Monitoring the IBM Spectrum Scale system by using call home

The call home feature collects files, logs, traces, and details of certain system health events from different nodes and services.

Understanding call home
The mmcallhome command provides options to configure, enable, run, schedule, and monitor call home related tasks in the IBM Spectrum Scale cluster. Information from each node within a call home group is collected and securely uploaded to the IBM® ECuRep server.
Configuring call home to enable manual and automated data upload
The call home component needs to be configured before it can be used to perform manual and automated data uploads.
Monitoring, uploading, and sharing collected data with IBM Support
The following sections describe the call home data upload space requirements, types of data upload for the call home function and methods to upload custom files.
Configuring call home using GUI
The call home feature provides a communication channel that automatically notifies the IBM service personnel about the issues reported in the system. You can also manually upload diagnostic data files and associate them with a PMR through the GUI.
Call home configuration examples
The following section gives some examples of the call home configuration.

Parent topic: Monitoring