OnCommand Insight documentation
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OnCommand Insight simplifies operational management of hybrid IT infrastructures for on-premise environments and on public and private clouds.
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Release Notes
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What is OnCommand Insight?
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Installation for Linux
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Installation prerequisites
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Insight installation instructions
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Upgrading Insight
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Uninstalling OnCommand Insight
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Installation for Microsoft Windows
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Installation prerequisites
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Insight installation instructions
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Upgrading OnCommand Insight
- Upgrading Insight to version 7.3.12 or later - Windows
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Overview of the OnCommand Insight upgrade process
- Downloading the OnCommand Insight installation packages
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Backing up the databases
- Backing up the security configuration
- Backing up custom Data Warehouse reports
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Performing the software upgrade
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Completing post-upgrade tasks
- Installing data source patches
- Replacing a certificate after upgrading OnCommand Insight
- Increasing Cognos memory
- Restoring the Data Warehouse database
- Restoring custom Data Warehouse reports
- Verifying that Data Warehouse has historical data
- Restoring the performance archive
- Testing the connectors
- Verifying the Extract, Transform, and Load scheduling
- Updating disk models
- Verifying that business intelligence tools are running
- Troubleshooting an upgrade
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Uninstalling the software
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Configuration and administration
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Setting up Insight
- Accessing the web UI
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Installing your Insight licenses
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Setting up and managing user accounts
- Setting a Login Warning Message
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Insight Security (SecurityAdmin Tool)
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Smart Card and certificate login support
- Configuring hosts for Smart Card and certificate login
- Configuring a client to support Smart Card and certificate login
- Enabling CAC on a Linux server
- Configuring Data Warehouse for Smart Card and certificate login
- Configuring Cognos for Smart Card and certificate login (OnCommand Insight 7.3.10 and later)
- Importing CA-signed SSL certificates for Cognos and DWH (Insight 7.3.10 and later)
- Importing SSL certificates
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Setting up weekly backups for your Insight database
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Performance data archiving
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Configuring your email
- Configuring SNMP notifications
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Enabling the syslog facility
- Configuring performance and assure violation notifications
- Configuring system-level event notifications
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Configuring your ASUP processing
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Defining applications
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Your business entities hierarchy
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Defining annotations
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Querying assets
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Managing performance policies
- Importing and Exporting user data
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Insight Security
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Smart Card and certificate login support
- Configuring hosts for Smart Card and certificate login
- Configuring a client to support Smart Card and certificate login
- Enabling CAC on a Linux server
- Configuring Data Warehouse for Smart Card and certificate login
- Configuring Cognos for Smart Card and certificate login (OnCommand Insight 7.3.10 and later)
- Importing CA-signed SSL certificates for Cognos and DWH (Insight 7.3.10 and later)
- Configuring Data Warehouse for Smart Card and certificate login
- Configuring Cognos for Smart Card and certificate login (OnCommand Insight 7.3.10 and later)
- Importing CA-signed SSL certificates for Cognos and DWH (Insight 7.3.10 and later)
- Importing SSL certificates
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Your business entities hierarchy
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Defining annotations
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Querying assets
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Insight data source management
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Setting up your data sources in Insight
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Vendor-specific data source reference
- 3PAR InServ data source
- Amazon AWS EC2 data source
- Brocade Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager data source
- Brocade FC Switch data source
- Brocade Sphereon/Intrepid Switch data source
- Cisco FC Switch Firmware (SNMP) data source
- EMC Celerra data source
- EMC CLARiiON (NaviCLI) data source
- EMC Data Domain data source
- EMC ECC StorageScope data source
- Dell EMC ECS data source
- EMC Isilon data source
- Dell EMC PowerStore data source
- EMC RecoverPoint data source
- EMC Solutions Enabler with SMI-S Performance data source
- EMC VNX data source
- EMC VNXe data source
- EMC VPLEX data source
- EMC XtremIO data source
- Fujitsu Eternus data source
- Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) data source
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HDS HiCommand Device Manager data source
- HDS Ops Center
- HDS NAS (HNAS) data source
- HP CommandView AE data source
- HP EVA Storage data source
- HPE Nimble data source
- Huawei OceanStor data source
- IBM Cleversafe data source
- IBM DS data source
- IBM PowerVM data source
- IBM SVC data source
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring data source
- IBM TotalStorage DS4000 data source
- IBM XIV data source
- Infinidat InfiniBox data source
