Configuring the Dashboard

Configure the IBM Storage Ceph to provide a secure, web-based interface for monitoring cluster health, managing Ceph services, and performing administrative tasks.

Enabling IBM Storage Ceph Dashboard manually
If you have installed an IBM Storage Ceph cluster by using --skip-dashboard option during bootstrap, you can see that the dashboard URL and credentials are not available in the bootstrap output. You can enable the dashboard manually using the command-line interface. Although the monitoring stack components such as Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, and node-exporter are deployed, they are disabled and you have to enable them manually.
Setting message of the day (MOTD)
Sometimes, Ceph Dashboard users need to know about the latest news, updates, and information on IBM Storage Ceph.
Toggling Ceph dashboard features
You can customize the IBM Storage Ceph dashboard components by enabling or disabling features on demand. All features are enabled by default.
Changing the dashboard password
By default, the password for accessing dashboard is randomly generated by the system while bootstrapping the cluster. You have to change the password the first time you log in to the IBM Storage Ceph dashboard. You can change the password for the admin user using the dashboard.
Changing the Ceph dashboard password using the command line interface
If you have forgotten your Ceph dashboard password, you can change the password using the command line interface.
Setting admin user password for Grafana
By default, cephadm does not create an admin user for Grafana. With the Ceph Orchestrator, you can create an admin user and set the password. With these credentials, you can log in to the storage cluster’s Grafana URL with the given password for the admin user.
Configuring Prometheus data retention
You can control how long Prometheus stores monitoring data and how much disk space it consumes by configuring retention settings in the Prometheus service specification. Prometheus is the component responsible for storing metrics; therefore, retention policies must be applied to the Prometheus spec.
Expanding the cluster
You can use the dashboard to expand the IBM Storage Ceph cluster for adding hosts, adding OSDs, and creating services such as Alertmanager, cephadm-exporter, CephFS-mirror, Grafana, ingress, MDS, node-exporter, Prometheus, RBD-mirror, and Ceph Object Gateway.
Upgrading a cluster
Upgrade Ceph clusters by using the dashboard.

Parent topic: Dashboard