Server Dashboard

After you log in, the Server dashboard is the default landing page in the LSI Storage Authority software. The Server dashboard displays the overall summary of the server and the devices attached to it. You can troubleshoot, configure, maintain, and monitor the controllers from the Server dashboard. The following figure and table describe this page.

Figure 1. Server Dashboard
Table 1. Server Dashboard Description
Callout Description
1
Main Navigation – The main navigation window helps you to traverse among the various views. This navigation is available across all of the pages in the software. The description follows:
  • : Helps you to navigate to the Server dashboard from any page in the software.
  • Select Controllers: Lists the controllers that you are monitoring. The color-coded controller status icons (red, amber, and green) indicate the health status of all the controllers based on their criticality. Click a controller to navigate to its dashboard.
  • Username: Displays the name of the user.
    • Click Settings to perform initial settings.

    • Click Send Feedback to email your feedback to the Broadcom Technical Support using your Gmail or Microsoft Outlook accounts.

    • Click View Server Profile and expand the + button to view the server configuration, such as the server IP, server name, OS Name, OS version, OS architecture, and the version of the LSI Storage Authority software that is installed. You can also view the controller information, such as controller hardware, enclosure of the controller, and information about the physical drives and virtual drives associated with the controller.

    • Click Logout to exit from the software.

  • : Lets you enable or disable system messages.
  • : Displays the LSI Storage Authority software context-sensitive help.
2

User’s Menu – Provides a method to back out of the Server dashboard and log into the Remote Server Discovery Page or back to the Login Page.

Server Report – Enables you to download the server report, which contains the following information.

Note: Downloading the server report is available only for admin users.
  • LSA Server Report
  • Information on each individual controller:
    • Diagnosis report
    • Events report
    • TTY log
    • Corpus of individual entity
    • DEQUEUE log – If Snapdump is not supported
    • PL log – If Snapdump is not supported
    • Collection of Snapdump files, including all supporting indexes
  • LSA developer debug logs
3

Controller Personality – Displays the current personality of the controller.

4
  • Controller Information: Displays information about the controller.

  • Controller Status: When multiple controllers are connected, the controllers are sorted based on the Bus device function. The controllers are indexed with numbers 0, 1, 2, and so on.

  • Controller summary

  • Controller properties

  • Controller issues

  • Controller event logs

  • Allows you to perform the following tasks:

  • Configure the controllers. See Configuration.

  • Download diagnostics.

  • Update the controller firmware.

  • View, download, and clear event logs.

  • Perform various operations on the controller. See Managing Controllers

  • Navigate to any of the controllers to see its specific view by clicking on the appropriate controller.

Figure 2. View Server Profile Window