is Alert, you should investigate the situation.
Status of RAID disks. Clicking RAID disk error opens the “Filer Platform/Hardware Settings” page. For details, see “Platform Settings” on page 398. If the status is Alert, you should investigate the situation.
Account
The date that the current subscription license or trial license expires. Clicking valid through opens the Account Status page. For details, see “Account Status” on page 417.
Tip: Nasuni monitors platform-specific limits on the number of supported concurrent connections. When the number of concurrent connections reaches the “soft limit” for an Edge Appliance, you receive a notification of how many connections remain, and a suggestion to reduce the number of connections for that Edge Appliance, if possible. When the number of concurrent connections reaches the “hard limit” for an Edge Appliance, you receive a notification, and all new connections are denied for that Edge Appliance until the number of connections decreases below the “hard limit” again.
Platform
Soft Limit
Hard Limit
N1040
3000 connections
4000 connections
N1050
3000 connections
4000 connections
N2040
5000 connections
6000 connections
N2050
5000 connections
6000 connections
N4040
8000 connections
10000 connections
N4050
8000 connections
10000 connections
Volumes Managed
In the Volumes Managed area, the following information appears:
Total number of volumes managed. Clicking Volumes Managed opens the Volumes page. For details, see “Volumes page” on page 81.
Number of SMB (CIFS) shares. Clicking CIFS Shares opens the Shares page. For details, see “SMB (CIFS) Shares” on page 178.
Number of NFS exports. Clicking NFS Exports opens the Exports page. For details, see “NFSExports” on page 155.
Number of FTP/SFTP directories. Clicking FTP Directories opens the FTP Directories page. For details, see “FTP Directories” on page 167.
“Filers Managed”
In the “Filers Managed” area, the following information appears:
Total number of Nasuni Edge Appliances managed. Clicking “Filers Managed” opens the Filers page. For details, see “Filers page” on page 298.
Number of unmanaged Nasuni Edge Appliances. Clicking Unmanaged opens the Filers page. For details, see “Filers page” on page 298.
Capacity
In the Capacity area, the following information appears:
Note: If the licensed capacity is exceeded, you can still store more data temporarily. If your total stored data nears or exceeds your licensed capacity, you receive warnings to increase your licensed capacity.
Percentage of Licensed Capacity used.
Amount of capacity not yet protected.
Data Growth chart
A chart of Data Growth appears on the Home page.
Figure 6-2: Data Growth chart: Licensed Data and Accessible Data.
This shows the amount of data on the vertical axis versus time along the horizontal axis, including the following:
Licensed Data. Licensed Data is sometimes also called “Licensed Capacity” or “Storage Volume Limit”. Licensed Data is the amount of data storage that Nasuni is managing for the customer, and that the customer is paying to store using the Nasuni service. Every customer has a Licensed Data limit. No customer has unlimited storage. However, every customer has unlimited versions of their data available. Since the Nasuni service is inherently unlimited, the Licensed Data limit can easily be changed, as business needs change. Licensed Data should be compared to data metrics such as “Now” data, which is current data and metadata in the cloud, without the effects of compression. The default Licensed Data for trial accounts is 5 TB. To select or deselect Licensed data, click Licensed Data.
Accessible Data. Accessible Data includes current data already protected in the cloud, as well as current data in the cache that is not yet protected. For this reason, the volume data in the cache that is not yet protected is generally less than the total accessible data, unless this volume has not completed any snapshots. Accessible Data is current data only. Accessible Data does not include previous versions or snapshots. Accessible Data does not include metadata. Accessible Data does not reflect the effects of compression. To select or unselect accessible data, click Accessible Data.
Cloud Usage. If the customer license includes public or private cloud providers, and if the amount of data stored with public or private cloud providers is greater than zero, the Cloud Usage data is also available. Cloud Usage data includes the size in the cloud of all data and metadata protected in the cloud, for all versions, after encryption and compression. Cloud Usage data does not include unprotected data in the cache.To select or unselect Cloud Usage, click Cloud Usage.
Figure 6-3: Data Growth chart: Cloud Usage and Accessible Data.
The amount of data is shown in units such as MB, GB, and TB. The length of time is shown by year and month.
Note: Nasuni Edge Appliances and the NMC display the size of data in base 10 units (including MB = 1,000,000 bytes, GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes, and TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes).
In contrast, some platforms display the size of data in base 2 units (including MB = 1,048,576 bytes, GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes, and TB = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes).
For example, a file that Nasuni displays as 10 MB would be displayed by some platforms as 9.53 MB.
Important: The NMC API can be used to pin metadata in the cache, or to enable Auto Cache for metadata.
