• OnCommand Unified Manager 9.5 docs
  • Release notes
  • Get started
    • Quick start install for VMware vSphere
    • Quick start install for Linux
    • Quick start install for Windows
  • Install Unified Manager
    • Introduction to OnCommand Unified Manager
      • What the Unified Manager server does
      • Overview of the installation sequence
    • Requirements for installing Unified Manager
      • Virtual infrastructure and hardware system requirements
      • VMware software and installation requirements
      • Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS software and installation requirements
      • Windows software and installation requirements
      • Supported browsers
      • Protocol and port requirements
      • Completing the worksheet
    • Installing, upgrading, and removing Unified Manager software on VMware vSphere
      • Overview of the deployment process on VMware
      • Deploying Unified Manager
        • Downloading the Unified Manager OVA file
        • Deploying the Unified Manager virtual appliance
      • Upgrading Unified Manager on VMware
        • Downloading the Unified Manager ISO image
        • Upgrading the Unified Manager virtual appliance
      • Restarting the Unified Manager virtual machine
      • Removing Unified Manager from VMware
    • Installing, upgrading, and removing Unified Manager software on Red Hat or CentOS
      • Overview of the installation process on Red Hat or CentOS
      • Setting up required software repositories
        • Manually configuring the EPEL repository
        • Manually configuring the MySQL repository
      • SELinux requirements for mounting /opt/netapp or /opt/netapp/data on an NFS or CIFS share
      • Installing Unified Manager on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS
        • Creating a custom user home directory and umadmin password prior to installation
        • Downloading Unified Manager for Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS
        • Installing Unified Manager on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS
        • Users created during Unified Manager installation
        • Changing the JBoss password
      • Setting up Unified Manager for high availability
        • Requirements for Unified Manager in VCS
        • Installing Unified Manager on VCS
        • Configuring Unified Manager with VCS using configuration scripts
        • Unified Manager service resources for VCS configuration
        • Updating an existing Unified Manager setup for high availability
      • Upgrading Unified Manager on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS
        • Upgrading Unified Manager on Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS
        • Upgrading the host OS from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x to 7.x
      • Upgrading third-party products on Linux
        • Upgrading JRE on Linux
        • Upgrading MySQL on Linux
      • Restarting Unified Manager in Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS
      • Removing Unified Manager from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS host
      • Removing the custom umadmin user and maintenance group
    • Installing, upgrading, and removing Unified Manager software on Windows
      • Overview of the installation process on Windows
      • Installing Unified Manager on Windows
        • Installing Unified Manager on a Windows system
        • Performing an unattended installation of Unified Manager on Windows
      • Setting up Unified Manager in a failover clustering environment
        • Requirements for Unified Manager in a failover clustering environment
        • Installing Unified Manager on MSCS
        • Configuring Unified Manager server with MSCS using configuration scripts
      • Upgrading Unified Manager on Windows
      • Upgrading third-party products on Windows
        • Upgrading JRE on Windows
        • Upgrading MySQL on Windows
      • Restarting Unified Manager on Windows
      • Uninstalling Unified Manager from Windows
  • Perform configuration and administrative tasks
    • Configuring Unified Manager
      • Overview of the configuration sequence
      • Accessing the Unified Manager web UI
      • Performing the initial setup of the Unified Manager web UI
      • Adding clusters
      • Configuring Unified Manager to send alert notifications
        • Configuring event notification settings
        • Enabling remote authentication
        • Disabling nested groups from remote authentication
        • Adding authentication servers
        • Testing the configuration of authentication servers
        • Adding users
        • Adding alerts
      • EMS events that are added automatically to Unified Manager
      • Subscribing to ONTAP EMS events
      • Managing SAML authentication settings
        • Identity provider requirements
        • Enabling SAML authentication
      • Configuring database backup settings
      • Changing the local user password
      • Changing the Unified Manager host name
        • Changing the Unified Manager virtual appliance host name
          • Generating an HTTPS security certificate
          • Restarting the Unified Manager virtual machine
        • Changing the Unified Manager host name on Linux systems
  • Online Help
    • Introduction to OnCommand Unified Manager
      • Introduction to OnCommand Unified Manager health monitoring
      • Unified Manager health monitoring features
      • Introduction to OnCommand Unified Manager performance monitoring
      • Unified Manager performance monitoring features
      • What the Unified Manager server does
        • How the discovery process works
        • Cluster configuration and performance data collection activity
        • What a data continuity collection cycle is
        • What the timestamp means in collected data and events
    • Understanding the user interface
      • Typical window layouts
      • Window layout customization
      • Using the Unified Manager Help
      • Bookmarking your favorite Help topics
      • Exporting data to CSV files for reporting
      • Searching for storage objects
      • Filtering performance inventory page content
      • Accessing OnCommand System Manager from the Unified Manager interface
    • Monitoring cluster health and performance from the dashboards
      • Understanding the Health overview dashboard
      • Understanding the Performance dashboard
      • Understanding the Cluster View dashboard
      • Description of dashboard windows
        • Dashboards/Overview page
        • Dashboards/Performance page
        • Dashboards/Cluster View page
    • Managing storage objects using the Favorites option
      • Adding to, and removing storage objects from, the Favorites list
      • Cluster favorite card
      • Aggregate favorite card
      • Volume favorite card
    • Managing events
      • What health events are
      • What performance events are
      • What happens when an event is received
      • Configuration changes detected by Unified Manager
      • Configuring event retention settings
      • Configuring event notification settings
      • What Event Management System events are
      • EMS events that are added automatically to Unified Manager
      • Subscribing to ONTAP EMS events
      • Viewing event details
      • Viewing unassigned events
      • Acknowledging and resolving events
      • Assigning events to specific users
      • Adding and reviewing notes about an event
