InfoScale™ Operations Manager 9.0 User's Guide
- Section I. Getting started
- Introducing Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Using the Management Server console
- About selecting the objects
- About searching for objects
- Examples for using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Example: Cluster Server troubleshooting using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Example: Ensuring the correct level of protection for volumes controlled by Storage Foundation
- Example: Improving the availability and the disaster recovery readiness of a service group through fire drills
- Examples: Identifying and reducing storage waste using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Section II. Managing Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- Managing user access
- Creating an Organization
- Modifying the name of an Organization
- Setting up fault monitoring
- Creating rules in a perspective
- Editing rules in a perspective
- Deleting rules in a perspective
- Enabling rules in a perspective
- Disabling rules in a perspective
- Suppressing faults in a perspective
- Using reports
- Running a report
- Subscribing for a report
- Sending a report through email
- Managing user access
- Section III. Managing hosts
- Overview
- Working with the uncategorized hosts
- Managing File Replicator (VFR) operations
- Managing disk groups and disks
- Creating disk groups
- Importing disk groups
- Adding disks to disk groups
- Resizing disks in disk groups
- Renaming disks in disk groups
- Splitting disk groups
- Moving disk groups
- Joining disk groups
- Initializing disks
- Replacing disks
- Recovering disks
- Bringing disks online
- Setting disk usage
- Evacuating disks
- Running or scheduling Trim
- Managing volumes
- Creating Storage Foundation volumes
- Encrypting existing volumes
- Deleting volumes
- Moving volumes
- Renaming volumes
- Adding mirrors to volumes
- Removing the mirrors of volumes
- Creating instant volume snapshots
- Creating space optimized snapshots for volumes
- Creating mirror break-off snapshots for volumes
- Dissociating snapshots
- Reattaching snapshots
- Resizing volumes
- Restoring data from the snapshots of volumes
- Refreshing the snapshot of volumes
- Configuring a schedule for volume snapshot refresh
- Adding snapshot volumes to a refresh schedule
- Removing the schedule for volume snapshot refresh
- Setting volume usage
- Enabling FastResync on volumes
- Managing file systems
- Creating file systems
- Defragmenting file systems
- Unmounting non clustered file systems from hosts
- Mounting non clustered file systems on hosts
- Unmounting clustered file systems
- Mounting clustered file systems on hosts
- Remounting file systems
- Checking file systems
- Creating file system snapshots
- Remounting file system snapshot
- Mounting file system snapshot
- Unmounting file system snapshot
- Removing file system snapshot
- Monitoring capacity of file systems
- Managing SmartIO
- About managing SmartIO
- Creating a cache
- Modifying a cache
- Creating an I/O trace log
- Analyzing an I/O trace log
- Managing application IO thresholds
- Managing replications
- Configuring Storage Foundation replications
- Pausing the replication to a Secondary
- Resuming the replication of a Secondary
- Starting replication to a Secondary
- Stopping the replication to a Secondary
- Switching a Primary
- Taking over from an original Primary
- Associating a volume
- Removing a Secondary
- Monitoring replications
- Optimizing storage utilization
- Section IV. Managing high availability and disaster recovery configurations
- Overview
- Managing clusters
- Managing service groups
- Creating service groups
- Linking service groups in a cluster
- Bringing service groups online
- Taking service groups offline
- Switching service groups
- Managing systems
- Managing resources
- Invoking a resource action
- Managing global cluster configurations
- Running fire drills
- Running the disaster recovery fire drill
- Editing a fire drill schedule
- Using recovery plans
- Managing application configuration
- Multi Site Management
- Appendix A. List of high availability operations
- Section V. Monitoring Storage Foundation HA licenses in the data center
- Managing licenses
- About Arctera licensing and pricing
- Assigning a price tier to a host manually
- Creating a license deployment policy
- Modifying a license deployment policy
- Viewing deployment information
- Managing licenses
- Monitoring performance
- About Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager performance graphs
- Managing Business Applications
- About the makeBE script
- Managing extended attributes
- Managing policy checks
- About using custom signatures for policy checks
- Managing Dynamic Multipathing paths
- Disabling the DMP paths on the initiators of a host
- Re-enabling the DMP paths
- Managing CVM clusters
- Managing Flexible Storage Sharing
- Monitoring the virtualization environment
- About discovering the VMware Infrastructure using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- About the multi-pathing discovery in the VMware environment
- About discovering Solaris zones
- About discovering logical domains in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- About discovering LPARs and VIOs in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager
- About Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization discovery
- Using Web services API
- Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager command line interface
- Appendix B. Command file reference
- Appendix C. Application setup requirements
- Application setup requirements for Oracle database discovery
- Application setup requirements for Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) discovery
- Application setup requirements for IBM DB2 discovery
- Application setup requirements for Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) discovery
- Application setup requirements for Microsoft SQL Server discovery
Creating new search queries
In the Management Server console, you can use the Server, Availability, Storage, and Virtualization perspectives.
button on the menu bar to search for a variety of objects in theYou can create searches for commonly viewed objects in a perspective and save the searches for later use.
Note:
For the primary object in a perspective, such as hosts in the Server perspective, you also have the choice to save search queries as Smart Folders in the tree.
To create a new search
- In the Management Server console, go to the perspective and click Search on the menu bar.
- If you have previously saved queries, they are displayed in the Search window. Click New Search.
- Select from the following options:
Search for
Select the object that you want to search for
Select columns
Choose the columns to appear in the search results. You can also click in the Custom Name field and type a custom name for that column.
Operator
You can select AND or OR when adding rules to a search query. You cannot mix operators within the search query.
However, if you have selected AND as the operator, and your query includes multiple rules that use the same attribute, Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager will apply the OR operator to the rules with the same attribute.
Attribute
Select the attribute for which you want to specify a value.
Condition
Select the condition, for example, Starts With.
Value
Type or select the value, depending on the attribute. Value strings are not case-sensitive.
Add
Click to add another parameter to the search query.
Remove
Click to remove a parameter from the query.
- Click the Search button at the bottom of the window. The results are displayed.
- To save the search query for future use, click Save and specify a name and optionally a description. Click Save, then click OK. To view the query on the list of saved searches, click Saved Queries.
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