Status Dashboard Settings

The Status > Settings screen enables you to customize the Status Dashboard, including the statistics that appear and thresholds that indicate activity through the weather icons.

Use the layout tab to select the graphs that appear in the dashboard activity area, as defined in the following table.

Table 29  Status Layout Settings

Name Units Description <empty> - No graph will be displayed in this location. CPU utilization Average cycles the appliance CPUs are busy. CPU cycles includes memory wait cycles. ARC Ratio utilization Average ARC hit/miss percentage. A drop in the hit rate indicates a potential performance problem. HTTP operations/sec Average number of HTTP operations. Disk operations/sec Average number of operations to the physical storage devices. iSCSI operations/sec Average number of iSCSI operations. FC operations/sec Average number of Fibre Channel operations. NDMP bytes/sec Average NDMP network bytes. NFSv2 operations/sec Average number of NFSv2 operations. NFSv3 operations/sec Average number of NFSv3 operations. NFSv4.0 operations/sec Average number of NFSv4.0 operations. NFSv4.1 operations/sec Average number of NFSv4.1 operations. Network bytes/sec Average bytes/sec across all physical network interfaces. SMB operations/sec Average number of SMB operations. SMB2 operations/sec Average number of SMB2 operations. SMB3 operations/sec Average number of SMB3 operations. FTP bytes/sec Average number of FTP bytes. SFTP bytes/sec Average number of SFTP bytes.

Note that to reduce the network traffic required to refresh the Dashboard, configure some of the activity graphs as "<empty>".

Use the Thresholds screen to configure the dashboard activity weather icons. The defaults provided are based on heavy workloads and may not be suitable for your environment.

Figure 16  Dashboard Activity Settings

The weather icon that appears on the Dashboard is closest to the threshold value setting for the current activity - measured as a 60 second average. For example, if CPU utilization was at 41%, by default, the Cloudy weather icon would appear because its threshold is 40% (closest to the actual activity). Select the Custom radio button to configure thresholds and be sure to configure them in the order they appear on the screen.

The dashboard currently cannot be configured from the CLI. Settings saved in the BUI will apply to the dashboard that is visible from the CLI.