OnCommand® Unified Manager
Operations Manager Administration Guide
For Use with Core Package 5.2.1
Introduction to Operations Manager
What DataFabric Manager server does
What a license key is
Access to Operations Manager
Information to customize in the DataFabric Manager server
Administrator accounts on the DataFabric Manager server
Authentication methods on the management server
Authentication with native operating system
Authentication with LDAP
Understanding information relevant to 7-Mode and clustered environments
7-Mode: List of tasks and information
Clustered environment: List of tasks and information
What the discovery process is
Discovery by the DataFabric Manager server
What SNMP is
When to enable SNMP
SNMP versions to discover and monitor storage systems
What the Preferred SNMP Version option is
SNMP version setup
How the DataFabric Manager server chooses network credentials for discovery
Discovery process using SNMPv1 or SNMPv3
Monitoring process using SNMPv1
Monitoring process using SNMPv3
Setting SNMPv1 or SNMPv3 as the preferred version for storage system discovery
Setting SNMPv1 as the only SNMP version
Setting SNMPv1 or SNMPv3 to monitor a storage system
Modifying the network credentials and SNMP settings
Deleting SNMP settings for the network using the Operations Manager console
Addition of a storage system from an undiscovered network
Diagnosis of SNMP connectivity
What host discovery is
Ping methods in host discovery
What host-initiated discovery is
Discovery of vFiler units (7-Mode environments only)
Discovery of storage systems
Discovery of storage systems and networks
Methods of adding storage systems and networks
Guidelines for editing discovery options
Setting the login credentials of storage systems
Discovery of a cluster by Operations Manager (clustered environments only)
Adding clusters (clustered environments only)
Cluster monitoring tasks using Operations Manager (clustered environments only)
Unsupported tasks for cluster monitoring in Operations Manager (clustered environments only)
Tasks performed for V-Series SAN-attached storage management in Operations Manager (7-Mode environments only)
Limitations of V-Series SAN-attached storage management in Operations Manager (7-Mode environments only)
Tasks performed from the Storage Controller Details page for a V-Series system (7-Mode environments only)
Viewing configuration details of storage arrays connected to a V-Series system (7-Mode environments only)
Role-based access control in the DataFabric Manager server
What role-based access control does
Configuring vFiler unit access control (7-Mode environments only)
Logging in to the DataFabric Manager server
What default administrator accounts are
List of predefined roles in the DataFabric Manager server
Active Directory user group accounts
Adding administrative users
How roles relate to administrators
What predefined global roles are
What inheritance roles are
What capabilities are
Role precedence and inheritance
Creating roles
Modifying roles
What an RBAC resource is
Granting restricted access to RBAC resources
Access restriction on Windows Administrators group users
Access check for application administrators
How reports are viewed for administrators and roles
What global and group access control is
Management of administrator access
Prerequisites for managing administrator access (7-Mode environments only)
Limitations in managing administrator access
User access control for cluster management (clustered environments only)
Summary of the global group (7-Mode environments only)
Viewing a specific summary page (7-Mode environments only)
Viewing users on the host (7-Mode environments only)
Who local users are (7-Mode environments only)
Viewing local users on the host (7-Mode environments only)
Viewing local user settings on the host (7-Mode environments only)
Adding local users to the host (7-Mode environments only)
Editing local user settings on the host (7-Mode environments only)
Users with Execute capability (7-Mode environments only)
Pushing passwords to a local user (7-Mode environments only)
Deleting local users from the host (7-Mode environments only)
Pushing local users to hosts (7-Mode environments only)
Monitoring changes in the local user configuration (7-Mode environments only)
Editing passwords of local users (7-Mode environments only)
What domain users are (7-Mode environments only)
Viewing domain users on a host (7-Mode environments only)
Adding domain users to a host (7-Mode environments only)
Viewing domain user settings on a host (7-Mode environments only)
Editing the domain user settings on a host (7-Mode environments only)
Removing domain users from all the user groups (7-Mode environments only)
Pushing domain users to hosts (7-Mode environments only)
Monitoring changes in the domain user configuration (7-Mode environments only)
What user groups are (7-Mode environments only)
Viewing user groups on a host (7-Mode environments only)