      • Disabling or enabling events
      • What a Unified Manager maintenance window is
        • Scheduling a maintenance window to disable cluster event notifications
        • Changing or canceling a scheduled maintenance window
        • Viewing events that occurred during a maintenance window
      • Managing host system resource events
      • Understanding more about events
        • Event state definitions
        • Description of event severity types
        • Description of event impact levels
        • Description of event impact areas
        • How object status is computed
        • Sources of performance events
        • Dynamic performance event chart details
        • Types of system-defined performance threshold policies
        • List of events and severity types
          • Aggregate events
          • Cluster events
          • Disks events
          • Enclosures events
          • Fans events
          • Flash card events
          • Inodes events
          • Logical interface (LIF) events
          • LUN events
          • Management station events
          • MetroCluster Bridge events
          • MetroCluster Connectivity events
          • MetroCluster switch events
          • NVMe Namespace events
          • Node events
          • NVRAM battery events
          • Port events
          • Power supplies events
          • Protection events
          • Qtree events
          • Service processor events
          • SnapMirror relationship events
          • Snapshot events
          • SnapVault relationship events
          • Storage failover settings events
          • Storage services events
          • Storage shelf events
          • SVM events
          • SVM storage class events
          • User and group quota events
          • Volume events
          • Volume move status events
      • Description of event windows and dialog boxes
        • Event Retention Settings dialog box
        • Setup/Notifications page
        • Events inventory page
        • Event details page
          • What the Event Information section displays
          • What the System Diagnosis section displays
          • What the Suggested Actions section displays
        • Configuration/Manage Events page
        • Disable Events dialog box
    • Managing alerts
      • What alerts are
      • What information is contained in an alert email
      • Adding alerts
        • Guidelines for adding alerts
      • Adding alerts for performance events
      • Excluding disaster recovery destination volumes from generating alerts
      • Testing alerts
      • Viewing alerts
      • Editing alerts
      • Deleting alerts
      • Description of alert windows and dialog boxes
        • Configuration/Alerting page
        • Add Alert dialog box
        • Edit Alert dialog box
    • Managing scripts
      • How scripts work with alerts
      • Adding scripts
      • Deleting scripts
      • Testing script execution
      • Description of script windows and dialog boxes
        • Management/Scripts page
        • Add Script dialog box
        • Supported Unified Manager CLI commands
    • Managing health thresholds
      • What storage capacity health thresholds are
      • Configuring global health threshold settings
        • Configuring global aggregate health threshold values
        • Configuring global volume health threshold values
        • Configuring global qtree health threshold values
        • Editing lag health threshold settings for unmanaged protection relationships
      • Editing individual aggregate health threshold settings
      • Editing individual volume health threshold settings
      • Editing individual qtree health threshold settings
      • Description of health thresholds pages
        • Configuration/Health Thresholds page for Aggregates
        • Configuration/Health Thresholds page for Volumes
        • Lag Thresholds for Unmanaged Relationships page
        • Configuration/Health Thresholds page for Qtrees
        • Edit Aggregate Thresholds dialog box
        • Edit Volume Thresholds dialog box
        • Edit Qtree Thresholds dialog box
    • Managing user-defined performance thresholds
      • How user-defined performance threshold policies work
      • What happens when a performance threshold policy is breached
      • What performance counters can be tracked using thresholds
      • What objects and counters can be used in combination threshold policies
      • Creating user-defined performance threshold policies
      • Assigning performance threshold policies to storage objects
      • Viewing performance threshold policies
      • Editing user-defined performance threshold policies
      • Removing performance threshold policies from storage objects
      • What happens when a performance threshold policy is changed
      • What happens to performance threshold policies when an object is moved
      • Descriptions of the performance threshold policy pages
        • Configuration/Performance Thresholds page
        • Create or Clone Performance Threshold Policy page
        • Edit Performance Threshold Policy page
        • Assign Performance Threshold Policy page
        • Clear Performance Threshold Policy page
    • Analyzing performance events
      • Displaying information about performance events
      • Analyzing events from user-defined performance thresholds
        • Responding to user-defined performance threshold events
      • Analyzing events from system-defined performance thresholds
        • Responding to system-defined performance threshold events
        • Responding to QoS policy group performance events
        • Understanding events from adaptive QoS policies that have a defined block size
        • Responding to node resources overutilized performance events
      • Analyzing events from dynamic performance thresholds
        • Identifying victim workloads involved in a dynamic performance event
        • Identifying bully workloads involved in a dynamic performance event
        • Identifying shark workloads involved in a dynamic performance event
        • Performance event analysis for a MetroCluster configuration
          • Analyzing a dynamic performance event on a cluster in a MetroCluster configuration
          • Analyzing a dynamic performance event for a remote cluster on a MetroCluster configuration
        • Responding to a dynamic performance event caused by QoS policy group throttling
        • Responding to a dynamic performance event caused by a disk failure
        • Responding to a dynamic performance event caused by HA takeover
    • Resolving performance events
      • Confirming that the latency is within the expected range
      • Review the impact of configuration changes on workload performance
      • Options for improving workload performance from the client-side
      • Check for client or network issues
      • Verify whether other volumes in the QoS policy group have unusually high activity
      • Move logical interfaces (LIFs)
        • Moving LIFs manually
        • What LIFs are
        • Displaying all LIFs in a SVM using the CLI
        • Identifying LIFs with the most connections using the CLI
        • Identifying the best node for a busy LIF using the CLI
        • Identifying the best node for a busy LIF using OnCommand System Manager
        • Changing home port and nodes for a LIF using OnCommand System Manager
        • Reverting a LIF to its home port using OnCommand System Manager
      • How storage QoS can control workload throughput
