This course contains enough information and hands-on practice to perform basic operations on your own with the most popular production storage systems.
Course content
- Introduction to monitoring systems
Modern problems of administration.
The concept of network management system.
Place of management system in the structure of information network.
Alternative solutions of management systems.
Lab1. Familiarization with the laboratory setup.
- Network management protocols.
SNMP protocol, versions 1, 2c, 3.
CIM protocol.
WMI protocol.
Remote management protocols (telnet, ssh).
Lab1. Manual collection of information from the equipment using SNMP, WMI, WBEM protocols.
- hardware means of server management.
iLo in HP Proliant servers
dRAC in Dell PowerEdge servers.
IBM in IBM Series X servers.
ILOM in Oracle servers.
AMT solution for Intel desktops.
Lab 1. Getting to know the GUI of server management controllers.
- Installing Insight Control.
Transforming the structure of Insight Control.
Integration with HP OneView.
Installation options.
Preparing for installation.
Installation process.
Initial configuration.
Lab 1. Insight Control installation.
- Network topology formation.
Manual mode of device base formation
Automatic mode of equipment detection and updating.
Lab 1. Adding servers using the manual mode.
Lab 2. Adding equipment in the automatic network scanning mode.
- Creating rules for monitoring the status of servers.
Event monitoring.
Monitoring of equipment utilization level.
Lab 1. Server availability monitoring.
Lab 2. CPU and memory utilization monitoring.
Lab 3. Monitoring of disk system.
Lab 4. Monitoring of network interfaces.
- Creating server management tasks.
Creating administration scripts.
Creating an automatic response script.
Lab 1. Creating a server overload script.
Lab 2. Creating an automatic disk partition cleanup script.
- Server Provisioning operating systems installation and migration server.
Structure diagram of the package.
Installation of the package. Supported systems and hardware.
Types of installation and upgrade tasks.
Migration from Server Deployment.
Lab 1. Create a task to automatically deploy the Windows 2008 operating system
- Managing HP OneView for VMware vCenter virtual machines
Discovering the ESXi hypervisor and virtual machines.
Create a new virtual machine.
Integration with storage systems.
Lab 1. Configuring a virtual machine template using Insight Control.
- Interaction of Insight Control with other management systems.
Methods of interaction between Insight Control and Service Management packages.
Creating event notifications.
Lab1. Creating a notification with sending a mail message.
Lab2. Creating a notification with execution of a custom script.