Viewing information about a particular pool

Understand how to use the RESTful plug-in to view information about a particular pool, such as flags, size, and number of placement groups (PGs).

Viewing information about a particular pool using the curl command

On the command line, run the following command:

curl --silent --user USER 'https://CEPH_MANAGER:8080/api/pool/ID'

Replace:

USER with the username.
CEPH_MANAGER with the IP address or short hostname of the node with the active ceph-mgr instance.
ID with the ID of the OSD listed in the osd field

Enter the user’s password when prompted.

Note: If using a self-signed certificate, use the --insecure option.

curl --silent --insecure --user USER 'https://CEPH_MANAGER:8080/api/pool/ID'

Viewing information about a particular pool using Python

In the Python interpreter, enter the following:

$ python
>> import requests
>> result = requests.get('https://CEPH_MANAGER:8080/api/pool/ID', auth=("USER", "PASSWORD"))
>> print result.json()

Replace:

CEPH_MANAGER with the IP address or short hostname of the node with the active ceph-mgr instance.
ID with the ID of the OSD listed in the pool field
USER with the username.
PASSWORD with the user’s password.

Note: If using a self-signed certificate, use verify=False.

$ python
>> import requests
>> result = requests.get('https://CEPH_MANAGER:8080/api/pool/ID', auth=("USER", "PASSWORD"), verify=False)
>> print result.json()

Viewing information about a particular pool using a web browser

In the web browser, go to https://CEPH_MANAGER:8080/api/pool/ID.

Replace:

CEPH_MANAGER with the IP address or short hostname of the node with the active ceph-mgr instance.
ID with the ID of the OSD listed in the pool field

Enter the username and password when prompted.