Installing IBM Storage Scale management GUI by using the installation toolkit

Use the following information for installing the IBM Storage Scale management GUI using the installation toolkit.

The IBM Storage Scale is only installed when nodes have been specified as GUI servers in the cluster definition with the -g option:

./spectrumscale node add gpfsnode3 -g

The IBM Storage Scale GUI requires passwordless ssh to all other nodes in the cluster. Therefore, the GUI server node must be added as an admin node using the -a flag:

./spectrumscale node add gpfsnode3 -a

If no nodes have been specified as GUI servers, then the GUI will not be installed. It is recommended to have 2 GUI interface servers and a maximum of 3 for redundancy.

The GUI will be installed on specified GUI servers when you run the ./spectrumscale install command and on protocol nodes also specified as GUI servers during the ./spectrumscale deploy command.

At the end of a successful GPFS installation or protocol deployment, you can access the GUI through a web browser with the following node address: https://<GUI server IP or hostname>.

Note: After installing the system and GUI package, you need to create the first GUI user to log in to the GUI. This user can create other GUI administrative users to perform system management and monitoring tasks. When you launch the GUI for the first time after the installation, the GUI welcome page provides options to create the first GUI user from the command line prompt by using the /usr/lpp/mmfs/gui/cli/mkuser <user_name> -g SecurityAdmin command.