Introduction

The collector centralizes the agents data and extends the agent feature set with monitoring, mass-actions, forms, configuration management, provisioning, reporting and accounting.

Licensing

The collector is commercially licensed web application available either in SaaS mode or in client-hosted mode. Contact sales@opensvc.com for licensing information.

Internet collector account configuration

Account registration the SaaS collector at https://collector.opensvc.com is open to all.

A newly created account has no privilege to see other users services. You have to ask admin@opensvc.com to add filters to your account so you can see your data. Filtering is based on domainnames patterns. You can declare as many domains as you need. The email address you setup during registration is important : it is used by the collector alarming subsystem as a mail sink for services you are responsible of.

Conventions

Objects

Object types are icon and color coded using the following convention.

Object type Color Icon
application code ...
node ...
service ...
action ...
tag ...
docker repository ...
docker registry ...
package ...
network ...
network segment ...
checks ...
form ...
workflow ...
report ...
metric ...
chart ...
organization group ...
privilege group ...
user ...
dns domain ...
dns record ...
filterset ...
disk ...
array ...
diskgroup ...
ruleset ...
moduleset ...
rule ...

Popups and panels

By convention, every popups, side panels, header panels and table extralines can be closed with the <ESC> keypress.

The collector maintains a stack of those elements. When one is opened, it gets pushed to the stack. And the <ESC> keypress pops from the stack, closing the last opened element.

Widgets generic tools

Most javascript widgets (tab collections, tabs, ...) embed generic tools displayed top-up on mouse-over.

Tool Description
... Display in the flash header panel an url to load this widget directly and in full page layout
... Grow the widget to fill the full space after the header (the layout), replacing the current content. The tool is replaced by the shrinker tool.
... Shrink, after a fullscreen tool use. Return the widget to its original parent. Restore the previous layout content. The tool is replaced by the fullscreen tool.
... Close the widget.