Adding user groups to a host (7-Mode environments only)
Viewing the user group settings on a host (7-Mode environments only)
Editing the user group settings on a host (7-Mode environments only)
Deleting user groups from a host (7-Mode environments only)
Pushing user groups to hosts (7-Mode environments only)
Monitoring changes in the user group configuration (7-Mode environments only)
What roles are (7-Mode environments only)
Viewing roles on hosts (7-Mode environments only)
Adding roles to a host or user (7-Mode environments only)
Viewing the role settings on a host (7-Mode environments only)
Editing the role settings on a host (7-Mode environments only)
Deleting roles from a host (7-Mode environments only)
Pushing roles to the hosts (7-Mode environments only)
Monitoring changes in the role configuration (7-Mode environments only)
What jobs display (7-Mode environments only)
Viewing push jobs (7-Mode environments only)
Deleting push jobs (7-Mode environments only)
What groups and objects are
What group types are
What homogeneous groups are
What mixed-type groups are
What a Global group is
What hierarchical groups are
Creating groups
Creating groups from a report
What configuration resource groups are
Guidelines for creating groups
Guidelines for creating configuration resource groups
Guidelines for adding vFiler units to the appliance resource group (7-Mode environments only)
Editing group membership
What group threshold settings are
What group reports are
What summary reports are
What subgroup reports are
What cluster-related objects are (clustered environments only)
Creating a group of cluster objects (clustered environments only)
Storage monitoring and reporting
The DataFabric Manager server monitoring process
Cluster monitoring with Operations Manager (clustered environments only)
What the cluster-management LIF is (clustered environments only)
Information available on the Cluster Details page (clustered environments only)
Tasks performed from the Cluster Details page (clustered environments only)
Viewing the utilization of resources
Viewing the utilization of logical resources (clustered environments only)
Viewing the utilization of physical resources
Links to FilerView (7-Mode environments only)
Query intervals
Guidelines for changing monitoring intervals
What SNMP trap listener is
What SNMP trap events are
How SNMP trap reports are viewed
When SNMP traps cannot be received
SNMP trap listener configuration requirements
How SNMP trap listener is stopped
Configuration of SNMP trap global options
Information about the DataFabric Manager server MIB
What events are
Viewing events
Managing events
Operations on local configuration change events
List of events and severity types
Alarm configurations
Guidelines for configuring alarms
Creating alarms
Testing alarms
Comments in alarm notifications
Example of alarm notification in e-mail format
Example of alarm notification in script format
Example of alarm notification in trap format
Response to alarms
Deleting alarms
Working with user alerts
What user alerts are
Differences between alarms and user alerts
User alerts configurations
How you specify email addresses for alerts
Domains in user quota alerts
What the mailmap file is
Guidelines for editing the mailmap file
How the contents of the user alert are viewed
How the contents of the e-mail alert are changed
What the mailformat file is
Guidelines for editing the mailformat file
Introduction to DataFabric Manager server reports
Introduction to report options
Introduction to report catalogs
Custom reports you can create in Operations Manager
What performance reports do (7-Mode environments only)
Configuring custom reports
Deleting custom reports
Putting data into spreadsheet format
What scheduling report generation is
What Report Archival Directory is
Additional capabilities for categories of reports
What Report Schedules reports are
Scheduling a report using the All submenu
Scheduling a report using the Schedule submenu
Methods to schedule a report
Editing a report schedule
Deleting a report schedule
Enabling a report schedule
Disabling a report schedule
Running a report schedule
Retrieving the list of enabled report schedules
Retrieving the list of disabled report schedules
Listing all the run results of a report schedule
What Schedules reports are
Listing all the schedules
Adding a new schedule
Editing a schedule
Deleting a schedule
What Saved reports are
Listing the report outputs
Listing the successful report outputs
Listing the failed report outputs
Viewing the output of report outputs from the status column
Viewing the output of report outputs from the Output ID column
Viewing the output details of a particular report output
Data export in the DataFabric Manager server
How to access DataFabric Manager server data
Where to find the database schema for the views
Data types for export
Files and formats for storing exported data
Format for exported the DataFabric Manager server data
