Release notes
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Installation and configuration
Installing Unified Manager on VMware vSphere
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager
What the Unified Manager server does
Active IQ Unified Manager product documentation
Overview of the installation sequence
Requirements for installing Unified Manager
Virtual infrastructure and hardware system requirements
VMware software and installation requirements
Supported browsers
Protocol and port requirements
Completing the worksheet
Installing, upgrading, and removing Unified Manager software
Overview of the deployment process
Deploying Unified Manager
Downloading the Unified Manager installation file
Deploying the Unified Manager virtual appliance
Upgrading Unified Manager
Downloading the Unified Manager upgrade file
Upgrading the Unified Manager virtual appliance
Restarting the Unified Manager virtual machine
Removing Unified Manager
Installing Unified Manager on Red Hat and CentOS Linux
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager
What the Unified Manager server does
Active IQ Unified Manager product documentation
Overview of the installation sequence
Requirements for installing Unified Manager
Virtual infrastructure and hardware system requirements
Linux software and installation requirements
Supported browsers
Protocol and port requirements
Completing the worksheet
Installing, upgrading, and removing Unified Manager software
Overview of the installation process
Setting up required software repositories
Manually configuring the EPEL repository
Manually configuring the MySQL repository
SELinux requirements for mounting /opt/netapp or /opt/netapp/data on an NFS or CIFS share
Installing Unified Manager on Linux systems
Creating a custom user home directory and umadmin password prior to installation
Downloading Unified Manager
Installing Unified Manager
Users created during Unified Manager installation
Changing the JBoss password
Upgrading Unified Manager on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS
Upgrading Unified Manager
Upgrading the host OS from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x to 8.x
Upgrading third-party products
Upgrading OpenJDK on Linux
Upgrading MySQL on Linux
Restarting Unified Manager
Removing Unified Manager
Removing the custom umadmin user and maintenance group
Installing Unified Manager on Microsoft Windows
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager
What the Unified Manager server does
Active IQ Unified Manager product documentation
Overview of the installation sequence
Requirements for installing Unified Manager
Virtual infrastructure and hardware system requirements
Windows software and installation requirements
Supported browsers
Protocol and port requirements
Completing the worksheet
Installing, upgrading, and removing Unified Manager software
Overview of the installation process
Installing Unified Manager on Windows
Installing Unified Manager
Performing an unattended installation of Unified Manager
Changing the JBoss password
Upgrading Unified Manager
Upgrading third-party products
Upgrading OpenJDK
Restarting Unified Manager
Uninstalling Unified Manager
Configuring Unified Manager
Configuring Active IQ Unified Manager
Overview of the configuration sequence
Accessing the Unified Manager web UI
Performing the initial setup of the Unified Manager web UI
Adding clusters
Configuring Unified Manager to send alert notifications
Configuring event notification settings
Enabling remote authentication
Disabling nested groups from remote authentication
Adding authentication servers
Testing the configuration of authentication servers
Adding users
Adding alerts
EMS events that are added automatically to Unified Manager
Subscribing to ONTAP EMS events
Managing SAML authentication settings
Identity provider requirements
Enabling SAML authentication
Changing the local user password
Setting the session inactivity timeout
Changing the Unified Manager host name
Changing the Unified Manager virtual appliance host name
Generating an HTTPS security certificate
Restarting the Unified Manager virtual machine
Changing the Unified Manager host name on Linux systems
Enabling and disabling policy-based storage management
Configuring Unified Manager backup
Using the maintenance console
What functionality the maintenance console provides
What the maintenance user does
Diagnostic user capabilities
Accessing the maintenance console
Accessing the maintenance console using the vSphere VM console
Maintenance console menus
Network Configuration menu
System Configuration menu
Support and Diagnostics menu
Additional menu options
Changing the maintenance user password on Windows
Changing the umadmin password on Linux systems
Changing the ports Unified Manager uses for HTTP and HTTPS protocols
Adding network interfaces
Adding disk space to the Unified Manager database directory
Adding space to the data directory of the Linux host
Adding space to the data disk of the VMware virtual machine
Adding space to the logical drive of the Microsoft Windows server
Installing Unified Manager on VMware vSphere
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager
What the Unified Manager server does
Active IQ Unified Manager product documentation
Overview of the installation sequence
Requirements for installing Unified Manager
Virtual infrastructure and hardware system requirements
VMware software and installation requirements
Supported browsers
Protocol and port requirements
Completing the worksheet
Installing, upgrading, and removing Unified Manager software
Overview of the deployment process
Deploying Unified Manager
Downloading the Unified Manager installation file
Deploying the Unified Manager virtual appliance
Upgrading Unified Manager
Downloading the Unified Manager upgrade file
Upgrading the Unified Manager virtual appliance
Restarting the Unified Manager virtual machine
Removing Unified Manager
Installing Unified Manager on Red Hat and CentOS Linux
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager
What the Unified Manager server does
Active IQ Unified Manager product documentation
Overview of the installation sequence
Requirements for installing Unified Manager
Virtual infrastructure and hardware system requirements
Linux software and installation requirements
Supported browsers
Protocol and port requirements
Completing the worksheet
Installing, upgrading, and removing Unified Manager software
Overview of the installation process
Setting up required software repositories
Manually configuring the EPEL repository
Manually configuring the MySQL repository
SELinux requirements for mounting /opt/netapp or /opt/netapp/data on an NFS or CIFS share
Installing Unified Manager on Linux systems
Creating a custom user home directory and umadmin password prior to installation
Downloading Unified Manager
