Course Overview
TOPIn this course, you discover how to deploy and maintain NetApp Active IQ Unified Manager (formerly OnCommand Unified Manager) and how to pair Unified Manager with the OnCommand Workflow Automation (OnCommand WFA) data management solution. You learn how the performance management features of Unified Manager provide a unified approach to storage management and how that approach reduces complexity. You also learn how to use OnCommand WFA to enhance Unified Managers data protection capabilities.
Scheduled Classes
TOPWhat You'll Learn
TOP- 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
- Pair Unified Manager with OnCommand WFA to manage protection relationships and storage objects in the storage infrastructure
- Maintain and protect the Unified Manager database
Outline
TOPModule 1: Review Unified Manager and NetApp Data Management Products
- Overview of NetApp Data Management Solutions
- AIQ Unified Manager
- Features and Functions
- Discovery Process
- Integration with WFA
Module 2: Deploy Unified Manager
- Installation and Configuration tasks
- Supported Host Environments
- Supported Browsers
- Hardware Requirements
- Prepare information for install
- Download software
- Install Unified Manager
- Configure initial settings
- Unified Manager objects
- Manage users
Module 3: Explore the Unified Manager UI
- Dashboards
- Navigation pane
- Type-ahead search
- Favorites
- Column selection
- Export inventory data
- Using filters
Module 4: Customize Unified Manager for Your Storage Environment
- Configure and Customize thresholds
- Configure events and alerts
- Managing SAML authentication
- Annotation and Groups
- Annotation rules
- Group rules
- Group actions
- When to use annotations vs. groups
Module 5: Monitor Storage Objects
- Inventory pages
- Monitor object health
- Monitor object performance
- Object pages
- Protection pages
- Using Unified Manager Rest APIs for NSLM features
Module 6: Manage Data Protection Relationships
- WFA features and functions
- WFA's role in extending DP capabilities in UM
- Pairing UM with WFA
- The WFA UI
- Predefined workflows
- Executing workflows
- Protecting data with UM
Module 7: Reporting in UM
- Understanding reporting in Unified Manager
- Built-in reports
- Sharing and scheduling reports
- Exporting reports
- Creating custom reports
Module 8: Maintain Unified Manager
- Protecting the UM database
- Upgrading UM
- Extending disk space for the UM database
- Troubleshooting and Remediation
- Sending a UM support bundle to NetApp support [/list} [b]Labs: [/b]
- Review Unified Manager
- Deploy UM
- Explore the Unified Manager UI
- Customize UM for the storage environment
- Monitor storage objects
- Manage data protections relationships
- Reporting in UM
- Maintain UM
Prerequisites
TOP- ONTAP Cluster Administration (NA-ONTAP9ADM)
- ONTAP Data Management Fundamentals (DMFWBT)
Who Should Attend
TOPNetApp employees or NetApp partners who are support engineers, Professional Services workers, or Customer Support Services workers