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Launch the PowerScale OneFS web interface from Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage

Monitor Dell APEX File Storage for AWS and perform operations supported by PowerScale by launching the PowerScale OneFS web interface from Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage.

After deploying Dell APEX File Storage for AWS, Dell Technologies recommends that you log in to the PowerScale cluster command-line interface (CLI) as the administrator user and change the password set during deployment. Retrieve credentials, including passwords from the AWS Secrets Manager in your AWS account, using the Key pair name that you provided during deployment. See Get secrets from AWS Secrets Manager topic in AWS Secrets Manager User Guide for more information.

When you deploy Dell APEX File Storage for AWS from Dell APEX Navigator for Multicloud Storage, you must provide a value for the external subnet. Ensure that this external subnet is accessible from your company's network to launch the PowerScale OneFS web interface from a browser running in your company’s network.

To access the PowerScale OneFS web interface for Dell APEX File Storage for AWS from Dell Premier APEX home page, follow one of these navigation paths:

Table 1. Navigation path to access PowerScale OneFS web interfaceThis table lists the main menu and the navigation path that is used to access the PowerScale OneFS web interface.
Menu Navigation path
Manage > Storage
  1. On the Cloud Deployments tile, click Manage cloud deployments.
  2. Click the Actions button next to your Dell APEX File Storage for AWS and select Go to PowerScale OneFS.
You are redirected to the PowerScale OneFS web interface login page.
Manage > Storage
  1. On the Cloud Deployments tile, click Manage cloud deployments.
  2. Click the deployed system.
  3. In the Deployment Details page, click the Actions drop-down menu.
  4. Click Go to PowerScale OneFS.
You are redirected to the PowerScale OneFS web interface login page.
Monitor > Systems
  1. Click Monitor > Infrastructure in APEX AIOps Observability home page.
  2. Select your PowerScale system.
  3. Click Launch PowerScale OneFS WebUI on the upper right corner of APEX AIOps Observability user interface.
You are redirected to the PowerScale OneFS web interface login page.

If you are unable to access the PowerScale OneFS web interface IP, ensure the following:

  • You are connected to the network from where the PowerScale OneFS dynamic IP is routable.
  • You can run a network connectivity test using tools like ping against any of the dynamic IPs.
  • The AWS EC2 instances for the PowerScale cluster are in a Running or Healthy state.

First login to OneFS: Change password

When you first log into OneFS through the CLI, you will need to perform the following steps to change your OneFS password:

  1. Retrieve the root password from the AWS Secrets Manager.
  2. Select the SSH keys created during deployment.
  3. Open the secret value to retrieve the root secret value.
  4. Use the root secret value in the previous step as the password when you log into OneFS for the first time.
  5. Log into the instance console CLI as root and change the password.

Once saved, you can log into OneFS with your updated password.

If PowerScale OneFS web interface is not accessible from Dell APEX Navigator

If the external subnet you provided is not a routable subnet, you cannot access the PowerScale OneFS web interface from your company's network. In such a scenario, use a jump host to access the PowerScale OneFS web interface. Depending on your IT firewall configuration preferences, the following scenarios are possible:

  • The jump host is deployed in the same external subnet as PowerScale, and firewall rules are created to access the jump host.
  • The jump host is deployed in a separate subnet with an allow-list IP range.

Internet access is required to access both the PowerScale OneFS web interface, and Dell APEX File Storage for AWS hosted on Dell.com from the jump host:

  1. Deploy the jump host in a public subnet.
  2. Configure the Security group for the jump-host EC2 instance to only allow ingress traffic from the Remote Desktop Client.

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