Installing Unified Manager
Users created during Unified Manager installation
Changing the JBoss password
Upgrading Unified Manager on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS
Upgrading Unified Manager
Upgrading the host OS from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x to 8.x
Upgrading third-party products
Upgrading OpenJDK on Linux
Upgrading MySQL on Linux
Restarting Unified Manager
Removing Unified Manager
Removing the custom umadmin user and maintenance group
Installing Unified Manager on Microsoft Windows
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager
What the Unified Manager server does
Active IQ Unified Manager product documentation
Overview of the installation sequence
Requirements for installing Unified Manager
Virtual infrastructure and hardware system requirements
Windows software and installation requirements
Supported browsers
Protocol and port requirements
Completing the worksheet
Installing, upgrading, and removing Unified Manager software
Overview of the installation process
Installing Unified Manager on Windows
Installing Unified Manager
Performing an unattended installation of Unified Manager
Changing the JBoss password
Upgrading Unified Manager
Upgrading third-party products
Upgrading OpenJDK
Restarting Unified Manager
Uninstalling Unified Manager
Configuring Unified Manager
Configuring Active IQ Unified Manager
Overview of the configuration sequence
Accessing the Unified Manager web UI
Performing the initial setup of the Unified Manager web UI
Adding clusters
Configuring Unified Manager to send alert notifications
Configuring event notification settings
Enabling remote authentication
Disabling nested groups from remote authentication
Adding authentication servers
Testing the configuration of authentication servers
Adding users
Adding alerts
EMS events that are added automatically to Unified Manager
Subscribing to ONTAP EMS events
Managing SAML authentication settings
Identity provider requirements
Enabling SAML authentication
Changing the local user password
Setting the session inactivity timeout
Changing the Unified Manager host name
Changing the Unified Manager virtual appliance host name
Generating an HTTPS security certificate
Restarting the Unified Manager virtual machine
Changing the Unified Manager host name on Linux systems
Enabling and disabling policy-based storage management
Configuring Unified Manager backup
Using the maintenance console
What functionality the maintenance console provides
What the maintenance user does
Diagnostic user capabilities
Accessing the maintenance console
Accessing the maintenance console using the vSphere VM console
Maintenance console menus
Network Configuration menu
System Configuration menu
Support and Diagnostics menu
Additional menu options
Changing the maintenance user password on Windows
Changing the umadmin password on Linux systems
Changing the ports Unified Manager uses for HTTP and HTTPS protocols
Adding network interfaces
Adding disk space to the Unified Manager database directory
Adding space to the data directory of the Linux host
Adding space to the data disk of the VMware virtual machine
Adding space to the logical drive of the Microsoft Windows server
Storage monitoring and reporting
Workflows for managing cluster health
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager health monitoring
Unified Manager health monitoring features
Unified Manager interfaces used to manage storage system health
Active IQ Unified Manager product documentation
Common Unified Manager health workflows and tasks
Monitoring and troubleshooting data availability
Scanning for and resolving storage failover interconnect link down conditions
Performing corrective action for storage failover interconnect links down
Resolving volume offline issues
Performing diagnostic actions for volume offline conditions
Determining if a volume is offline because its host node is down
Determining if a volume is offline and its SVM is stopped because a node is down
Determining if a volume is offline because of broken disks in an aggregate
Resolving capacity issues
Performing suggested remedial actions for a full volume
Managing health thresholds
What storage capacity health thresholds are
Configuring global health threshold settings
Configuring global aggregate health threshold values
Configuring global volume health threshold values
Configuring global qtree health threshold values
Configuring lag threshold settings for unmanaged protection relationships
Editing individual aggregate health threshold settings
Editing individual volume health threshold settings
Editing individual qtree health threshold settings
Managing cluster security objectives
What security criteria is being evaluated
Cluster compliance categories
SVM compliance categories
Volume compliance categories
What does not compliant mean
Viewing high-level cluster security status
Viewing detailed security status for clusters and SVMs
Viewing security events that may require software or firmware updates
Viewing how user authentication is being managed on all clusters
Viewing the encryption status of all volumes
Viewing all active security events
Adding alerts for security events
Disabling specific security events
Security events
Managing backup and restore operations
Backup and restore for Unified Manager on virtual appliance
Backup and restore using a MySQL database dump
Configuring the destination and schedule for database dump backups
What a database restore is
Restoring a MySQL database backup on a Linux system
Restoring a MySQL database backup on Windows
Backup and restore using NetApp Snapshots
Configuring backup on Linux
Configuring Snapshot backup location
Specifying the destination location for Snapshot backups
Configuring backup on Windows
Configuring backup location for Windows
Configuring ONTAP cluster
Configuring Windows host machine
Specifying the destination location for Windows Snapshot backups
Configuring NetApp Snapshot backup from maintenance console
Defining a backup schedule for Linux and Windows
Restoring a Snapshot backup for Linux and Windows
Modifying the backup type
On-demand backup for Unified Manager
Migrating a Unified Manager virtual appliance to a Linux system
Managing scripts
How scripts work with alerts
Adding scripts
Deleting scripts
Testing script execution
Managing and monitoring groups
Understanding groups
What a group is
How group rules work for groups
How group actions work on storage objects
Adding groups
Editing groups
Deleting groups
Adding group rules
Editing group rules
Deleting group rules
Adding group actions
Editing group actions
Configuring volume health thresholds for groups
Deleting group actions
Reordering group actions
Prioritizing storage object events using annotations
Understanding more about annotations
What annotations are
