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Product Overview

PeerIQ is a comprehensive monitoring tool designed to provide real-time and historical insights into your Peer Global File Service (PeerGFS) environment and storage. It captures three types of data:

  • Environment Monitoring Data

    PeerIQ enables users to effectively monitor their jobs, Peer Management Center (PMC), connected Agents, and volumes, with the ability to store up to four weeks of history.

  • File System Analytics

    PeerIQ enables analysis of volumes connected to Agents, offering insights into the content of your storage over time and across your PeerGFS environment.

  • File Activity Analytics

    PeerIQ enables analysis of user activity across volumes, giving insight into user behavior across your PeerGFS environment.

Licensing

PeerIQ is available in two licensing levels: Basic and Advanced. Each license level determines the depth of analytics and insights available within the application.

  • Basic License: Provides access to all Environment Monitoring and File System Analytics data. Within File Activity Analytics, only aggregated statistics are available, offering a summarized overview of user and client activity across the environment.

  • Advanced License: Includes all functionality of the Basic license, with the addition of full real-time activity logging as well as detailed user and client analytics across all monitored storage environments. This level also enables ML-based anomaly detection, which identifies patterns of user or client behavior that deviate from typical activity.

Note: Please Contact Peer Software to discuss upgrading your license level.

Deployment

PeerIQ is a web-based application and is deployed via a virtual appliance. The PeerIQ virtual appliance is compatible with various platforms, including:

  • Hyper-V on Windows Server 2019, 2022, and 2025

  • VMware ESXi 6.7, 7.0, and 8.0

  • Nutanix AHV

The virtual appliance enables easy deployment and use, reducing the setup and configuration time required.

PeerIQ seamlessly integrates with your existing PeerGFS environment, connecting to your PeerGFS system using the same broker network that links the PMC and Agents. This connection utilizes the same SSL and TCP connections on ports 61616 and 61617, ensuring secure communication between the various Peer components in your environment.