• OnCommand Insight docs
• Release Notes
  • OnCommand Insight Release Notes
• What is OnCommand Insight?
  • OnCommand Insight overview
  • Insight architecture
  • How Insight is used by administrators, managers, and planners
• Installation for Linux
  • Installation prerequisites
    • Planning the deployment
      • Data source support information
      • Device identification and data source planning
      • Network traffic generated by OnCommand Insight
    • Uninstalling MariaDB
    • Insight Server requirements
    • Data Warehouse server requirements
    • Remote Acquisition Unit server requirements
    • Browsers supported by OnCommand Insight
  • Insight installation instructions
    • Downloading the OnCommand Insight installer
    • Installing the OnCommand Insight Server
    • Installing OnCommand Insight Data Warehouse
    • Installing a Remote Acquisition Unit
      • Validating the remote acquisition unit installation
    • Checking the installation
      • Verifying that new Insight components are installed
      • Insight logs
      • Accessing the web UI
      • Installing your Insight licenses
        • OnCommand Insight licenses
    • Troubleshooting installations
      • Missing licenses
      • Submitting an online technical support request
  • Upgrading Insight
    • Upgrading Insight to version 7.3.12 or later - Linux
    • Upgrading Insight Server software
    • Upgrading Data Warehouse software
    • Upgrading Remote Acquisition Unit software
    • Migrating from Windows to Linux
  • Uninstalling OnCommand Insight
    • Uninstalling the OnCommand Insight Server
    • Uninstalling Data Warehouse
    • Uninstalling a Remote Acquisition Unit
• Installation for Microsoft Windows
  • Installation prerequisites
    • Planning the deployment
      • Data source support information
      • Device identification and data source planning
      • Network traffic generated by OnCommand Insight
    • Virus scan software disablement
    • Insight Server requirements
    • Data Warehouse and Reporting server requirements
    • Remote Acquisition Unit server requirements
    • Browsers supported by OnCommand Insight
  • Insight installation instructions
    • Downloading the OnCommand Insight installer
    • Installing the OnCommand Insight Server
    • Installing OnCommand Insight Data Warehouse and Reporting
      • Locating IBM Cognos documentation
      • Verifying the Data Warehouse and Reporting installation
    • Installing a Remote Acquisition Unit (RAU)
      • Verifying the remote acquisition unit service
      • Validating the remote acquisition unit installation
    • Checking the installation
      • Verifying new Insight services
      • Insight logs
      • Accessing the web UI
      • Installing your Insight licenses
        • OnCommand Insight licenses
    • Troubleshooting installations
      • Missing licenses
      • Submitting an online technical support request
  • Upgrading OnCommand Insight
    • Upgrading Insight to version 7.3.12 or later - Windows
    • Overview of the OnCommand Insight upgrade process
      • OnCommand Insight upgrade checklist
    • Downloading the OnCommand Insight installation packages
    • Backing up the databases
      • Backing up the Data Warehouse database
      • Backing up the OnCommand Insight database
    • Backing up the security configuration
    • Backing up custom Data Warehouse reports
    • Performing the software upgrade
      • Upgrading Insight
      • Upgrading Data Warehouse
        • Preserving custom Cognos settings during a Data Warehouse upgrade
      • Upgrading remote acquisition unit servers
    • Completing post-upgrade tasks
      • Installing data source patches
      • Replacing a certificate after upgrading OnCommand Insight
      • Increasing Cognos memory
      • Restoring the Data Warehouse database
      • Restoring custom Data Warehouse reports
      • Verifying that Data Warehouse has historical data
      • Restoring the performance archive
      • Testing the connectors
      • Verifying the Extract, Transform, and Load scheduling
      • Updating disk models
      • Verifying that business intelligence tools are running
    • Troubleshooting an upgrade
  • Uninstalling the software
    • Uninstalling the OnCommand Insight Server
    • Uninstalling the Data Warehouse software
    • Uninstalling the remote acquisition unit software
• Configuration and administration
  • Setting up Insight
    • Accessing the web UI
    • Installing your Insight licenses
      • OnCommand Insight licenses
    • Setting up and managing user accounts
      • Insight user roles
      • Configuring Insight for LDAP(s)
        • Configuring user definitions using LDAP
      • Changing user passwords
      • Editing a user definition
      • Deleting a user account
    • Setting a Login Warning Message
    • Insight Security (SecurityAdmin Tool)
      • Managing security on the Insight server
      • Managing security on the local acquisition unit
      • Managing security on an RAU
      • Managing security on the Data Warehouse
      • Changing OnCommand Insight internal user passwords
        • Changing the “inventory” and “dwh_internal” passwords using the Server Connection Configuration UI
        • Changing the dwh password using the ODBC Administration tool
    • Smart Card and certificate login support