How annotation rules work in Unified Manager
Description of predefined annotation values
Adding annotations dynamically
Adding values to annotations
Deleting annotations
Viewing the annotation list and details
Deleting values from annotations
Creating annotation rules
Adding annotations manually to individual storage objects
Editing annotation rules
Configuring conditions for annotation rules
Deleting annotation rules
Reordering annotation rules
What a Unified Manager maintenance window is
Scheduling a maintenance window to disable cluster event notifications
Changing or canceling a scheduled maintenance window
Viewing events that occurred during a maintenance window
Managing SAML authentication settings
Identity provider requirements
Enabling SAML authentication
Changing the identity provider used for SAML authentication
Updating SAML authentication settings after Unified Manager security certificate change
Disabling SAML authentication
Disabling SAML authentication from the maintenance console
Sending a support bundle through web UI and maintenance console
Sending AutoSupport messages and support bundles to technical support
Accessing the maintenance console
Generating and uploading a support bundle
Retrieving the support bundle using a Windows client
Retrieving the support bundle using a UNIX or Linux client
Sending a support bundle to technical support
Related tasks and reference information
Adding and reviewing notes about an event
Assigning events to specific users
Acknowledging and resolving events
Event details page
What the Event Information section displays
What the System Diagnosis section displays
What the Suggested Actions section displays
Description of event severity types
Description of event impact levels
Description of event impact areas
Cluster components and why they can be in contention
Adding alerts
Health/Volume details page
Health/Storage Virtual Machine details page
Health/Cluster details page
Health/Aggregate details page
Adding users
Creating a database user
Definitions of user roles
Definitions of user types
Unified Manager user roles and capabilities
Generating an HTTPS security certificate
Supported Unified Manager CLI commands
Workflows for managing cluster performance
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager performance monitoring
Unified Manager performance monitoring features
Unified Manager interfaces used to manage storage system performance
Active IQ Unified Manager product documentation
Cluster configuration and performance data collection activity
What a data continuity collection cycle is
What the timestamp means in collected data and events
Navigating performance workflows in the Unified Manager GUI
Logging in to the UI
Graphical interface and navigational paths
Monitor cluster object navigation
Monitor cluster performance navigation
Event investigation navigation
Searching for storage objects
Filtering inventory page content
Understanding performance events and alerts
Sources of performance events
Performance event severity types
Configuration changes detected by Unified Manager
What happens when an event is received
What information is contained in an alert email
Adding alerts
Adding alerts for performance events
Types of system-defined performance threshold policies
Managing performance thresholds
How user-defined performance threshold policies work
What happens when a performance threshold policy is breached
What performance counters can be tracked using thresholds
What objects and counters can be used in combination threshold policies
Creating user-defined performance threshold policies
Assigning performance threshold policies to storage objects
Viewing performance threshold policies
Editing user-defined performance threshold policies
Removing performance threshold policies from storage objects
What happens when a performance threshold policy is changed
What happens to performance threshold policies when an object is moved
Monitoring cluster performance from the Dashboard
Understanding performance panels on the Dashboard
Performance banner messages and descriptions
Changing the performance statistics collection interval
Troubleshooting workloads using the workload analyzer
What data does the workload analyzer display
When would I use the workload analyzer
Using the workload analyzer
Monitoring cluster performance from the Performance Cluster Landing page
Understanding the Performance Cluster Landing page
Performance Cluster Landing page
Performance Cluster Summary page
Cluster performance events pane
Managed Objects pane
Top Performers page
Monitoring performance using the Performance Inventory pages
Object monitoring using the Performance object inventory pages
Refining Performance inventory page contents
Searching on Object Inventory Performance pages
Sorting on the Object Inventory Performance pages
Filtering data in the Object Inventory Performance pages
Understanding the Unified Manager recommendations to tier data to the cloud
Monitoring performance using the Performance Explorer pages
Understanding the root object
Apply filtering to reduce the list of correlated objects in the grid
Specifying a time range for correlated objects
Selecting a predefined time range
Specifying a custom time range
Defining the list of correlated objects for comparison graphing
Understanding counter charts
Types of performance counter charts
Selecting performance charts to display
Expanding the Counter Charts pane
Changing the Counter Charts focus to a shorter period of time
Viewing event details in the Events Timeline
Counter Charts Zoom View
Displaying the Counter Charts Zoom View
Specifying the time range in Zoom View
Selecting performance thresholds in Counter Charts Zoom View
Viewing volume latency by cluster component
Viewing SVM IOPS traffic by protocol
Viewing volume and LUN latency charts to verify performance guarantee
Viewing the performance for All SAN Array clusters
Viewing node IOPS based on workloads that reside only on the local node
Components of the Object Landing pages
Summary page
Components of the Performance Explorer page
Managing performance using QoS policy group information
How storage QoS can control workload throughput
Viewing all QoS policy groups available on all clusters
Viewing volumes or LUNs that are in the same QoS policy group
Viewing the QoS policy group settings applied to specific volumes or LUNs
Viewing performance charts to compare volumes or LUNs that are in the same QoS policy group
How different types of QoS policies are displayed in the throughput charts
Viewing workload QoS minimum and maximum settings in the Performance Explorer
Managing performance using performance capacity and available IOPS information
What performance capacity used is
What the performance capacity used value means
What available IOPS is
Viewing node and aggregate performance capacity used values