      • Run storage efficiency operations at less busy times
        • What storage efficiency is
      • Add disks and reallocate data
      • How enabling Flash Cache on a node can improve workload performance
      • How enabling Flash Pool on a storage aggregate can improve workload performance
      • MetroCluster configuration health check
      • MetroCluster configuration verification
      • Moving workloads to a different aggregate
      • Moving workloads to a different node
      • Moving workloads to an aggregate on a different node
      • Moving workloads to a node in a different HA pair
      • Moving workloads to another node in a different HA pair
      • Use QoS policy settings to prioritize the work on this node
      • Remove inactive volumes and LUNs
      • Add disks and perform aggregate layout reconstruction
    • Managing quotas
      • What quota limits are
      • Viewing user and user group quotas
      • Creating rules to generate email addresses
      • Creating an email notification format for user and user group quotas
      • Editing user and group quota email addresses
      • Understanding more about quotas
        • Overview of the quota process
        • About quotas
        • Why you use quotas
      • Description of quotas dialog boxes
        • Email Notification Format page
        • Rules to Generate User and Group Quota Email Address page
    • Managing and monitoring clusters and cluster object health
      • Understanding cluster monitoring
        • Understanding node root volumes
        • Understanding events and thresholds for node root aggregates
        • Understanding quorum and epsilon
      • Viewing the cluster list and details
      • Checking the health of clusters in a MetroCluster configuration
      • Viewing the node list and details
      • Viewing the SVM list and details
      • Viewing the aggregate list and details
      • Viewing storage pool details
      • Viewing the volume list and details
      • Viewing the CIFS shares
      • Viewing FabricPool capacity information
      • Viewing the list of Snapshot copies
      • Deleting Snapshot copies
      • Calculating reclaimable space for Snapshot copies
      • Description of cluster object windows and dialog boxes
        • Health/Clusters inventory page
        • Health/Clusters Storage Summary page
        • Health/Cluster details page
        • Health/Nodes inventory page
        • Health/Aggregates inventory page
        • Health/Aggregates Capacity and Utilization page
        • Health/Aggregate details page
        • Health/Storage Virtual Machines inventory page
        • Health/Storage Virtual Machine details page
        • Storage Pool dialog box
        • Health/Volumes inventory page
        • Health/Volumes Capacity and Utilization page
        • Health/Volume details page
        • Export Policy Rules dialog box
        • Snapshot Copies on a Volume dialog box
    • Managing and monitoring MetroCluster configurations
      • Parts of a fabric MetroCluster configuration
        • Parts of a two-node SAS-attached stretch MetroCluster configuration
        • Parts of a two-node bridge-attached stretch MetroCluster configuration
      • Cluster connectivity status definitions
      • Data mirroring status definitions
      • Monitoring MetroCluster configurations
      • Monitoring MetroCluster replication
    • Managing annotations for storage objects
      • What annotations are
      • How annotation rules work in Unified Manager
      • Description of predefined annotation values
      • Viewing the annotation list and details
      • Adding annotations dynamically
      • Adding annotations manually to individual storage objects
      • Adding values to annotations
      • Creating annotation rules
      • Configuring conditions for annotation rules
      • Editing annotation rules
      • Reordering annotation rules
      • Deleting annotations
      • Deleting values from annotations
      • Deleting annotation rules
      • Description of Annotations windows and dialog boxes
        • Management/Annotations page
        • Add Annotation dialog box
        • Edit Annotation dialog box
        • Add Annotation Rule dialog box
        • Edit Annotation Rule dialog box
        • Reorder Annotation Rule dialog box
        • Annotate Cluster dialog box
        • Annotate SVM dialog box
        • Annotate Volume dialog box
    • Managing and monitoring groups
      • Understanding groups
        • What a group is
        • How group rules work for groups
        • How group actions work on storage objects
      • Managing groups of storage objects
        • Adding groups
        • Deleting groups
        • Editing groups
        • Adding group rules
        • Editing group rules
        • Deleting group rules
        • Configuring conditions for group rules
        • Adding group actions
        • Editing group actions
        • Configuring volume health thresholds for groups
        • Deleting group actions
        • Reordering group actions
      • Description of groups windows and dialog boxes
        • Management/Groups page
        • Add Group dialog box
        • Edit Group dialog box
        • Groups details page
        • Add Group Rule dialog box
        • Edit Group Rule dialog box
        • Add Group Action dialog box
        • Group action-volume thresholds section
        • Edit Group Action dialog box
        • Reorder Group Actions dialog box
    • Managing and monitoring protection relationships
      • What resource pools are
      • Types of SnapMirror protection
      • Viewing volume protection relationships
      • Creating a SnapVault protection relationship from the Health/Volumes inventory page
      • Creating a SnapVault protection relationship from the Health/Volume details page
      • Creating a SnapMirror protection relationship from the Health/Volumes inventory page
      • Creating a SnapMirror protection relationship from the Health/Volume details page
      • Creating a SnapMirror relationship with version-flexible replication
      • Creating SnapMirror relationships with version-flexible replication with backup option
      • Configuring destination efficiency settings
      • Creating SnapMirror and SnapVault schedules
      • Creating cascade or fanout relationships to extend protection from an existing protection relationship
      • Editing protection relationships from the Protection/Volume Relationships page
      • Editing protection relationships from the Health/Volume details page
      • Creating a SnapMirror policy to maximize transfer efficiency
      • Creating a SnapVault policy to maximize transfer efficiency
      • Aborting an active data protection transfer from the Protection/Volume Relationships page
      • Aborting an active data protection transfer from the Health/Volume details page
      • Quiescing a protection relationship from the Protection/Volume Relationships page
      • Quiescing a protection relationship from the Health/Volume details page
      • Breaking a SnapMirror relationship from the Protection/Volume Relationships page
      • Breaking a SnapMirror relationship from the Health/Volume details page
      • Removing a protection relationship from the Protection/Volume Relationships page
      • Removing a protection relationship from the Health/Volume details page
      • Resuming scheduled transfers on a quiesced relationship from the Protection/Volume Relationships page
