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Get started
Install Unified Manager on VMware vSphere systems
Install Unified Manager on Linux systems
Install Unified Manager on Windows systems
Perform configuration and administrative tasks
Monitor and manage storage
Manage events and alerts
Monitor and manage cluster performance
Monitor and manage cluster health
Protect and restore data
- Creating and troubleshooting protection relationships
- Managing and monitoring protection relationships
Generate custom reports
Manage storage using REST APIs
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- Get started
- 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
    - 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
    - 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
    - Changing the Unified Manager host name
      - Changing the Unified Manager virtual appliance host name
  - Managing feature settings
  - Using the maintenance console
    - Maintenance console menus
    - Adding disk space to the Unified Manager database directory
  - Managing user access
    - Adding users
  - Managing SAML authentication settings
  - Managing authentication
    - Audit Logging
  - Managing security certificates
    - Page descriptions for certificate management
- Monitor and manage storage
  - Introduction to Active IQ Unified Manager
    - What the Unified Manager server does
  - Understanding the user interface
  - Monitoring and managing clusters from the dashboard
    - Fixing or managing ONTAP issues directly from Unified Manager
  - Managing clusters
  - Monitoring VMware virtual infrastructure
  - Provisioning and managing workloads
    - Workloads overview
    - Managing Performance Service Levels
    - Managing Storage Efficiency Policies
  - Managing and monitoring MetroCluster configurations
  - Managing quotas
    - Understanding more about quotas
    - Description of quotas dialog boxes
  - Troubleshooting
    - Adding disk space to the Unified Manager database directory
- 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
      - Event details page
  - Managing alerts
    - Adding alerts
    - Description of alert windows and dialog boxes
  - Managing scripts
    - Description of script windows and dialog boxes
- 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
  - 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
  - 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
      - 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
        
        Configuring backup on Linux
        
        Configuring backup on Windows
    - Managing scripts
    - Managing and monitoring groups
      - Understanding 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
    - Setting up protection relationships in Unified Manager
    - Performing a protection relationship failover and failback
    - Resolving a protection job failure
  - 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
    - 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

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