Infrastructure Analytics Advisor
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Bundled with Hitachi Data Center Analytics (HDCA), Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor (HIAA) offers a complete data center analytic solution package. This solution allows collection of performance data from your infrastructure components using software probes that supports heterogeneous environments and simplifies performance management with an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI). The solution also provides capabilities for historical trend analysis and extensive report generation.
Software as a Service (SaaS) combines Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor (HIAA) and Hitachi Data Center Analytics (HDCA) capabilities through the cloud to enable on-premise capability with the SaaS-based deployment option.
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- Getting Started with HIAA-HDCA SaaS Edition
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- The Software as a Service (SaaS) offering combines Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor (HIAA) and Hitachi Data Center Analytics (HDCA) capabilities through the cloud to enable on-premise capability with the SaaS-based deployment option.
- HIAA-HDCA SaaS overview
- System requirements
- Installing and configuring Analytics probe server
- Adding probes to Analytics probe server
- Installing Data Center Analytics server Windows-based probe
- Getting started with HIAA-HDCA SaaS
- HIAA-HDCA SaaS user management
- Changing HIAA-HDCA SaaS system settings
- Data ingestion trends
- Configuring multiple data centers
- Upgrading Analytics Probe server
- Install Infrastructure Analytics Advisor
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- Install Infrastructure Analytics Advisor and its components using any of the following options: OVA, Linux, Windows. Perform initial setup after the installation is successful.
- Upgrade your Infrastructure Analytics Advisor environment
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- You can upgrade Infrastructure Analytics Advisor and its components.
- Upgrade workflow for a two-host configuration
- Upgrade workflow for a three-host configuration
- Verifying the yum/rpm dependency packages
- Upgrading the Infrastructure Analytics Advisor and the Data Center Analytics servers on a Linux host
- Upgrading the Infrastructure Analytics Advisor server on a Windows host
- Upgrading the Analytics probe server
- Upgrading the Data Center Analytics server Windows-based probe
- Upgrading the Configuration Manager REST API
- Postupgrade guidelines
- Reconfiguring the connection with Automation Director after an upgrade
- Add probes to Analytics probe server
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- Start collecting information about your system resources by adding probes to the Analytics probe server.
- Installing the third-party storage probe add-on package
- Configuring the RAID Agent to monitor Hitachi Enterprise Storage Systems
- Adding Hitachi Enterprise Storage probe
- Adding Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage (AMS) probe
- Adding Hitachi NAS probe
- Adding EMC VNX File probe
- Adding EMC VNX Block probe
- Adding EMC XtremIO probe
- Adding EMC VMAX probe
- Adding NetApp probe
- Adding Pure Storage probe
- Adding HPE 3PAR probe
- Adding Cisco FC Switch (DCNM) probe
- Adding Cisco FC Switch (CLI) probe
- Adding Brocade FC Switch (BNA) probe
- Adding Brocade FC Switch (CLI) probe
- Adding VMware probe
- Adding Linux probe
- Adding IBM XIV probe
- Installing Data Center Analytics server Windows-based probe
- Editing probes
- Starting and stopping probes
- Viewing Analytics probe server status
- Retrieving diagnostic data from the Analytics probe server
- Viewing the host CSV file import status
- Configuring external user authentication
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- You can set user authentication on an external authentication server.
- External user authentication overview
- Configuring multiple external authentication servers
- Configuring LDAP authentication for Infrastructure Analytics Advisor server
- Configuring RADIUS authentication for Infrastructure Analytics Advisor server
- Configuring Kerberos authentication for Infrastructure Analytics Advisor server
- Configuring external user authentication on the Analytics probe server and the Data Center Analytics server
- Configuring secure communications
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- You can configure secure communications.
- About security settings
- Workflow for configuring secure communications
- Configuring an SSL certificate (Infrastructure Analytics Advisor server)
- Configuring an SSL certificate (Data Center Analytics server)
- Configuring an SSL certificate (Analytics probe server)
- Configuring an SSL certificate (Automation Director)
- Configuring an SSL certificate (LDAP directory server)
- Get started with Performance Analytics
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- Use Infrastructure Analytics Advisor and Data Center Analytics to collect performance data, monitor resources, create and manage consumers, and customize reports.
- Product overview
- Getting started in your Infrastructure Analytics Advisor environment
- Managing consumers
- Configuring resource monitoring
- Configuring resource monitoring for third-party resources
- Quick access to vital performance reports
- Additional dashboard reports
- Accessing Data Center Analytics
- Configuring the initial settings for connecting with Automation Director
- Launching Automation Director from Infrastructure Analytics Advisor
- Configure storage I/O controls with Hitachi Automation Director
- Performance monitoring using dynamic thresholds
- Performance monitoring using static thresholds
- Creating custom reports using report templates
- Managing SLOs using the REST API
- Troubleshooting performance problems in your monitored environment
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- Use Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor to analyze performance problems in your data center by following the troubleshooting flow to search for affected resources, identify bottleneck candidates, and solve performance problems.
- Analyzing performance problems
- End-to-end performance troubleshooting
- Using Infrastructure Analytics Advisor for data analysis: from deep dive to recovery planning
- Granular Data Collection
- Definition file templates for event action customization
- Optimizing infrastructure resources with storage I/O controls
- I/O control overview
- Performing storage I/O control tasks in Infrastructure Analytics Advisor with Automation Director
- Setting I/O controls with user-defined scripts
- Predictive analytics risk reporting
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- Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor allows users to analyze trend projections for their infrastructure resources through predictive analytics risk reporting.
