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InfoScale™ Operations Manager 9.0 Installation and Configuration Guide
Last Published:
2025-04-14
Product(s):
InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: AIX,HP-UX,Linux,Solaris,VMware ESX,Windows
- Section I. Installing and configuring Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Planning your Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager installation
- About Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Downloading Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager 9.0
- Using the product documentation
- Host considerations for installing Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Typical Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager deployment configuration
- Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager 9.0 installation overview
- Choosing a Management Server host
- Choosing the managed hosts
- System requirements
- Installing, upgrading, and uninstalling Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Packages included in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- About installing Management Server
- Verifying Management Server installation on Linux
- Verifying Management Server installation on Windows
- Configuring Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager on Linux and Windows
- Implementing US Executive Order (EO) requirements
- Configuring Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server and Agents in FIPS mode on Linux
- Configuring Service groups using CLI script
- Configuring Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager Management Server on Linux using CLI
- Importing third-party certificates for xprtld
- About installing managed host
- Verifying managed host installation on UNIX
- Verifying managed host installation on Windows
- About upgrading the Management Server
- About backing up and restoring Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager data
- Taking regular backups of Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager data on Linux
- Backing up Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager data on Linux before upgrading to version 9.0
- Restoring backed up data on Linux
- Taking regular backups of Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager data on Windows
- Backing up Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager data on Windows before upgrading to version 9.0
- Restoring backed up data on Windows
- About upgrading managed hosts to Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager 9.0
- Verifying the version of Management Server in the console
- Verifying the version of a managed host in the console
- Uninstalling Management Server on Linux
- Uninstalling Management Server on Windows
- Uninstalling managed host on UNIX
- Uninstalling managed host on Windows
- Configuring Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager in a high availability and disaster recovery environment
- Configuring the high availability feature in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Configuring a new Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager installation in high availability environment
- Prerequisites for configuring a new Management Server in high availability environment
- Performing initial configuration of Management Server in HA environment
- Creating the base service groups for HA configuration
- Creating the base service groups for CFS HA configuration
- Completing the configuration of a Management Server installation in HA environment
- Configuring an existing Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager installation in high availability environment
- Configuring a new Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager installation in high availability environment
- Configuring CMS HA on Linux using Command Line (CLI)
- Configuring Management Server in one-to-one DR environment
- Configuring Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager in high availability and disaster recovery environment
- About upgrading the high availability configurations
- About upgrading the high availability and disaster recovery configurations
- Removing the high availability configuration
- Configuring the high availability feature in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Installing and uninstalling Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager add-ons
- About deploying Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager add-ons
- Downloading a Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager add-on
- Uploading a Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager add-on to the repository
- Installing a Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager add-on
- Uninstalling a Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager add-on
- Removing a Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager add-on from the repository
- Canceling deployment request for a Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager add-on
- Installing a Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager add-on on a specific managed host
- Uninstalling a Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager add-on from a specific managed host
- Enabling a Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager add-on on a specific managed host
- Disabling a Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager add-on from a specific managed host
- Refreshing the repository
- Restarting the web server
- Planning your Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager installation
- Section II. Setting up the Management Server environment
- Basic Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager tasks
- Adding and managing hosts
- Overview of host discovery
- Overview of agentless discovery
- About agentless discovery using the Control Host
- About agentless discovery of remote hosts
- Prerequisites for agentless configuration
- How agentless discovery of a UNIX or Linux host works
- How agentless discovery of a Windows host works
- Requirements for agentless discovery of UNIX hosts
- Requirements for agentless discovery of Windows hosts
- Requirements for deep array discovery for agentless hosts
- Commands that require the root access for agentless discovery of UNIX hosts
- Using the privilege control software with agentless discovery of UNIX hosts
- SSH configuration requirements for agentless discovery
- About installing OpenSSH on a UNIX host
- Adding the managed hosts to Management Server using an agent configuration
- Adding the managed hosts to Management Server using an agentless configuration
- Adding Agentless hosts to the Management Server using Profile
- Adding managed hosts to Management Server using the Auto Configure (gendeploy.pl) script
- Editing the agentless host configuration
- Refreshing the details of the managed host
- Removing managed hosts from the Management Server domain
- Setting up user access
- About managing authentication brokers and authentication domains in the Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager domain
- Adding Lightweight Directory Access Protocol or Active Directory-based authentication on Management Server
- Unconfiguring Lightweight Directory Access Protocol or Active Directory configuration from the authentication broker
- Configuring LDAP using CLI
- Configuring Single Sign-On in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Enabling the authentication domain
- Disabling the authentication domain
- About predefined roles in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- About Organizations, objects, and roles in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Assigning permissions to user groups for a perspective
- Modifying permissions assigned to user groups for a perspective
- Deleting permissions assigned to user groups on a perspective
- Restricting users or user groups from accessing the Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager console
