Why no sysinfo tab

[praneshpal]

Would it have been nice if there was a sys info display tab so that one did not have to fiddle around with line commands?

Or perhaps there is one and I havent found it.

 

[jgreco]

What the hell is a "sys info display tab"?

TrueNAS has an entire GUI that provides information about your system. Log in with a web browser.

 

[praneshpal]

What the hell is a "sys info display tab"?

TrueNAS has an entire GUI that provides information about your system. Log in with a web browser.

The GUI has useless info on it. Like IP adress - well how am I looking at the GUI if I did not know the IP adress?
The amount of RAM- well I installed so I know. If I didn't install it and it tells me I have 64 Gigaroonies - so what?


Would have been nice if on ONE page it had

BIOS info -

All Drive/make serial numbers

All Hardware make/serial numbers

All MAC address

Type of Motherboad/Serial

CPU type

etc.

Somethinkg that Belarc does on windows/macOS/Linux and Solaris would be good.

 

[jgreco]

The GUI has useless info on it. Like IP adress - well how am I looking at the GUI if I did not know the IP adress?
The amount of RAM- well I installed so I know. If I didn't install it and it tells me I have 64 Gigaroonies - so what?

Well, you can argue that might be the case for a home hobbyist system, but for those of us who work with many systems on many networks, it is actually reasonably useful at-a-glance information. Most of my systems have half a dozen interfaces or more, and that information seems topical. ARC usage as a function of real system memory is also useful. Maybe not to you. By the same argument, you could omit the "TrueNAS" name and logo, and condense all sorts of stuff into a highly dense webpage. Apparently people didn't like that, since it is different now.

 

[praneshpal]

Well, you can argue that might be the case for a home hobbyist system, but for those of us who work with many systems on many networks, it is actually reasonably useful at-a-glance information. Most of my systems have half a dozen interfaces or more, and that information seems topical. ARC usage as a function of real system memory is also useful. Maybe not to you. By the same argument, you could omit the "TrueNAS" name and logo, and condense all sorts of stuff into a highly dense webpage. Apparently people didn't like that, since it is different now.

A hobby: "an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure". I don't think file storage falls into this!

 

[jgreco]

A hobby: "an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure". I don't think file storage falls into this!

There's an entire reddit that proves otherwise, plus about 80% of this forum.

 

[NugentS]

One thing I raised a JIRA ticket for was to get the same of the TrueNAS system in the browser tab rather than just TrueNAS - IP address. But it had no interest

 

[jgreco]

You mean the name?

 

[NugentS]

Yeah - please don't tell me there is a way of doing it (actually please do)

 

[Ericloewe]

well how am I looking at the GUI if I did not know the IP adress?

DNS? You should give it a try, my internet experience improved massively a few years back when I was told I really should stop calling the IT department for whoever operated web sites I wanted to visit to ask for their IP addresses and just use DNS. In hindsight, that explained why I always seemed to get these puzzled reactions over the phone. Phone bill went down, too.

 

[Ericloewe]

Would have been nice if on ONE page it had

BIOS info -

All Drive/make serial numbers

All Hardware make/serial numbers

All MAC address

Type of Motherboad/Serial

CPU type

etc.

In all seriousness, let's go through these:

• BIOS info: Like versions and stuff? That's a bit of a minefield of less-than-standard stuff.
• All Drive/make serial numbers: This works if you have a handful of disks, but not if you have 50+ disks. Not unless you rotate your monitor. Thankfully, vertical video has not caught on quite enough to force me to do that.
• All Hardware make/serial numbers: See BIOS info above. Even for popular components, like LSI SAS HBAs, this turned out to be too headache-inducing to maintain and was killed off a few years back. As for a hardware listing, the OS has limited insight and it's damned hard to generically report useful info.
• All MAC address: I guess? But how is that more useful than the IP addresses?
• Type of Motherboad/Serial: See hardware above, but worse. Now you have motherboards reporting something like "Dell R630/R730 system base board". Sure, it's useful, but it seems like it just adds noise.
• CPU type: Present.

 

[NugentS]

DNS? You should give it a try, my internet experience improved massively a few years back when I was told I really should stop calling the IT department for whoever operated web sites I wanted to visit to ask for their IP addresses and just use DNS. In hindsight, that explained why I always seemed to get these puzzled reactions over the phone. Phone bill went down, too.

F&*% me am I stupid. I never even considered something that simple. I was looking for a complex reason

I maybe shouldn't admit what I did for a living before I retired

 

[jgreco]

Yeah - please don't tell me there is a way of doing it (actually please do)

Works for me. Always has.