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InfoScale Operations Manager 9.2.0 User's Guide - AIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows
Section I. Getting started
Introducing InfoScale Operations Manager
About InfoScale Operations Manager
Connecting to the InfoScale Operations Manager console
Resetting the six-digit two-factor authentication PIN
About increasing efficiency and productivity through storage virtualization
InfoScale Operations Manager- tying it all together
About centralized management and monitoring
About discovery, monitoring, and management
Storage Foundation- a complete solution for online storage management
Using the Management Server console
About the Management Server console
About the Management Server console Home page
About the Global Dashboard
About the elements in a perspective view
About viewing the summarized information
About selecting the objects
Moving fields to the properties pane of the Management Server console
About drilling down to more information on the selected object
About searching for objects
Creating new search queries
Creating and saving searches as Smart Folders
Managing Smart Folders
Managing saved search queries
About viewing the solutions
About viewing the reports
About viewing connectivity graphs
About accessing the InfoScale Operations Manager Help
About viewing tasks
Examples for using InfoScale Operations Manager
Example- Creating a volume using InfoScale Operations Manager
Example- Cluster Server troubleshooting using InfoScale Operations Manager
Service group dependencies - on resources and other service groups
Service groups faults
Clearing faults for the service group's resources
InfoScale Operations Manager reports for Cluster Server troubleshooting
Activity reports
Uptime Analysis
Resource Fault Trending
Failover Summary
Example- Ensuring the correct level of protection for volumes controlled by Storage Foundation
Snapshots: Backing up to prevent the loss of data
Mirroring: Protection from hardware failures
Example- Improving the availability and the disaster recovery readiness of a service group through fire drills
High availability fire drill - Ensuring the high availability capabilities of a service group
Disaster recovery fire drill - Ensuring the disaster recovery readiness of a service group
Example- Identifying the performance issues of an application using InfoScale Operations Manager
Examples- Identifying and reducing storage waste using InfoScale Operations Manager
Reclaiming thin storage - example
Compressing files - example
Deduplicating file systems - example
Example- Creating a service group, adding it to a cluster, and bringing it online using InfoScale Operations Manager
Example- Volume migration using InfoScale Operations Manager
Section II. Managing InfoScale Operations Manager
Managing user access
Modifying permissions assigned to user groups on an object within a perspective
Creating an Organization
Create Organization panel options
Create Organization - Select an object panel options
Create Organization - Based on a rule panel options
Modifying the name of an Organization
Modify Organization panel options
Deleting an Organization
Moving an object to an Organization in a perspective
Assigning permissions to user groups on an Organization within a perspective
Modifying permissions assigned to user groups on an Organization within a perspective
Deleting permissions assigned to user groups on an Organization within a perspective
Verifying a user group in the domain
Viewing permissions information
Viewing the permissions assigned on a perspective, an Organization, or on an object
Setting up fault monitoring
About alerts and rules
Creating rules in a perspective
Create Rule - Select the type of fault conditions to trigger this rule panel options
Create Rule - Select organizations panel options
Create Rule - Setup notifications panel options
Create Rule - Enter name and description panel options
Create Rule - Select one or more fault topics which will trigger this rule panel options
Editing rules in a perspective
Edit Rule - Select the type of fault condition to trigger this rule panel options
Edit Rule - Select one or more fault topics which will trigger this rule panel options
Edit Rule - Select organization panel options
Edit Rule - Setup notifications panel options
Edit Rule - Enter name and description panel options
Deleting rules in a perspective
Delete Rule panel options
Enabling rules in a perspective
Enable Rule panel options
Disabling rules in a perspective
Disable Rule panel options
About faults and risks
Suppressing faults in a perspective
Suppress Faults panel options
Restoring a suppressed fault in a perspective
Using reports
About reports
About using reports
Running a report
Select scope to run report panel options
Saving a report
Subscribing for a report
Subscribe panel options
Editing a report subscription
Deleting a report subscription
Sending a report through email
Email report panel options
Viewing my report subscriptions in a perspective
Viewing all the report subscriptions in a perspective
About the reports available in InfoScale Operations Manager
About global reports
Adding management servers in the Global Reports perspective
Creating a report
Section III. Managing hosts
Overview
Viewing faults and risks at the cluster level
About performing Storage Foundation and replicator operations
About Storage Foundation operations not supported on Windows host
Viewing storage summary at the cluster level
Working with the uncategorized hosts
Working with the uncategorized hosts
