Overview
Through brief lectures, exercises, and classroom discussion you discover how to deploy and maintain NetApp® Active IQ® Unified Manager. You also learn how the performance-management features of Unified Manager provide a unified approach to storage management that reduces complexity. This course can be delivered in a traditional classroom or a virtual classroom.
Prerequisites
- ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM)
- ONTAP Data Management Fundamentals
Delegates will learn how to
This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:
- Describe the NetApp data management solutions
- Define common data management terminology
- Install and maintain a Unified Manager deployment
- Use Unified Manager to monitor the health and performance of your storage infrastructure
- Categorize storage objects and implement annotation and group features
- Configure thresholds, event retention settings, and alerts so that storage issues can be anticipated and quickly identified
- Explore reporting tools and run reports
Outline
Module 1: Review Active IQ Unified Manager
- Discuss the NetApp Active IQ Unified Manager architecture
Module 2: Deploy Unified Manager
- Install Unified Manager
- Configure initial Unified Manager settings
- User management
- Discover what happens when you add a cluster as a data source
Module 3: Explore the Unified Manager UI
- UI features and use
- Customize the UI
Module 4: Customize Unified Manager for Your Storage Environment
- Customizing thresholds
- Events and alerts
- Annotation and Groups
Module 5: Monitoring Storage Objects
- Monitoring object health
- Monitoring object performance
- Monitoring data protection
- Rest APIs
Module 6: Reporting in Unified Manager
- Reporting overview
- Creating, scheduling, and generating reports
Module 8: Maintain Unified Manager
- Protecting the Unified Manager database
- Upgrading Unified Manager
- Troubleshooting Unified Manager: Active IQ
- Troubleshooting Unified Manager: Collecting a support bundle
- Troubleshooting Unified Manager: Log files
- Troubleshooting Unified Manager: MySQL
- Troubleshooting Unified Manager: Active Directory and LDAP
- Troubleshooting Unified Manager: Cluster not reachable
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