OpsCenter Workspace Overview

Describes the major areas of functionality available in the OpsCenter workspace.

At the top of every functional area of OpsCenter, you can access these functions:
  • New Cluster - create a new cluster or add an existing cluster.
  • Alerts - Configure alert thresholds for a number of Cassandra cluster-wide, column family, and operating system metrics. Available for DSE clusters only.
  • Settings
    • Cluster Connections - Modify cluster settings or remove the cluster from OpsCenter.
    • Users & Roles - Enable, disable, and manage role-based authentication.
  • Help: online help, download a tarball containing diagnostic information about the nodes in a cluster, get a PDF report with information on the managed clusters, send feedback, and view the OpsCenter version number.
  • Username - If authentication is enabled, the username is displayed. You can change your password or log out by clicking the username.

The left navigation pane displays a link to the Overview section and a list of each cluster. The Overview section displays any active alerts and a summary box for each cluster managed by OpsCenter.

OpsCenter is divided into these main functional areas:
  • Dashboard - View information about the clusters managed by OpsCenter and monitor a number of Cassandra cluster performance metrics. Real-time and historical performance metrics are available at different granularities: cluster-wide, per node, or per column family. Update notifications for upgrades to DSE or Cassandra are also displayed in the Dashboard.
  • Nodes - See your cluster from different perspectives and perform certain maintenance operations on cluster nodes.
  • Activities - Displays all running tasks in the cluster. The Activities icon displays a badge when tasks are currently running. View the most recent OpsCenter log events, such as OpsCenter startup and shutdown, in the Event Log. View the status of Hadoop analytics jobs under Hadoop Jobs.
  • Data
    • Tables - Create and manage keyspaces and the tables (column families) within those keyspaces.
    • Backups - Visually take, schedule, and manage backups across all registered clusters. Restore to clusters from backups. Available for DSE clusters only.
    • Explorer - Browse through table (column family) data.
  • Services - Enable DataStax Enterprise services, including the Backup, Repair, Capacity, and Best Practice services.
  • Hide/Show Clusters - Hide or show the list of clusters on the left side of the UI.