Viewing node and aggregate available IOPS values
Viewing performance capacity counter charts to identify issues
Performance capacity used performance threshold conditions
Using the performance capacity used counter to manage performance
Understanding and using the Node Failover Planning page
Using the Node Failover Planning page to determine corrective actions
Components of the Node Failover Planning page
Using a threshold policy with the Node Failover Planning page
Using the Performance Capacity Used Breakdown chart for failover planning
Collecting data and monitoring workload performance
Types of workloads monitored by Unified Manager
Workload performance measurement values
What the expected range of performance is
How the latency forecast is used in performance analysis
How Unified Manager uses workload latency to identify performance issues
How cluster operations can affect workload latency
Performance monitoring of MetroCluster configurations
Volume behavior during switchover and switchback
What performance events are
Performance event analysis and notification
How Unified Manager determines the performance impact for an event
Cluster components and why they can be in contention
Roles of workloads involved in a performance event
Analyzing performance events
Displaying information about performance events
Analyzing events from user-defined performance thresholds
Responding to user-defined performance threshold events
Analyzing events from system-defined performance thresholds
Responding to system-defined performance threshold events
Responding to QoS policy group performance events
Understanding events from adaptive QoS policies that have a defined block size
Responding to node resources overutilized performance events
Responding to cluster imbalance performance events
Analyzing events from dynamic performance thresholds
Identifying victim workloads involved in a dynamic performance event
Identifying bully workloads involved in a dynamic performance event
Identifying shark workloads involved in a dynamic performance event
Performance event analysis for a MetroCluster configuration
Analyzing a dynamic performance event on a cluster in a MetroCluster configuration
Analyzing a dynamic performance event for a remote cluster on a MetroCluster configuration
Responding to a dynamic performance event caused by QoS policy group throttling
Responding to a dynamic performance event caused by a disk failure
Responding to a dynamic performance event caused by HA takeover
Setting up a connection between a Unified Manager server and an external data provider
Performance data that can be sent to an external server
Setting up Graphite to receive performance data from Unified Manager
Configuring a connection from a Unified Manager server to an external data provider
Generating custom reports
Unified Manager reporting
Access points for generating reports
Unified Manager databases accessible for custom reporting
Unified Manager REST APIs that can be used for reporting
Understanding reports
Understanding the view and report relationship
Types of reports
Reporting limitations
Working with reports
Report workflow
Reporting quick start
Searching for a scheduled report
Customizing reports
Customizing columns
Filtering data
Sorting data
Using search to refine your view
Using Excel to customize your report
Downloading reports
Scheduling reports
Scheduling a report
Scheduling imported .rptdesign reports
Managing report schedules
Editing scheduled reports
Deleting scheduled reports
Sample custom reports
Customizing cluster storage reports
Creating a report to view capacity by cluster model
Creating a report to identify clusters with the most unallocated LUN capacity
Creating a report to view HA pairs with the most available capacity
Creating a report to view nodes running older versions of ONTAP
Customizing aggregate capacity reports
Creating a report to view aggregates reaching full capacity
Creating a report to view aggregates that are 80% or more full
Creating a report to view aggregates that are overcommitted
Customizing volume capacity reports
Creating a report to identify volumes nearing full capacity that have Snapshot Autodelete turned off
Creating a report to identify space used by volumes with thin provisioning disabled
Creating a report to identify volumes on FabricPool aggregates that should move data to the cloud tier
Customizing Qtree capacity reports
Creating a report to view qtrees that are nearly full
Customizing NFS share reports
Creating a report to view volumes that have an inaccessible mount path
Creating a report to view volumes that are using the default export policy
Customizing storage VM reports
Creating a report to view storage VMs reaching the maximum volume limit
Creating a report to view stopped storage VMs
Customizing volume relationship reports
Creating a report to group volume relationships by source of failure
Creating a report to group volume relationships by issue
Creating a report to view volume transfer trends at specific time intervals
Creating a report to view failed or successful volume transfer
Creating a report to view volume transfers based on transfer size
Creating a report to view volume transfers grouped by day
Customizing volume performance reports
Creating a report to view volumes with a high amount of cold data on an aggregate that is not FabricPool-enabled
Sample Microsoft Excel reports
Creating a report to show an aggregate capacity table and chart
Creating a report to show aggregate total versus available capacity charts
Creating a report to view available volume capacity charts
Creating a report to view aggregates that have the most available IOPS
Protecting and restoring data
Creating, monitoring, and troubleshooting protection relationships
Types of SnapMirror protection
Setting up protection relationships in Unified Manager
Configuring a connection between Workflow Automation and Unified Manager
Verifying Unified Manager data source caching in Workflow Automation
What happens when OnCommand Workflow Automation is reinstalled or upgraded
Removing OnCommand Workflow Automation setup from Unified Manager
Performing a protection relationship failover and failback
Breaking a SnapMirror relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Reversing protection relationships from the Volume / Health details page
Removing a protection relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Resynchronizing protection relationships from the Volume / Health details page
Resolving a protection job failure
Identifying the problem and performing corrective actions for a failed protection job
Resolving lag issues
Managing and monitoring protection relationships
Types of SnapMirror protection
Viewing volume protection relationships
Creating a SnapVault protection relationship from the Health: All Volumes view