Managing File Replicator (VFR) operations
About performing File Replicator operations
Viewing the VFR option of a host
Creating a consistency group
Viewing consistency groups
Deleting a consistency group
Associating a consistency group to a replication job
Disassociating a consistency group from a replication job
Viewing consistency group properties
Creating a replication job
Viewing File Replication Jobs
Starting a replication job
Pausing a replication job
Resuming a replication job
Stopping a replication job
Syncing a replication job
Modifying a replication job
Deleting a replication job
Viewing properties of File Replication Jobs
Managing disk groups and disks
About managing disk groups
Creating disk groups
Create Disk Group - Rename disks panel options
Select Disks panel options
Filter Criteria panel options
Create Disk Group - Disk Group Specifications
Recovering disk groups
Destroying disk groups
Importing disk groups
Import disk group panel options
Adding disks to disk groups
Select Disk Group panel options
Resizing disks in disk groups
Resize Disk panel options
Renaming disks in disk groups
Rename Disk panel options
Upgrading disk groups
Splitting disk groups
Split Disk Group panel options
Moving disk groups
Move Disk Group panel options
About managing disks
Initializing disks
Initialize Disk panel options
Replacing disks
Replace Disk panel options
Recovering disks
Recover Disk panel options
Mapping disks
Unmapping disks
Disconnecting disks
Removing disks from disk groups
Setting host prefix for disks
Bringing disks online
Online Disk panel option for making the disks online
Taking disks offline
Setting disk usage
Set Disk Usage panel options
Set Disk Usage - Windows host panel options
Running or scheduling Trim
Trim - Run or Schedule panel options
Rescanning disks
Evacuating disks
Evacuate Disk panel options
Joining disk groups
Join Disk Group panel options
Deporting disk groups
Managing volumes
Creating Storage Foundation volumes
Volume attributes panel options for creating volumes on Windows hosts
Create Volume - Select Disk Group and Disk Selection method panel options
Volume attributes panel options for creating volumes on UNIX or Linux hosts for specifying values
Add Drive Letter, Path and Create File System details panel options
Encrypting existing volumes
Aborting online migration
Committing the background changes to encrypt a volume
Switching plexes to verify the copied data
Starting online migration to encrypt a volume
Reactivating volumes
Deleting volumes
Delete Volume panel options
Renaming volumes
Rename Volume panel options
Adding mirrors to volumes
Add mirror - Options
Enable FastResync option panel options
Add mirror - Advanced options
Creating instant volume snapshots
Create Volume Snapshot - disk selection page panel options
Create Volume Snapshot - Advanced Options
Create Volume Snapshot - Instant Snapshot panel options
Creating space optimized snapshots for volumes
Create Volume Snapshot - Space Optimized Snapshot panel options
Creating mirror break-off snapshots for volumes
Create Volume Snapshot - Mirror Break-off Snapshot panel options
Dissociating snapshots
Dissociate Snapshot panel options
Reattaching snapshots
Reattach Snapshot panel options
Restoring data from the snapshots of volumes
Restore Data From Snapshot panel options
Configuring a schedule for volume snapshot refresh
Schedule operation panel options
Adding snapshot volumes to a refresh schedule
Add to existing schedule panel options
Removing the schedule for volume snapshot refresh
Remove volumes from refresh schedule panel options
Starting synchronization of snapshots
Enabling FastResync on volumes
Enable FastResync panel options
Disabling FastResync on volumes
Moving volumes
Move Volume panel options
Setting volume usage
Set Volume Usage panel options
Resizing volumes
Resize volume panel options
Refreshing the snapshot of volumes
Refresh snapshot panel options
Recovering volumes
Removing the mirrors of volumes
Remove mirror panel options
About managing Storage Foundation volumes
Splitting snapshots
Stopping volumes
Managing file systems
About managing file systems
Creating file systems
Select Volume panel options
Create File System - File System Options
Configure SecureFS immutable checkpoints
Alerts for SecureFS checkpoints
Recover SecureFS checkpoints
Validate SecureFS checkpoints
Advanced Options panel
Enabling change logs
Disabling change logs
Synchronizing change logs
Removing change logs
Defragmenting file systems
Defrag file system panel options
Unmounting non clustered file systems from hosts
Unmount Confirmation panel
Mounting non clustered file systems on hosts
Mount Options panel
Advanced Mount Options panel options
Unmounting clustered file systems
Unmount Clustered File System panel options
Mounting clustered file systems on hosts
Mount File System - Clustered Mount Options
Remounting file systems
Remount Options panel
Checking file systems
Check File System panel options
Creating file system snapshots
Create File System snapshot - Configure Options
Create Snapshot - Create File System Snapshot panel options
Snapshot level selection panel options
Remounting file system snapshot
Remount File System Snapshot panel options
Mounting file system snapshot
Mount File System Snapshot panel options
Unmounting file system snapshot
Unmount File System Snapshot panel options
Removing file system snapshot
Remove File System Snapshot panel options
Monitoring capacity of file systems
Monitor Capacity panel options
Managing SmartIO
About managing SmartIO
About write-back caching in SmartIO
