TrueCommand 2.0 BETA is now available!

Kris Moore

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I'm pleased to announce that our first BETA of TrueCommand 2.0 is now available for installation and testing!

This is a massive update to previous 1.X series of TrueCommand, and includes new functionality for much improved storage monitoring, dataset management, cluster creation (With TrueNAS SCALE), iSCSI management and more. (EDIT: Is now live) A full blog post will be going live in the next day or so with much more details and screenshots of the new TrueCommand in action. In the meantime please feel free to give 2.0 a while and give us any feedback during your testing.

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Patrick M. Hausen

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Great news. Yet, TNC managed systems still do not show active SMB and NFS mounts. I shrugged it off while running the nightlies, but shouldn't a BETA be feature complete? Does this warrant a JIRA issue or is this not yet implemented as I suspected?

I have at least one active SMB and one active NFS mount on this system right now:
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If this is known already and still calls for a new issue - is it a matter with TC or with TNC?
 

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Could be an issue on 12.0-U3 or TC itself, we'll need to dig in to see. Can you toss us a bug ticket on Jira?
 

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Hello.... Do you have an updated Beta 2.0 VM image yet? Can I run something inside my already running VM to upgrade to the 2.0 Beta? Im not familiar with Docker.... I am currently running the VM in an Oracle VM VirtuaBox.
 

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"Can I run something inside my already running VM to upgrade to the 2.0 Beta? " Yea I need help or instructions on installing TrueCommand "Docker" in Proxmox or TrueNass.... I currently have 17 hosts, how can I tell how many disks I have in total with truecommand?
 

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@Murrmanone Your disk count is available on the Administration page (top-right "cog" icon -> Administration).

For your setup, which OS will be hosting docker? Docker is available for several common platforms. I use Ubuntu 20 + docker, for instance.
 

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Thanks for the quick replies. I found a great walkthrough to install Docker straight into Proxmox. Did a crash course in Docker and pulled the Docker 2.0 Beta.... I guess container :smile: Ran it and bam i am up and adding systems!!! Its looks awesome! Thanks!
Links I used...
Install Docker straight into Proxmox
How to actually run it and make it autorun :smile: From the Truecommand Forum...
 
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Some feedback based on the latest TC 2.0 nightly image...

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Issue #1 - Same alert reported multiple times

This alert was reported once on TC 1.3.2...

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...but three times on the nightly. Note the identical time stamps.

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Issue #2 - Incorrect reporting of SMR drive

I have a system with two SMR drives. I've just replaced one overnight (WD60EFAX -> WD80EFBX).

TC 1.3.2 correctly reports that I still have one SMR drive.

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TC nightly incorrectly reports there are two SMR drives.

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Issue # 3 - Alert counter not being reset

After deleting all alerts in TC nightly, the alert counter on system tiles are not being reset.

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EDIT: The counter eventually clears, but it takes a very long time!
 
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Latest nightly...

The system tile gives no indication that an update is available...

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Drilling down on the system tile, it's clear an update is available.

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In addition, the update button doesn't work. When clicked, the following dialogue appears.

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The USED figure on a system tile is rounded to a whole number, which isn't particularly useful when monitoring incremental change in used space. It should be rounded to at least one decimal place like the AVAILABLE capacity. Logging onto this system, I see that 1.43 TiB has actually been used and this figure is rising as a result of a restore of a large dataset through a replication task that is in progress.

EDIT: TC 1.3.2 displayed the USED figure to two decimal places.
 
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The latest nightly does not show replications in progress...

TC 2.0 nightly...

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TC 1.3.2...

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