      • Resuming scheduled transfers on a quiesced relationship from the Health/Volume details page
      • Initializing or updating protection relationships from the Protection/Volume Relationships page
      • Initializing or updating protection relationships from the Health/Volume details page
      • Resynchronizing protection relationships from the Protection/Volume Relationships page
      • Resynchronizing protection relationships from the Health/Volume details page
      • Reversing protection relationships from the Protection/Volume Relationships page
      • Reversing protection relationships from the Health/Volume details page
      • Restoring data using the Health/Volumes inventory page
      • Restoring data using the Health/Volume details page
      • Creating resource pools
      • Editing resource pools
      • Viewing resource pools inventory
      • Adding resource pool members
      • Removing aggregates from resource pools
      • Deleting resource pools
      • Understanding SVM associations
      • SVM and resource pool requirements to support storage services
      • Creating SVM associations
      • Viewing SVM associations
      • Deleting SVM associations
      • What jobs are
      • Monitoring jobs
      • Viewing job details
      • Aborting jobs
      • Retrying a failed protection job
      • Description of Protection relationships windows and dialog boxes
        • Protection/Resource Pools page
        • Create Resource Pool dialog box
        • Edit Resource Pool dialog box
        • Aggregates dialog box
        • Protection/Storage Virtual Machine Associations page
        • Create Storage Virtual Machine Associations wizard
        • Protection/Jobs page
        • Protection/Job details page
        • Advanced Secondary Settings dialog box
        • Advanced Destination Settings dialog box
        • Restore dialog box
        • Browse Directories dialog box
        • Configure Protection dialog box
        • Create Schedule dialog box
        • Create SnapMirror Policy dialog box
        • Create SnapVault Policy dialog box
        • Edit Relationship dialog box
        • Initialize/Update dialog box
        • Resynchronize dialog box
        • Select Source Snapshot Copy dialog box
        • Reverse Resync dialog box
        • Protection/Volume Relationships page
        • Protection/Volume Transfer Status (Historical) page
        • Protection/Volume Transfer Rate (Historical) page
    • Executing protection workflows using OnCommand Workflow Automation
      • Configuring a connection between Workflow Automation and Unified Manager
      • Removing OnCommand Workflow Automation setup from Unified Manager
      • What happens when OnCommand Workflow Automation is reinstalled or upgraded
      • Description of OnCommand Workflow Automation setup windows and dialog boxes
        • Setup/Workflow Automation page
    • Managing performance using performance capacity and available IOPS information
      • What performance capacity used is
      • What the performance capacity used value means
      • What available IOPS is
      • Viewing node and aggregate performance capacity used values
      • Viewing node and aggregate available IOPS values
      • Viewing performance capacity counter charts to identify issues
      • Performance capacity used performance threshold conditions
      • Using the performance capacity used counter to manage performance
    • Monitoring cluster performance from the Performance Cluster Landing page
      • Understanding the Performance Cluster Landing page
      • Performance Cluster Landing page
        • Performance Cluster Summary page
          • Cluster performance events pane
          • Managed Objects pane
        • Top Performers page
    • Monitoring performance using the Performance Inventory pages
      • Object monitoring using the Performance object inventory pages
      • Refining Performance inventory page contents
        • Searching on Object Inventory Performance pages
        • Sorting on the Object Inventory Performance pages
        • Filtering data in the Object Inventory Performance pages
      • Understanding the Unified Manager recommendations to tier data to the cloud
      • Descriptions of the Performance inventory pages
        • Performance/Clusters inventory page
        • Performance/Nodes inventory page
        • Performance/Aggregates inventory page
        • Performance/Volumes inventory page
        • Performance/Ports inventory page
        • Performance/SVMs inventory page
        • Performance/LUNs inventory page
        • Namespaces inventory page
        • Performance/LIFs inventory page
    • Monitoring performance using the Performance Explorer pages
      • Understanding the root object
      • Apply filtering to reduce the list of correlated objects in the grid
      • Specifying a time range for correlated objects
        • Selecting a predefined time range
        • Specifying a custom time range
      • Defining the list of correlated objects for comparison graphing
      • Understanding counter charts
      • Types of performance counter charts
      • Selecting performance charts to display
      • Expanding the Counter Charts pane
      • Changing the Counter Charts focus to a shorter period of time
      • Viewing event details in the Events Timeline
      • Counter Charts Zoom View
        • Displaying the Counter Charts Zoom View
        • Specifying the time range in Zoom View
        • Selecting performance thresholds in Counter Charts Zoom View
      • Viewing workload QoS minimum and maximum settings
      • How different types of QoS policies are displayed in Unified Manager
      • Viewing volume latency by cluster component
      • Viewing SVM IOPS traffic by protocol
      • Viewing volume and LUN latency charts to verify performance guarantee
      • Components of the Object Landing pages
        • Summary page
        • Components of the Performance Explorer page
      • Descriptions of the Performance Explorer pages
        • Performance/Cluster Explorer page
        • Performance/Node Explorer page
        • Performance/Aggregate Explorer page
        • Performance/Volume or Performance/FlexGroup Explorer page
        • Performance/Constituent Volume Explorer page
        • Performance/Port Explorer page
        • Performance/SVM Explorer page
        • Performance/LUN Explorer page
        • Namespace Explorer page
        • Performance/LIF Explorer page
      • Descriptions of the counter charts
        • Latency performance counter charts
        • IOPS performance counter charts
        • MBps performance counter charts
        • Utilization performance counter chart
        • Performance Capacity Used performance counter charts
        • Available IOPS performance counter chart
        • Cache Miss Ratio performance counter chart
    • Viewing object configuration information
      • Performance/Cluster Information page
      • Performance/Node Information page
      • Performance/Aggregate Information page
      • Performance/Volume or Performance/FlexGroup Information page
      • Performance/Constituent Volume Information page
      • Performance/Port Information page
      • Performance/SVM Information page
      • Performance/LUN Information page
      • Namespace Information page
      • Performance/LIF Information page
    • Understanding and using the Node Failover Planning page
      • Using the Node Failover Planning page to determine corrective actions
