ZFS-Stats server

During the last half year I incidentally worked on this project out of personal interest. First of all to learn some programming and second, because I wanted to gain insight of my ZFS SAN performance. Since everything is working pretty nice and stable so far, I would like to share this project with the community.

You can try out a live demo at zfsstats.jeroen92.nl Login credentials for a read-only accounts are:

Username: [email protected]
Password: guest

Overview

In order to use this server application, you'll need the client scripts too.

So far, the clientscripts are tested and developed only for OpenIndiana. In case there's enough interest I might port it to FreeBSD and/or Linux too.

How to use

Prerequisites

The following software should be installed:

• MongoDB server
• Ruby
• Rails gem

Installation

1. Clone this git repository

   git clone https://github.com/jeroen92/zfsstats-server.git

2. Install required Ruby gems

   cd zfsstats-server && bundle install --deployment

3. Review production database configuration

   nano config/mongoid.yml

4. Seed the database

   RAILS_ENV=production rake db:seed

5. Install a webserver to server static content. Best way to do this is by installing Passenger

   Install prerequisites

   apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev apache2-mpm-worker apache2-threaded-dev libapr1-dev libaprutil1-dev

   Start Passenger installation

   sudo gem install passenger && sudo passenger-install-apache2-module

   Then, follow the instructions shown.

6. When that's done, your application should be running when starting apache2.

   You might need to precompile the assets first

   RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile

   Then reload Apache webserver

   sudo service apache2 reload

That's all so far. Now you can start to setup your ZFS servers with the client scripts.