      • Configuring hosts for Smart Card and certificate login
      • Configuring a client to support Smart Card and certificate login
      • Enabling CAC on a Linux server
      • Configuring Data Warehouse for Smart Card and certificate login
      • Configuring Cognos for Smart Card and certificate login (OnCommand Insight 7.3.10 and later)
      • Importing CA-signed SSL certificates for Cognos and DWH (Insight 7.3.10 and later)
    • Importing SSL certificates
    • Setting up weekly backups for your Insight database
      • What’s included in the backup
    • Performance data archiving
      • Enabling performance archive
      • Loading performance archive
    • Configuring your email
      • Email configuration prerequisites
      • Configuring your email for Insight
    • Configuring SNMP notifications
    • Enabling the syslog facility
      • Insight syslog contents
    • Configuring performance and assure violation notifications
    • Configuring system-level event notifications
    • Configuring your ASUP processing
      • What’s included in the Autosupport (ASUP) package
    • Defining applications
      • Assigning applications to assets
      • Editing applications
      • Deleting applications
    • Your business entities hierarchy
      • Designing your business entities hierarchy
      • Creating business entities
      • Assigning business entities to assets
      • Assigning business entities to or removing business entities from multiple assets
    • Defining annotations
      • Using annotations to monitor your environment
        • Managing annotation types
          • Default annotation types
          • How annotations are assigned
          • Associating costs with annotations
        • Creating custom annotations
          • Manually assigning annotations to assets
          • Modifying annotations
          • Deleting annotations
        • Assigning annotations to assets using annotation rules
          • Default storage annotation rules
          • Creating annotation rules
          • Setting annotation rule precedence
          • Modifying annotation rules
          • Deleting annotation rules
        • Importing annotation values
        • Assigning annotations to multiple assets using a query
    • Querying assets
      • Assets used in queries and dashboards
      • Creating a query
      • Viewing queries
      • Exporting query results to a .CSV file
      • Modifying queries
      • Deleting queries
      • Assigning multiple applications to or removing multiple applications from assets
      • Editing or removing multiple annotations from assets
      • Copying table values
    • Managing performance policies
      • Creating performance policies
      • Performance policy evaluation precedence
        • Changing the precedence of a performance policy
      • Editing performance policies
      • Deleting performance policies
    • Importing and Exporting user data
  • Insight Security
    • Managing security on the Insight server
    • Managing security on the local acquisition unit
    • Managing security on an RAU
    • Managing security on the Data Warehouse
    • Changing OnCommand Insight internal user passwords
      • Changing the “inventory” and “dwh_internal” passwords using the Server Connection Configuration UI
      • Changing the dwh password using the ODBC Administration tool
  • Smart Card and certificate login support
    • Configuring hosts for Smart Card and certificate login
    • Configuring a client to support Smart Card and certificate login
    • Enabling CAC on a Linux server
    • Configuring Data Warehouse for Smart Card and certificate login
    • Configuring Cognos for Smart Card and certificate login (OnCommand Insight 7.3.10 and later)
    • Importing CA-signed SSL certificates for Cognos and DWH (Insight 7.3.10 and later)
  • Configuring Data Warehouse for Smart Card and certificate login
  • Configuring Cognos for Smart Card and certificate login (OnCommand Insight 7.3.10 and later)
  • Importing CA-signed SSL certificates for Cognos and DWH (Insight 7.3.10 and later)
  • Importing SSL certificates
  • Your business entities hierarchy
    • Designing your business entities hierarchy
    • Creating business entities
    • Assigning business entities to assets
    • Assigning business entities to or removing business entities from multiple assets
  • Defining annotations
    • Using annotations to monitor your environment
      • Managing annotation types
        • Default annotation types
        • How annotations are assigned
        • Associating costs with annotations
      • Creating custom annotations
        • Manually assigning annotations to assets
        • Modifying annotations
        • Deleting annotations
      • Assigning annotations to assets using annotation rules
        • Default storage annotation rules
        • Creating annotation rules
        • Setting annotation rule precedence
        • Modifying annotation rules
        • Deleting annotation rules
      • Importing annotation values
      • Assigning annotations to multiple assets using a query
  • Querying assets
    • Assets used in queries and dashboards
    • Creating a query
    • Viewing queries
    • Exporting query results to a .CSV file
    • Modifying queries
    • Deleting queries
    • Assigning multiple applications to or removing multiple applications from assets
