PROVIDING CONTINUOUS CONTEXT FOR OPERATIONAL INFORMATION OF A STORAGE SYSTEM

摘要

A system management tool provides a comprehensive summary of operational information of a storage system. For example, the system management tool presents a digital dashboard (“dashboard”) in a graphical user interface. The system management tool also presents, via the dashboard, views that correspond to different dimensions of the storage system. In response to expansion of a selected view, the system management tool can automatically collapse the other views into a non-expanded views or move the other views to visible areas remaining after expansion of the selected view. Thus, all of the views remain continuously visible via the dashboard despite the modification to the appearance of the selected view.

主权项

1. A method for providing a comprehensive summary of operational information of a distributed storage system, the method comprising:
collecting operational information about the distributed storage system; presenting, in a graphical user interface, a digital dashboard for the distributed storage system, wherein the digital dashboard includes a plurality of views, wherein each of the plurality of views is associated with a different one of a plurality of dimensions of the distributed storage system, wherein each of the plurality of views is visible on the graphical user interface, wherein each of the plurality of views depicts the operational information for the dimension corresponding to the view at a level of detail defined for the view; for each of the plurality of dimensions, periodically collecting current operational information in accordance with a time period defined for the dimension; for each of the plurality of views, refreshing the view based, at least in part, on operational information for the dimension associated with the view in accordance with a refresh rate defined for the view, wherein at least two of the plurality of views have different refresh rates; and in response to a change to any one of the plurality of views, maintaining visibility of current operational information for all of the plurality of dimensions.