OnCommand Insight: Intelligent Operation (OCIIO)

Course Outline

Module 1: Visualizing your Data Infrastructure

• What is Insight
• How to use Insight
• Assets dashboard and UI toolbar
• Resources, dashboards and widgets
• Infrastructure navigation
• Resource pages
• Adding, removing and modifying timelines
• Custom dashboards
• Creating custom queries
• Adding filters
• Creating dashboards
• Widget library
• Custom dashboard
• Annotations
  • Creation
  • Applying
  • Rules

Module 2: Data Path Management and Policies

• Insight Java UI primary pane
• Navigating the primary pane
• Grouping
• Search options
• Microview toolbar
• Data path policies configuration
  • Menu
  • Storage tab
  • Policies
• Data path analysis tools
  • SAN path violations page
  • Microview panes
  • Topology pane
  • FC ports panes

Module 3: Performance Policy Creation, monitoring and troubleshooting

• Network performance monitoring
• Data flow
• Zero-buffer-credit state
• Performance policies
  • Violations dashboard
  • Policy dialog box
  • Setup
  • Port policy options
  • Alert thresholds
  • Policy pages
• Slow drain devices detection
• Finding violations of port performance
  • Expert views: metrics
  • Port and node metric comparisons
• Diagnosis of slow drain device

Module 4: Virtual Resource Management and Tools for Root Cause Analysis

• Virtual resource pages
• Queries
• Building a dashboard with VM data
• Global searches
• Application resource pages
• Performance and correlated resources
• Correlated resources investigations
• Greedy resource
• Tracing correlations
• VM comparison

Module 5: Application Infrastructure Monitoring and the Anomaly Detection Engine

• Application resources creations
• Data resources
• Insight applications
• Anomaly scores
• Finding anomalies
• Anomaly widgets
• Analytical tools
• Examining an anomaly

Module 6: Integrating New Resources and Alert Setup

• Data sources and resources
• Vendor options
• Amazon S3 data sources
• Polling intervals
• Physical hosts
• Port hosts
• Host discovery and resolution
• Policy alerts and setup
• Assure events notification

Labs:

• Create a dashboard showing top 10 internal volumes for the last 24 hours
• Create an environment annotation list with the values of prod and dev, and bulk apply the annotations to objects using a query
• Create a query to filter virtual machines named ‘SE’, use the query to create an annotation rule
• Create an annotation rule based on a query to tag slow running development virtual machines with a note annotation with a value of ‘SLOW’
• Create a dashboard to reflect various aspects of the environment
• Analyze a single point of failure
• Analyze a missing redundancy violation for a virtual machine
• Analyze a path outage between a host and storage
• Analyze a switch hop count violation
• Use the Java client to set violation thresholds
• Use the web UI to configure warning violation notification
• Analyze the performance of the BSM system application and show the degradation is due to a slow drain device
• Examine in more detail the performance of the BSM system application and determine associated storage port BB credit zero errors in the same fabric
• Analyze the performance of the exchange application and show the degradation is due to a resource contention
• Analyze a latency violation for Italian_Air_VM and determine root cause
• Create an application annotation and apply it to a virtual machine
• Analyze an anomaly for an application
• Create a query to identify all applications with an anomaly score >50
• Create a dashboard to display applications with high anomaly scores
• Demonstrate the function of the anomaly engine as it reduces anomaly scores based on learned performance behavior
• Analyze the ERP system application based on a high anomaly score
• Create a performance policy to monitor virtual machine swap rates