W E K A
4.1
4.1
  • WEKA v4.1 documentation
  • WEKA System Overview
    • About the WEKA system
    • SSD capacity management
    • Filesystems, object stores, and filesystem groups
    • WEKA networking
    • Data lifecycle management
    • WEKA client and mount modes
    • WEKA containers architecture overview
    • Glossary
  • Getting Started with WEKA
    • Quick installation guide
    • Manage the system using the WEKA CLI
    • Manage the system using the WEKA GUI
    • Run first IOs with WEKA filesystem
    • Getting started with WEKA REST API
  • Planning and Installation
    • Prerequisites for installation
    • WEKA installation on bare metal
      • Plan the WEKA system Installation
      • Prepare the system for WEKA software installation
        • Enable the SR-IOV
      • Obtain the WEKA software installation package
      • WEKA cluster installation
        • WEKA legacy system installation process
      • Add clients
    • WEKA installation on AWS
      • Self-service portal
      • CloudFormation template generator
      • Deployment types
      • AWS outposts deployment
      • Supported EC2 instance types
      • Add clients
      • Auto scaling group
      • Troubleshooting
    • WEKA installation on Azure
    • WEKA installation on GCP
      • WEKA project description
      • Deployment on GCP using Terraform
      • GCP Terraform package description
      • Required services and supported regions
      • Supported machine types and storage
      • Auto-scale instances in GCP
      • Add clients
      • Troubleshooting
  • Performance
    • WEKA performance tests
      • Test environment details
  • WEKA Filesystems & Object Stores
    • Manage object stores
      • Manage object stores using the GUI
      • Manage object stores using the CLI
    • Manage filesystem groups
      • Manage filesystem groups using the GUI
      • Manage filesystem groups using the CLI
    • Manage filesystems
      • Manage filesystems using the GUI
      • Manage filesystems using the CLI
    • Attach or detach object store buckets
      • Attach or detach object store bucket using the GUI
      • Attach or detach object store buckets using the CLI
    • Advanced data lifecycle management
      • Advanced time-based policies for data storage location
      • Data management in tiered filesystems
      • Transition between tiered and SSD-only filesystems
      • Manual fetch and release of data
    • Mount filesystems
    • Snapshots
      • Manage snapshots using the GUI
      • Manage snapshots using the CLI
    • Snap-To-Object
      • Manage Snap-To-Object using the GUI
      • Manage Snap-To-Object using the CLI
    • Quota management
      • Manage quotas using the GUI
      • Manage quotas using the CLI
  • Additional Protocols
    • Manage the NFS protocol
      • Supported NFS client mount options
      • Manage NFS networking using the GUI
      • Manage NFS networking using the CLI
    • Manage the SMB protocol
      • Manage SMB using the GUI
      • Manage SMB using the CLI
    • Manage the S3 protocol
      • S3 cluster management
        • Manage the S3 service using the GUI
        • Manage the S3 service using the CLI
      • S3 buckets management
        • Manage S3 buckets using the GUI
        • Manage S3 buckets using the CLI
      • S3 users and authentication
        • Manage S3 users and authentication using the CLI
        • Manage S3 service accounts using the CLI
      • S3 rules information lifecycle management (ILM)
        • Manage S3 lifecycle rules using the GUI
        • Manage S3 lifecycle rules using the CLI
      • Audit S3 APIs
        • Configure audit webhook using the GUI
        • Configure audit webhook using the CLI
        • Example: How to use Splunk to audit S3
      • S3 supported APIs and limitations
      • S3 examples using boto3
  • Operation Guide
    • Alerts
      • Manage alerts using the GUI
      • Manage alerts using the CLI
      • List of alerts and corrective actions
    • Events
      • Manage events using the GUI
      • Manage events using the CLI
      • List of events
    • Statistics
      • Manage statistics using the GUI
      • Manage statistics using the CLI
      • List of statistics
    • System congestion
    • Security management
      • Obtain authentication tokens
      • KMS management
        • Manage KMS using the GUI
        • Manage KMS using the CLI
      • TLS certificate management
        • Manage the TLS certificate using the GUI
        • Manage the TLS certificate using the CLI
      • CA certificate management
        • Manage the CA certificate using the GUI
        • Manage the CA certificate using the CLI
      • Account lockout threshold policy management
        • Manage the account lockout threshold policy using GUI
        • Manage the account lockout threshold policy using CLI
      • Manage the login banner
        • Manage the login banner using the GUI
        • Manage the login banner using the CLI
    • User management
      • Manage users using the GUI
      • Manage users using the CLI
    • Organizations management
      • Manage organizations using the GUI
      • Manage organizations using the CLI
      • Mount authentication for organization filesystems
    • Expand and shrink cluster resources
      • Add a backend server in a multiple containers architecture
      • Add a backend server in a legacy architecture
      • Expand specific resources of a container
      • Shrink a cluster
    • Background tasks
    • Upgrade WEKA versions
  • Billing & Licensing
    • License overview
    • Classic license
    • Pay-As-You-Go license
  • Support
    • Prerequisites and compatibility
    • Get support for your WEKA system
    • Diagnostics management
      • Traces management
        • Manage traces using the GUI
        • Manage traces using the CLI
      • Protocols debug level management
        • Manage protocols debug level using the GUI
        • Manage protocols debug level using the CLI
      • Diagnostics data management
    • Weka Home - The WEKA support cloud
      • Local Weka Home overview
      • Local Weka Home deployment
      • Set the Local Weka Home to send alerts or events
      • Download the Usage Report or Analytics
  • Appendix
    • WEKA CSI Plugin
    • Set up the WEKAmon external monitoring
    • Set up the SnapTool external snapshots manager
  • REST API Reference Guide
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  • WEKA GUI overview
  • Access the WEKA GUI
  • System Dashboard
  • Cluster Protection and Availability widget
  • R/W Throughput widget
  • Top Consumers widget
  • Alerts widget
  • Capacity widget
  • Core Usage widget
  • Hardware widget
  • Switch the display time
  • Switch the GUI between light and dark modes
  • Display servers in 3D view
  • Display tables
  1. Getting Started with WEKA

