System settings
On the System Settings tab you can monitor disk usage and manage TLS certificates.
Warning
System settings are only available on Alcedo Inhouse servers.
Partitions
On this card, all partitions of the system are listed. You can see the total disk space of each partition along with the current usage.
Select a partition to show additional details below. The chart will show you the expected trend of memory usage based on historic measurements from the last three months.
Usually, the trend should have a very flat slope. If the slope is steep, it means that the disk is accumulating data too quickly and you should take action. Possible steps you can take are increasing the physical disk space, reducing the number of measurements that you collect from data points, or reducing the number of report jobs.
If you want to get notified before the disk usage reaches a ciritical threshold, enable system notifications as described in section Notifications below.
TLS certificates
In order to configure TLS certificates for your server, you can provide them on this card.
To upload a new certificate, click on Upload New Certificate.
In the following dialog, you can either upload your certificate files by clicking on Upload File and selecting the file from your computer, or by pasting the content of the certificate file directly in the text field.
You have to provide at least the Private Key and Certificate. The CA Certificate is optional. You can either provide a new one or select Keep Existing CA Certificate to keep the existing CA certificate, if one was uploaded previously.
Click on OK to validate the new certificate. If there are any issues, an error message will be displayed at the bottom of the dialog accordingly. Otherwise, the certificate will be saved and the dialog will be closed.
If you want to get notified before a certificate expires, enable system notifications as described in the section Notifications below.
Backup
A variety of retention settings can be configured for the backup of the entire system.
- Full backup
Select the time interval between two full backups.
- Retention period
Define how long full backups should be retained. The retention of full backups is split into three stages, each of which retains a full backup for an increasingly longer period of time.
Stage 1: Stage 1 contains one full backup per day (or fewer, depending on the value in the Full Backup field). Backups older than the number of days specified in the Stage 1 field are deleted, with the exception of the most recent one every week, which is moved to stage 2.
Stage 2: Stage 2 contains one full backup per week. Backups which have been in stage 2 for more than the specified number of weeks are deleted, with the exception of the most recent one every month, which is moved to stage 3.
Stage 3: Stage 3 contains one full backup per month. Backups which have been in stage 3 for more than the specified number of months are deleted.
- File system
Select the file system of the backup storage:
NFS
SMB
- Username
The username to access the backup storage medium. Only available if File System is set to SMB.
- Password
The password to access the backup storage medium. Only available if File System is set to SMB.
- Backup path
Enter the path on the storage medium where the backups should be saved. If none is provided, the backups will be stored in the main directory of the medium.
Use forward slashes to separate subdirectories, e.g.
alcedo-inhouse/backups.
You can click on Test Backup to test the backup configuration. The result of the test will be shown as a toast message in the bottom right corner.
If you want to manually run a full backup, click on Create Backup Now.
Notifications
The system can notify you in advance of critical issues. To configure these notifications, go to the System Alarms card on the Notifications tab.