Your first look¶
A two-minute tour of the dashboard.
Needs attention¶
The list at the top of every page. Each item says what's wrong and links to the tab it's on. If it's empty, nothing needs you.
Ferrule decides what counts as a problem, so the dashboard, notifications and any other monitoring you point at it always agree.
The tabs¶
A tab appears only when there's something to put in it. Each one shows how many alerts it has.
| Tab | What's on it |
|---|---|
| WAN | Your internet links and which one is carrying traffic, the cable modem, every outage (the Outage ledger), a timeline, and the Alert history |
| LAN | Every switch, gateway and access point. Each row opens to the device's front panel. Also the Wi-Fi channels map |
| Cameras | The Protect recorder's disks and temperatures, and each camera (only with Protect) |
| Virtualization | Proxmox and vCenter hosts and machines, backup servers, and inventory reports |
| Storage | Synology, QNAP and TrueNAS: pools, volumes and disks |
| Settings ⚙ | The license, sources, notifications, sign-in, backups and history, and Stack environment, which writes settings for you |
Reading a switch¶
Each switch is drawn as its front panel: odd ports on the top row, even ports on the bottom, fibre cages on the right.
| Colour | Means |
|---|---|
| Slate | Copper link, working |
| Aqua | Fibre link, working |
| Grey | Nothing connected |
| Amber | Linked slower than this port normally runs, or half duplex. Often a cable going bad |
| Red | Errors climbing right now, or a fibre optic out of range |
The bar along the bottom of each port is its speed, from 100M up to 10G. Click any port for its details and a six-hour error graph.
Why a printer on a slow link doesn't turn amber
Amber means slower than that port has run in the last 30 days, not slower than the switch can go. A printer that has only ever run at 100 Mb/s is fine. A port that ran at 1 Gb/s yesterday and 100 Mb/s today is a cable losing a pair.
Stale readings¶
If Ferrule can't reach a device, its last good reading stays on screen, marked stale, rather than going blank. That's deliberate: when things go wrong is exactly when you want the last thing you knew.