    • Editing or removing multiple annotations from assets
    • Copying table values
  • Insight data source management
    • Setting up your data sources in Insight
      • Data source support information
      • Adding data sources
        • Importing data sources from a spreadsheet
        • Adding a new data source by patch
      • Cloning a data source
      • Testing the data source configuration
    • Vendor-specific data source reference
      • 3PAR InServ data source
      • Amazon AWS EC2 data source
      • Brocade Enterprise Fabric Connectivity Manager data source
      • Brocade FC Switch data source
      • Brocade Sphereon/Intrepid Switch data source
      • Cisco FC Switch Firmware (SNMP) data source
      • EMC Celerra data source
      • EMC CLARiiON (NaviCLI) data source
      • EMC Data Domain data source
      • EMC ECC StorageScope data source
      • Dell EMC ECS data source
      • EMC Isilon data source
      • Dell EMC PowerStore data source
      • EMC RecoverPoint data source
      • EMC Solutions Enabler with SMI-S Performance data source
      • EMC VNX data source
      • EMC VNXe data source
      • EMC VPLEX data source
      • EMC XtremIO data source
      • Fujitsu Eternus data source
      • Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) data source
      • HDS HiCommand Device Manager data source
        • HDS Ops Center
        • HDS Storage
        • HDS Storage Pool
        • HDS Storage Node
      • HDS Ops Center
      • HDS NAS (HNAS) data source
      • HP CommandView AE data source
      • HP EVA Storage data source
      • HPE Nimble data source
      • Huawei OceanStor data source
      • IBM Cleversafe data source
      • IBM DS data source
      • IBM PowerVM data source
      • IBM SVC data source
      • IBM Tivoli Monitoring data source
      • IBM TotalStorage DS4000 data source
      • IBM XIV data source
      • Infinidat InfiniBox data source
      • Microsoft Azure compute data source
      • Azure NetApp Files data source
      • Microsoft Hyper-V data source
      • NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP data source
        • Clustered Data ONTAP Storage
        • Clustered Data ONTAP Storage Pool
        • Clustered Data ONTAP Storage Node
      • NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP for Unified Manager data source
      • NetApp Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode data source
      • NetApp E-Series data source
        • E-Series Storage
        • E-Series Storage Pool
        • E-Series Storage Node
      • NetApp Host and VM File Systems data source
      • NetApp SolidFire data source
      • NetApp StorageGRID data source
      • OpenStack data source
      • Oracle ZFS data source
      • Pure Storage FlashArray data source
      • QLogic FC Switch data source
      • Red Hat (RHEV) data source
      • Violin Flash Memory Array data source
      • VMware vSphere data source
    • Changing data source credentials
    • Changes causing data collection problems
    • Examining one data source in detail
    • Researching a failed data source
    • Controlling data source polling
    • Editing data source information
    • Editing information for multiple data sources
    • Mapping data source tags to annotations
    • Deleting a data source
    • What data source patches are
      • Applying a data source patch
      • Installing a patch on one type of data source
      • Managing patches
      • Committing a data source patch
      • Rolling back a data source patch
  • Device resolution
    • Before you begin
    • Planning device resolution rules for your environment
    • Creating device resolution rules
      • Starting an automatic device resolution update
      • Rule assisted manual identification
    • Fibre Channel device resolution
      • Adding a Fibre Channel device manually
      • Importing Fibre Channel device identification from a CSV file
      • Exporting Fibre Channel device identifications to a CSV file
    • IP device resolution
      • Adding IP devices manually
      • Importing IP device identification from a CSV file
      • Exporting IP device identification to a CSV file
    • Setting options in the Preferences tab
    • Regular expression examples
  • Maintaining Insight
    • Managing Insight
    • Monitoring OnCommand Insight system health
    • Deleting inactive devices
    • Auditing system and user activities
    • Monitoring the violations in your network
    • Acquisition unit status
    • Restoring the Insight database
    • Updating expired licenses
      • Licenses no longer compliant
      • Replacing licenses for older Insight versions
    • Applying a service pack
    • Preparing a special troubleshooting report
      • Manually backing up the OnCommand Insight database
      • Bundling logs for Support
      • Sending information to NetApp Support
      • Scrubbing data for transfer to support
    • Advanced troubleshooting
      • Configuring the number of hours to ignore dynamic data
      • Generating logs for Customer Support
      • Displaying system information
      • Listing installed OnCommand Insight components
      • Calculating the number of database objects
      • Restarting the OnCommand Insight Server
      • Moving MySQL data using the migrate option