      • Components of the Node Failover Planning page
      • Using a threshold policy with the Node Failover Planning page
      • Using the Performance Capacity Used Breakdown chart for failover planning
    • Collecting data and monitoring workload performance
      • Types of workloads monitored by Unified Manager
      • Workload performance measurement values
      • What the expected range of performance is
      • How the expected range is used in performance analysis
      • How Unified Manager uses workload latency to identify performance issues
      • How cluster operations can affect workload latency
      • Performance monitoring of MetroCluster configurations
        • Volume behavior during switchover and switchback
      • Performance event analysis and notification
      • How Unified Manager determines the performance impact for an event
      • Cluster components and why they can be in contention
      • Roles of workloads involved in a performance event
    • Analyzing workload performance
      • Determining whether a workload has a performance issue
      • Investigating a perceived slow response time for a workload
      • Identifying trends of I/O response time on cluster components
      • Analyzing the performance improvements achieved from moving a volume
        • How moving a FlexVol volume works
      • Performance/Volume Details page
        • Performance statistics displayed in the data breakdown charts
        • How graphs of performance data work
    • Managing reports
      • Scheduling reports
      • Sharing reports
      • Managing report schedules
      • Customizing a report
      • Editing a customized report
      • Importing reports
      • Understanding more about reports
        • What reports do
        • Unified Manager databases accessible for custom reporting
        • What report scheduling is
        • What report sharing is
        • What report importing is
      • Report customizations
        • Storage Summary report customizations
          • Customizing the Storage Summary report to view capacity by cluster models
          • Customizing the Storage Summary report to analyze cluster capacity based on the ONTAP version
          • Customizing the Storage Summary report to analyze clusters with the most unallocated LUN capacity
          • Customizing the Storage Summary report to analyze HA pairs for available capacity to provision new volumes and LUNs
        • Aggregate Capacity and Utilization Report customizations
          • Customizing the Aggregate Capacity and Utilization report to view aggregates reaching full capacity
          • Customizing the Aggregate Capacity and Utilization report to display aggregates with the nearly full threshold breached
          • Customizing the Aggregate Capacity and Utilization report to display aggregates with overcommitted threshold breached
          • Customizing the Aggregate Capacity and Utilization report to display aggregates with noncompliant configuration
        • Volume Capacity and Utilization report customizations
          • Customizing the Volume Capacity and Utilization report to display volumes nearing full capacity with Snapshot Autodelete turned off
          • Customizing the Volume Capacity and Utilization report to display the least consumed volumes with thin provisioning disabled
          • Customizing the Volume Capacity and Utilization report to display volumes with noncompliant configuration
        • Qtree Capacity and Utilization report customizations
          • Customizing the Qtree Capacity and Utilization report to display qtrees that have breached the disk soft limit
          • Customizing the Qtree Capacity and Utilization report to display qtrees that have breached the file soft limit
        • Events report customizations
          • Customizing the Events report to display events with a critical severity type
          • Customizing the Events report to display events on mission-critical objects
          • Customizing the Events report to display the top most discussed events
          • Customizing the Events report to display incident events assigned to the admin
          • Customizing the Events report to display events impacting availability
          • Customizing the Events report to display the top most acknowledged unresolved events
        • Cluster Inventory Report customizations
          • Customizing the Cluster Inventory report to display clusters reaching SVM count limit
          • Customizing the Cluster Inventory report to display nodes running older versions of ONTAP software
          • Customizing the Cluster Inventory report to display nodes reaching the maximum disk limit
        • NFS Export report customizations
          • Customizing the NFS Exports report to display a list of volumes that have an inaccessible junction path
          • Customizing the NFS Exports report to display a list of volumes with default export policy
        • SVM Inventory report customizations
          • Customizing the SVM Inventory report to display a list of SVMs reaching maximum volume limit
          • Customizing the SVM Inventory report to display a list of stopped SVMs
        • Volume Relationships Inventory report customizations
          • Customizing the Volume Relationships Inventory report to view volumes grouped by source of failure
          • Customizing the Volume Relationships Inventory report to view volumes grouped by issue
        • Volume Transfer Status (Historical) report customizations
          • Customizing the Volume Transfer Status (Historical) report schedules
          • Customizing the Volume Transfer Status (Historical) report to view volumes at specific time intervals
          • Customizing the Volume Transfer Status (Historical) report to view volumes grouped by time of occurrence
          • Customizing the Volume Transfer Status (Historical) report to view failed or successful volume transfers
        • Volume Transfer Rate (Historical) report customizations
          • Customizing the Volume Transfer Rate (Historical) report to view volume transfers based on transfer size
          • Customizing the Volume Transfer Rate (Historical) report to view volume transfers grouped by day
      • Description of report windows and dialog boxes
        • Reports page
          • Storage Summary report
          • Aggregate Capacity and Utilization report
          • Volume Capacity and Utilization report
          • Qtree Capacity and Utilization report
          • Events report
          • Cluster Inventory report
          • NFS Exports report
          • SVM Inventory report
          • Volume Data Protection Configuration report
          • Volume Relationships Inventory report
          • Volume Transfer Status (Historical) report
          • Volume Transfer Rate (Historical) report
        • Schedule Report dialog box
        • Share Report dialog box
        • Manage Report Schedules dialog box
        • Save Customized Report As dialog box
        • Save Custom Report dialog box
        • Import Report dialog box
    • Configuring backup and restore operations
      • What a database backup is
      • Configuring database backup settings
      • What a database restore is
      • Virtual appliance backup and restore process overview
      • Restoring a database backup on a virtual machine
      • Restoring a database backup on a Linux system
      • Restoring a database backup on Windows
      • Description of backup windows and dialog boxes
