1.3

July 7, 2020

The TrueCommand team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.3!

This version contains a significant update to the user interface, resulting in a streamlined flow for viewing the information about your FreeNAS/TrueNAS systems and letting you easily find any information you need about your storage systems within just a couple clicks.

• The TrueCommand dashboard has been completely redesigned.

  • System cards now show all relevant information for system administrators.
  • Metrics have been prioritized and color coded based upon the level of attention that they may require.
  • Many of the metrics can be clicked to quickly inspect details about the metric.

• New metrics on the system cards:

  • Storage pool and drive information
  • Sharing service status and active client count
  • VM and Jail status
  • Disk utilization as a percentage
  • Number of active alerts for the specific system
  • Networking statistics are now available as a percentage of the possible bandwidth. This can be customized to show either the system average or highlight a specific network interface
  • Status information about currently running updates, scrubs, replications, or cloudsync tasks
  • Dataset size information. (TrueNAS 12+ or FreeNAS 11.3-U4+)
  • Active client counts for sharing protocols (TrueNAS 12+ or FreeNAS 11.3-U4+)

• Temporary password reset option added

  • On the host running the docker container, use the following command to reset the password for a TrueCommand user account: docker exec -it [container ID] resetpw [username]
  • This will return a random password which is valid for 6 hours. This can be used to login to the TrueCommand user account to change the password to something that will be remembered later. The temporary password is invalidated the moment the real password is changed for the account.
  • Rolling estimates of pool storage utilization are now included by default for 80% and 100% full warnings. These estimates will also be used to generate alerts for systems which will reach the 80% threshold within 180 days.
  • New SMR notification to warn the user if any of the NAS’s attached to TrueCommand are utilizing known problematic SMR drives.
  • Alerts rules may now be copied as the basis for new rules.
  • Alert rules now support multiple conditions for the alert to trigger.

• FreeNAS/TrueNAS metrics gathering for Version 12.0-BETA1+ & 11.3-U4+

  • Statistics gathered by TrueCommand are more accurate and return additional information required to generate some of the new TrueCommand dashboard metrics.
  • Dataset Size information

• FreeNAS/TrueNAS metrics gathering for Version 12.0-BETA1+

  • Support for using API Keys to login to the NAS, rather than the root user password.

Login to the TrueCommand Account Portal for downloads, documentation links, and licensing options. For storage clusters with more than 50 disks, the account portal also offers a free 60-day trial license with unlimited disks.

• Docker: Re-run docker pull ixsystems/truecommand to fetch the latest version of TrueCommand, and then restart your docker instance.
• VM Image: Either reboot the VM or run systemctl restart truecommand.service. This will automatically fetch and start the latest docker image of TrueCommand within your VM.