        • Moving MySQL data using the command line
      • Forcing annotation updates
      • Checking the status of server resources
      • Finding ghost data sources
      • Adding a missing disk model
        • Locating required information for new disk model
          • Content of the new_disk_models.txt file
  • Monitoring your environment
    • Asset page data
      • Types of asset pages
      • Searching your environment for specific assets
        • Advanced search techniques
      • Changing the time range of displayed data
      • Determining data source acquisition status
      • Asset page sections
        • Summary
          • Using the Summary section
        • Topology
          • Using the Topology section
        • User Data
          • Using the User Data section to assign or modify applications
          • Using the User Data section to assign or modify business entities
          • Using the User Data section to assign or modify annotations
        • Expert view
          • Expert View metric definitions
          • Using the Expert View section
        • Related Assets
          • Using the Related Assets section
        • Violations
          • Using the Violations section
        • Customizable asset page
          • Understanding “$this” variables
    • Balancing network resources
    • Examining network performance
      • Analyzing slow PC performance
      • Analyzing correlated resources
    • Fibre Channel environment monitoring
    • Time-to-live (TTL) and downsampled data
    • Pruning of inventory history
    • NAS path for VMs
    • Capacity as Time Series
  • Data Collector Support Matrix
• Data Warehouse administration
  • Welcome to OnCommand Insight Data Warehouse
    • Data Warehouse features
    • Data Warehouse components
      • What you can do using the Data Warehouse Portal
      • Data Warehouse software components
    • Data Warehouse processes
    • How Data Warehouse extracts data
    • ETL frequency and date data
    • How historical data is retained in Data Warehouse
      • Data retention, ETL, and time periods
  • Getting started with Data Warehouse
    • Accessing the Data Warehouse portal
    • Managing Data Warehouse and Reporting user accounts
      • Accessing the Data Warehouse and Reporting portal
      • Reporting user roles
      • Adding a Reporting user
      • Managing user accounts
      • Configuring LDAP for Reporting
    • Connecting Data Warehouse to OnCommand Insight servers
    • Data Warehouse database build from history overview
      • Adding a job that builds a Data Warehouse database from history
      • Canceling a build from history job
    • Backing up the Data Warehouse database
    • Backing up custom reports and report artifacts
    • Restoring the Data Warehouse database
    • Setting up multiple tenancy in reporting
      • Configuring user accounts
      • Assigning users to business entities
    • Troubleshooting setup issues
      • Why I cannot see my annotations
        • Forcing an update of annotations for Data Warehouse
        • Generating a manual Data Warehouse build
        • Importing user-defined annotations into Data Warehouse
      • What to do with failing historical build points
  • Administrative tasks you can perform using Data Warehouse
    • Managing jobs
    • Monitoring Data Warehouse health
    • Scheduling daily builds
    • Configuring a weekly schedule
    • Scheduling daily backups
    • Running custom scripts in Data Warehouse
    • What you can do using annotations
      • Preparing annotations in OnCommand Insight
      • Importing user-defined annotations into Data Warehouse
      • Viewing the Annotations job in the Jobs list
      • Displaying annotation changes in the database schema
    • Setting email notifications
    • Accessing the Reporting Portal
    • Viewing the Data Warehouse database schema documentation
    • Viewing the Data Warehouse database schema
    • Viewing system information
    • Advanced options
      • Skipping failed builds
      • Resetting the Data Warehouse database or Reporting server
      • Restoring and upgrading reports for versions prior to 6.3
      • Accessing MySQL using the command-line interface
      • Troubleshooting Data Warehouse
        • Issue resolution with ASUP
          • Disabling automatic ASUP transmissions
          • Including a backup of the Data Warehouse database
          • Sending Insight logs to ASUP
        • Viewing OnCommand Insight logs
        • Multiple server chassis consolidation issues
          • Viewing hosts and adapters consolidation issues
          • Viewing storage arrays consolidation issues
          • Viewing switches consolidation issues
        • Resolving multiple server annotation consolidation issues
• Reporting
  • Welcome to OnCommand Insight reporting
    • Accessing the OnCommand Insight Reporting Portal
    • Variations due to installed licenses
    • Reporting user roles
    • Enabling Security Headers
  • Reporting made easy
    • Navigating to pre-defined OnCommand Insight reports
    • What the Storage Manager Dashboard enables you to do
    • Using predefined reports to answer common questions
    • Creating a report using Cognos 11
  • Managing reports
    • Customizing a report’s output format and delivery
    • Copying a report to the clipboard
    • Opening reports (xml) from the clipboard
