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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
  - Deploying Unified Manager
  - Upgrading Unified Manager

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

Install Unified Manager on Windows systems
- Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager
- Requirements for installing Unified Manager
- Installing, upgrading, and removing Unified Manager software
  - Installing Unified Manager on Windows
  - Upgrading third-party products

Perform configuration and administrative tasks
- Configuring Active IQ Unified Manager
  - Configuring Unified Manager to send alert notifications
  - Managing SAML authentication settings
  - Changing the Unified Manager host name
    - Changing the Unified Manager virtual appliance host name
- Using the maintenance console
  - Maintenance console menus
  - Adding disk space to the Unified Manager database directory

Online help
- Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager
  - What the Unified Manager server does
- Understanding the user interface
- Monitoring and managing clusters from the dashboard
  - Fixing ONTAP issues directly from Unified Manager
- Troubleshooting workloads using the workload analyzer
- Managing events
  - What performance events are
  - 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
    - Event details page
- Managing alerts
  - Adding alerts
  - Description of alert windows and dialog boxes
- Managing health thresholds
  - Configuring global health threshold settings
  - Description of health thresholds pages
- Managing performance thresholds
  - Descriptions of the performance threshold policy pages
- 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
- Managing and monitoring clusters and cluster object health
  - Understanding cluster monitoring
  - Description of cluster object windows and dialog boxes
- Managing cluster security objectives
  - What security criteria is being evaluated
- Monitoring VMware virtual infrastructure
- Provisioning and managing workloads
  - Workloads overview
  - Managing Performance Service Levels
  - Managing Storage Efficiency Policies
- Managing reports
- Managing and monitoring MetroCluster configurations
  - Parts of a fabric MetroCluster configuration
- Managing quotas
  - Understanding more about quotas
  - Description of quotas dialog boxes
- Managing scripts
  - Description of script windows and dialog boxes
- Managing annotations for storage objects
  - Description of Annotations windows and dialog boxes
- Managing and monitoring groups
  - Understanding groups
  - Managing groups of storage objects
  - Description of groups windows and dialog boxes
- Managing and monitoring protection relationships
  - Description of Protection relationships windows and dialog boxes
- Executing protection workflows using OnCommand Workflow Automation
  - Description of OnCommand Workflow Automation setup windows and dialog boxes
- Managing performance using performance capacity and available IOPS information
- Monitoring performance using the Performance Inventory pages
  - Refining Performance inventory page contents
  - Descriptions of the Performance inventory pages
- Monitoring cluster performance from the Performance Cluster Landing page
  - Performance Cluster Landing page
    - Performance Cluster Summary page
- Monitoring performance using the Performance Explorer pages
  - Specifying a time range for correlated objects
  - Counter Charts Zoom View
  - Components of the Object Landing pages
  - Descriptions of the counter charts
  - Descriptions of the Performance Explorer pages
- Managing performance using QoS policy group information
- Understanding and using the Node Failover Planning page
- Collecting data and monitoring workload performance
  - Performance monitoring of MetroCluster configurations
- Managing backup and restore operations
  - Backup and restore using a MySQL database dump
  - Backup and restore using NetApp Snapshots
  - Description of backup windows and dialog boxes
- Managing clusters
  - Page descriptions for data source management
- Managing user access
  - Description of user access windows and dialog boxes
- Managing authentication
  - Description of authentication windows and dialog boxes
- Managing security certificates
  - Generating an HTTPS security certificate
  - Page descriptions for certificate management
- Managing feature settings
- Troubleshooting
  - Changing the Unified Manager host name
  - Adding disk space to the Unified Manager database directory

Monitor and manage cluster performance
- Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager performance monitoring
- Navigating performance workflows in the Unified Manager GUI
  - Graphical interface and navigational paths
- Understanding performance events and alerts
- Managing performance thresholds
- Monitoring cluster performance from the Dashboard
- Troubleshooting workloads using the workload analyzer
- Monitoring cluster performance from the Performance Cluster Landing page
  - Performance Cluster Landing page
    - Performance Cluster Summary page
- Monitoring performance using the Performance Inventory pages
  - Refining Performance inventory page contents
- 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
  - Performance monitoring of MetroCluster configurations
  - What performance events are
- 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
- 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
- Common Unified Manager health workflows and tasks
  - Monitoring and troubleshooting data availability
    - Scanning for and resolving storage failover interconnect link down conditions
    - Resolving volume offline issues
      - Performing diagnostic actions for volume offline conditions
  - Resolving capacity issues
  - Managing health thresholds
    - Configuring global health threshold settings
  - 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
    - Understanding groups
  - Prioritizing storage object events using annotations
    - Understanding more about annotations
  - What a Unified Manager maintenance window is
  - Managing SAML authentication settings
  - Sending a Unified Manager support bundle to technical support
  - Tasks and information related to several workflows
    - Event details page

Protect and restore data
- Creating, monitoring, and troubleshooting protection relationships
  - Setting up protection relationships in Unified Manager
  - Performing a protection relationship failover and failback
  - Resolving a protection job failure
- Managing and monitoring protection relationships
  - Description of Protection relationships windows and dialog boxes

Generate custom reports
- Unified Manager reporting
  - Access points for generating reports
- Working with reports
  - Customizing reports
- Scheduling reports
  - Scheduling a report
  - Managing report schedules
- 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
  - Managing workloads
- Common workflows for storage management
  - Workflows for workload management
    - Modifying storage workloads