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Install Unified Manager on VMware vSphere systems
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager
Requirements for installing Unified Manager
Installing, upgrading, and removing Unified Manager software
Install Unified Manager on Linux systems
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager
Requirements for installing Unified Manager
Installing, upgrading, and removing Unified Manager software
Setting up required software repositories
Installing Unified Manager on Linux systems
Upgrading Unified Manager on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS
Upgrading third-party products post Unified Manager installation
Install Unified Manager on Windows systems
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager
Requirements for installing Unified Manager
Installing, upgrading, and removing Unified Manager software
Perform configuration and administrative tasks
Configuring Active IQ Unified Manager
Configuring Unified Manager to send alert notifications
Changing the Unified Manager host name
Managing feature settings
Using the maintenance console
Maintenance console menus
Adding disk space to the Unified Manager database directory
Managing user access
Managing SAML authentication settings
Managing authentication
Managing security certificates
Monitor and manage storage
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager
Understanding the user interface
Monitoring and managing clusters from the dashboard
Managing clusters
Monitoring VMware virtual infrastructure
Provisioning and managing workloads
Managing and monitoring MetroCluster configurations
Managing quotas
Troubleshooting
Manage events and alerts
Managing events
What Event Management System events are
What a Unified Manager maintenance window is
Understanding more about events
List of events and severity types
Description of event windows and dialog boxes
Managing alerts
Adding alerts
Description of alert windows and dialog boxes
Managing scripts
Monitor and manage cluster performance
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager performance monitoring
Navigating performance workflows in the Unified Manager GUI
Monitoring cluster performance from the Dashboard
Troubleshooting workloads using the workload analyzer
Monitoring cluster performance from the Performance Cluster Landing page
Monitoring performance using the Performance Inventory pages
Monitoring performance using the Performance Explorer pages
Specifying a time range for correlated objects
Counter Charts Zoom View
Components of the Object Landing pages
Managing performance using QoS policy group information
Managing performance using performance capacity and available IOPS information
Understanding and using the Node Failover Planning page
Collecting data and monitoring workload performance
Understanding performance events and alerts
Managing performance thresholds
Analyzing performance events
Analyzing events from user-defined performance thresholds
Analyzing events from system-defined performance thresholds
Analyzing events from dynamic performance thresholds
Performance event analysis for a MetroCluster configuration
Resolving performance events
Run storage efficiency operations at less busy times
Setting up a connection between a Unified Manager server and an external data provider
Monitor and manage cluster health
Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager health monitoring
Managing and monitoring clusters and cluster object health
Understanding cluster monitoring
Common Unified Manager health workflows and tasks
Monitoring and troubleshooting data availability
Resolving capacity issues
Managing health thresholds
Managing cluster security objectives
What security criteria is being evaluated
Managing backup and restore operations
Backup and restore using a MySQL database dump
Backup and restore using NetApp Snapshots
Managing scripts
Managing and monitoring groups
Prioritizing storage object events using annotations
Understanding more about annotations
Sending a support bundle through web UI and maintenance console
Tasks and information related to several workflows
Protect and restore data
Creating and troubleshooting protection relationships
Managing and monitoring protection relationships
Monitoring Storage VM Disaster Recovery protection relationships
Description of Protection relationships windows and dialog boxes
Generate custom reports
Unified Manager reporting
Working with reports
Scheduling reports
Sample custom reports
Customizing cluster storage reports
Customizing aggregate capacity reports
Customizing volume capacity reports
Customizing Qtree capacity reports
Customizing NFS share reports
Customizing storage VM reports
Customizing volume relationship reports
Customizing volume performance reports
Sample Microsoft Excel reports
Manage storage using REST APIs
Getting started with Active IQ Unified Manager
REST API access and authentication in Active IQ Unified Manager
Unified Manager REST APIs
Common workflows for storage management
Suggest changes
The installation workflow describes the tasks that you must perform before you can use Unified Manager.
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