  • Creating custom ad hoc reports
    • What you need to do before you design your report
    • Process of creating reports
      • How to plan the results of your custom report
      • Tips for designing reports
  • Reporting data model
    • Data model overview
      • OnCommand Insight data models
      • Data model fact and dimension tables
      • Colors used in data model elements
      • Using multiple data models in one report
• FAQ
  • General Questions
  • OnCommand Insight Licensing
  • Configuration and Supported devices
  • Scale and Ease of Use
  • Performance troubleshooting
  • Managing your environment
  • Integrating Insight with other tools
  • Data ONTAP Storage IOPS
• How-To guides
  • Getting Started with Insight
    • Setting up notifications
      • Setting up email for notifications
      • Setting up Syslog for logging
      • Setting up SNMP for notifications
    • Preparing assets: Annotating
      • Creating annotations for your enterprise
      • Configuring Data Center annotations
      • Configure Tier annotations
      • Configure Service Level annotations
      • Configure custom Environment annotations
    • Finding assets: Querying
      • Using queries to annotate your assets
      • Querying and annotating data centers
      • Querying and annotating tiers
      • Service Level and Environment annotations
    • Your corporate structure: setting up business entities and applications
      • Configuring business entities for your company
      • Configuring applications for your company
    • Creating performance policies for alerting
    • Highlighting data using dashboards
  • Creating custom dashboards
    • Custom Dashboard concepts
      • Dashboard variables
        • More on dashboard variables
      • Displaying widget legends
      • Dashboard widget queries and filters
      • Roll up and Aggregation
      • Showing top/bottom results in dashboard widgets
      • Grouping in table widgets
        • Grouping example (with rollup explained)
      • Overriding dashboard time for individual widgets
      • Primary and Secondary axis explained
      • Expressions in dashboard widgets
        • Expressions example: Read IOPS percentage
        • Expressions example: "System" I/O
    • Custom Dashboard: Virtual Machine Performance
    • Example storage node utilization dashboard with variables
      • Node dashboard example widget settings
    • Best Practices for Dashboards and Widgets
      • Best Practice: finding the right metric
      • Best Practice: finding the right assets
      • Scatterplot Example: knowing your axis
  • Creating performance policies
    • Configuring performance and assure violation notifications
    • Monitoring the violations in your network
  • Troubleshooting Fibre Channel BB credit 0 errors
    • Creating performance policies and thresholds for ports
  • Analyzing your infrastructure
    • Observe an object’s behavior over time
    • Compare objects with the top 10 latency total to the average latency for all like objects
    • Compare one object’s latency total to the latency total of the top 10 objects
    • Compare metrics-A against metrics-B to show categories and anomalies
    • Use an expression to identify alternate metrics
  • Introduction to minimizing risk in thin provisioning
    • Monitoring the storage pool
    • Monitoring the Datastores
    • Create dashboards to monitor thin provisioned environments
    • Using performance policies to reduce risk in thin provisioning
    • Creating performance policies for Storage Pools
    • Creating performance policies for Datastores
  • Collecting Host and VM file system utilization data
    • Configure Insight for file system collection
    • File system chargeback and reporting
  • Configuring your system to report chargeback data
    • Defining annotations for use with chargeback
    • Defining applications for use with chargeback
    • Assigning applications to assets
      • Assigning applications to assets using an ad hoc method
      • Assigning applications to an asset using a query
    • Creating a simple Chargeback report
  • Ensuring IO density reports describe only internal data volumes
    • Creating a query to identify NetApp root aggregates in your environment
    • Create an annotation for the root volumes returned by your queries
    • Create an annotation rule to automate excluding specific aggregates from your I/O density report
  • Collecting integration data
    • Collecting SNMP Integration data
      • Importing SNMP integration packs
      • Creating an SNMP integration data source
      • Integration.json file information
  • Analyzing an application performance problem
    • Examining the internal volume
    • Examining the greedy resource
    • Examine the storage pool
    • Examining the volume
    • Examining the VM
  • Collecting and reporting AWS billing data
    • Preparing AWS for Insight data collection
    • Configuring the AWS Cloud Cost data source
    • Processing AWS Cloud Cost data in Insight
    • Reporting on Cloud Cost data in Insight
      • Elevate role
      • Install update set
      • ServiceNow integration - Set up user
      • Install Python and libraries
      • Setup Python middleware
      • Syncing the connector
      • Scheduling synchronization to occur daily
• Data Collector Support Matrix
• Legal notices