- Example: Managing user access in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager using Organizations and existing user groups
- Setting up fault monitoring
- About alerts and rules
- Creating rules in the Management Server perspective
- Editing rules in the Management Server perspective
- Deleting rules in the Management Server perspective
- Enabling rules in the Management Server perspective
- Disabling rules in the Management Server perspective
- About faults and risks
- Suppressing faults in the Management Server perspective
- Restoring a suppressed fault in the Management Server perspective
- Suppressing a fault definition in the Management Server perspective
- Restoring a suppressed fault definition in the Management Server perspective
- Setting up virtualization environment discovery
- About the virtualization technologies supported
- About Control Hosts in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Requirements for discovering vCenter and ESX servers using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- About near real-time discovery of VMware events
- Setting up near real-time discovery of VMware events
- Configuration settings for VMware vCenter discovery
- Requirements for discovering the Solaris zones
- Requirements for discovering Solaris Logical domains
- Requirements for discovering logical partitions
- Requirements for Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization discovery
- Requirements for Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) virtualization discovery
- Adding a virtualization server
- Editing a virtualization discovery configuration
- Refreshing a virtualization discovery configuration
- Removing a virtualization discovery configuration
- Configuring performance metering for a VMware vCenter server
- Disable performance metering for a VMware vCenter server
- Deploying hot fixes, packages, and patches
- About deploying Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager hot fixes
- About deploying maintenance release packages and patches
- About deploying base release packages
- Downloading a hot fix, package, or patch
- Uploading a Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager hot fix or package to the repository
- Installing a Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager hot fix, package, or patch
- Removing a hot fix, package, or patch from the repository
- Canceling deployment request for a hot fix, package, or patch
- Installing a Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager hot fix on a specific managed host
- Configuring Management Server settings
- Configuring the Management Server settings
- Configuring SMTP settings for email notifications
- Configuring SNMP trap settings for alert notifications
- Configuring the proxy server settings
- Configuring two-factor authentication (2FA)
- Setting the period for retaining the alert and the task logs in the database
- Configuring Web server settings
- Setting the generation time for subscribed reports
- Configuring advance authorization settings
- Enabling or disabling policy signatures for the data center
- Forwarding audit logs
- Setting up extended attributes
- Viewing information on the Management Server environment
- Viewing the details of an add-on, hot fix, package, or patch on SORT website
- Viewing the hosts configured in the Management Server domain
- Viewing the details of the authentication broker and the domains associated with the broker
- Viewing faults in the Management Server perspective
- Viewing the faults definitions
- Viewing details of alert logs
- Viewing the details of rules
- Viewing the details of active users logged in to Management Server
- Viewing the Management Server settings
- Viewing the list of extended attributes
- Viewing audit information for Management Server
- Viewing task information for the data center
- Viewing or exporting a list of available policy signatures
- Appendix A. Troubleshooting
- Management Server (MS)
- Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager processes running on Management Server for Linux
- Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager services running on Management Server for Windows
- Commands to start and stop the Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager processes on Management Server on Linux
- Commands to start and stop the Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager processes on Management Server on Windows
- Management Server log file locations on Linux
- Management Server log file locations on Windows
- Managed host (MH)
- Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager processes running on managed host on Unix/Linux
- Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager services running on managed host on Windows
- Commands to start and stop Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager processes on managed host on UNIX/Linux
- Managed host log files
- Agentless driver log files
- Gathering information for troubleshooting
- Management Server (MS)
- Index
How Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager discovers hosts
Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager provides several ways to discover the hosts and their associations to storage resources and network devices. To discover the hosts and their connections to storage resources, you can either install an agent or use agentless capabilities.
Agent and agentless capabilities include the following:
Discovery of the hosts using an agent, for the hosts that have Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager and Storage Foundation installed on them | An agent is a software package that runs on a host. It discovers the storage resources that are associated with a host and relays the information to Management Server. |
Discovery of the non-Storage Foundation hosts using an agent, for the hosts that have Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager installed on them | Agent-based discovery is also used for the non-Storage Foundation hosts that have Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager installed on them. |
Discovery of the non-Storage Foundation hosts using agentless discovery scripts, for the hosts that do not have Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager installed on them | Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager can discover a host by remotely accessing the host and then running the scripts that collect data. The agentless discovery scripts access the host using SSH (for UNIX hosts) or WMI (for Windows hosts). Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager identifies this type of the host as an agentless host. |
Note:
Agentless discovery is not supported on the hosts that have Arctera Storage Foundation or Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager installed.
Through each of these host discovery options, Management Server is the central point to which all of the discovered data flows. Figure: Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager components and discovery (basic) depicts the flow of data with each of the host discovery options. Figure: Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager components and discovery (virtualization servers and virtual machines) depicts how Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager discovers virtualization servers and virtual machines.
Figure: Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager components and discovery (virtualization servers and virtual machines)
Managed host (MH(DH)) is the discovery host for SAN and NAS arrays. Managed host (MH+FI) discovers SAN switches if Fabric Insight Add-on is installed. Control Host (MH+CH) discovers agentless hosts (AH), VMware and LPAR servers and virtual machines. Management Server (MS) discovers managed hosts (physical hosts), Hyper-V virtualization servers, KVM, LDOMs, and Solaris Zones.
For more information on Fabric Insight Add-on, refer to the Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager Add-ons User Guide.