Format for exported Performance Advisor data (7-Mode environments only)
Format for last updated timestamp
Security configurations
Types of certificates in the DataFabric Manager server
Self-signed certificates in the DataFabric Manager server
Trusted Certificate Authority (CA)-signed certificates in the DataFabric Manager server
Creating self-signed certificates in the DataFabric Manager server
Obtaining a trusted CA-signed certificate
Enabling HTTPS
Secure communications with the DataFabric Manager server
How clients communicate with the DataFabric Manager server
SecureAdmin for secure connection with the DataFabric Manager server clients
Requirements for security options
Guidelines to configure security options in Operations Manager
Managed host options
Where to find managed host options
Guidelines for changing managed host options
Comparison between global and storage system -specific managed host options
Limitations in managed host options
Changing password for storage systems in the DataFabric Manager server
Changing passwords on multiple storage systems
Issue with modification of passwords for storage systems
Using hosts.equiv to control authentication in the DataFabric Manager server (7-Mode environments only)
Editing HTTP and monitor services to run as different user
User quotas
Why you use quotas
Overview of the quota process
User quota management using Operations Manager
Prerequisites for managing user quotas using Operations Manager
Where to find user quota reports in Operations Manager
Monitor interval for user quotas in Operations Manager
Modification of user quotas in Operations Manager
Prerequisites to edit user quotas in Operations Manager
Editing user quotas using Operations Manager
Configuring user settings using Operations Manager
What user quota thresholds are
What the DataFabric Manager server user thresholds are
User quota thresholds
Ways to configure user quota thresholds in Operations Manager
Precedence of user quota thresholds in the DataFabric Manager server
Management of LUNs, Windows and UNIX hosts, and FCP targets
Management of SAN components
SAN and NetApp Host Agent software (7-Mode environments only)
List of tasks you can perform using NetApp Host Agent software (7-Mode environments only)
List of tasks performed to monitor targets and initiators
Prerequisites to manage targets and initiators
Prerequisites to manage SAN hosts
Reports for monitoring LUNs, FCP targets, and SAN hosts
Information available on the LUN Details page
Tasks performed from the LUN Details page
Information about the FCP Target Details page
Information provided in the Host Agent Details page (7-Mode environments only)
Tasks you can perform from the Host Agent Details page (7-Mode environments only)
How storage systems , SAN hosts, and LUNs are grouped
Granting access to storage systems , SAN hosts, and LUNs
Introduction to deleting and undeleting SAN components
Deleting a SAN component
How a deleted SAN component delete is restored
Where to configure monitoring intervals for SAN components
File system management
Access to storage-related reports
Storage capacity thresholds in Operations Manager
Modification of storage capacity thresholds settings
Changing storage capacity threshold settings for global group
Changing storage capacity threshold settings for an individual group
Changing storage capacity threshold settings for a specific aggregate, volume, or qtree
Management of aggregate capacity
Volume space guarantees and aggregate overcommitment
Available space on an aggregate
Considerations before modifying aggregate capacity thresholds
Aggregate capacity thresholds and their events
Management of volume capacity
Volume capacity thresholds and events
Normal events for a volume
Modification of the thresholds
Management of qtree capacity
Volume Snapshot copy thresholds and events
Qtree capacity thresholds and events
How Operations Manager monitors volumes and qtrees on a vFiler unit (7-Mode environments only)
How Operations Manager monitors qtree quotas
Where to find vFiler storage resource details (7-Mode environments only)
What clone volumes are
Identification of clones and clone parents
Why Snapshot copies are monitored
Snapshot copy monitoring requirements
Detection of Snapshot copy schedule conflicts
Dependencies of a Snapshot copy
Thresholds on Snapshot copies
What storage chargeback reports are
When is data collected for storage chargeback reports
Determine the current month’s and the last month’s values for storage chargeback report
Chargeback reports in various formats
The chargeback report options
Specifying storage chargeback options at the global or group level
The storage chargeback increment
Currency display format for storage chargeback
Specification of the annual charge rate for storage chargeback
Specification of the Day of the Month for Billing for storage chargeback
Formatted charge rate for storage chargeback
What happens when storage objects are deleted
