Some common administrative workflows and tasks associated with Unified Manager include selecting the storage clusters that are to be monitored; diagnosing conditions that adversely affect data availability, performance, capacity, and protection; creating protection relationships; restoring lost data; configuring and managing Infinite Volumes; and bundling and sending diagnostic data to technical support (when necessary).
Unified Manager enables storage administrators to view a dashboard, assess the overall capacity, availability, and protection health of the managed storage clusters, and then quickly note, locate, diagnose, and assign for resolution any specific issues that might arise.
The most important cluster, Storage Virtual Machine (SVM), volume, Infinite Volume issue, or protection relationship issues that affect the storage capacity, data availability, or protection reliability of your managed storage are reflected in the Dashboard page system health graphs and posted events. When critical issues are signaled, the Dashboard page provides links to support appropriate troubleshooting workflows.
Unified Manager can also be included in workflows that include related manageability tools—such as OnCommand Workflow Automation (WFA)—to support the direct configuration of storage resources.
Common workflows related to the following administrative tasks are described in this document:
After storage clusters and their storage resources have been configured using the Data ONTAP command-line interface (CLI) or System Manager, storage administrators can further specify and configure the clusters for monitoring within Unified Manager.
If hardware failure or storage resource configuration issues cause the display of data availability events in the Dashboard page, storage administrators can follow the embedded links to display connectivity information about the affected storage resource, display troubleshooting advice, and assign issue resolution to other administrators.
After setting up a connection between Performance Manager and Unified Manager, the OnCommand Administrator can monitor the performance of the resources that are monitored by the two applications.
After using the OnCommand workflow automation tool to create, configure, and define storage classes for an Infinite Volume, storage administrators can use Unified Manager to monitor, set notification thresholds, and define the data policy for that volume and its storage classes. Optionally, storage administrators can use workflow automation and Unified Manager to set up data protection for the Infinite Volume.
If volume storage capacity issues are reflected in the Dashboard page, storage administrators can follow the embedded links to display the storage capacity current and historical trending information about the affected volume, display troubleshooting advice, and assign issue resolution to other administrators.
After creating and configuring protection relationships, storage administrators can view the potential protection reliability issues that are displayed in the Dashboard page, and they can follow the embedded links to display the current state of the protection relationships, the current and historical protection job success information about the affected relationships, and troubleshooting advice, and to assign issue resolution to other administrators. Storage administrators can also configure and manage SnapMirror and SnapVault relationships.
By associating storage objects with annotations, you can filter and view the events that are related to them, which enables you to prioritize and resolve the issues associated with the events.
Storage administrators can retrieve and send a support bundle to technical support using the maintenance console. Support bundles must be sent to technical support when the issue requires more detailed diagnosis and troubleshooting than what an AutoSupport message provides.
You can create new .rpt files using the Eclipse plug-in for Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT). These reports can be imported in the Unified Manager UI and viewed in the Reports page.
The reports displayed on the Reports page provide the current status of the storage. You can make important decisions—such as decisions about storage procurement—based on the current usage. These reports provide an entire view of storage objects such as volumes, disk shelves, and aggregates.
The Reports page in the Unified Manager UI enables you to view detailed information about the reports that you generate. You can search for a specific report, save a report, and delete a report from the Reports page. You can also schedule, share, and import a report.