Creating a cache
Create Cache panel options
Viewing the cache details
Viewing the SmartIO Impact analysis chart
Changing SmartIO mode
Modifying a cache
Modify Cache panel options
Deleting a cache
Loading files to a cache
Pinning tablespaces or files to a cache
Unpinning tablespaces or files from a cache
About using SmartAssist
Creating an I/O trace log
New I/O Trace Log panel options
Viewing I/O trace logs
Analyzing an I/O trace log
SmartAssist Analysis Options pane
Enabling or disabling SmartIO caching
Removing an I/O trace log
Managing application IO thresholds
About managing application I/O workloads with IOPS settings
Managing IO Thresholds
Setting IO Thresholds
Modifying an App VG
Viewing live IOPS charts
Managing replications
About managing replications
Configuring Storage Foundation replications
Configure replication panel options
Configure replication - Replication settings for secondary host panel options
Configure replication - Create resources
Configure replication - Consistency check on secondary host panel options
Configure replication - Add secondary result panel options
Configure replication - Create primary result panel options
Adding a Secondary
Resuming the replication of a Secondary
Resume replication panel options
Starting replication to a Secondary
Start replication panel options
Stopping the replication to a Secondary
Stop replication panel options
Switching a Primary
Switch replication panel options
Associating a volume
Associate Volume - Volume Selection panel options
Associate Volume - Advanced Options panel options
Resynchronizing a Secondary
Removing a Secondary
Remove secondary panel options
Taking over from an original Primary
Takeover Primary panel options
Monitoring replications
Monitor replication panel options
Unconfiguring replication
Implementation of new faults
Pausing the replication to a Secondary
Pause replication panel options
About setting alerts for replication
Support for global VVR replication monitoring thresholds
Optimizing storage utilization
About reclaiming thin storage
Performing thin reclamation on file systems or disks
Compressing files
About file compression in InfoScale Operations Manager
Selecting directories for compression
Setting up compression schedules
Starting compression on demand
Deduplicating file systems
About file system deduplication
Implementing deduplication for a file system
Starting deduplication for a file system
Disabling or removing deduplication for a file system
About deduplication chunk size
Section IV. Managing high availability and disaster recovery configurations
Overview
Pre-requisites for performing high availability and disaster recovery operations
About Virtual Business Services
About attributes of Availability objects
About high availability and disaster recovery operations
Managing clusters
About managing clusters
Opening a cluster configuration
Saving a cluster configuration
Closing a cluster configuration
Editing attributes of a cluster
Edit attribute options
Importing a type definition
Managing service groups
About managing service groups
Creating service groups
Configure System List options
Configure Resources options
Resource Dependencies options
Create Service Group options
Enabling service groups
Disabling service groups
Creating Atleast Count dependencies for a resource in a service group
About Atleast Count dependency
Autoenabling service groups
Freezing service groups
Unfreezing service groups
Flushing service groups
Enabling all resources of service groups
Disabling all resources of service groups
About linking service groups in a cluster
Linking service groups in a cluster
Link Service Group options
Unlinking service groups
About site aware service group operations
Prerequisites for using site-related service group operations
Bringing service groups online
Online service groups panel options
Taking service groups offline
Offline service groups panel options
Switching service groups
Switch service groups panel options
Clearing faults on service group
Editing attributes of service groups
Modifying the system list for a service group
Viewing the service group dependency view
About modifying a service group
Viewing VCS Failover Duration report
About dependency views
Limitations of site-related service group operations
Clearing the resources in a service group from the Admin Wait state
About Cluster Server service group alerting and failover reporting
Deleting service groups
Managing systems
About managing systems
Stopping the Cluster Server high availability daemon on the systems in a cluster
Unfreezing a system
Freezing a system
Editing attributes of a system
Starting the Cluster Server high availability daemon on the hosts in a cluster
Managing resources
About managing resources
Enabling resources
Clearing faults on resources
Probing resources
Taking a resource offline and propagating the state
Bringing resources online
Taking resources offline
Invoking a resource action
Invoke Action options
Editing attributes of a resource
Editing attributes of a resource type
Linking resources in a service group
Adding or modifying resources
Marking a resource as non critical
Viewing the resource dependency view
Disabling resources
Unlinking resources in a service group
Marking a resource as critical
Deleting resources
Managing global cluster configurations
About global clusters
About global clusters terminology
About creating global clusters
Prerequisites for creating global clusters
Adding a remote cluster to a local cluster
Converting local service groups to global service groups