        • Management/Database Backup page
        • Database Backup Settings dialog box
    • Using Unified Manager REST APIs
      • Accessing REST APIs using the Swagger API web page
      • List of available REST APIs
    • Managing and monitoring Infinite Volumes
      • Viewing the details of SVMs with Infinite Volume
      • Viewing the constituents of an Infinite Volume
      • Editing the Infinite Volume threshold settings
      • Editing the threshold settings of storage classes
      • Understanding Infinite Volumes
        • What an Infinite Volume is
        • Maximum number of files an Infinite Volume can store
        • What a storage class is
        • What a namespace constituent is
        • What data constituents are
        • What a namespace mirror constituent is
      • Creating rules
        • Creating rules using templates
        • Creating custom rules
      • Viewing rules
      • Editing template-based rules
      • Editing custom rules
      • Deleting rules
      • Previewing changes to your data policy
      • Exporting a data policy configuration
      • Importing a data policy configuration
      • Understanding rules and data policy
        • What rules and data policies are
        • What the default rule is
        • How a data policy filters data written to an Infinite Volume
        • What a rule template is
        • What conditions and condition sets are
      • Description of Infinite Volume windows and dialog boxes
        • Create Rule dialog box
        • Edit Rule dialog box
        • Edit Rule dialog box (Advanced edit)
        • Edit SVM with Infinite Volume Thresholds dialog box
        • Edit Storage Class Thresholds dialog box
    • Managing clusters
      • How the cluster discovery process works
      • Viewing the list of monitored clusters
      • Adding clusters
      • Editing clusters
      • Removing clusters
      • Rediscovering clusters
      • Page descriptions for data source management
        • Configuration/Cluster Data Sources page
        • Add Cluster dialog box
        • Edit Cluster dialog box
    • Managing user access
      • Adding users
      • Editing the user settings
      • Testing a remote user or remote group
      • Viewing users
      • Deleting users or groups
      • Changing the local user password
      • What the maintenance user does
      • What RBAC is
      • What role-based access control does
      • Definitions of user types
      • Definitions of user roles
      • Unified Manager user roles and capabilities
      • Description of user access windows and dialog boxes
        • Management/Users page
        • Add User dialog box
        • Edit User dialog box
    • Managing authentication
      • Enabling remote authentication
      • Disabling nested groups from remote authentication
      • Setting up authentication services
      • Adding authentication servers
      • Testing the configuration of authentication servers
      • Editing authentication servers
      • Deleting authentication servers
      • Authentication with Active Directory or OpenLDAP
      • Enabling SAML authentication
      • Identity provider requirements
      • Changing the identity provider used for SAML authentication
      • Disabling SAML authentication
      • Description of authentication windows and dialog boxes
        • Setup/Authentication page
        • Remote Authentication page
        • SAML Authentication page
    • Managing security certificates
      • Viewing the HTTPS security certificate
      • Generating an HTTPS security certificate
        • Restarting the Unified Manager virtual machine
      • Downloading an HTTPS certificate signing request
      • Installing an HTTPS security certificate
      • Page descriptions for certificate management
        • HTTPS Certificate page
        • Regenerate HTTPS Certificate dialog box
    • Troubleshooting
      • Changing the Unified Manager host name
        • Changing the Unified Manager virtual appliance host name
        • Changing the Unified Manager host name on Linux systems
      • Adding disk space to the Unified Manager database directory
        • Adding space to the data disk of the VMware virtual machine
        • Adding space to the data directory of the Linux host
        • Adding space to the logical drive of the Microsoft Windows server
      • Changing the performance statistics collection interval
      • Enabling periodic AutoSupport
      • Sending on-demand AutoSupport messages
      • Setup/AutoSupport page
      • Unknown authentication error
      • User not found
      • Issue with adding LDAP using Other authentication services
      • Troubleshooting access to CIFS shares
      • Certain special characters do not work with reporting search
    • Copyright information
    • Trademark
    • How to send comments about documentation and receive update notifications
  • Monitor and manage cluster performance
    • Introduction to OnCommand Unified Manager performance monitoring
      • Unified Manager performance monitoring features
      • Unified Manager interfaces used to manage storage system performance
      • Cluster configuration and performance data collection activity
      • What a data continuity collection cycle is
      • What the timestamp means in collected data and events
    • Navigating performance workflows in the Unified Manager GUI
      • Logging in to the UI
      • Graphical interface and navigational paths
        • Monitor cluster object navigation
        • Monitor cluster performance navigation
        • Event investigation navigation
        • Unified Manager administration navigation
      • Searching for storage objects
      • Filtering performance inventory page content
      • Accessing OnCommand System Manager from the Unified Manager interface
      • Adding to, and removing storage objects from, the Favorites list
      • Bookmarking frequently viewed product pages
      • Bookmarking your favorite Help topics
    • Understanding performance events and alerts
      • Sources of performance events
      • Performance event severity types
      • Configuration changes detected by Unified Manager
      • What happens when an event is received
      • What information is contained in an alert email
      • Adding alerts
      • Adding alerts for performance events
      • Types of system-defined performance threshold policies
    • Managing user-defined performance thresholds
      • How user-defined performance threshold policies work
      • What happens when a performance threshold policy is breached
      • What performance counters can be tracked using thresholds
      • What objects and counters can be used in combination threshold policies
      • Creating user-defined performance threshold policies
      • Assigning performance threshold policies to storage objects
      • Viewing performance threshold policies
      • Editing user-defined performance threshold policies
      • Removing performance threshold policies from storage objects
      • What happens when a performance threshold policy is changed
      • What happens to performance threshold policies when an object is moved
    • Monitoring cluster performance from the Performance Dashboard
      • Understanding the Performance dashboard
      • Performance Dashboard cluster banner messages and descriptions
      • Changing the performance statistics collection interval
    • Monitoring cluster performance from the Performance Cluster Landing page
