Course Content
In this course, you become familiar with some of the most important features of NetApp OnCommand Insight, relevant to the day-to-day management, monitoring, and troubleshooting of data infrastructures. The course concentrates on the Insight features that aid in daily system administration tasks. If you are interested in Insight features that relate to business reporting or IT department integration you should look for course offerings specific to those topics. The course takes you through a typical storage administration issue and the Insight features that you can use to resolve that issue. By learning how to resolve specific administration problems, you should gain a basic understanding of how to extend the Insight feature set to other issues. You will also learn how to add new assets to an Insight monitored infrastructure.
Who should attend
This course is intended as an introductory course for end users, as well as internal NetApp sales and partner resellers.
Prerequisites
OnCommand Insight: Fundamentals - WBT (Required)
Course Objectives
- Create near-real-time visualizations of data infrastructure
- Implement and monitor policies for data-path infrastructure
- Locate potential delays in network performance
- Perform root cause analysis of issues that degrade performance
- Implement proactive application-level performance monitoring
- Identify the NFS client hosts that contend for resources
- Seamlessly integrate new assets into a data infrastructure
Outline: OnCommand Insight: Intelligent Operation (OCIIO)
Module 1: visualizing Your Data Infrastructure
- Insight and resource asset pages
- Queries, dashboards and widgets
- Annotations and queries
Module 2: Data Path management and Policies
- The Insight Java UI
- Configuration of Data Path policies
- Tools for Data path analysis
- Configuration of policy alerts
Module 3: Performance Policy Creation, Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Buffer-to-buffer credit monitoring
- Performance policies
- Performance policy setup
- Detection of slow-drain devices
Module 4: Virtual Resource Management and Tools for Root Cause Analysis
- Management of virutal resources
- Applications, VMs and correlational analysis
- Drilling down: root cause analysis
Module 5: Application Infrastructure Monitoring and the Anomaly Detection Engine
- Creation of application assets
- The anomaly detection engine
Module 6: Ethernet Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Ethernet monitoring unit
- Monitoring ethernet workloads
Module 7: Integrating New Resources
- Data sources
- Custom data collectors
- Device resolution
Labs:
- Creating a query-based dashboard
- Using queries, annotations, annotation rules and dashboards
- Creating a storage daily operations dashboard
- Analyzing SAN path violations
- Adjusting violation policy threshold settings and configuring violation notifications
- Using anomaly detection to examine application performance degradation
- Using object correlation to determine the root cause of application performance degradation
- Examining anomaly detection as a mechanism to reduce violations.
- Using anomaly scores for perfomance analysis
- Performing root cause analysis of a poorly performing NFS client