By the end of this OnCommand Management for Clustered Data ONTAP course, you should be able to:

• Configure Unified Manager to manage your storage infrastructure, storage objects, and protection relationships
• Use annotations to categorize storage objects
• Configure thresholds, event retention settings, and alerts
• Identify and resolve issues in your storage environment
• Use OnCommand Performance Manager to identify and resolve performance incidents
• Configure Workflow Automation to execute predefined and user-defined workflows for storage operations

Module 1: Using OnCommand Unified Manager to Monitor Data ONTAP Clusters

• Configure Unified Manager and enable the discovery process
• Use the Unified manager dashboard to monitor the health of your storage infrastructure
• Create Unified Manager users and assign user roles

Module 2: Monitoring and Managing Storage Objects

• Monitor the details of the clusters, aggregates, and volumes in your storage environment
• Monitor SAN and NAS components
• Identify and resolve a capacity issue for a volume and an aggregate
• Explore Unified Manager reporting features
• Export data from the Unified Manager view to a comma-separated-values (CSV) file

Module 3: Customizing OnCommand Unified Manager for Your Storage Environment

• Configure capacity thresholds for volumes
• Configure lag thresholds and volume quota alerts
• Configure event-retention setting and alerts
• Use annotations to categorize storage objects
• Assign actions to groups
• Explain some appropriate use cases for both annotations and groups

Module 4: OnCommand Performance Manager Configuration and Performance Monitoring

• Deploy the Performance Manager virtual appliance
• Perform the initial configuration to integrate Performance manager with Unified Manager
• Use the Unified Manager to monitor the performance of cluster objects
• Configure Performance Manager user-defined thresholds

Module 5: Installing and Configuring OnCommand Workflow Automation

• Identify the basic architecture of the OnCommand WFA server
• Install OnCommand WFA
• Connect OnCommand WFA to Unified Manager
• Navigate the OnCommand WFA UI
• Configure OnCommand WFA data sources and target systems
• Add users to OnCommand WFA

Module 6: Managing OnCommand Workflow Automation Workflows

• Execute Predefined workflows from the OnCommand WFA server portal
• Execute predefined workflows from the Unified Manager server
• Monitor workflow execution
• Respond to workflow approval requests
• Create and monitor data-protection relationships

Labs

• Perform initial setup of Unified Manager
• Add clusters for Unified Manager to manage
• Navigate and use the Unified Manager dashboard
• Monitor clusters, aggregates, volumes, CIFS shares, LUNs, and volume capacity
• Export data from the Unified Manager to a CSV file
• Run a Unified Manager report
• Configure event retention settings and alerts
• Configure alerts
• View and manage events
• Configure capacity thresholds for volumes
• Configure global thresholds
• Configure and use annotations to categorize storage objects
• Configure and use groups to categorize storage objects
• Convert an annotation to a group
• Log in to Performance Manager and explore administration options
• Explore the Performance Manager UI
• Manage thresholds and alerts
• Review events and performance statistics.
• Complete the WFA Setup Wizard
• Configure the connection between OnCommand WFA and OnCommand Unified Manager
• Enter storage-system credentials
• Configure data sources
• Add OnCommand WFA users and user roles
• Schedule the creation of a volume
• Manage reserved resources
• Respond to a request for approval
• Create a protection relationship
• Break and resynchronize a protection relationship.
• Configure event retention settings
• Configure an alert

• NetApp Employees
• NetApp Partners who are Support Engineers
• Professional Services Workers
• Customer Support Services

• NetApp Storage Fundamentals - Web-Based Training
• Working knowledge of clustered Data ONTAP