Actionable intelligence for optimal data management.
NetApp Active IQ is a digital advisor that simplifies the proactive care and optimization of NetApp storage. Fueled by telemetry data from our highly diverse installed base, it uses advanced AI and ML techniques to uncover opportunities to reduce risk and improve the performance and efficiency of your storage environment. It then provides the prescriptive guidance and actions to make it happen. This “actionable intelligence” simplifies storage administration and leads to higher availability, improved security, and higher-performing storage.
Active IQ Unified Manager (formerly OnCommand Unified Manager) enables you to monitor and manage the health and performance of your ONTAP storage systems from a single interface. You can deploy Unified Manager on a Linux server, on a Windows server, or as a virtual appliance on a VMware host.
Overview
Through brief lectures, exercises, and classroom discussion in this AOCMCDOT: ONTAP Administration of Active IQ Unified Manager course you discover how to deploy and maintain an ActiveIQ Unified Manager and pair it with OnCommand Workflow Automation (WFA) data-management solution. You learn how the performance-management features of Unified Manager provide a unified approach to storage management that reduces complexity. You also learn to how to extend Unified Manager’s data protection capabilities with WFA. This course can be delivered in a traditional classroom or a virtual classroom.
Skills Covered
- Install and maintain a Unified Manager deployment
- Use Unified Manager to monitor the health and performance of your storage infrastructure
- Categorize storage objects and implement annotation and group features
- Configure thresholds, event retention settings, and alerts so that storage issues can be anticipated and quickly identified
- Explore reporting tools and run reports
- Pair Unified Manager with OnCommand WFA to manage protection relationships and storage objects in the storage infrastructure
- Maintain and protect the Unified Manager database
Prerequisites
- ONTAP Cluster Administration (three-day instructor-led course)
- ONTAP Data Protection Fundamentals (web-based course)
Target Audience
NetApp employees or NetApp partners who are support engineers, Professional Services workers, or Customer Support Services workers
Module 1: Review Unified Manager and NetApp Data Management Products
- Overview of NetApp Data Management Solutions
- AIQ Unified Manager
- Features and Functinos
- Discovery Process
- Integration with WFA
Module 2: Deploy Unified Manager
- Installation and Configuration tasks
- Supported Host Environments
- Supported Browsers
- Hardware Requirements
- Prepare information for install
- Download software
- Install Unified Manager
- Configure initial settings
- Unified Manager objects
- Manage users
Module 3: Explore the Unified Manager UI
- Dashboards
- Navigation pane
- Type-ahead search
- Favorites
- Column selection
- Export inventory data
- Using filters
Module 4: Customize Unified Manager for Your Storage Environment
- Configure and Customize thresholds
- Configure events and alerts
- Managing SAML authentication
- Annotation and Groups
- Annotation rules
- Group rules
- Group actions
- When to use annotations vs. groups
Module 5: Monitor Storage Objects
- Inventory pages
- Monitor object health
- Monitor object performance
- Object pages
- Protection pages
- Using Unified Manager Rest APIs for NSLM features
Module 6: Manage Data Protection Relationships
- WFA features and functions
- WFA’s role in extending DP capabilities in UM
- Pairing UM with WFA
- The WFA UI
- Predefined workflows
- Executing workflows
- Protecting data with UM
Module 7: Reporting in UM
- Understanding reporting in Unified Manager
- Built-in reports
- Sharing and scheduling reports
- Exporting reports
- Creating custom reports
Module 8: Maintain Unified Manager
- Protecting the UM database
- Upgrading UM
- Extending disk space for the UM database
- Troubleshooting and Remediation
- Sending a UM support bundle to NetApp support
Labs:
- Review Unified Manager
- Deploy UM
- Explore the Unified Manager UI
- Customize UM for the storage environment
- Monitor storage objects
- Manage data protections relationships
- Reporting in UM
- Maintain UM
Dates & Locations
July 1, 2026 - July 2, 2026
July 1, 2026 - July 2, 2026
October 1, 2026 - October 2, 2026
October 1, 2026 - October 2, 2026
Exam & Certification
This course is not associated with any certification.
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