APTARE IT Analytics Certified Configurations Guide

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Product(s): APTARE IT Analytics (10.5)
  1. Portal and database servers
    1.  
      Portal supported operating systems
    2.  
      Recommended portal configurations
    3.  
      Oracle Database and Memory Requirements
    4. Supported browsers and display resolution
      1.  
        Linux portal server: Exported and emailed reports
    5.  
      Supported third-party and open source products
  2. Data Collector server configurations
    1.  
      Data Collector supported operating systems
    2. Data Collector server memory and CPU guidelines
      1.  
        Customize the Linux file handle setting for large collections
      2.  
        Factors impacting Data Collector performance and memory requirements
    3.  
      Data Collector prerequisites
    4.  
      Firewall configuration: Default ports
  3. Capacity Manager configurations
    1.  
      Supported storage arrays and access requirements
    2.  
      IBM Arrays: Modify profile
    3.  
      Creating a NetApp user with API privileges
    4.  
      Creating a NetApp cluster-mode user with API privileges
    5. Array/LUN performance Data Collection
      1.  
        Port performance metrics
    6.  
      EMC Isilon metrics
    7.  
      NetApp cluster-mode metrics
    8.  
      EMC Symmetrix enhanced performance metrics
    9.  
      Host resources prerequisites and configurations
    10. Host access privileges, sudo commands, ports, and WMI proxy requirements
      1.  
        Access requirements by OS
    11.  
      WMI proxy requirements for Windows host Data Collection
    12.  
      Host resources supported configurations
    13.  
      Supported host bus adapters (HBAs)
  4. Cloud configurations
    1.  
      Supported systems and access requirements
  5. Virtualization Manager configurations
    1.  
      Supported versions
    2. Virtualization Manager Data Collector requirements for VMware
      1.  
        Creating a VMware Read-Only user
    3.  
      Virtualization Manager Data Collector requirements for Microsoft Hyper-V
  6. File Analytics configurations
    1. Data Collector probes by storage type
      1.  
        CIFS shares
      2.  
        Host inventory probe
  7. Fabric Manager configurations
    1. Switch vendors
      1.  
        Download Cisco Data Center Network Manager
  8. Backup Manager configurations
    1.  
      Backup solutions and versions
    2.  
      Centralized NetBackup Data Collection requirements
    3. Veritas NetBackup 8.1 (and later) requirements for centralized collection
      1.  
        Required Software
  9. Internal TCP port requirements
    1.  
      Internal TCP port requirements
    2.  
      Internal portal server ports
    3.  
      Internal data collector ports

Customize the Linux file handle setting for large collections

In Linux, a portion of memory is designated for file handles, which is the mechanism used to determine the number of files that can be open at one time. The default value is 1024. For large data collection policy environments, this number may need to be increased to 8192. A large environment is characterized as any collector that is collecting from 20 or more subsystems, such as 20+ TSM instances or 20+ unique arrays.

To change the number of file handles, take the following steps.

  1. On the Linux Data Collector server, edit:

    /etc/security/limits.conf

    At the end of the file, add the following lines:

    root soft nofile 8192
root hard nofile 8192

  2. Log out and log back in as root to execute the following commands to validate all values have been set to 8192.

    ulimit -n
ulimit -Hn
ulimit -Sn

  3. Restart the Data Collector.