- Advanced analytics and reporting using Data Center Analytics
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- Infrastructure Analytics Advisor integrates with Data Center Analytics to provide advanced reporting capability to continuously measure and analyze performance of your monitored resources.
- Administer user settings
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- Administer user settings in Infrastructure Analytics Advisor, such as creating condition profiles, enabling email addresses, configuring user management, and setting security.
- Configure settings
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- You can configure secure communications, modify settings for different components, change port numbers, move installation directories, stop and start services, and backup and restore the system in Infrastructure Analytics Advisor and Data Center Analytics.
- Stopping and starting the Infrastructure Analytics Advisor service
- Stopping and starting the Data Center Analytics server or probe server service
- Stopping and starting RAID Agent Services
- Backing up and restoring Infrastructure Analytics Advisor
- Changing the system information of Infrastructure Analytics Advisor server
- Changing the system information of Analytics probe server
- Checking the expiration dates of certificates for Data Center Analytics server and Analytics probe server
- Enabling system account locking
- Changing the primary server information
- Moving an Infrastructure Analytics Advisor server installation to another host
- Infrastructure Analytics Advisor server services
- User-specified properties file (config_user.properties)
- Configuring an SNMP Manager
- Configuring the SMTP server for the Data Center Analytics server for HDCA
- Configuring the Syslog server for HDCA
- Managing the Data Center Analytics database size
- Changing the system information of Analytics probe server
- Managing the Data Center Analytics server and the Analytics probe server
- Upgrading the operating system packages and libraries on the Data Center Analytics server
- Viewing and updating the Data Center Analytics server license
- Resolving the SMTP connection for HDCA
- Using the HDCA authentication token
- Viewing the Data Center Analytics schema
- CLI commands
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- Use CLI commands to run operations and make configuration changes in Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor.
- Command usage guidelines
- Usable characters for command arguments
- Escaping special characters
- List of Commands
- backupsystem
- encryptpassword
- hcmds64fwcancel
- hcmds64getlogs
- hcmds64ldapuser
- hcmds64prmset
- hcmds64checkauth
- hcmds64radiussecret
- hcmds64ldapuser
- hcmds64intg
- hcmds64srv
- hcmds64ssltool
- hcmds64unlockaccount
- raid_agent_config
- reloadtemplate
- restoresystem
- HIAA REST API resources
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- Use Infrastructure Analytics Advisor REST API resources to execute operations such as configuring an email server, defining consumers, setting up thresholds, and retrieving performance data.
- Overview
- Performing operations related to the rules for automatically assigning resources
- Performing operations related to the history of changes made to the configuration
- Performing operations related to executing actions
- Getting a list of resources
- Performing operations related to resource information in E2E View
- Setting up a mail server
- Performing operations related to event information
- Getting information about a consumer grade
- Performing operations related to consumers
- Connecting to the Data Center Analytics server
- Performing operations related to Storage I/O control settings
- Performing operations related to sessions that use HSSO tokens
- Performing operations related to email addresses
- Performing operations related to notification profiles
- Performing operations related to resource information and metric information
- Getting a list of metrics
- Performing operations related to predictive histories
- Getting the license status of the Predictive Analytics feature
- Performing operations related to analytics engines
- Executing a predictive operation
- Performing operations related to predictive profiles
- Performing operations related to predictive reports
- Getting a list of the recovery action history
- Performing operations related to recovery action
- Getting information about storage systems
- Performing operations related to suggestions
- Getting information about the system
- Performing operations related to system summary information
- Getting the information needed to calculate dynamic thresholds
- Performing operations related to threshold properties files
- Performing operations related to user resources
- Performing operations related to user information
- Performing operations related to virtual machines
- Performing operations related to volumes
- Accessing RAID Agent
- API resources - RAID Agent
- HDCA REST API resources
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- Use Data Center Analytics REST API resources to execute operations such as configuring an email server, defining consumers, setting up thresholds, and retrieving performance data.
- Resolving system problems
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- You can resolve common system problems, such as unsuccessful connections to the web client or between components.
- Logging on to Infrastructure Analytics Advisor server unsuccessful
- Connection to the Infrastructure Analytics Advisor server web client unsuccessful
- Starting Infrastructure Analytics Advisor server does not work
- Infrastructure Analytics Advisor server cannot connect to Data Center Analytics server
- Analytics probe server cannot connect to Data Center Analytics server using HTTPS
- Restarting a probe stuck in the Stopping state
- Starting Infrastructure Analytics Advisor server does not work
- Collecting maintenance information
- Installing the perl module
- Using the Advanced Activity Monitor
- Using System Diagnostics
- Video Tutorials
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- Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor is an advanced IT analytics solution that provides comprehensive storage performance management and diagnostics.
- Analyze Configuration Changes in your Infrastructure to Solve Performance Problems
- Capacity planning using Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor predictive analytics
- Detecting Performance Bottlenecks using E2E view
- Detecting Performance Bottlenecks Using Sparkline View
- Dynamic Threshold Storage Resource Monitoring
- Using HIAA to Analyze a Performance Bottleneck in Shared Infrastructure