Server Dashboard

Server Dashboard

The Server dashboard is the default landing page in the MR Storage Administrator. The Server dashboard displays the overall summary of the server and the devices attached to it. You can troubleshoot, configure, maintain, and monitor the controllers from the Server dashboard. The following figure and table describe this page.

Figure 2. Server Dashboard

Table 5. Server Dashboard Description

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Description

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Main Navigation – The main navigation window helps you to traverse among the various views. This navigation is available across all of the pages in the software. The description follows:

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: Helps you to navigate to the Server dashboard from any page in the software.

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Select Controllers: Lists the controllers that you are monitoring. The color-coded controller status icons (red, amber, and green) indicate the health status of all the controllers based on their criticality. Click a controller to navigate to its dashboard.

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Username: Displays the name of the user.

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Click @Settings to perform initial settings.

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Click View Server Profile and expand the + button to view the server configuration such as the server IP, server name, OS Name, OS version, OS architecture, and the version of the MR Storage Administrator that is installed. You can also view the controller information such as controller hardware, enclosure of the controller, and information about the drives and logical drives associated with the controller.

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Click Logout to exit from the software.

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: Lets you enable or disable system messages.

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: Displays the MR Storage Administrator context-sensitive help.

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Controller Status – Description as follows:

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Critical: Indicates that a critical error exists on the controller and the controller needs immediate attention.

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Needs Attention: Indicates that an error exists on the controller that needs attention, however, not immediately.

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Optimal: Indicates that the controller is operating in an optimal state.

Based on the criticality of the controller, the MR Storage Administrator displays information about that particular controller in the controller information pane. For example, if a controller is in the critical state, that controller is opened by default. If you want to view information about other controllers, click the respective Controller Status icon. Click View All Controllers to view information about all of the controllers.

Download Server Report – Enables you to download the server report, which contains consolidated information about the server and all of the devices connected to it.

OS Information – Displays the server’s operating system information.

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Controller Information: Displays information about the controller.

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Controller Status: When multiple controllers are connected, the controllers are sorted based on the Bus device function. The controllers are indexed with numbers 0, 1, 2, and so on.