SSM UI overview
SSM provides a web interface where you can manage SSM rules, run SSM actions, monitor storage state, view action execution logs, and so on.
By default, the web UI is available at http://<host>:7045/#/notebook where <host> is the ADH host with the SSM Server component installed.
You can change the port number (7045 by default) using the smart.server.http.address configuration property.
SSM UI includes the following tabs:
Smart Notebook
This is the home page of the SSM web UI that has the following view.
The main sections on the page are as follows:
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Rule List — displays a list of recently defined SSM rules. You can click a rule to modify it in the Add Rule pane.
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Add Rule — a text area to define new rules. To add a rule, enter the rule text in this pane and click
or hit Shift + Enter. -
Run Action — use this pane to submit SSM actions. The action execution result is displayed as
FINISHEDorERRORin the top right corner of the pane.
Cluster
Several pages are available under this tab and are described below.
Storage Usage
On this page, you can view storage utilization charts for individual storage types. You can click a graph to view more details or to change the time scale.
User Rules
On this page, you can view all the defined rules, change their status, and view the rules execution details.
Newly created rules appear on this page with the DISABLED status, meaning that even if a rule’s condition is satisfied, no data movement actions take place.
For a rule to become effective, you should activate it by clicking 
.
Reversely, to stop the rule’s activity, click 
.
To view details about the actions that have been triggered by a given rule, click 
.
Actions
This page lists all the submitted actions triggered by a rule or started manually.
To view action details including execution logs, use .
Data Sync
On this page, you can view data sync rules (rules involving the sync action).
Just like a regular rule, newly created sync rules appear with the DISABLED status.
To activate a rule and initiate data movement actions, click .
To pause the rule’s sync activity, use .
To view details about the sync actions triggered by a specific rule, click .