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Dell DR Series System Administrator Guide

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About the Global View Page

The Global View page displays a dashboard of operating statistics for all of the DR Series systems that you have added to the view. From this page, you can monitor the status of your enterprise as well as easily navigate to any DR Series system in your enterprise.

Figure 1. Global View Page (DR4100 System) This figure shows a DR4100 system with the Global View page listing four DR systems.

Global View Summary

  • NOTE: If an alert is displayed with a message that "Member units will fail to connect because non-Active Directory credentials were used", see Prerequisites.
The following table describes the statistics available in the Global View Summary:
  • NOTE: The statistical values refresh every 15 seconds.
  • NOTE: If you used the command line interface (CLI) to join the DR Series system into the Active Directory domain, you may notice Global View contains multiple, unnecessary entries. Dell recommends that you use the DR Series system GUI (and not CLI commands) for Global View related operations, including domain join/leave.
Table 1. Global View Summary . This table describes the statistics that are available in the Global View Summary section of the Global View page.
ItemDescription
Appliances 
ConfiguredDisplays the number of appliances that were added to the Global View (including the system that contains the Global View dashboard)..
ConnectedDisplays the number of appliances that are currently connected in Global View.
DisconnectedDisplays the number of appliances that were added to the Global View, but are unable to be reached. To troubleshoot, see Reconnecting DR Series Systems .
Notifications 
AlertsDisplays the total number of alerts in all appliances in the Global View.
EventsDisplays the total number of events in all appliances in the Global View.
Capacity 
TotalDisplays the total physical capacity in all appliances in the Global View.
UsedDisplays the total physical capacity bytes that are used across all appliances in the Global View.
FreeDisplays the total physical capacity bytes that are free across all appliances in the Global View.
Containers 
ContainersDisplays the total number of containers in all appliances in the Global View.
ReplicationsDisplays the total number of containers replicated in all appliances in the Global View.
Total FilesDisplays the total number of files in all containers in all appliances in the Global View.
Active BytesDisplays the total bytes before optimization in all appliances in the Global View.
Active ClientsDisplays the total clients configured in all appliances in the Global View, organized by container connection type.

Appliance List

This section lists all appliances in the Global View with a high-level snapshot of their status. By default, appliances are listed in alphabetic order by Appliance Name. You can sort the list by a particular column by clicking the column header, which toggles between ascending and descending sort order. This sort order is retained even if you leave the page and return later.
  • NOTE: The information in the appliance list refreshes every 15 seconds.
The following table describes the information displayed in the appliance list:
This table describes the columns that appear in the appliance list in the Global View page.
ItemDescription
Appliance NameLists the Active Directory fully-qualified domain name (FQDN), and contains links to each respective DR Series system. Hover your mouse over the appliance name to display the following information:
  • Model
  • Service Tag
  • Software Version
  • Expansion Shelves
  • iDRAC IP
  • Management IP
  • Administrator Contact Information
StatusDisplays the system operational state by using an icon.
  • A green icon This green icon displays a white check mark. indicates that the system is operational. Hovering your mouse over a green Status icon displays the message Operational.
  • A red icon This red icon displays a white x.indicates that the system is not connected. Hovering your mouse over a red Status icon displays the message Connect Failed. This can occur if the DR Series system is removed from the Active Directory Services (ADS) domain, if it is down, or being rebooted.
    • NOTE: If the system administrator re-adds the DR Series system back into the ADS domain, the logged out DR Series system will not automatically be logged back in. In this case, the Reconnect Units link will be enabled, and you must manually log in to the DR Series system.
CapacityDisplays the used and free physical storage capacity in percentages and volume in Gibibytes and Tebibytes (GiBs and TiBs). The capacity appears as a progress bar with a percentage shown.

When the capacity is less than 90%, the capacity bar is green. After the capacity used reaches 90%, the capacity bar is shown in red.

Hover your mouse over the Capacity percentage bar to display the following information:
  • Used Capacity (GiB)
  • Free Capacity (GiB)
  • Total Capacity (GiB)
SavingsDisplays the total savings as a percentage (combining both deduplication and compression) over a time period (in minutes). Hover your mouse over the Savings column value to display the following individual measures:

  • Compression Savings: The percentage of compression savings that was achieved on the data that could not be deduplicated.

  • Dedupe Savings: The percentage of data that was deduplicated.

AlertsDisplays the alert count as a link to the DR Series system’s Alert page.
ReplicationDisplays the replication state by using an icon.
  • A green icon This green icon displays a white check mark. indicates that replication is operational. Hovering your mouse over a green Replication icon displays the number of Total Containers , Configured Replications, and Failed Replications.
  • A red icon This red icon displays a white x.indicates that replication has failed. Hovering your mouse over a red Replication icon displays the message Replication Failed .
Ingest RateDisplays the rate of data being written to the DR Series system across your network. Hover your mouse over the Ingest Rate to display the Read Throughput in Megabytes per second.

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