Manage the system using the WEKA GUI

WEKA GUI application enables you to configure, administer, and monitor the WEKA system. This page provides an overview of the primary operations, access to the GUI, and system dashboard.

WEKA GUI overview

The WEKA GUI application is the administration tool for your WEKA system. Use this tool for system configuration, filesystems management, user management, and investigation of alarms, events, and statistics.

WEKA GUI application supports the following functions:

  • Configuration:

    • Configure the cluster, such as data availability, license, security, and central monitoring.

    • Configure the backend containers and expose the data in different protocols.

    • Manage local users and set up the user directory.

    • Create and manage organizations and their quotas.

  • Management:

    • Manage the filesystems, including tiering, thin provisioning, and encryption.

    • Manage snapshots.

    • Manage the object store buckets.

    • Manage the filesystem protocols: SMB, S3, and NFS.

    • Manage directory quotas.

  • Investigation:

    • Investigate events.

    • Investigate overtime statistics, such as total operations, R/W throughput, CPU usage, and read or write latency.

  • Monitoring:

    • View the cluster protection and availability.

    • View the R/W throughput.

    • View the backend and client top consumers.

    • View alarms.

    • View the used, provisioned, and total capacity.

    • View the frontend, compute, and drive cores usage.

    • View the hardware components (active/total).

Access the WEKA GUI

WEKA GUI is a web application you can access using an already configured account and has the appropriate rights to configure, administer, or view.

You can access the WEKA GUI with any standard browser using the address: https://<weka system or server name>:14000

For example: https://WekaProd:14000 or https://weka01:14000.

On AWS installations, you can access the WEKA GUI from the self-service portal. In the Outputs tab of the CloudFormation stack, click the GUI link.

Before you begin

Make sure that port 14000 is open in the firewall of your organization.

Procedure

  1. In your browser, go to https://<weka system or server name>:14000. The sign-in page opens.

2. Sign in with the username and password of an account with cluster administration or organization administration privileges. For details about the account types, see User management in the related topics.

The system dashboard opens.

Related topics

User management

System Dashboard

The system dashboard contains widgets that provide an overview of the WEKA system, including an overall status, R/W throughput, top consumers, alerts, capacity, core usage, and hardware.

