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February 5, 2018

What is this BUI thing

anyway?
James Mcpherson
PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER

This is part two in my series of posts about Solaris Analytics in

the Solaris 11.4 release. You may find part one here.

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The Solaris Analytics WebUI (or "bui" for short) is what we use to
tie together all our data gathering from the Stats Store.
Comprised of two web apps (titled "Solaris Dashboard" and
"Solaris Analytics"), enable the webui service via

1 # svcadm enable webui/server

Once the service is online, point your browser at

https://127.0.0.1:6787 and log in. [Note that the self-signed
certificate is that generated by your system, and adding an
exception for it in your browser is fine]. Rather than roll our
own toolkit, we make use of Oracle Jet, which means we can
keep a consistent look and feel across Oracle web
applications.

After logging in, you'll see yourself at the Oracle Solaris Web
Dashboard, which shows an overview of several aspects of
your system, along with Faults (FMA) and Solaris Audit activity
if your user has sufficient privileges to read them.
 

 
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Mousing over any of the visualizations on this page will give

you a brief description of what the visualization provides, and
clicking on it will take you to a more detailed page.

If you click on the hostname in the top bar (next to

Applications), you'll see what we call the Host Drawer. This
pulls information from svc:/system/sysstat.

Click the 'x' on the top right to close the drawer.

Selecting Applications / Solaris Analytics will take you to

the main part of the bui:

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I've select the NFS Client sheet, resulting in the dark shaded
box on the right popping up with a description of what the
sheet will show you.
 

Building blocks: faults, utilization and

audit events

In the previous installment I mentioned that we wanted to

provide a way for you to tie together the many sources of
information we provide, so that you could answer questions
about your system. This is a small example of how you can do
so.

The host these screenshots were taken from is a single processor,

four-core Intel-based workstation. In a terminal window I ran

1 # psradm -f 3

Followed a few minutes later by

1 # psradm -n 3

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You can see those events marked on each of the visualizations

with a blue triangle here:

Now if I mouseover the triangle marking the second

offline/online pair, in the Thread Migrations viz, I can see that the
system generated a Solaris Audit event:

This allows us to observe that the changes in system behaviour

(primarily load average and thread migrations across cores) were
correlated with the offlining of a cpu core.

Finally, let's have a look at the Audit sheet. To view the stats on
this page, you need to login to the bui as a suitably-privileged
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user - either root, or a user with the

solaris.sstore.read.sensitive privileges.
 

1 # usermod -A +solaris.sstore.read.sensitive $USER

 
For this screenshot I not only redid the psradm operations
from earlier, I also tried making an ssh connection with an
unknown user, and logged in on another of this system's
virtual consoles. There are many other things you could
observe with the audit subsystem; this is just a glimpse:

Tune in next time for a discussion of using the C and Python

bindings to the Stats Store so you can add your own
statistics.

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