Creating a SnapVault protection relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Creating a SnapMirror protection relationship from the Health: All Volumes view
Creating a SnapMirror protection relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Creating a SnapMirror relationship with version-flexible replication
Creating SnapMirror relationships with version-flexible replication with backup option
Configuring destination efficiency settings
Creating SnapMirror and SnapVault schedules
Creating cascade or fanout relationships to extend protection from an existing protection relationship
Editing protection relationships from the Volume Relationships page
Editing protection relationships from the Volume / Health details page
Creating a SnapMirror policy to maximize transfer efficiency
Creating a SnapVault policy to maximize transfer efficiency
Aborting an active data protection transfer from the Volume Relationships page
Aborting an active data protection transfer from the Volume / Health details page
Quiescing a protection relationship from the Volume Relationships page
Quiescing a protection relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Breaking a SnapMirror relationship from the Volume Relationships page
Breaking a SnapMirror relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Removing a protection relationship from the Volume Relationships page
Removing a protection relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Resuming scheduled transfers on a quiesced relationship from the Volume Relationships page
Resuming scheduled transfers on a quiesced relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Initializing or updating protection relationships from the Volume Relationships page
Initializing or updating protection relationships from the Volume / Health details page
Resynchronizing protection relationships from the Volume Relationships page
Resynchronizing protection relationships from the Volume / Health details page
Reversing protection relationships from the Volume Relationships page
Reversing protection relationships from the Volume / Health details page
Restoring data
Restoring data using the Volume details page
What resource pools are
Creating resource pools
Editing resource pools
Viewing resource pools inventory
Adding resource pool members
Removing aggregates from resource pools
Deleting resource pools
Monitoring Storage VM Disaster Recovery protection relationships
Monitoring Storage VMs using Relationships page
Viewing protection relationships from Storage VMs page
Viewing Storage VMs based on protection status
Understanding Storage VM Peers
SVM and resource pool requirements to support storage services
Creating Storage VM Peers
Viewing Storage VM Peers
Deleting Storage VM Peers
What jobs are
Monitoring jobs
Viewing job details
Aborting jobs
Retrying a failed protection job
Description of Protection relationships windows and dialog boxes
Resource Pools page
Create Resource Pool dialog box
Edit Resource Pool dialog box
Aggregates dialog box
SVM Associations page
Create Storage Virtual Machine Associations wizard
Jobs page
Job details page
Advanced Secondary Settings dialog box
Advanced Destination Settings dialog box
Restore dialog box
Browse Directories dialog box
Configure Protection dialog box
Create New Schedule dialog box
Create SnapMirror Policy dialog box
Create SnapVault Policy dialog box
Edit Relationship dialog box
Initialize/Update dialog box
Resynchronize dialog box
Select Source Snapshot Copy dialog box
Reverse Resync dialog box
Relationship: All Relationships view
Relationship: Last 1 month Transfer Status view
Relationship: Last 1 month Transfer Rate view
Managing your environment using REST APIs
Getting started with Active IQ Unified Manager
Audience for this guide
Active IQ Unified Manager API access and categories
REST services offered in Active IQ Unified Manager
API version in Active IQ Unified Manager
Storage resources in ONTAP
REST API access and authentication in Active IQ Unified Manager
HTTP status codes used in Active IQ Unified Manager
Recommendations for using the APIs for Active IQ Unified Manager
Logs for troubleshooting
Job objects asynchronous processes
Hello API server
Unified Manager REST APIs
Managing storage objects in a data center
Accessing ONTAP APIs through proxy access
Performing administrative tasks
Managing users
Viewing performance metrics
Viewing Jobs
Viewing events and system details
Managing workloads
Viewing storage workloads
Managing access endpoints
Managing Active Directory mapping
Managing file shares
Managing LUNs
Managing Performance Service Levels
Managing Storage Efficiency Policies
Common workflows for storage management
Determining space issues in aggregates
Determining issues in storage objects using events
Troubleshooting ONTAP volumes by using gateway APIs
Workflows for workload management
Verifying SVMs on clusters
Provisioning CIFS and NFS file shares
Provisioning LUNs
Modifying storage workloads
Modifying an NFS file share to support CIFS
Workflows for managing cluster health
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager health monitoring
Unified Manager health monitoring features
Unified Manager interfaces used to manage storage system health
Active IQ Unified Manager product documentation
Common Unified Manager health workflows and tasks
Monitoring and troubleshooting data availability
Scanning for and resolving storage failover interconnect link down conditions
Performing corrective action for storage failover interconnect links down
Resolving volume offline issues
Performing diagnostic actions for volume offline conditions
Determining if a volume is offline because its host node is down
Determining if a volume is offline and its SVM is stopped because a node is down
Determining if a volume is offline because of broken disks in an aggregate
Resolving capacity issues
Performing suggested remedial actions for a full volume
Managing health thresholds
What storage capacity health thresholds are
Configuring global health threshold settings
Configuring global aggregate health threshold values
Configuring global volume health threshold values
Configuring global qtree health threshold values
Configuring lag threshold settings for unmanaged protection relationships
Editing individual aggregate health threshold settings
Editing individual volume health threshold settings
Editing individual qtree health threshold settings
Managing cluster security objectives
What security criteria is being evaluated
Cluster compliance categories
SVM compliance categories
Volume compliance categories
What does not compliant mean
Viewing high-level cluster security status
Viewing detailed security status for clusters and SVMs
Viewing security events that may require software or firmware updates
Viewing how user authentication is being managed on all clusters
