Managing The StorageGRID System (module 3)

Question 1

How can the StorageGRID system be managed?

Answer 1

By the GUI management interface (web browser)
By the API (used by third party to script items).

Question 2

What are the two main areas of the grid system?

Answer 2

Grid Administration -
Grid Manager Interface
Grid Manager API

Tenant Administration -
Tenant Manager interface
Tenant Management API
Mainly used for storage usage and client access

Question 3

How do you log into the Grid Manager

Answer 3

Through the web browser
Using an LDAP account (if setup)
Using a local user account

Question 4

What can you see in the default Grid Manager interface

Answer 4

• Grid Health
• Total Object Count
• Grid Information
• Object data space used
• MetaData Space Used
• Space used over time

Question 5

What can tenant accounts be used for?

Answer 5

Isolating information from one customer (tenant) or application to another

Can be split by application, department or customer.

Question 6

What is the difference for authentication between a service environment (multiple customers), and an Enterprise (one customers)?

Answer 6

ENTERPRISE - uses the same AD to authorise the different tenants (applications or departments).

SERVICE - uses different customer specific AD to authorise the different tenants (customers).

Question 7

Tenant Manager Interface allows you to see?

Answer 7

Monitor storage uses and managed access control.
See the number of buckets per tenant and capacity.
Can also manage S3 buckets and Keys.

Question 8

What is the best way to setup S3 application and Fabric Pool Clients?

Answer 8

Using the Setup Wizards

1. Create a HA group (or selecting an existing HA group)
2. Creating a load balancer or selecting an existing endpoint
3. Creating a new tenant account or existing tenant
4. Creating a bucket or selecting an existing bucket
5. Downloading the access keys and tenant information
6. Creating and activating an ILM rule for this bucket.

Question 9

What does the S3 Console provide?

Answer 9

List buckets belonging to tenants
Create and delete folders within buckets
Basic Object management - Upload, download, copy and rename objects within buckets

Question 10

What tools are available for monitoring StorageGRID?

Answer 10

Alerts and emails
SNMP
NetAPP ActiveIQ
Audit Logs
Log forwarding

Question 11

What are Grafana and Prometheus Metrics

Answer 11

Performance metrics collected by the Admin Nodes (from all nodes)
Preconstructed graphs can be used