The system dashboard opens by default when you sign in. If you select another menu and want to display the dashboard again, select Monitor > System Dashboard, or click the WEKA logo.

Cluster Protection and Availability widget

This widget shows the overall status of the system's health and protection.

The overall status widget includes the following indications:

  • Service Uptime: The elapsed time since the I/O services started.

  • Data Protection: The number of data drives and protection parity drives. The color of the protection parity drives indicates their status.

  • Virtual (Hot) Spares: The number of failure domains the system can lose and still complete the data rebuild while maintaining the same net capacity.

R/W Throughput widget

This widget shows the current performance statistics aggregated across the cluster.

The R/W Throughput widget includes the following indications:

  • Throughput: The total throughput.

  • Total Ops: The number of cluster operations.

  • Latency: The average latency of R/W operations.

  • Active clients: The number of clients connected to the cluster.

Selecting one of the R/W Throughput, Latency, and Total Ops titles displays the statistics page.

Selecting the Active clients title displays the clients tab.

Top Consumers widget

This widget shows the top 5 backend servers and clients in the system. You can sort the list of servers by total IO operations per second or total throughput.

Alerts widget

This widget shows the alerts that are not muted.

Capacity widget

This widget shows an overview of the managed capacity.

The top bar indicates the total capacity provisioned for all filesystems and the used capacity. For tiered filesystems, the total capacity also includes the Object Store part.

The bottom bar indicates the total SSD capacity available in the system, the provisioned capacity, and the used capacity.

Selecting the Capacity title displays the filesystems page.

Core Usage widget

This widget shows the average usage and the maximum load level of the Frontend, Compute, and Drive cores. Hovering the maximum value displays the most active server and the NodeID number.

Hardware widget

This widget shows an overview of the hardware components (active/total).

The hardware components include:

  • Backends: The number of backend servers.

  • Cores: The number of cores configured for running processes in the backend servers.

  • Drives: The number of drives.

  • OBS Buckets: The number of the object store buckets.

Selecting one of the Backends, Cores, or Drives titles displays the backend servers page.

Selecting the OBS Buckets title displays the object store buckets page.

Switch the display time

Timestamps in events and statistics are logged internally in UTC. Weka GUI displays the timestamps in local or system time. You can switch between the local and system time.

Switching the display time may be required when the customer, Weka support, and the Weka system are in different time zones. In this situation, the customer and Weka support can switch the display to system time instead of local time so both view the identical timestamps.

Procedure

  1. On the top bar, point to the timestamp.

  2. Depending on the displayed time, select Switch to System Time or Switch to Local Time.

Switch the GUI between light and dark modes

You can switch the GUI between light and dark modes according to your preferences. The dark mode is a user interface for content that displays light text on a dark background. The dark mode is beneficial for viewing screens at night. The reduced brightness can reduce eye strain in low-light conditions.

Procedure

  1. Depending on the current display mode, point to the sun or moon symbol on the top bar.

  2. Select Switch to the light mode or Switch to dark mode.

Display servers in 3D view

You can switch the view of the servers to 3D for the backend servers, NFS servers, S3 servers, and SMB servers.

The 3D view provides the server components' status at a glance, including the drives, cores, protocols, and load. The colors indicate, for example, if the drives or processes failed or the container is down.

Display tables

When managing filesystems, snapshots, and object stores, the displayed tables listing the rows have two behaviors in common.

  • The table title also specifies the table's number of rows and the maximum number of rows the table can display.

  • You can customize the columns displayed on the table using the column selector.

Related topics

Statistics

Events

Alerts

Manage the NFS protocol

Manage SMB using the GUI

Set up the WEKAmon external monitoring

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The initial default username and password are admin and admin In the first sign-in, WEKA GUI enforces changing the admin password.

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WEKA GUI overview
Sign in to the WEKA GUI
System Dashboard
Overall status widget
R/W Throughput widget
Top Consumers widget
Alerts widget
Capacity widget
Core Usage widget
Hardware widget
Switch display time
Switch the GUI between light and dark modes
Display servers in 3D view
Example: Display the filesystems table