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What is OnCommand Insight?
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Data Warehouse administration
Reporting
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- Release Notes
- What is OnCommand Insight?
- Installation for Linux
  - Installation prerequisites
    - Planning the deployment
  - Insight installation instructions
    - Installing a Remote Acquisition Unit
    - Checking the installation
      - Installing your Insight licenses
    - Troubleshooting installations
  - Upgrading Insight
  - Uninstalling OnCommand Insight
- Installation for Microsoft Windows
  - Installation prerequisites
    - Planning the deployment
  - Insight installation instructions
    - Installing OnCommand Insight Data Warehouse and Reporting
    - Installing a Remote Acquisition Unit (RAU)
    - Checking the installation
      - Installing your Insight licenses
    - Troubleshooting installations
  - Upgrading OnCommand Insight
    - Overview of the OnCommand Insight upgrade process
    - Backing up the databases
    - Performing the software upgrade
      - Upgrading Data Warehouse
    - Completing post-upgrade tasks
  - Uninstalling the software
- Configuration and administration
  - Setting up Insight
    - Installing your Insight licenses
    - Setting up and managing user accounts
      - Configuring Insight for LDAP(s)
    - Insight Security (SecurityAdmin Tool)
      - Changing OnCommand Insight internal user passwords
    - Smart Card and certificate login support
    - Setting up weekly backups for your Insight database
    - Performance data archiving
    - Configuring your email
    - Enabling the syslog facility
    - Configuring your ASUP processing
    - Defining applications
    - Your business entities hierarchy
    - Defining annotations
      - Using annotations to monitor your environment
        
        Managing annotation types
        
        Creating custom annotations
        
        Assigning annotations to assets using annotation rules
    - Querying assets
    - Managing performance policies
      - Performance policy evaluation precedence
  - Insight Security
    - Changing OnCommand Insight internal user passwords
  - Smart Card and certificate login support
  - Your business entities hierarchy
  - Defining annotations
    - Using annotations to monitor your environment
      - Managing annotation types
      - Creating custom annotations
      - Assigning annotations to assets using annotation rules
  - Querying assets
  - Insight data source management
    - Setting up your data sources in Insight
      - Adding data sources
    - Vendor-specific data source reference
      - HDS HiCommand Device Manager data source
      - NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP data source
      - NetApp E-Series data source
    - What data source patches are
  - Device resolution
    - Creating device resolution rules
    - Fibre Channel device resolution
    - IP device resolution
  - Maintaining Insight
    - Updating expired licenses
    - Preparing a special troubleshooting report
    - Advanced troubleshooting
      - Moving MySQL data using the migrate option
      - Adding a missing disk model
        
        Locating required information for new disk model
  - Monitoring your environment
    - Asset page data
      - Searching your environment for specific assets
      - Asset page sections
        
        Summary
        
        Topology
        
        User Data
        
        Expert view
        
        Related Assets
        
        Violations
        
        Customizable asset page
    - Examining network performance
- Data Warehouse administration
  - Welcome to OnCommand Insight Data Warehouse
    - Data Warehouse components
    - How historical data is retained in Data Warehouse
  - Getting started with Data Warehouse
    - Managing Data Warehouse and Reporting user accounts
    - Data Warehouse database build from history overview
    - Setting up multiple tenancy in reporting
    - Troubleshooting setup issues
      - Why I cannot see my annotations
  - Administrative tasks you can perform using Data Warehouse
    - What you can do using annotations
    - Advanced options
      - Troubleshooting Data Warehouse
        
        Issue resolution with ASUP
        
        Multiple server chassis consolidation issues
- Reporting
  - Welcome to OnCommand Insight reporting
  - Reporting made easy
  - Managing reports
  - Creating custom ad hoc reports
    - Process of creating reports
  - Reporting data model
    - Data model overview
- FAQ
- How-To guides
  - Getting Started with Insight
    - Setting up notifications
    - Preparing assets: Annotating
    - Finding assets: Querying
    - Your corporate structure: setting up business entities and applications
  - Creating custom dashboards
    - Custom Dashboard concepts
      - Dashboard variables
      - Grouping in table widgets
      - Expressions in dashboard widgets
    - Example storage node utilization dashboard with variables
    - Best Practices for Dashboards and Widgets
  - Creating performance policies
  - Troubleshooting Fibre Channel BB credit 0 errors
  - Analyzing your infrastructure
  - Introduction to minimizing risk in thin provisioning
  - Collecting Host and VM file system utilization data
  - Configuring your system to report chargeback data
    - Assigning applications to assets
  - Ensuring IO density reports describe only internal data volumes
  - Collecting integration data
    - Collecting SNMP Integration data
  - Analyzing an application performance problem
  - Collecting and reporting AWS billing data
    - Reporting on Cloud Cost data in Insight

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