Basil Hendroff
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The system card has changed quite dramatically between TC 1.3.2 and 2.0.
All the information that was previously in 1.3.2 is still there, but there's now more! It's clear a lot of thought has gone into the use of available real estate on the card, without over-cluttering the card.
I feel, though, there are some gaps in the TC documentation. The System Card section of the TC documentation doesn't offer an explanation on some of the elements on the redesigned card. I'm hoping that the discussion arising from this thread will provide ideas for updating that section of the TC documentation, or TC itself, or both.
All the information that was previously in 1.3.2 is still there, but there's now more! It's clear a lot of thought has gone into the use of available real estate on the card, without over-cluttering the card.
I feel, though, there are some gaps in the TC documentation. The System Card section of the TC documentation doesn't offer an explanation on some of the elements on the redesigned card. I'm hoping that the discussion arising from this thread will provide ideas for updating that section of the TC documentation, or TC itself, or both.
- What is ARC MISS? What should the sysadmin be looking for with this stat?
- What does the TEMP graph refer to? Disk temp? CPU temp? What should the sysadmin be wary of here? There doesn't appear to be a predefined alert rule set up for TEMP (or for ARC MISS in the previous point). While a user-defined rule can be set up, is this just an oversight?
- Hot spots on the main body of the card (excluding the header and footer areas) include:
- DRIVES, DISK READ and DISK WRITE that all link to the same Disk Activity graph.
- NET that links to a Net Activity graph.
- CPU that links to a CPU Usage graph.
- TEMP that links to a Temp graph. Curiously, when drilling down through a System card, a card for the Temp graph isn't visible in the next layer. Conversely, the Storage Used and Memory Used cards that are visible in this layer don't appear to be hot-spotted to any element on the System card. Could the Storage Used graph be tied to STORAGE and USED on the System Card, and the Memory Used graph tied to ARC MISS? Is it possible to add and remove optional cards to this second layer?
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