Make Global/Local options
Converting global service groups to local service groups
About removing a remote cluster from a global cluster setup
Taking the wac resource offline
Removing the remote cluster from the global cluster setup
Running fire drills
About high availability and disaster recovery readiness
About high availability fire drills
Running the high availability fire drill
About disaster recovery fire drills
About configuring a fire drill service group
Running the disaster recovery fire drill
Select remote clusters and global service groups panel options
Schedule panel options
Summary panel options
Editing a fire drill schedule
Edit Schedule panel options
Deleting fire drill schedules
Enabling fire drill schedules
Disabling fire drill schedules
Viewing fire drill schedules
Using recovery plans
About recovery plans
Creating recovery plans
Create recovery plan panel options
Editing recovery plans
Edit recovery plan panel options
Running recovery plans
Run recovery plan panel options
Deleting a recovery plan
Viewing historical runs of recovery plans
Historical Runs panel options
Viewing properties of recovery plans
Recovery Plan Properties panel options
About recovery plan log files
Managing application configuration
About Application Configuration
Prerequisites for application configuration
Launching the configure application wizard from InfoScale Operations Manager
Multi Site Management
About Multi-Site Management
Features of Multi-Site Management
Prerequisites of Multi-Site Management
Limitations of Multi-Site Management
Setting up a campus cluster
Setting up a replicated data cluster
Configuring stretch sites
Enclosure site assignment panel options
Select cluster type panel options
Assign site to the systems panel options
Site fencing preference panel options
List of high availability operations
Cluster operations
System operations
Service group operations
Resource operations
Section V. Monitoring Storage Foundation HA licenses in the data center
Managing licenses
About licenses
About InfoScale licensing and pricing
About the Symantec Performance Value Unit for VMware virtual machines
About the Symantec Performance Value Unit for Solaris LDOM virtualization server
About the Symantec Performance Value Unit for kernel-based virtual machines
About the per-core licensing
About the Symantec Performance Value Unit
About the Symantec Performance Value Unit for IBM LPAR
About license deployment policies
Assigning a price tier to a host manually
Select tier values panel options
Select hosts to apply same tier values panel options
Notification about a corrupted VxFS file system
Certificate expiry detection and renewal feature
Creating a license deployment policy
Create policy - Details panel options
Assigning a price tier to a host automatically
Deleting a license deployment policy
About assigning price tiers to hosts
Modifying a license deployment policy
Edit thresholds - Details panel options
Viewing deployment information
Viewing the overview of SFHA licenses in the data center
About chargeable deployed licenses
Viewing the deployment policy details in the data center
Viewing the InfoScale Operations Manager Deployment Report
Viewing the deployment details
Monitoring performance
About performance metering statistics
About metered resources
Enable performance metering for a host
Disable performance metering for a host
Enable performance metering for a virtualization server
About InfoScale Operations Manager performance graphs
Pre-requisite commands to view performance graphs for a resource
Viewing the performance graphs for a host
Viewing the performance graphs for a disk
Viewing the performance graphs for volume and file system
Viewing the performance graphs for a path
Viewing the performance graphs for virtualization server and virtual machines
Viewing the performance graphs for a path of a virtualization server
Viewing the performance graphs for an enclosure
About threshold settings
Adding threshold settings for an object
Enabling the threshold settings for an object
Disabling the threshold settings for an object
About space estimation for data logs
Deleting the threshold settings for an object
Viewing the performance graphs for an initiator
Disable performance metering for a virtualization server
Anomaly detection and monitoring
About anomaly detection
Training the ML engine
Viewing graphs and faults for anomalies
Enabling anomaly detection
Requirements
Managing Business Applications
Viewing the overview of a Business Application
Viewing service availability for a Business Application
Viewing data availability for a Business Application
About the makeBE script
Objects used in the makeBE script
makeBE script CSV file details
makeBE script parameters details
Limitations of makeBE script
makeBE script log files
Deleting Business Application using the makeBE script
Deleting a Business Application
Viewing Business Applications in the data center
About Business Applications in InfoScale Operations Manager
Exporting Business Application using the makeBE script
Creating Business Application using the makeBE script
Importing Business Application using the makeBE script
Renaming a Business Application
Viewing SAN connectivity for a Business Application
Updating Business Application using the makeBE script
Creating or modifying a Business Application
Managing extended attributes
About using extended attributes
Setting values to the extended attributes on an object
Set Extended Attributes panel options
Searching objects to set extended attribute values
Set Extended Attributes panel options