Reports of deleted storage objects
Undeleting a storage object for monitoring
Storage system management
Management tasks you can perform from Operations Manager
Operations Manager components for managing your storage system
Storage system groups
Custom comment fields in Operations Manager
Consolidated data and reports for storage systems and vFiler units (7-Mode environments only)
Tasks performed by using the storage system and vFiler unit report pages (7-Mode environments only)
Where to find information about a specific storage system
Tasks performed from a Details page of Operations Manager
Editable options for storage system or vFiler unit settings
What the storage controller tools list is (7-Mode environments only)
What the cluster tools list is (clustered environments only)
What the Diagnose Connectivity tool does
The Refresh Monitoring Samples tool
The Run a Command tool
The Run Telnet tool
Console connection through Telnet
Managing HA pair s using the DataFabric Manager server (7-Mode environments only)
Viewing the status of an HA pair by using cluster console (7-Mode environments only)
What the takeover tool does (7-Mode environments only)
What the giveback tool does (7-Mode environments only)
DataFabric Manager server CLI to configure storage systems
Methods for remote configuration of storage systems (7-Mode environments only)
Prerequisites for running remote CLI commands from Operations Manager
Running commands on a specific storage system
Running commands on a group of storage systems from Operations Manager
Remote configuration of a cluster (clustered environments only)
Running commands on a specific cluster (clustered environments only)
Running commands on a specific node of a cluster (clustered environments only)
Storage system management using FilerView (7-Mode environments only)
What FilerView is (7-Mode environments only)
Configuring storage systems by using FilerView (7-Mode environments only)
Introduction to MultiStore and vFiler units (7-Mode environments only)
Monitoring of vFiler units with the DataFabric Manager server (7-Mode environments only)
Prerequisites for monitoring vFiler units (7-Mode environments only)
vFiler unit management tasks (7-Mode environments only)
Configuration of storage systems (7-Mode environments only)
Management of storage system configuration files (7-Mode environments only)
Prerequisites to applying configuration files to storage systems and vFiler units (7-Mode environments only)
List of access roles to manage storage system configuration files (7-Mode environments only)
List of tasks for configuration management (7-Mode environments only)
What configuration files are (7-Mode environments only)
What a configuration plug-in is (7-Mode environments only)
Comparison of configurations (7-Mode environments only)
Verification of a successful configuration push (7-Mode environments only)
Configuring the DataFabric Manager server to monitor configuration changes (7-Mode environments only)
What a configuration resource group is (7-Mode environments only)
List of tasks for managing configuration groups (7-Mode environments only)
Guidelines for creating configuration groups (7-Mode environments only)
Creating configuration resource groups (7-Mode environments only)
Parent configuration resource groups (7-Mode environments only)
Parent group guidelines (7-Mode environments only)
When to assign parent groups (7-Mode environments only)
Properties of configuration files acquired from a parent (7-Mode environments only)
Configuring multiple storage systems or vFiler units (7-Mode environments only)
Maintenance and management
Accessing the DataFabric Manager server through the CLI
Where to find information about the DataFabric Manager server commands
Audit logging
Events audited in the DataFabric Manager server
Global options for audit log files and their values
Format of events in an audit log file
Permissions for accessing the audit log file
What the remote platform management interface is
RLM card monitoring in the DataFabric Manager server
Prerequisites for using the remote platform management interface
Scripts overview
Commands that can be used as part of the script
Package of the script content
What script plug-ins are
What the script plug-in directory is
What backup scripts do (7-Mode environments only)
Overview of the DataFabric Manager server database backup process
When to back up data
Where to back up data
Recommendations for disaster recovery
Backup storage and sizing
Limitations of Snapshot-based backups
Access requirements for backup operations
Changing the directory path for database backups
Starting database backup from Operations Manager
Scheduling database backups from Operations Manager
Specifying the backup retention count
Disabling database backup schedules
Listing database backups
Deleting database backups from Operations Manager
Displaying diagnostic information from Operations Manager
Exportability of a backup to a new location
