Most Excellent OnCommand Insight (OCI) Resources (How and Where to Learn about NetApp OCI)

Just a list of useful NetApp OnCommand Insight (OCI) learning resources (updated Jun 2020)

1) [Video] OnCommand Insight (OCI) - NetApp Support Overview

First resource is this excellent YouTube video presented by ‘The Great and Powerful Has’:

There are 4 agenda items:

1) Pre-Installation Best Practice and Requirements
2) Architecture
3) Enhancements
4) Troubleshooting

Some highlights/links from the video:

Image: OnCommand Insight 7.3: Architecture

Image: OnCommand Insight Server Data Sources

Image: OnCommand Insight Fabric: Architecture

Image: OCI/DWH 7.3.x Services: Troubleshooting

Windows log locations for 7.3.2 and above:

OCI / DWH Servers Logs Location:
OCI Server Logs: \{install_directory}\SANscreen\wildfly\standalone\log
OCI Installation Logs: \{install_directory}\SANscreen\bin\log
OCI Acquisition Logs: \{install_directory}\SANscreen\acq\log
DWH/RAU/Java Client logs: \{Program files}\SANscreen\log
OCI Certificate location: \{Program files}\SANscreen\wildfly\standalone\configuration

IBM Cognos Reporting Engine Logs on DWH Server:
DWH v7.3.2: \{install_directory}\SANscreen\Cognos\c10_64\log
DWH v7.3.3 & above: \{install_directory}\SANscreen\Cognos\analytics\log

Links from the presentation:

2) [Videos] NetApp Insight

NetApp Insight 2018 - Recorded Insight Sessions
There are 3 sessions from Insight 2018 that I'll recommend:
1265-2 Troubleshooting Your Infrastructure with NetApp OnCommand Insight
1266-3 Successful Business Outcomes: Accelerating Success Through Integrations with OnCommand
1267-3 Gain More from NetApp OnCommand Insight Using the Automation Store

Note: There wasn't anything particularly relevant in NetApp Insight 2019.

3) [Videos] NetApp Customer Success Program on YouTube

There's also a lot (like 16 hours worth) of useful and interesting OCI videos here on this YouTube Channel:

NetApp Customer Success Program
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWC3erPsuggfYEZXvXlNouA/videos

OnCommand Insight Videos in date order:

2019.08.19 - OnCommand Insight Dashboards (32 mins)
2019.03.13 - Ethernet Monitoring Unit 101 (19 mins)
2019.03.13 - OnCommand Insight - AutoSupport (26 mins)
2019.03.13 - Device Resolution 101 (33 mins)
2019.03.04 - EMC ECS in OCI (25 mins)
2019.03.04 - Leveraging SNMP in OCI (52 mins)
2019.03.01 - Anomaly Detection Engine ADE 101 (32 mins)
2019.03.01 - Introduction to Cognos 11 (62 mins)


4) NetApp Lab on Demand

If you have access to NetApp Lab on Demand, there are these labs:
6) NetApp University

Check out NetApp University for OCI courses:

Current course list on 2020.06.03 (skipping sales focused courses):

OnCommand Insight: Fundamentals (WBT)
In this web based course you will learn the fundamental concepts of OnCommand Insight. This course contains foundational information you will need to succeed using OnCommand Insight.

OnCommand Insight: Business Insights (ILT)
This course focuses on enabling you to do the following:
- Explain the Data Warehouse architecture and relationship to report authoring
- Utilize operational reports and dashboards for storage operations, remediation and reclamation, and application resource analysis
- Utilize business reports for chargeback reporting, virtual machine performance and storage utilization
- Find useful tips and tricks

vClassroom Series - OnCommand Insight: Business Insights (WBT)
This vClassroom Series course uses self-paced video lecture and hands-on exercises to help you become familiar with some of the most important features of OnCommand Insight relevant to the day-to-day management, monitoring, and trouble-shooting of data infrastructures.  This course concentrates on the reporting features of OnCommand Insight and the OnCommand Insight Data Warehouse. This course demonstrates how to use OnCommand Insight to perform operational reporting that aid in daily administrative tasks. This course will also demonstrate how to use IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced to perform Business Reporting.

OnCommand Insight: What's New in 7.3.4
This course is intended to communicate the important new features of infrastructure management enabled by the OnCommand Insight management suite.
This course is conveys the changes to OnCommand Insight since the 7.3.0 release. A review of the major features of OCI version 7 are covered to set the stage, and thereafter only significant product changes will be covered.

Using Cloud Insights
This course describes how to use Cloud Insights to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize your IT infrastructure, whether it be physical or virtual, on-premises or in a public or private cloud. This course consists of a series of short videos that demonstrate how to setup and use Cloud Insights.

OCI Professional Video Checklist
Learner must view all videos:

OCI Specialist Video Checklist
The following videos are highly recommended videos for viewing:


7) Cosonok.com

A little bit old but some good stuff there anyway:


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If you've managed to get through most of that, and spent plenty of time on labs, then you won't be far off being a Master of OCI!



8) NetApp Global Practices (NetApp Only!)
Documents > OnCommand Insight > Run > OCI Reporting Resources
A lot of collateral in there by Michael Moon (albeit not many updates since 2018).
Especially check out the awesome “OnCommand Insight (OCI) 7.3.x Report Catalog for Business Analytics”.

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