Dashboard

The System Information widget shows general information about the SCALE system. The Updates Available button opens the System Settings > Update screen.

If installed on a customer-provided server, the widget shows a generic TrueNAS image.

If installed on iXsystems-provided hardware, the widget shows a picture of the system. Click on the image to display the View Enclosure screen.

TrueNAS Enterprise

The two HA Active and Standby controller System Information widgets show only for systems licensed for HA.

Each HA active or standby System Information widget shows the same information found on the non-HA System Information widget but also shows the system serial number, and system license number and type. The standby controller widget shows the Initiate Failover button. The active controller widget shows the Check for Updates button.

The CPU widget shows dynamic gauges and graphs with CPU usage and temperature readings for system cores updated in realtime.

The widget shows gauges and graphs showing CPU statistics:

• CPU Usage gauge that shows the average percentage of usage for the CPU cores.
• CPU Recent Usage gauge that shows recent CPU usage updated in realtime, and includes the CPU model number, number of cores and physical cores.
• CPU Usage per CORE bar graph that shows CPU usage per core.
• CPU Temperature per Core bar graph that shows CPU Usage in blue and Temperature in orange.

The Memory widget shows current system memory consumption information.

The widget includes a gauge showing GiB Free in blue, ZFS Cache in fuchsia pink, and Services in orange.

You can configure the memory widget as a one large (100%) or one long (50%) plus two quarter size (25%) widget layouts.

The Network widget shows the status the configured primary system interface(s), link status, network I/O traffic, primary interface IP address, and media type and subtype if known. It includes a dynamic graph showing the time of recorded traffic and the incoming (blue) and outgoing (orange) traffic in kbs.

You can configure an individual network interface (NIC) widgets in addition to the Network widget. An Interface widget shows traffic, link status, interface media type and subtype, and any VLANS and the IP Address and port number.

The Storage widget shows information on the primary (root) pool status, path, and number of VDEVs configured in that pool. It also shows the percentage of used and free space, and any caches. It reports the number disks with errors, the total number of disks in the pool, and if a spare exists.

You can configure individual pool widgets that show the same information as the root pool in the Storage widget.

The Backup Task widget shows links to quickly set up an automated data backup schedule if a backup task does not exist. Click open_in_new to open the Data Protection screen with all options for checking or backing up stored data.

When a backup task exists, the widget shows details about the various backup tasks configured on the system.

The widget shows the number of tasks for each type of backup, direction for data (sent or received), the number of times tasks failed and succeeded, and weekly success counters.

The TrueNAS Help widget shows links to various TrueNAS websites.

Links included are:

• TrueNAS Documentation Site
• TrueNAS Community Forums
• TrueNAS Open Source software
• iXsystems home page where users can access the GitHub web page.
• TrueNAS Newsletter where users can sign up for the newsletter.

Click on each link to open it in a new browser tab.

The App widget shows the app name, version, state (Deploying, Active, Stopped, etc.), release status, CPU usage in percentage, memory usage in MiB, network I/O traffic, and disk I/O traffic. The TrueNAS SCALE logo shows in the the top left corner of the widget if a logo image for the app is unavailable.

The widget includes three icon function buttons at the top left:

• Web Portal to access the web portal for the app.
• Restart to restart the app.
• App Details to show the app settings.

There are four types available when Widget Category is set to Network. Selecting Network, IPv4 Address or IPv6 Address as the type adds the Interfaces field to the screen.

Hostname can use a full, half, or quarter size widget. It does not add additional fields.

IPv4 Address and IPv6 Address can use a full, half, or quarter size widget. Shows the Interface field.

Network can use a full or half size widget with network information for a primary or other interface configured on the system. Shows the Interface field.

Select the interface to show in the widget from the Interface dropdown field.

There are two widget types available when Widget Category is set to Storage: Storage and Pool. The layout for the widget must be full size.

Selecting either Storage or Pool as the type adds the Pool field to the screen.

Only Help is the available widget type when Widget Category is set to Help.

The Help widget can use a full, half, or quarter size widget, but using the half or quarter size adds scrollbars to the widget to provide access to the full content in this widget category. For best viewing and access to the content we recommend using the full size for the Help widget.

Only Memory is the available widget type when Widget Category is set to Memory.

The Memory widget can use a full, half, or quarter size widget, and can be included in a widget group with other widget categories and types.

Only Backup Tasks is the available widget type when Widget Category is set to Backup Tasks.

The Backup Task widget can only use a full size widget.

Only CPU is the available widget type when Widget Category is set to CPU.

The CPU widget can only use a full size widget.

There are four widget types available when Widget Category is set to System Information: System Information Active Node, OS Version, System Uptime, and System Image.

System Information Active Node shows system information for a single controller system in a full size widget.

OS Version, System Uptime, or System Image can use a full, half, or quarter size widget. These can be included in a widget group with other widget categories and types to create a mixed information widget.

Only Arbitrary Text is the available widget type when Widget Category is set to Custom.

There are three additional fields to enter text strings in a full, half, or quarter-size widget. Enter text in Widget Title, Widget Text, and Widget Subtext (if desired) that does not exceed the maximum character count. The maximum number of character for the Custom widget is 200 upper and lower case alpha-numeric or special characters. Spaces between characters count as characters.