- Microsoft Azure compute data source
- Azure NetApp Files data source
- Microsoft Hyper-V data source
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NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP data source
- NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP for Unified Manager data source
- NetApp Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode data source
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NetApp E-Series data source
- NetApp Host and VM File Systems data source
- NetApp SolidFire data source
- NetApp StorageGRID data source
- OpenStack data source
- Oracle ZFS data source
- Pure Storage FlashArray data source
- QLogic FC Switch data source
- Red Hat (RHEV) data source
- Violin Flash Memory Array data source
- VMware vSphere data source
- Changing data source credentials
- Changes causing data collection problems
- Examining one data source in detail
- Researching a failed data source
- Controlling data source polling
- Editing data source information
- Editing information for multiple data sources
- Mapping data source tags to annotations
- Deleting a data source
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What data source patches are
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Device resolution
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Maintaining Insight
- Managing Insight
- Monitoring OnCommand Insight system health
- Deleting inactive devices
- Auditing system and user activities
- Monitoring the violations in your network
- Acquisition unit status
- Restoring the Insight database
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Updating expired licenses
- Applying a service pack
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Preparing a special troubleshooting report
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Advanced troubleshooting
- Configuring the number of hours to ignore dynamic data
- Generating logs for Customer Support
- Displaying system information
- Listing installed OnCommand Insight components
- Calculating the number of database objects
- Restarting the OnCommand Insight Server
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Moving MySQL data using the migrate option
- Forcing annotation updates
- Checking the status of server resources
- Finding ghost data sources
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Adding a missing disk model
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Monitoring your environment
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Asset page data
- Balancing network resources
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Examining network performance
- Fibre Channel environment monitoring
- Time-to-live (TTL) and downsampled data
- Pruning of inventory history
- NAS path for VMs
- Capacity as Time Series
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- Data Collector Support Matrix
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Data Warehouse administration
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Welcome to OnCommand Insight Data Warehouse
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Getting started with Data Warehouse
- Accessing the Data Warehouse portal
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Managing Data Warehouse and Reporting user accounts
- Connecting Data Warehouse to OnCommand Insight servers
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Data Warehouse database build from history overview
- Backing up the Data Warehouse database
- Backing up custom reports and report artifacts
- Restoring the Data Warehouse database
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Setting up multiple tenancy in reporting
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Troubleshooting setup issues
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Administrative tasks you can perform using Data Warehouse
- Managing jobs
- Monitoring Data Warehouse health
- Scheduling daily builds
- Configuring a weekly schedule
- Scheduling daily backups
- Running custom scripts in Data Warehouse
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What you can do using annotations
- Setting email notifications
- Accessing the Reporting Portal
- Viewing the Data Warehouse database schema documentation
- Viewing the Data Warehouse database schema
- Viewing system information
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Advanced options
- Skipping failed builds
- Resetting the Data Warehouse database or Reporting server
- Restoring and upgrading reports for versions prior to 6.3
- Accessing MySQL using the command-line interface
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Troubleshooting Data Warehouse
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Reporting
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FAQ
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How-To guides
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Getting Started with Insight
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Creating custom dashboards
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Custom Dashboard concepts
- Custom Dashboard: Virtual Machine Performance
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Example storage node utilization dashboard with variables
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Best Practices for Dashboards and Widgets
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Creating performance policies
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Troubleshooting Fibre Channel BB credit 0 errors
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Analyzing your infrastructure
- Observe an object’s behavior over time
- Compare objects with the top 10 latency total to the average latency for all like objects
- Compare one object’s latency total to the latency total of the top 10 objects
- Compare metrics-A against metrics-B to show categories and anomalies
- Use an expression to identify alternate metrics
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Introduction to minimizing risk in thin provisioning
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Collecting Host and VM file system utilization data
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Configuring your system to report chargeback data
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Ensuring IO density reports describe only internal data volumes
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Collecting integration data
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Analyzing an application performance problem
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Collecting and reporting AWS billing data
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- Data Collector Support Matrix
- Legal notices
