System management-Alibaba Cloud Linux(Alinux)-阿里云帮助中心

The system management feature displays the management status and other relevant information for instances in the operating system console. Only managed instances can use the features of the operating system console.

Limitations

Region limitations
This feature is currently available only in the Chinese mainland and China (Hong Kong).

Operating system limitations

Architecture	Operating system
x86 architecture	Rocky Linux 9.5 Rocky Linux 9.1 Ubuntu 20.04 Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 Container-Optimized Rocky Linux 8.8 Ubuntu 22.04 Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 Pro Alibaba Cloud Linux 2/3 CentOS 7.6 or later, or CentOS 8 Anolis OS 7/8 Ubuntu 24.04
ARM architecture	Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 Pro Alibaba Cloud Linux 3

Prerequisites

If you use a RAM user, the primary Alibaba Cloud account must grant the AliyunECSReadOnlyAccess, AliyunSubManageFullAccess, and AliyunSysomFullAccess system policies to the RAM user.
Console access is enabled.
The first time you log on to the operating system console, click Enable Service.

Manage instances

Go to Operating System Console - System Management.
In the upper-left corner of the page, select the region of your target instance.
Select the Unmanaged tab to view all unmanaged instances.
Find the target instance, and in the Actions column, click Install SysOM.

View managed instances

Warning

If you change the operating system of a managed ECS instance, you must uninstall the agent and then reinstall the agent. Otherwise, its Management Status on the System Management page will remain offline, preventing you from using the features of the operating system console.

Go to Operating System Console - System Management.
In the upper-left corner of the page, select the region of your target instance.
Select the Managed tab to view all managed instances.
In the instance list, click Details in the Actions column.

Node monitoring

The node monitoring feature lets you view network, I/O, scheduling, and memory monitoring metrics for a node.

View monitoring data

Go to Operating System Console - System Management.
In the upper-left corner of the page, select the region of your target instance.
Select the Managed tab to view all managed instances.
In the instance list, in the Actions column, click Node Monitoring to open the monitoring view.

Node monitoring

① Select the node to monitor.

② Select a monitoring metric.

③ Select the desired time range.

④ Hover over the icon to view the description of the monitoring metric.