Viewing the encryption status of all volumes
Viewing all active security events
Adding alerts for security events
Disabling specific security events
Security events
Managing backup and restore operations
Backup and restore for Unified Manager on virtual appliance
Backup and restore using a MySQL database dump
Configuring the destination and schedule for database dump backups
What a database restore is
Restoring a MySQL database backup on a Linux system
Restoring a MySQL database backup on Windows
Backup and restore using NetApp Snapshots
Configuring backup on Linux
Configuring Snapshot backup location
Specifying the destination location for Snapshot backups
Configuring backup on Windows
Configuring backup location for Windows
Configuring ONTAP cluster
Configuring Windows host machine
Specifying the destination location for Windows Snapshot backups
Configuring NetApp Snapshot backup from maintenance console
Defining a backup schedule for Linux and Windows
Restoring a Snapshot backup for Linux and Windows
Modifying the backup type
On-demand backup for Unified Manager
Migrating a Unified Manager virtual appliance to a Linux system
Managing scripts
How scripts work with alerts
Adding scripts
Deleting scripts
Testing script execution
Managing and monitoring groups
Understanding groups
What a group is
How group rules work for groups
How group actions work on storage objects
Adding groups
Editing groups
Deleting groups
Adding group rules
Editing group rules
Deleting group rules
Adding group actions
Editing group actions
Configuring volume health thresholds for groups
Deleting group actions
Reordering group actions
Prioritizing storage object events using annotations
Understanding more about annotations
What annotations are
How annotation rules work in Unified Manager
Description of predefined annotation values
Adding annotations dynamically
Adding values to annotations
Deleting annotations
Viewing the annotation list and details
Deleting values from annotations
Creating annotation rules
Adding annotations manually to individual storage objects
Editing annotation rules
Configuring conditions for annotation rules
Deleting annotation rules
Reordering annotation rules
What a Unified Manager maintenance window is
Scheduling a maintenance window to disable cluster event notifications
Changing or canceling a scheduled maintenance window
Viewing events that occurred during a maintenance window
Managing SAML authentication settings
Identity provider requirements
Enabling SAML authentication
Changing the identity provider used for SAML authentication
Updating SAML authentication settings after Unified Manager security certificate change
Disabling SAML authentication
Disabling SAML authentication from the maintenance console
Sending a support bundle through web UI and maintenance console
Sending AutoSupport messages and support bundles to technical support
Accessing the maintenance console
Generating and uploading a support bundle
Retrieving the support bundle using a Windows client
Retrieving the support bundle using a UNIX or Linux client
Sending a support bundle to technical support
Related tasks and reference information
Adding and reviewing notes about an event
Assigning events to specific users
Acknowledging and resolving events
Event details page
What the Event Information section displays
What the System Diagnosis section displays
What the Suggested Actions section displays
Description of event severity types
Description of event impact levels
Description of event impact areas
Cluster components and why they can be in contention
Adding alerts
Health/Volume details page
Health/Storage Virtual Machine details page
Health/Cluster details page
Health/Aggregate details page
Adding users
Creating a database user
Definitions of user roles
Definitions of user types
Unified Manager user roles and capabilities
Generating an HTTPS security certificate
Supported Unified Manager CLI commands
Workflows for managing cluster performance
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager performance monitoring
Unified Manager performance monitoring features
Unified Manager interfaces used to manage storage system performance
Active IQ Unified Manager product documentation
Cluster configuration and performance data collection activity
What a data continuity collection cycle is
What the timestamp means in collected data and events
Navigating performance workflows in the Unified Manager GUI
Logging in to the UI
Graphical interface and navigational paths
Monitor cluster object navigation
Monitor cluster performance navigation
Event investigation navigation
Searching for storage objects
Filtering inventory page content
Understanding performance events and alerts
Sources of performance events
Performance event severity types
Configuration changes detected by Unified Manager
What happens when an event is received
What information is contained in an alert email
Adding alerts
Adding alerts for performance events
Types of system-defined performance threshold policies
Managing performance thresholds
How user-defined performance threshold policies work
What happens when a performance threshold policy is breached
What performance counters can be tracked using thresholds
What objects and counters can be used in combination threshold policies
Creating user-defined performance threshold policies
Assigning performance threshold policies to storage objects
Viewing performance threshold policies
Editing user-defined performance threshold policies
Removing performance threshold policies from storage objects
What happens when a performance threshold policy is changed
What happens to performance threshold policies when an object is moved
Monitoring cluster performance from the Dashboard
Understanding performance panels on the Dashboard
Performance banner messages and descriptions
Changing the performance statistics collection interval
Troubleshooting workloads using the workload analyzer
What data does the workload analyzer display
When would I use the workload analyzer
Using the workload analyzer
Monitoring cluster performance from the Performance Cluster Landing page
Understanding the Performance Cluster Landing page
Performance Cluster Landing page
Performance Cluster Summary page
Cluster performance events pane
Managed Objects pane
Top Performers page
Monitoring performance using the Performance Inventory pages
Object monitoring using the Performance object inventory pages
Refining Performance inventory page contents
Searching on Object Inventory Performance pages
Sorting on the Object Inventory Performance pages
Filtering data in the Object Inventory Performance pages
Understanding the Unified Manager recommendations to tier data to the cloud
Monitoring performance using the Performance Explorer pages
Understanding the root object