Modifying the extended attributes value on an object
Managing policy checks
About policy checks
How signature registration settings work
Registering policy signatures
Unregistering a signature
Setting signature tunables
Running a manual policy scan
Enabling or disabling policy signatures
Viewing policy violation details
Viewing or exporting a list of available policy signatures
About using custom signatures for policy checks
Creating a custom signature script
Copying the custom signature script
Removing a custom signature
Sample setup.pl script for the custom signature
Sample unsetup.pl script for a custom signature
About using the Distribution Manager Add-on to bundle custom signature scripts
Installing a custom signature script
Sample custom signature script
Managing Dynamic Multipathing paths
About Dynamic Multi-Pathing in InfoScale Operations Manager
Disabling the DMP paths on the initiators of a host
Define new case panel options
Object selection panel options
Paths disable output summary
Path disable panel options
Disabling the DMP paths on an enclosure
Re-enabling the DMP paths
Path re-enable panel options
Paths re-enable output summary
DMP Maintenance Result Summary panel
Removing a completed DMP maintenance case record
Reviewing the output and results of a completed DMP maintenance case
Disabling the DMP paths on a virtualization server
Managing CVM clusters
Permissions required for views and operations on CVM cluster objects
About monitoring and managing CVM clusters in InfoScale Operations Manager
Managing Flexible Storage Sharing
About Flexible Storage Sharing
Flexible Storage Sharing features and support in InfoScale Operations Manager
Exporting and un-exporting disks for Flexible Storage Sharing
Enabling or disabling Flexible Storage Sharing on existing shared disk groups
Flexible Storage Sharing use cases
Implementing Flexible Storage Sharing with InfoScale Operations Manager
Monitoring the virtualization environment
About discovering the VMware Infrastructure using InfoScale Operations Manager
How InfoScale Operations Manager discovers vCenter and ESX servers
Information that InfoScale Operations Manager discovers on the VMware Infrastructure components
Viewing the storage mapping information for VMware
About the datastores in InfoScale Operations Manager
About the multi-pathing discovery in the VMware environment
About the user privileges for multi-pathing discovery in the VMware environment
About near real-time discovery of VMware events
About discovering logical domains in InfoScale Operations Manager
Viewing the storage mapping information for LDoms
Information on logical domains that InfoScale Operations Manager discovers
How InfoScale Operations Manager discovers Solaris logical domains
Limitations of the discovery of logical domains in InfoScale Operations Manager
About discovering LPARs and VIOs in InfoScale Operations Manager
About LPAR storage correlation supported in InfoScale Operations Manager
Viewing storage mapping information for LPARs
About the virtualization technologies supported
About Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization discovery
Virtual machine discovery in Microsoft Hyper-V
Storage mapping discovery in Microsoft Hyper-V
Viewing the storage mapping information for Hyper-V
About discovering Solaris zones
How InfoScale Operations Manager discovers Solaris zones
Information that InfoScale Operations Manager discovers on Solaris zones
Limitations of the discovery of Solaris zones in InfoScale Operations Manager
About the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization discovery in InfoScale Operations Manager
About the reports related to virtualization
Using Web services API
About using InfoScale Operations Manager Web services API
Logging in to InfoScale Operations Manager Web services API
Logging out of InfoScale Operations Manager Web services API
About objects supported by InfoScale Operations Manager Web services API
About performing operations using InfoScale Operations Manager Web services API
Examples of performing operations using InfoScale Operations Manager Web services API
Examples of performing operations using XPRTLC and cURL
Examples of the output in JSON format
InfoScale Operations Manager command line interface
About the vomadm utility
Deployment management using the vomadm utility
Business Application management using the vomadm utility
Service management using the vomadm utility
List configured schedules using the vomadm utility
Host management using the vomadm utility
Domain management using the vomadm utility
Command file reference
vxlist
vomadm
xdistc
Application setup requirements
Application setup requirements for Oracle database discovery
SQL queries used for the discovery of Oracle database
Oracle database discovery in Solaris zones
Application setup requirements for IBM DB2 discovery
SQL queries used for the discovery of IBM DB2 database
Application setup requirements for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) discovery
SQL queries used for the discovery of Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
Application setup requirements for Microsoft SQL Server discovery
SQL queries used for the discovery of Microsoft SQL Server
Application setup requirements for Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) discovery
SQL queries used for the discovery of Oracle ASM
Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) discovery in Solaris zones
Application setup requirements for Microsoft Exchange Server discovery
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