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.

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Prerequisites

  • ONTAP Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM)
  • ONTAP Data Management Fundamentals
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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
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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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