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The Activity Center provides a summary of all activities performed by ClusterControl and its components across all clusters.
Alarms
Shows an aggregated view of alarms raised for all clusters monitored by ClusterControl. Each alarm entry has a header, details on the issue, severity level, category, corresponding cluster name, corresponding host, and timestamp. All the alarms listed here are also accessible directly under the individual cluster main menu available at Clusters → {cluster name} → Alarms.
Click on the Actions → Details to see the full details and recommendations. Click Mute to silent the respective alarm from appearing in the list again. Rollover on the Cluster entry will pop up a cluster information card summarizing the cluster status.
Jobs
Shows an aggregated view of jobs initiated and performed by ClusterControl across clusters (e.g., deploying a new cluster, adding an existing cluster, cloning, creating a backup, etc). Each job entry has a job title, job status, cluster name, the user who started the job, timestamp, and duration. All the jobs listed here are also accessible directly under the individual cluster at Clusters → {cluster name} → Jobs.
Click on the Actions → Details to see the job specification and messages. Inside the Job details popup, you have the ability to see the full job definition sent to the controller service for that particular job by clicking on the jobSpecs under the job’s name. Underneath it is the full job messages in descending order (newer first) returned by the controller service. The Copy to clipboard button will copy the content of the job messages to the clipboard. The job messages are commonly the first thing to look for when troubleshooting an issue that is happening to a cluster. Including the job messages when opening a support request from us is highly recommended.
Starting from v1.6.0, ClusterControl has better support for parallelism, where you can perform multiple deployments simultaneously.
The job status:
| Job status | Description |
|---|---|
| FINISHED | The job is successfully executed. |
| FAILED | The job is executed but failed. |
| RUNNING | The job is started and in progress. |
| ABORTED | The job has started but is terminated. |
| DEFINED | The job is defined but yet to start. |
CMON Logs
Shows an aggregated view of ClusterControl logs across clusters. Each log entry has a message subject, severity level, component, the corresponding cluster name, and timestamp.
Rollover on the Message entry will pop up a tooltip containing the full messages. Rollover on the Cluster entry will pop up a cluster information card summarizing the cluster status.
You can get a similar output directly from the CMON log file for a particular cluster, commonly located at /var/log/cmon_X.log, where X is the cluster ID.
Audit Logs
Shows records of ClusterControl’s events and changes:
- User authentication, cloud credentials, database configuration, and users changes
- CMON configuration changes and jobs
- ClusterControl user management changes (Users and ACLs), operational reports
Each log entry has the activity, type of activity, user, hostname or IP address (from where the user comes from), the corresponding cluster name, and timestamp. Rollover on the Cluster entry will pop up a cluster information card summarizing the cluster status.