Part I Ceph Dashboard #
- 1 About the Ceph Dashboard
The Ceph Dashboard is a built-in Web-based Ceph management and monitoring application that administers various aspects and objects of the cluster. The dashboard is automatically enabled after the basic cluster is deployed in Book “Deployment Guide”, Chapter 7 “Deploying the bootstrap cluster using c…
- 2 Dashboard's Web user interface
To log in to the Ceph Dashboard, point your browser to its URL including the port number. Run the following command to find the address:
- 3 Manage Ceph Dashboard users and roles
Dashboard user management performed by Ceph commands on the command line was already introduced in Chapter 11, Manage users and roles on the command line.
- 4 View cluster internals
The menu item lets you view detailed information about Ceph cluster hosts, inventory, Ceph Monitors, services, OSDs, configuration, CRUSH Map, Ceph Manager, logs, and monitoring files.
- 5 Manage pools
For more general information about Ceph pools, refer to Chapter 18, Manage storage pools. For information specific to erasure code pools, refer to Chapter 19, Erasure coded pools.
- 6 Manage RADOS Block Device
To list all available RADOS Block Devices (RBDs), click › from the main menu.
- 7 Manage NFS Ganesha
NFS Ganesha supports NFS version 4.1 and newer. It does not support NFS version 3.
- 8 Manage CephFS
To find detailed information about CephFS, refer to Chapter 23, Clustered file system.
- 9 Manage the Object Gateway
Before you begin, you may encounter the following notification when trying to access the Object Gateway front-end on the Ceph Dashboard:
- 10 Manual configuration
This section introduces advanced information for users that prefer configuring dashboard settings manually on the command line.
- 11 Manage users and roles on the command line
This section describes how to manage user accounts used by the Ceph Dashboard. It helps you create or modify user accounts, as well as set proper user roles and permissions.