Overview

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.
• Feedback: an online form that sends your evaluation of OpsCenter or any comments to us.
• Report: information about clusters that OpsCenter manages in PDF format.

OpsCenter is divided into these main functional areas:

• Overview - Survey each cluster's Dashboard in this condensed view. Displayed when multiple clusters are present.
• Dashboard - View graphs of the most commonly watched Cassandra performance metrics.
• Software update notification - Be notified when an upgrade to OpsCenter or Cassandra or DSE on any of your clusters is available. The actual upgrade processes will be manual. When a new version is available a link at the top of the Dashboard appears. Clicking on it displays a dialog with a link to the new version of the software.
• Cluster - See your cluster from different perspectives and perform certain maintenance operations on cluster nodes.
• Cluster administration - Add, modify, or remove a cluster from OpsCenter. Available in OpsCenter Enterprise Edition only.
• Performance - 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.
• Alerts - Configure alert thresholds for a number of Cassandra cluster-wide, column family, and operating system metrics. Available in OpsCenter Enterprise Edition only.
• Scehma - Create and manage keyspaces and the column families within them.
• Data backups - Visually take, schedule, and manage backups across all registered clusters. Restore to clusters from backups. Available in OpsCenter Enterprise Edition only.
• Data Explorer - Browse through column family data.
• Event Log - View the most recent OpsCenter log events, such as OpsCenter startup and shutdown.