Apply filtering to reduce the list of correlated objects in the grid
Specifying a time range for correlated objects
Selecting a predefined time range
Specifying a custom time range
Defining the list of correlated objects for comparison graphing
Understanding counter charts
Types of performance counter charts
Selecting performance charts to display
Expanding the Counter Charts pane
Changing the Counter Charts focus to a shorter period of time
Viewing event details in the Events Timeline
Counter Charts Zoom View
Displaying the Counter Charts Zoom View
Specifying the time range in Zoom View
Selecting performance thresholds in Counter Charts Zoom View
Viewing volume latency by cluster component
Viewing SVM IOPS traffic by protocol
Viewing volume and LUN latency charts to verify performance guarantee
Viewing the performance for All SAN Array clusters
Viewing node IOPS based on workloads that reside only on the local node
Components of the Object Landing pages
Summary page
Components of the Performance Explorer page
Managing performance using QoS policy group information
How storage QoS can control workload throughput
Viewing all QoS policy groups available on all clusters
Viewing volumes or LUNs that are in the same QoS policy group
Viewing the QoS policy group settings applied to specific volumes or LUNs
Viewing performance charts to compare volumes or LUNs that are in the same QoS policy group
How different types of QoS policies are displayed in the throughput charts
Viewing workload QoS minimum and maximum settings in the Performance Explorer
Managing performance using performance capacity and available IOPS information
What performance capacity used is
What the performance capacity used value means
What available IOPS is
Viewing node and aggregate performance capacity used values
Viewing node and aggregate available IOPS values
Viewing performance capacity counter charts to identify issues
Performance capacity used performance threshold conditions
Using the performance capacity used counter to manage performance
Understanding and using the Node Failover Planning page
Using the Node Failover Planning page to determine corrective actions
Components of the Node Failover Planning page
Using a threshold policy with the Node Failover Planning page
Using the Performance Capacity Used Breakdown chart for failover planning
Collecting data and monitoring workload performance
Types of workloads monitored by Unified Manager
Workload performance measurement values
What the expected range of performance is
How the latency forecast is used in performance analysis
How Unified Manager uses workload latency to identify performance issues
How cluster operations can affect workload latency
Performance monitoring of MetroCluster configurations
Volume behavior during switchover and switchback
What performance events are
Performance event analysis and notification
How Unified Manager determines the performance impact for an event
Cluster components and why they can be in contention
Roles of workloads involved in a performance event
Analyzing performance events
Displaying information about performance events
Analyzing events from user-defined performance thresholds
Responding to user-defined performance threshold events
Analyzing events from system-defined performance thresholds
Responding to system-defined performance threshold events
Responding to QoS policy group performance events
Understanding events from adaptive QoS policies that have a defined block size
Responding to node resources overutilized performance events
Responding to cluster imbalance performance events
Analyzing events from dynamic performance thresholds
Identifying victim workloads involved in a dynamic performance event
Identifying bully workloads involved in a dynamic performance event
Identifying shark workloads involved in a dynamic performance event
Performance event analysis for a MetroCluster configuration
Analyzing a dynamic performance event on a cluster in a MetroCluster configuration
Analyzing a dynamic performance event for a remote cluster on a MetroCluster configuration
Responding to a dynamic performance event caused by QoS policy group throttling
Responding to a dynamic performance event caused by a disk failure
Responding to a dynamic performance event caused by HA takeover
Setting up a connection between a Unified Manager server and an external data provider
Performance data that can be sent to an external server
Setting up Graphite to receive performance data from Unified Manager
Configuring a connection from a Unified Manager server to an external data provider
Generating custom reports
Unified Manager reporting
Access points for generating reports
Unified Manager databases accessible for custom reporting
Unified Manager REST APIs that can be used for reporting
Understanding reports
Understanding the view and report relationship
Types of reports
Reporting limitations
Working with reports
Report workflow
Reporting quick start
Searching for a scheduled report
Customizing reports
Customizing columns
Filtering data
Sorting data
Using search to refine your view
Using Excel to customize your report
Downloading reports
Scheduling reports
Scheduling a report
Scheduling imported .rptdesign reports
Managing report schedules
Editing scheduled reports
Deleting scheduled reports
Sample custom reports
Customizing cluster storage reports
Creating a report to view capacity by cluster model
Creating a report to identify clusters with the most unallocated LUN capacity
Creating a report to view HA pairs with the most available capacity
Creating a report to view nodes running older versions of ONTAP
Customizing aggregate capacity reports
Creating a report to view aggregates reaching full capacity
Creating a report to view aggregates that are 80% or more full
Creating a report to view aggregates that are overcommitted
Customizing volume capacity reports
Creating a report to identify volumes nearing full capacity that have Snapshot Autodelete turned off
Creating a report to identify space used by volumes with thin provisioning disabled
Creating a report to identify volumes on FabricPool aggregates that should move data to the cloud tier
Customizing Qtree capacity reports
Creating a report to view qtrees that are nearly full
Customizing NFS share reports
Creating a report to view volumes that have an inaccessible mount path
Creating a report to view volumes that are using the default export policy
Customizing storage VM reports
Creating a report to view storage VMs reaching the maximum volume limit
Creating a report to view stopped storage VMs
Customizing volume relationship reports
Creating a report to group volume relationships by source of failure
Creating a report to group volume relationships by issue
Creating a report to view volume transfer trends at specific time intervals
Creating a report to view failed or successful volume transfer
