VBrick Systems VOD-W Server VBrick v4.2.3, Admin Manual

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Monitoring the Server
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• A running graph plotting the most recent utilization history.
• Current Data Rate (Mbps).
• Utilization of the interface card as a percentage of the total NIC speed.
• List of the individual video streams going through the network card. An administrator
can terminate a session by right-clicking on a session.
Storage
From the left side of the QVOD Server Console, click on the tree item that says
Disk
Manager
. The right hand-side of the QVOD Server Console will display utilization statistics
for each drive in the system. For each drive, the following information will be shown and
updated every two seconds:
• Current Data Rate (Mbytes/sec).
• Utilization (current data rate/drive speed) shown as a status bar.
Individual Drive
From the left side of the QVOD Server Console, if the Disk Manager subtree branch is
collapsed, double-click on
Disk Manager
or click on the plus sign (
+
) to expand the tree
branch. After the branch is expanded, you will see the tree nodes displaying drive letters of
each logical drives in the system. To view or edit the settings of a particular drive, click on
that tree node, and the right-hand side will display the individual drive view. The individual
drive view has two sections in it. They are the
Drive
: x (where x is the corresponding drive
letter) section and the
Performance
section.