      • Understanding the Performance Cluster Landing page
      • Performance Cluster Landing page
        • Performance Cluster Summary page
          • Cluster performance events pane
          • Managed Objects pane
        • Top Performers page
    • Monitoring performance using the Performance Inventory pages
      • Object monitoring using the Performance object inventory pages
      • Refining Performance inventory page contents
        • Searching on Object Inventory Performance pages
        • Sorting on the Object Inventory Performance pages
        • Filtering data in the Object Inventory Performance pages
      • Understanding the Unified Manager recommendations to tier data to the cloud
    • Monitoring performance using the Performance Explorer pages
      • Understanding the root object
      • Apply filtering to reduce the list of correlated objects in the grid
      • Specifying a time range for correlated objects
        • Selecting a predefined time range
        • Specifying a custom time range
      • Defining the list of correlated objects for comparison graphing
      • Understanding counter charts
      • Types of performance counter charts
      • Selecting performance charts to display
      • Expanding the Counter Charts pane
      • Changing the Counter Charts focus to a shorter period of time
      • Viewing event details in the Events Timeline
      • Counter Charts Zoom View
        • Displaying the Counter Charts Zoom View
        • Specifying the time range in Zoom View
        • Selecting performance thresholds in Counter Charts Zoom View
      • Viewing workload QoS minimum and maximum settings
      • How different types of QoS policies are displayed in Unified Manager
      • Viewing volume latency by cluster component
      • Viewing SVM IOPS traffic by protocol
      • Viewing volume and LUN latency charts to verify performance guarantee
      • Components of the Object Landing pages
        • Summary page
        • Components of the Performance Explorer page
    • Managing performance using performance capacity and available IOPS information
      • What performance capacity used is
      • What the performance capacity used value means
      • What available IOPS is
      • Viewing node and aggregate performance capacity used values
      • Viewing node and aggregate available IOPS values
      • Viewing performance capacity counter charts to identify issues
      • Performance capacity used performance threshold conditions
      • Using the performance capacity used counter to manage performance
    • Understanding and using the Node Failover Planning page
      • Using the Node Failover Planning page to determine corrective actions
      • Components of the Node Failover Planning page
      • Using a threshold policy with the Node Failover Planning page
      • Using the Performance Capacity Used Breakdown chart for failover planning
    • Collecting data and monitoring workload performance
      • Types of workloads monitored by Unified Manager
      • Workload performance measurement values
      • What the expected range of performance is
      • How the expected range is used in performance analysis
      • How Unified Manager uses workload latency to identify performance issues
      • How cluster operations can affect workload latency
      • Performance monitoring of MetroCluster configurations
        • Volume behavior during switchover and switchback
      • What performance events are
        • Performance event analysis and notification
        • How Unified Manager determines the performance impact for an event
        • Cluster components and why they can be in contention
        • Roles of workloads involved in a performance event
    • Analyzing workload performance
      • Determining whether a workload has a performance issue
      • Investigating a perceived slow response time for a workload
      • Identifying trends of I/O response time on cluster components
      • Analyzing the performance improvements achieved from moving a volume
        • How moving a FlexVol volume works
      • Performance/Volume Details page
        • Performance statistics displayed in the data breakdown charts
        • How graphs of performance data work
    • Analyzing performance events
      • Displaying information about performance events
      • Analyzing events from user-defined performance thresholds
        • Responding to user-defined performance threshold events
      • Analyzing events from system-defined performance thresholds
        • Responding to system-defined performance threshold events
        • Responding to QoS policy group performance events
        • Understanding events from adaptive QoS policies that have a defined block size
        • Responding to node resources overutilized performance events
      • Analyzing events from dynamic performance thresholds
        • Identifying victim workloads involved in a dynamic performance event
        • Identifying bully workloads involved in a dynamic performance event
        • Identifying shark workloads involved in a dynamic performance event
        • Performance event analysis for a MetroCluster configuration
          • Analyzing a dynamic performance event on a cluster in a MetroCluster configuration
          • Analyzing a dynamic performance event for a remote cluster on a MetroCluster configuration
        • Responding to a dynamic performance event caused by QoS policy group throttling
        • Responding to a dynamic performance event caused by a disk failure
        • Responding to a dynamic performance event caused by HA takeover
    • Setting up a connection between a Unified Manager server and an external data provider
      • Performance data that can be sent to an external server
      • Setting up Graphite to receive performance data from Unified Manager
      • Configuring a connection from a Unified Manager server to an external data provider
  • Monitor and manage cluster health
    • Introduction to OnCommand Unified Manager health monitoring
      • Unified Manager health monitoring features
      • Unified Manager interfaces used to manage storage system health
    • Common Unified Manager health workflows and tasks
      • Monitoring and troubleshooting data availability
        • Resolving a flash card offline condition
          • Performing corrective action for a flash card offline
        • Scanning for and resolving storage failover interconnect link down conditions
          • Performing corrective action for storage failover interconnect links down
        • Resolving volume offline issues
          • Performing diagnostic actions for volume offline conditions
            • Determining if a volume is offline because its host node is down
            • Determining if a volume is offline and its SVM is stopped because a node is down
            • Determining if a volume is offline because of broken disks in an aggregate
      • Resolving capacity issues
        • Performing suggested remedial actions for a full volume
      • Creating, monitoring, and troubleshooting protection relationships
        • Types of SnapMirror protection
        • Setting up protection relationships in Unified Manager
          • Configuring a connection between Workflow Automation and Unified Manager
          • Verifying Unified Manager data source caching in Workflow Automation
          • Creating a SnapMirror protection relationship from the Health/Volume details page
