onefs-healthcheck-dashboard

A grafana dashboard to visualize OneFS Healthcheck results for multiple clusters

1. Install Infinity Datasource Plugin (minimum required version 1.2).

   • Download the required version of release zip file from github and extract into your grafana plugin folder.
     Then restart Grafana.
   • Or install using the grafana plugin library.

2. Install dynamic text plugin via the plugin library. https://github.com/VolkovLabs/volkovlabs-dynamictext-panel

3. equip or create a monitor user on each PowerScale Cluster with the following minimum RBAC Read Only privileges:

   • ISI_PRIV_SYS_SUPPORT
   • ISI_PRIV_LOGIN_PAPI

   (Feel free to add more privilidges as required if you intend to explore more possibilities.)

4. Configure infinity plugin:

   • Name: infinity
   • Auth Type: Basic Auth
   • User: <your API user>
   • Password: <your API users Password>
   • Allowed hosts:
     • Add an entry for every fqdn of your clusters.
     • Eg. https://admin.cluster.customer.com:8080

• Add reference data, a json containing a mapping between Cluster name and fqdn.
  This is used later to navigate the dashboard. Eg.:

{ "clusters" : [
	{"name" : "SB2", "fqdn" : "10.231.153.40"},
	{"name" : "HEXIE", "fqdn" : "192.168.188.194"},
	{"name" : "gotham", "fqdn" : "192.168.188.93"}
]}

5. Install the dashboard json files

Limitations

• the inifinity datasource does not support session based authentication, hence we must utilize and enable Basic Auth on our clusters.
• the described approach uses one datasource for all clusters, hence the "monitor" users created above must have the same password on all clusters.
• on large clusters the initial load time for the HCF panels can take a couple of seconds - Patience you must have, my young padawan.