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

Creating a NetApp cluster-mode user with API privileges

Data collection of NetApp Cluster-Mode requires a specific read-only role and user in order to collect data for a cluster.

To create a new user account with the required privileges, use the following Command Line Interface (CLI) steps. This set of commands creates a role as apt_readonly and then a user named apt_user with read-only access.

  1. Create a read-only role using the following two commands.

    security login role create -role apt_readonly -cmddirname DEFAULT -access readonly
security login role create -role apt_readonly -cmddirname security -access readonly

  2. Create the read-only user using the following command. Once you have executed the create command, you will be prompted to enter a password for this user.

    security login create -username apt_user -application ontapi -authmethod password -role apt_readonly

    The resulting role and user login will look something like this:

          Role            Command/                         Access
Vserver    Name          Directory                   Query Level
---------- ------------- --------- ------------------ --------
cluster1   apt_readonly  DEFAULT                      readonly
cluster1   apt_readonly  security                     readonly
cluster1::security login> show
Vserver: cluster1
                             Authentication                  Acct
UserName         Application Method         Role Name        Locked
---------------- ----------- -------------- ---------------- ------
apt_user         ontapi      password       apt_readonly     no