Highlights from NetApp Insight 2018’s: 1267-3 Gain More from NetApp OCI Using the Automation Store

https://automationstore.netapp.com/home.shtml

What NetApp OnCommand Insight Does:
Monitoring - Centralize monitoring across your growing Hybrid IT Infrastructure.
Troubleshooting - Fix problems faster with End-To-End Analytics.
Cost Control & Optimization - Reduce cost across your Hybrid Environment.
Chargeback & Showback Reporting - Align Business with IT.
Ecosystem Integration - Break down technology silos.

What NetApp OnCommand Insight Discovers:
- Multi-Vendor
- Multi-Cloud (public and private)
- On-Premises

Why NetApp OnCommand Insight is Different
- Massive scale without agents
- End-to-End analytics
- Cost and performance optimization

Where does OCI fit with the Automation Store?
- To expose examples and templates that are not supportable by NetApp
- NetApp Support doesn’t have Pythonistas, or Cognos Reporting specialists
- Community support:

Image: NetApp Storage Automation Store - OnCommand Insight tab

Reports - for NetApp OnCommand Insight Plan user

- Report in NetApp OCI means XML templates for reports
- These reports can be run on an ad-hoc basic, or scheduled

NetApp OnCommand Insight Plan Reporting Terminology
- “Dashboards” are designed and formatted for consumption in a web browser.
--- This means taking a report designed as a dashboard and attempting to subscribe to it as a PDF via email may result in a poor layout.
- “Drill downs” are reports with a prompt for you to enter an object or select one from a pull-down box.

Multiple Roads to Annotations:
- Manual assignment
- REST API scripting
- .CSV importation using the NetApp supported annotation support utility
- Rules-based assignment

Solutions Packs - for NetApp OnCommand Insight Perform customers

- Examples of dashboards which are possible in the OnCommand Insight 7.3.1+ operation WebUI (no plan license required)
- Some of these user cases historically required a plan, but in the OnCommand Insight DWH, you would be limited to hourly data, at best.
--- Operational OCI server have performance data at 5-15 minute granularity.

Scripts - Moving data in and out of NetApp OnCommand Insight

NetApp OnCommand Insight Data Flows: Inbound
- NetApp OnCommand Insight has extensive capabilities for you to label objects within OnCommand Insight with metadata “annotations.” Labelling assets with what “data center” they reside in, or to which “application” and “business unit” they belong to can be incredibly powerful for understanding your infrastructure.
- OnCommand Insight 7.3.1+ supports “integrations” - you can write data into OnCommand Insight for visualization.

NetApp OnCommand Insight Data Flows: Outbound
- The NetApp OnCommand Insight operational server has extensive REST API tooling - if you can see it in the OnCommand Insight WebUI, you can very likely access that data via our REST API.
- The OnCommand Insight DWH exposes read-only SQL access to its various data marts.
--- The OnCommand Insight DWH can consolidate multiple OnCommand Insight instances into one consolidated source of truth.

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