Pinning metadata in the cache and enabling Auto Cache for metadata can affect the amount of data in the cache, and the display of data in the cache. Also, bringing all metadata into the cache adds time to the sync process and might affect user performance. With no users on a dedicated appliance (for example, to change permissions or perform searches), the effect on sync times due to syncing the entire metadata tree would not affect any user-related snapshot or sync changes.
The NMC API can also be used to verify that these features have been configured for a directory.
Because metadata-only pinning and Auto Cache pinning are currently possible only with the NMC API, directories with such pinning enabled are not displayed in the File Browser of the NMC and the Edge Appliance, nor on the NMC Pinned Folders and NMC Auto Cached Folders pages.
Important: Time marker labels indicate the end of a time period. For example, the label 'April 2024' indicates the end of April 2024. Everything to the left of this label is before the end of April 2024.
Figure 6-4: Left of time marker is before end of time period.
Everything to the right of this label is after the end of April 2024.
If you hover the mouse over any part of the chart, a label appears displaying details about the amount of data at that date and time.
Figure 6-5: Details of data and time on Data Growth chart.
To zoom in on a specific range of displayed data, click the chart at the high end of the range you want, then drag to the low end of the range you want, then release. The chart rescales to zoom in on the selected range.
To reset the zoom to the default display, click Reset zoom.
Network Traffic
A chart of the Network Traffic of the Nasuni Edge Appliances appears on the Home page.
This chart shows, for the most recent 24 hours, the rate of data received from cloud object storage (Cloud Received) and the rate of data transmitted to cloud object storage (Cloud Transmit) along the vertical axis, in units of bits/second, Kbits/second, or Mbits/second, depending on throughput. Time of day (UTC) is along the horizontal axis.
On the Network Traffic chart, you can select which network activity to include or exclude by clicking
Cloud Transmit (for data transmitted to the cloud) or Cloud Receive (for data received from the cloud).
If you hover the mouse over any part of the chart, a label appears displaying details about the amount of network activity at that date and time.
Figure 6-7: Details of network traffic and time on Network Traffic chart.
To zoom in on a specific range of displayed data, click the chart at the high end of the range you want, then drag to the low end of the range you want, then release. The chart rescales to zoom in on the selected range.
To reset the zoom to the default display, click Reset zoom.
File Types in Snapshots
This display is available in NMC releases before 25.1. For NMC releases 25.1 and later, use Nasuni File IQ for displays of similar information.
The File Types in Snapshots pie chart displays a comparison of the number of files in snapshots of each file type written to Nasuni Edge Appliances. It includes every version of every file. For example, if you have 10 versions of the xyz.dat file, then all 10 versions of that one file are included.
Figure 6-8: File Types in Snapshots chart.
The size of each pie slice represents the percentage of all the files written of that file type. If you hover the mouse over one of the slices, it displays the name of the file type and the number of files of that file type.
The File Types in Snapshots table displays the number of files in snapshots written to Nasuni Edge Appliances for each file extension. It includes every version of every file. For example, if you have 10 versions of the xyz.dat file, then all 10 versions of that one file are included.
Figure 6-9: File Types Written table.
The following information appears for each file type:
Ext.: The extension of the file.
Category: The type of file, such as Audio, Text, Raster Image, or Video.
Count: The total number of every version of every file with that file extension on Nasuni Edge Appliances.
Size: The total size of every version of every file with that file extension on Nasuni Edge Appliances.
Note: Nasuni’s display of size might differ from other indications of size, such as Windows Explorer and other utilities. Typically, such utilities display only the size of the data currently present in the local cache, while Nasuni displays the full size, regardless of where the data is.
File Sizes in Snapshots
This display is available in NMC releases before 25.1. For NMC releases 25.1 and later, use Nasuni File IQ for displays of similar information.
The File Sizes in Snapshots bar chart displays the number of files in snapshots in each size category. It includes every version of every file. For example, if you have 10 versions of the xyz.dat file, then all 10 versions of that one file are included.
Figure 6-10: File Sizes in Snapshots bar chart.
The size of the files is along the vertical axis and the number of files in each size category is along the horizontal axis on a logarithmic scale. If you hover the mouse over one of the bars, it displays the name of the size category and the number of files in that category.
The File Sizes in Snapshots table displays the number of files in snapshots in each size category. It includes every version of every file. For example, if you have 10 versions of the xyz.dat file, then all 10 versions of that one file are included.
Figure 6-11: File Sizes in Snapshots table.
Note: Nasuni’s display of size might differ from other indications of size, such as Windows Explorer and other utilities. Typically, such utilities display only the size of the data currently present in the local cache, while Nasuni displays the full size, regardless of where the data is.
The following information appears for each file size:
Max Size: The maximum size of a file in that size category.
Count: The total number of files in that size category.
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