Detailed Course Outline
Module 1: visualizing Your Data Infrastructure
- Insight and resource asset pages
- Queries, dashboards and widgets
- Annotations and queries
Module 2: Data Path management and Policies
- The Insight Java UI
- Configuration of Data Path policies
- Tools for Data path analysis
- Configuration of policy alerts
Module 3: Performance Policy Creation, Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Buffer-to-buffer credit monitoring
- Performance policies
- Performance policy setup
- Detection of slow-drain devices
Module 4: Virtual Resource Management and Tools for Root Cause Analysis
- Management of virutal resources
- Applications, VMs and correlational analysis
- Drilling down: root cause analysis
Module 5: Application Infrastructure Monitoring and the Anomaly Detection Engine
- Creation of application assets
- The anomaly detection engine
Module 6: Ethernet Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Ethernet monitoring unit
- Monitoring ethernet workloads
Module 7: Integrating New Resources
- Data sources
- Custom data collectors
- Device resolution
Labs:
- Creating a query-based dashboard
- Using queries, annotations, annotation rules and dashboards
- Creating a storage daily operations dashboard
- Analyzing SAN path violations
- Adjusting violation policy threshold settings and configuring violation notifications
- Using anomaly detection to examine application performance degradation
- Using object correlation to determine the root cause of application performance degradation
- Examining anomaly detection as a mechanism to reduce violations.
- Using anomaly scores for perfomance analysis
- Performing root cause analysis of a poorly performing NFS client