TrueCommand
I have four instances of TrueNAS Scale and I just installed TrueCommand. I got to say I really like it. I'm still discovering it's features but it is so nice to not only be able to see what's happening but also interact with each instance.
If anyone has more than one instance and wants to play with something new, give this a shot, it's great.
If anyone has any tips on using it to its fullest potential please advise.
Posted Jan 30, 2023, 9:31 PM UTC
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So I’m working on trying to roll this out at work, and tbh I’m still fighting with a few things. While there is some info on it from xisystems, it’s far from complete, and there are barely any users talking about it in forums or on reddit, so not a deep knowledge pool to pull from. Also some features, like I believe HA clusters, are locked behind the third TrueNAS OS, TrueNAS Enterprise, which you’ll only get when paired with service contracts that you get when buying the larger TrueNAS hardware directly from them.
All that being said, I also really like it as a management tool, especially when we start scaling into the hundreds of drives (which will require separate licensing when exceeding the initial free 50 drives). At the very least I can monitor devices, navigate to each individual webui, and if I can get it working, set up smtp alerts. Still trying to get some support on that, and whenever I’ve called the tech are really knowledgeable, but you’ll have to be on some sort of license and running on their hardware to get full support.
No experience yet on that stuff. smtp would be great, didn't know it had that feature.
The 50 drive limit will be fine for my playing around. It's nice that we get that I suppose.
You can already individually configure each NAS to use smtp to send alerts, and I got that to work, but we might end up running like 60 of these things, so when I saw truecommand was able to monitor and send for all of them I was excited. Only problem is the one in truecommand doesn’t work for me, even though it’s running as an app on the TrueNAS that already sends smtp on its own just fine.
Okay, I'm trying but I'm not seeing a way to do it in TC. Did you find a system wide setting for snmp? My initial thought was to look in Alert Services but I don't see an add service button.
I don’t think any setting between TrueNAS and TrueCommand are tied at all. You can add the machine hosting it to its list of devices to monitor, but that doesn’t tie together your config settings or user accounts. If it did then it would make deployment a lot easier.
In my 2.2 truecommand, there is already a SMTP Email service under alert services, with boxes for mailserver/port/credentials/target. In TrueNAS the setup is found when you click the alert icon then email, and this section has what truecommand does, but also TSL/SSL. My theory is that TC is missing the TSL switch I need, even though I found documentation of it existing in TC 1.0.
I'll try it out tonight and report back. It collects all the metrics anyway, only makes sense to grab them from there rather than individually.