OnCommand® Unified Manager
Performance Advisor Administration Guide
For Use with Core Package 5.2
What Performance Advisor is
Topology of Performance Advisor
Performance Advisor topology
Limitations of Performance Advisor (7-Mode environments only)
Authentication to access Performance Advisor
Performance Advisor support for hierarchical groups
Performance Advisor support for secure connections
Administrator roles in Performance Advisor
Performance Advisor support for vFiler units (7-Mode environments only)
About NetApp Management Console
What NetApp Management Console is
Applications and capabilities supported by the NetApp Management Console
Window layout and navigation
Window customization
Data filtering
Performance objects and counters
What performance objects are
List of performance objects (7-Mode environments only)
List of performance objects (clustered environments only)
What a performance counter is
Definitions of performance counters
List of CLI commands
What access permission is
RBAC for configuring views (7-Mode environments only)
RBAC for modifying storage system settings (7-Mode environments only)
RBAC for setting thresholds
RBAC for threshold templates (7-Mode environments only)
RBAC for configuring events (7-Mode environments only)
RBAC for configuring alarms (7-Mode environments only)
Requirements to install Performance Advisor
Enabling the performance-monitoring server
Setting up transport protocols between the performance-monitoring server and Performance Advisor
Setting up appliance-level transport between Performance Advisor and monitored devices
Setting up transport protocols between Performance Advisor and monitored devices
Getting started with the Performance Advisor user interface
Starting Performance Advisor
Disconnecting from Performance Advisor
Storage objects unavailable in Performance Advisor
Unavailable menu options in the Performance Advisor interface
Zero-value data in a Performance Advisor chart
Lack of data in a Performance Advisor chart
Display of new storage objects in Performance Advisor
Overview of the NetApp Management Console dashboard
Dashboard panel descriptions
What events are
Configuring events
Monitoring events
Responding to and acknowledging events
Deleting events
Views in Performance Advisor
What the performance view window is
What predefined views are
What custom views are (7-Mode environments only)
What advanced views are
Types of data in Performance Advisor
Logical and physical objects hierarchy
Viewing historical data
What synchronizing time axes is
Viewing historical data
Displaying tabbed views
Selecting a performance view
Closing a performance view
Actions you can perform in the performance views
Viewing the time period in a chart
Resetting both axes
Synchronizing time axes
Undoing synchronization of time axes
How to use the legend for predefined views and custom views
How to view thresholds
Creating advanced views
Adding thresholds using a view
Changing the chart type
Pausing data collection
Printing a chart from a view
Enabling charts to scale the y axis
Diagnosing a performance issue (7-Mode environments only)
Performance monitoring with custom views (7-Mode environments only)
When must you create a custom view (7-Mode environments only)
How data from counters is displayed (7-Mode environments only)
Viewing real time data (7-Mode environments only)
Creating a custom view (7-Mode environments only)
Opening a custom view (7-Mode environments only)
Editing custom views (7-Mode environments only)
Deleting a custom view (7-Mode environments only)
CPU utilization limitations on storage systems or vFiler hosts
Analysis of real-time data (7-Mode environments only)
Methods for saving performance data
Saving a chart
Exporting a view to a .csv file
Predefined views of logical and physical objects
Predefined views at the global or group level
Predefined views at the storage system level (7-Mode environments only)
Predefined views at the vFiler unit level (7-Mode environments only)
Predefined views at the processor level
Predefined views at the network interface level
Predefined views at the dataset level (7-Mode environments only)
Predefined views at the resource pool level (7-Mode environments only)
Predefined views at the volume level
Predefined views at the qtree level (7-Mode environments only)
Predefined views at the LUN level
Predefined views at the aggregate level
Predefined views at the disk level
Predefined view at the target level (7-Mode environments only)
Predefined views at the cluster level (clustered environments only)
Predefined views at the Vserver level (clustered environments only)
Predefined views at the node level (clustered environments only)
Alarms, hosts, and thresholds
What alarms are
List of alarm management tasks
Managing and monitoring alarms
Monitoring alarms
Creating alarms
Editing alarms
Testing alarms
Enabling or disabling alarms
Adding alarms
Deleting alarms
Responding to alarms
Display of storage systems by using Performance Advisor
Host table field descriptions
Editing host credentials
Configuration of data collection
Copying the data collection configuration (7-Mode environments only)
Effect of increasing sample rates (7-Mode environments only)
Setting retention periods and sample rates (7-Mode environments only)
How thresholds work
What resource properties are
Viewing threshold values
When to use thresholds in combination
What the Details tab is
Adding thresholds
Editing thresholds by using the Summary tab
Editing thresholds using charts
Editing thresholds using the Details tab
Deleting thresholds
What a threshold template is (7-Mode environments only)
When to use threshold templates (7-Mode environments only)
Creating threshold templates (7-Mode environments only)
Editing threshold templates (7-Mode environments only)
Glossary
Copyright information
Trademark information
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