Creating a report to view volume transfers based on transfer size
Creating a report to view volume transfers grouped by day
Customizing volume performance reports
Creating a report to view volumes with a high amount of cold data on an aggregate that is not FabricPool-enabled
Sample Microsoft Excel reports
Creating a report to show an aggregate capacity table and chart
Creating a report to show aggregate total versus available capacity charts
Creating a report to view available volume capacity charts
Creating a report to view aggregates that have the most available IOPS
Protecting and restoring data
Creating, monitoring, and troubleshooting protection relationships
Types of SnapMirror protection
Setting up protection relationships in Unified Manager
Configuring a connection between Workflow Automation and Unified Manager
Verifying Unified Manager data source caching in Workflow Automation
What happens when OnCommand Workflow Automation is reinstalled or upgraded
Removing OnCommand Workflow Automation setup from Unified Manager
Performing a protection relationship failover and failback
Breaking a SnapMirror relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Reversing protection relationships from the Volume / Health details page
Removing a protection relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Resynchronizing protection relationships from the Volume / Health details page
Resolving a protection job failure
Identifying the problem and performing corrective actions for a failed protection job
Resolving lag issues
Managing and monitoring protection relationships
Types of SnapMirror protection
Viewing volume protection relationships
Creating a SnapVault protection relationship from the Health: All Volumes view
Creating a SnapVault protection relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Creating a SnapMirror protection relationship from the Health: All Volumes view
Creating a SnapMirror protection relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Creating a SnapMirror relationship with version-flexible replication
Creating SnapMirror relationships with version-flexible replication with backup option
Configuring destination efficiency settings
Creating SnapMirror and SnapVault schedules
Creating cascade or fanout relationships to extend protection from an existing protection relationship
Editing protection relationships from the Volume Relationships page
Editing protection relationships from the Volume / Health details page
Creating a SnapMirror policy to maximize transfer efficiency
Creating a SnapVault policy to maximize transfer efficiency
Aborting an active data protection transfer from the Volume Relationships page
Aborting an active data protection transfer from the Volume / Health details page
Quiescing a protection relationship from the Volume Relationships page
Quiescing a protection relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Breaking a SnapMirror relationship from the Volume Relationships page
Breaking a SnapMirror relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Removing a protection relationship from the Volume Relationships page
Removing a protection relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Resuming scheduled transfers on a quiesced relationship from the Volume Relationships page
Resuming scheduled transfers on a quiesced relationship from the Volume / Health details page
Initializing or updating protection relationships from the Volume Relationships page
Initializing or updating protection relationships from the Volume / Health details page
Resynchronizing protection relationships from the Volume Relationships page
Resynchronizing protection relationships from the Volume / Health details page
Reversing protection relationships from the Volume Relationships page
Reversing protection relationships from the Volume / Health details page
Restoring data
Restoring data using the Volume details page
What resource pools are
Creating resource pools
Editing resource pools
Viewing resource pools inventory
Adding resource pool members
Removing aggregates from resource pools
Deleting resource pools
Monitoring Storage VM Disaster Recovery protection relationships
Monitoring Storage VMs using Relationships page
Viewing protection relationships from Storage VMs page
Viewing Storage VMs based on protection status
Understanding Storage VM Peers
SVM and resource pool requirements to support storage services
Creating Storage VM Peers
Viewing Storage VM Peers
Deleting Storage VM Peers
What jobs are
Monitoring jobs
Viewing job details
Aborting jobs
Retrying a failed protection job
Description of Protection relationships windows and dialog boxes
Resource Pools page
Create Resource Pool dialog box
Edit Resource Pool dialog box
Aggregates dialog box
SVM Associations page
Create Storage Virtual Machine Associations wizard
Jobs page
Job details page
Advanced Secondary Settings dialog box
Advanced Destination Settings dialog box
Restore dialog box
Browse Directories dialog box
Configure Protection dialog box
Create New Schedule dialog box
Create SnapMirror Policy dialog box
Create SnapVault Policy dialog box
Edit Relationship dialog box
Initialize/Update dialog box
Resynchronize dialog box
Select Source Snapshot Copy dialog box
Reverse Resync dialog box
Relationship: All Relationships view
Relationship: Last 1 month Transfer Status view
Relationship: Last 1 month Transfer Rate view
Managing your environment using REST APIs
Getting started with Active IQ Unified Manager
Audience for this guide
Active IQ Unified Manager API access and categories
REST services offered in Active IQ Unified Manager
API version in Active IQ Unified Manager
Storage resources in ONTAP
REST API access and authentication in Active IQ Unified Manager
HTTP status codes used in Active IQ Unified Manager
Recommendations for using the APIs for Active IQ Unified Manager
Logs for troubleshooting
Job objects asynchronous processes
Hello API server
Unified Manager REST APIs
Managing storage objects in a data center
Accessing ONTAP APIs through proxy access
Performing administrative tasks
Managing users
Viewing performance metrics
Viewing Jobs
Viewing events and system details
Managing workloads
Viewing storage workloads
Managing access endpoints
Managing Active Directory mapping
Managing file shares
Managing LUNs
Managing Performance Service Levels
Managing Storage Efficiency Policies
Common workflows for storage management
Determining space issues in aggregates
Determining issues in storage objects using events
Troubleshooting ONTAP volumes by using gateway APIs
Workflows for workload management
Verifying SVMs on clusters
Provisioning CIFS and NFS file shares
Provisioning LUNs
Modifying storage workloads
Modifying an NFS file share to support CIFS
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