          • Creating a SnapVault protection relationship from the Health/Volume details page
          • Creating a SnapVault policy to maximize transfer efficiency
          • Creating a SnapMirror policy to maximize transfer efficiency
          • Creating SnapMirror and SnapVault schedules
        • Performing a protection relationship failover and failback
          • Breaking a SnapMirror relationship from the Health/Volume details page
          • Reversing protection relationships from the Health/Volume details page
          • Removing a protection relationship from the Health/Volume details page
          • Resynchronizing protection relationships from the Health/Volume details page
        • Resolving a protection job failure
          • Identifying the problem and performing corrective actions for a failed protection job
        • Resolving lag issues
      • Restoring data from Snapshot copies
        • Restoring data using the Health/Volume details page
        • Restoring data using the Health/Volumes inventory page
      • Managing health thresholds
        • What storage capacity health thresholds are
        • Configuring global health threshold settings
          • Configuring global aggregate health threshold values
          • Configuring global volume health threshold values
          • Configuring global qtree health threshold values
          • Editing lag health threshold settings for unmanaged protection relationships
        • Editing individual aggregate health threshold settings
        • Editing individual volume health threshold settings
        • Editing individual qtree health threshold settings
      • Managing scripts
        • How scripts work with alerts
        • Adding scripts
        • Deleting scripts
        • Testing script execution
      • Managing and monitoring groups
        • Understanding groups
          • What a group is
          • How group rules work for groups
          • How group actions work on storage objects
        • Adding groups
        • Editing groups
        • Deleting groups
        • Adding group rules
        • Editing group rules
        • Deleting group rules
        • Adding group actions
        • Editing group actions
        • Configuring volume health thresholds for groups
        • Deleting group actions
        • Reordering group actions
      • Prioritizing storage object events using annotations
        • Understanding more about annotations
          • What annotations are
          • How annotation rules work in Unified Manager
          • Description of predefined annotation values
        • Adding annotations dynamically
        • Adding values to annotations
        • Deleting annotations
        • Viewing the annotation list and details
        • Deleting values from annotations
        • Creating annotation rules
        • Adding annotations manually to individual storage objects
        • Editing annotation rules
        • Configuring conditions for annotation rules
        • Deleting annotation rules
        • Reordering annotation rules
      • Configuring backup and restore operations
        • What a database backup is
        • Configuring database backup settings
        • What a database restore is
        • Virtual appliance backup and restore process overview
        • Restoring a database backup on a virtual machine
        • Restoring a database backup on a Linux system
        • Restoring a database backup on Windows
        • Migrating a Unified Manager virtual appliance to a Linux system
      • What a Unified Manager maintenance window is
        • Scheduling a maintenance window to disable cluster event notifications
        • Changing or canceling a scheduled maintenance window
        • Viewing events that occurred during a maintenance window
      • Managing SAML authentication settings
        • Identity provider requirements
        • Enabling SAML authentication
        • Changing the identity provider used for SAML authentication
        • Updating SAML authentication settings after Unified Manager security certificate change
        • Disabling SAML authentication
        • Disabling SAML authentication from the maintenance console
      • Managing storage objects using the Favorites option
        • Adding to, and removing storage objects from, the Favorites list
        • Cluster favorite card
        • Aggregate favorite card
        • Volume favorite card
      • Creating and importing reports into Unified Manager
        • Downloading and installing MySQL Connector/J
        • Creating a database user
        • Downloading the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT)
        • Creating a project using BIRT
        • Creating a new report using BIRT
        • Creating a JDBC data source using BIRT
        • Creating a new MySQL data set using BIRT
        • Importing reports
      • Using Unified Manager REST APIs
        • Accessing REST APIs using the Swagger API web page
        • List of available REST APIs
      • Setting up and monitoring an SVM with Infinite Volume without storage classes
        • Editing the Infinite Volume threshold settings
      • Managing your Infinite Volume with storage classes and data policies
        • Editing the threshold settings of storage classes
        • Adding alerts
        • Creating rules
          • Creating rules using templates
          • Creating custom rules
        • Exporting a data policy configuration
      • Sending a Unified Manager support bundle to technical support
        • Accessing the maintenance console
        • Generating a support bundle
        • Retrieving the support bundle using a Windows client
        • Retrieving the support bundle using a UNIX or Linux client
        • Sending a support bundle to technical support
      • Tasks and information related to several workflows
        • Adding and reviewing notes about an event
        • Assigning events to specific users
        • Acknowledging and resolving events
        • Event details page
          • What the Event Information section displays
          • What the System Diagnosis section displays
          • What the Suggested Actions section displays
        • Description of event severity types
        • Description of event impact levels
        • Description of event impact areas
        • Health/Volume details page
        • Health/Storage Virtual Machine details page
        • Health/Cluster details page
        • Health/Aggregate details page
        • Protection/Job details page
        • Adding users
        • Definitions of user roles
        • Definitions of user types
        • Unified Manager user roles and capabilities
        • Supported Unified Manager CLI commands
    • Using the maintenance console
      • What functionality the maintenance console provides
      • What the maintenance user does
      • Diagnostic user capabilities
      • Maintenance console menus
        • Network Configuration menu
        • System Configuration menu
        • Support and Diagnostics menu
        • Additional menu options
      • Changing the maintenance user password on Windows
      • Changing the umadmin password on Linux systems
      • Adding network interfaces
      • Adding disk space to the Unified Manager database directory
        • Adding space to the data directory of the Linux host
        • Adding space to the data disk of the VMware virtual machine
        • Adding space to the logical drive of the Microsoft Windows server
  • Legal notices