NetApp OnCommand Insight Operation and Best Practices (OCIOBP)

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COURSE INFORMATION

NetApp OnCommand Insight Operation and Best Practices (OCIOBP) Overview:

NetApp OnCommand Insight Operation and Best Practices hands-on course explains the features and functions of the Insight suite of products and how they work together as a solution. You will learn how Insight helps you use service policies to manage storage, plan for change, and use resources and capacity more effectively. Through extensive exercises, you will gain the skills and knowledge to use:

Best practices to manage Insight
Operational procedures to manage Insight
Data warehouse performance reporting features

NetApp OnCommand Insight Operation and Best Practices (OCIOBP) Prerequisites:

Before attending this course, you should complete these Getting Started series videos:

OnCommand Insight Installation
OnCommand Insight Configuration

NetApp OnCommand Insight Operation and Best Practices (OCIOBP) Objectives:

After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:

Describe the four OnCommand Insight products and how they interact with each other
Describe the three phases of OnCommand deployment
Describe inventory, paths, policies, thresholds, violations, and vulnerabilities
Use Insight to manage multiprotocol storage systems (FC, iSCSI. NFS, and CIFS)
Address violations and troubleshoot performance issues
Configure business entities, applications, and annotations, and use them for business-level reporting
Define the data marts and data models that are in a data warehouse and describe how data is loaded into them
Create standard and custom Insight reports

NetApp OnCommand Insight Operation and Best Practices (OCIOBP) Outline:

Module 1: OnCommand Insight Overview

Describe the NetApp OnCommand Insight product suite
Describe Insight and data warehouse (DWH) architecture
Explain the functions and licensing of the four products in Insight
List Insight server and data warehouse server requirements
Describe the three phases of an Insight implementation
Perform post-installation validation
Locate logs and define the services that are installed on the Insight server and DWH server

Module 2: OnCommand Insight Web UI and Administration

Demonstrate the functionality of the Insight web UI
Demonstrate the functionality of the Assets Dashboard, storage and virtual machine asset landing pages
Access the Java UI
Use the widget library to create custom dashboards
Use the Insight scrub utilities
Configure an Insight server and administer licenses, users, notifications, backups, and ASUP

Module 3: OnCommand Insight Java UI

Log into and use the Java UI
Demonstrate the features, functionality, and navigation of the Java UI

Module 4: OnCommand Insight Discover

Explain how OnCommand Insight uses data sources
Perform pre-installation procedures that enable you to configure data sources
Define the requirements for arrays and VMware configuration
Install data sources
Describe the auto-resolution process
Describe the differences between the IP identify table, the FC identify table, and the Generic Devices table
Manually define and remove devices

Module 5: OnCommand Insight Assure

Features and functions of OnCommand Insight Assure
Set up and manage global and granular policies, thresholds, and performance alerts
Set up SAN policies and define the priority for alerts
Monitor changes in an Insight environment
Analyze and manage threshold alerts, violations, and vulnerabilities

Module 6: OnCommand Insight Perform

Features and functions of OnCommand Insight Perform
Different ways to view performance data in the Insight thin client and legacy client
Obtain performance information for virtual machines (VMs), fabrics, arrays, and virtual storage using Insight Perform
Analyze performance problems in virtual machine, SAN, and storage environments using Insight Perform

Module 7: OnCommand Insight Plan

Capacity dashboards and reporting information that OnCommand Insight Plan provides
Annotations and why they are important
Storage and volume tiers and rules

Module 8: OnCommand Insight Data Warehouse Overview and Administration

Data warehouse features and capabilities
Architecture of a data warehouse
Data marts and models in a data warehouse and how data is loaded into them
OnCommand Insight reporting engine
Data warehouse navigation and highlight key dashboards
Access and manage a data warehouse using the data warehouse administration portal

Module 9: OnCommand Insight Data Warehouse Reporting Portal

Three levels of reporting needs
Built-in report types
Five key elements for business-level reporting
Business entities and applications configuration
Data warehouse database, documentation, and report generation tools
Use Workspace Advanced to create custom reports
Components and qualifications for Report Studio and other SQL tools

Module 10: OnCommand Insight Daily Operation and Best Practices Guide

Best practices for gathering pre-installation information
Best practices for administrating the Insight server and data warehouse
Recommended data source management practices
User needs for general and custom reporting
Sources for business entity, application, and annotations metadata

NetApp OnCommand Insight Operation and Best Practices (OCIOBP) Labs:

Use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect to the desktop of the Insight server
Check logs to confirm that Insight was installed successfully
Log into the Insight server administration portal
Install an Insight License
Review user management, SNMP, email, and ASUP configurations
Access the Help menu options
Launch the legacy Insight administration portal
Launch the java UI
Enable the Insight Java UI navigation pane
Add and manage storage and VMware data sources
Work with data sources
Access the Assets Dashboard and device landing pages
Use the Insight Java UI navigation tools and panes
Restore a demonstration database to use with the remaining exercises in the course
Validate, restore, and access the Assets Dashboard and device landing pages
Review the Insight paths pane
Analyze a path violation
Use Insight to review the virtual machine (VM) environment
Apply policies to monitor configurations and performance
Troubleshoot congestion, contention, and bottlenecks
Identify heavily used storage pools, volumes, and disks
Identify heavily used SAN ports
Optimize your storage and tier strategy
Create a Silver tier and apply rules for Symmetrix storage pools
Add costs to tiers
Add annotations
Access the data warehouse administration portal and use it to configure the data warehouse
Log into the reporting portal and verify that the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process to the data warehouse is complete
Use the data warehouse administration portal to back up a data warehouse database
Reset and restore the data warehouse
Use the Insight data warehouse dashboards, reports, and features
Add applications and business entities in the Insight server
Use IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced to create a custom report
Use Workspace Advanced to create a custom report with trend and forecast charts