What the restore process is
Restoring the database from the archive-based backup
Restoring the database from the Snapshot copy-based backup
Restoration of the database on different systems
Disaster recovery configurations (7-Mode environments only)
Disaster recovery using theNetApp Management Console data protection capability (7-Mode environments only)
Limitation of disaster recovery support (7-Mode environments only)
Prerequisites for disaster recovery support (7-Mode environments only)
Setting up the DataFabric Manager server for disaster recovery
Recovering the DataFabric Manager server services
Recovering the DataFabric Manager server services using the dfm datastore mirror connect command
Failing back DataFabric Manager server services
Disaster recovery using SnapDrive (7-Mode environments only)
Troubleshooting in Operations Manager
AutoSupport in the DataFabric Manager server
Reasons for using AutoSupport
Types of AutoSupport messages in the DataFabric Manager server
Protection of private data by using AutoSupport
Configuring AutoSupport
DataFabric Manager server logs
Access to the DataFabric Manager server logs
Accessing the logs through the DataFabric Manager server CLI
Access to the SAN log
Apache and Sybase log rotation in the DataFabric Manager server
Common DataFabric Manager server problems
Communication issues between the DataFabric Manager server and routers
E-mail alerts not working in the DataFabric Manager server
How discovery issues are resolved
Use of the Diagnose Connectivity tool for a managed storage system
Use of the Diagnose Connectivity tool for an unmanaged storage system
Where to find the Diagnose Connectivity tool in Operations Manager
Reasons why the DataFabric Manager server might not discover your network
Troubleshooting network discovery issues
Troubleshooting appliance discovery issues with Operations Manager
How configuration push errors are resolved
Issues related to SAN events
Offline FC Switch Port or Offline HBA Port
Faulty FC Switch Port or HBA Port Error
Offline LUNs
Snapshot copy of LUN not possible
High traffic in HBA Port
Custom reports do not display any data
Import and export of configuration files
How inconsistent configuration states are fixed
Data ONTAP issues impacting protection on vFiler units (7-Mode environments only)
Report fields and performance counters (7-Mode environments only)
Report fields and performance counters for filer catalogs (7-Mode environments only)
Report fields and performance counters for vFiler catalogs (7-Mode environments only)
Report fields and performance counters for volume catalogs (7-Mode environments only)
Report fields and performance counters for qtree catalogs (7-Mode environments only)
Report fields and performance counters for LUN catalogs (7-Mode environments only)
Report fields and performance counters for aggregate catalogs (7-Mode environments only)
Report fields and performance counters for disk catalogs (7-Mode environments only)
Protocols and port numbers used by the DataFabric Manager server
DataFabric Manager server communication
DataFabric Manager server access to storage systems
DataFabric Manager server access to host agents (7-Mode environments only)
DataFabric Manager server access to Open Systems SnapVault agents (7-Mode environments only)
SAN management
Discovery of SAN hosts by the DataFabric Manager server (7-Mode environments only)
SAN management using the DataFabric Manager server
Prerequisites for SAN management with the DataFabric Manager server
List of tasks performed for SAN management
List of user interface locations to perform SAN management tasks
Reports for monitoring SANs
Location of SAN reports
The DataFabric Manager server managed SAN data in spreadsheet format
Where to find information for specific SAN components
Where to view LUN details of SAN components
Tasks performed from the LUN Details page for a SAN host
Information about FC target on a SAN host
Information about the FC switch on a SAN host
Access to the FC Switch Details page
Information about FC Switch on a SAN host
Tasks performed from the FC Switch Details page for a SAN host
Information about NetApp Host Agent software on a SAN host (7-Mode environments only)
Accessing the HBA Port Details page for a SAN host
Details about the HBA Port Details page
List of SAN management tasks
LUN management
Initiator group management
FC switch management
DataFabric Manager server options
DataFabric Manager server options for SAN management
Where to configure monitoring intervals for SAN components
Deleting and undeleting SAN components
Reasons for deleting and undeleting SAN components
Process of deleting SAN components
Process of undeleting SAN components
How SAN components are grouped
Restriction of SAN management access
Access control on groups of SAN components
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Trademark information
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