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Administration of Active IQ Unified Manager ONTAP

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Administration of Active IQ Unified Manager ONTAP

Course code: AOCMCDOT

Duration: 2 Days

Prerequisites: 

•    ONTAP 9 Cluster Administration (ONTAP9ADM)
•    ONTAP Data Management Fundamentals (DMFWBT)
 
Course Description:

In this course, you discover how to deploy and maintain NetApp® Active IQ® Unified Manager (formerly OnCommand® Unified Manager) and how to pair Unified Manager with the OnCommand Workflow Automation (OnCommand WFA) data management solution. You learn how the performance management features of Unified Manager provide a unified approach to storage management and how that approach reduces complexity. You also learn how to use OnCommand WFA to enhance Unified Manager’s data protection capabilities. 

Course Objectives: 

•    Install and maintain a Unified Manager deployment
•    Use Unified Manager to monitor the health and performance of your storage infrastructure
•    Categorize storage objects and implement annotation and group features
•    Configure thresholds, event retention settings, and alerts so that storage issues can be anticipated and quickly identified
•    Explore reporting tools and run reports
•    Pair Unified Manager with OnCommand WFA to manage protection relationships and storage objects in the storage infrastructure
•    Maintain and protect the Unified Manager database
 
Intended Audience:

NetApp employees or NetApp partners who are support engineers, Professional Services workers, or Customer Support Services workers 

Course Outlines:

Module 1: Review Unified Manager and NetApp Data Management Products
•    Overview of NetApp Data Management Solutions
•    AIQ Unified Manager
o    Features and Functinos
o    Discovery Process
o    Integration with WFA

Module 2: Deploy Unified Manager
•    Installation and Configuration tasks
•    Supported Host Environments
•    Supported Browsers
•    Hardware Requirements
•    Prepare information for install
•    Download software
•    Install Unified Manager
•    Configure initial settings
•    Unified Manager objects
•    Manage users    

Module 3: Explore the Unified Manager UI
•    Dashboards
•    Navigation pane
•    Type-ahead search
•    Favorites
•    Column selection
•    Export inventory data
•    Using filters

Module 4: Customize Unified Manager for Your Storage Environment
•    Configure and Customize thresholds
•    Configure events and alerts
•    Managing SAML authentication
•    Annotation and Groups
•    Annotation rules
•    Group rules
•    Group actions
•    When to use annotations vs. groups

Module 5: Monitor Storage Objects
•    Inventory pages
•    Monitor object health
•    Monitor object performance
•    Object pages
•    Protection pages
•    Using Unified Manager Rest APIs for NSLM features

Module 6: Manage Data Protection Relationships
•    WFA features and functions
•    WFA's role in extending DP capabilities in UM
•    Pairing UM with WFA
•    The WFA UI
•    Predefined workflows
•    Executing workflows
•    Protecting data with UM

Module 7: Reporting in UM
•    Understanding reporting in Unified Manager
•    Built-in reports
•    Sharing and scheduling reports
•    Exporting reports
•    Creating custom reports

Module 8: Maintain Unified Manager
•    Protecting the UM database
•    Upgrading UM
•    Extending disk space for the UM database
•    Troubleshooting and Remediation
•    Sending a UM support bundle to NetApp support
o    Review Unified Manager
o    Deploy UM
o    Explore the Unified Manager UI
o    Customize UM for the storage environment
o    Monitor storage objects
o    Manage data protections relationships
o    Reporting in UM
o    Maintain UM