1. Basic Monitoring Settings
SoftNAS performs monitoring of system resources, services and SoftNAS logging by polling the system based on the Polling Interval (secs). The default setting is 30 seconds.
2. Notification Email
The Notification settings are used to specify the administrator email address that will be sent monitoring alerts. You can also send monitoring alerts to the corporate SMTP server.
3. SMTP Settings
If "Use SMTP" is enabled the following fields are available for the SMTP server configuration:
Field | Description |
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SMTP Mailserver | FQDN of the mail server. |
SMTP Port | SMTP Port that will be used to send email notifications (25, 587, 465) |
SMTP Username | Username required for SMTP server authentication |
SMTP Password | Password required for SMTP server authentication. |
SMTP Encryption | Encryption setting for the SMTP server connection. The following settings are possible:
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Monitoring System Resources
These thresholds control the percentage usage levels above which monitoring notifications will be issued. The following independant thresholds can be sent:
Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
% CPU | Threshold setting above which a monitoring notification will be issued for the system resource. |
%CPU System | Threshold setting above which a monitoring notification will be issued for the system resource. |
% Memory | Threshold setting above which a monitoring notification will be issued for the system resource. |
% Disk space | Threshold setting above which a monitoring notification will be issued for the system resource. |
% CPU Wait | Threshold setting above which a monitoring notification will be issued for the system resource. |
Services Monitoring
You can setup SoftNAS to monitor the core system services and issue monitoring notifications accordingly. The following services can be monitored by SoftNAS:
Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
Apache | Apache web server service running on SoftNAS |
SSH | secure shell service running on SoftNAS, enabling secure data communication. |
Sendmail | Sendmail email routing facility running on SoftNAS. |
Winbind | samba service running on SoftNAS which enables connections to domain controllers. |
| NTP | Alerts if there are issues with Network Time Protocol (if virtual machines and databases are not in chronological sync) |
| UltraFast | Alerts if there are issues with Ultrafast |
| S3 Retry Error | Alerts if there are Object storage connectivity retry errors |
| Deltasync Error | Alerts for errors in Deltasync |
| HA Warning | Alerts if HA fails or reports issues |
NFS | Distributed file system protocol running on SoftNAS. |
SMB | Server Message Block service. |
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| HotSpare | Failure of a SoftNAS HotSpare volume |
| NiFi | Alerts if NiFi Settings are incorrect and not connecting |
| S3 Retry Warning | Sends alerts not only for errors regarding object storage connectivity but warnings as well. |
| Deltasync Warning | Sends alerts not only for errors regarding DeltaSync connectivity but warnings as well. |
SoftNAS Monitoring
SoftNAS Monitoring can be used to monitor a variety of logs. By default, when enabled an email notification is sent any time the word "ERROR" appears in the log.
Parameter | Definition |
|---|---|
Monitor SNSERV: | (Yes/No) |
Excluded Terms | Allows for suppression of emails for errors in the StorageCenter server log that include the keywords entered. Valid entries are in regular expression form. For example, to suppress email notifications for any error including the word "foo" or "bar" enter "foo|bar" |
Monitor SNAP | (Yes/No) |
Excluded Terms | Allows for suppression of emails for errors in the snapreplicate log that include the keywords entered. Valid entries are in regular expression form. For example, to suppress email notifications for any error including the word "foo" or "bar" enter "foo|bar" |