Chapter 1 - Product Overview
BlackPearl User Interface
The following table provides an overview of the screens available under each menu.
Menu
Available Options
Dashboard
The
Dashboard
navigation link returns you to the Dashboard screen from any
other screen in the interface. The Dashboard screen displays the general status of
the system, tape cache, and network connections. Clicking any of the panes on
the Dashboard takes you to a details screen for that selection. The Dashboard
screen also displays performance metrics for the system.
Configuration
The
Configuration
menu provides access to controls for configuring all aspects of
system operation.
•
NAS
•
Pools
—Displays information about any currently configured storage pools
and lets you define new NAS pools, and edit or delete existing NAS pools.
•
Volumes
—Displays information about any currently configured NAS
volumes on an existing NAS pool and lets you define new NAS volumes, and
edit or delete existing NAS volumes.
•
Shares > CIFS
—Displays information about any currently configured CIFS
shares and lets you define new shares, and edit or delete existing shares.
•
Shares > NFS
—Displays information about any currently configured NFS
shares and lets you define new shares, and edit or delete existing shares.
•
Buckets
—Displays information about the currently configured buckets and lets
you add, edit, or delete buckets. You can also view information about the
objects contained in a bucket and the physical tape media associated with each
bucket.
•
Advanced Bucket Management
•
Storage & Policy Management
—Lets you configure partitions, and create
new storage domains and data policies.
•
Replication Targets
—Lets you configure BlackPearl, Amazon
®
S3, and
Microsoft
®
Azure
®
targets.
•
Database Backup
—Displays information about any currently generated
backups on the system, as well as allows you to create new backups, either
manually or on a schedule.
•
Services
—Displays information about the currently configured services and lets
you edit existing services.
•
Network
—Provides controls for configuring the Ethernet ports on the
BlackPearl system, configure a static route, Domain Name Servers, date and
time, as well as entering SMTP (Simple Mail Transport Protocol) information to
allow the system to send emails.
•
Certificates
—Provides controls for installing signed, trusted SSL certificates for
your data and management ports so that you do not need to resolve the security
certificate warning when accessing these ports.
•
Mail Recipients
—Provides controls for configuring mail recipient accounts to
receive emails when a message severity threshold is reached, or when
AutoSupport Log sets (ASLs) are generated by the system.
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