A Quick Start Roadmap for Hitachi Ops Center (OVA)
Hitachi Ops Center consists of multiple products with features that enable you to administer, automate, optimize, and protect your Hitachi storage infrastructure.
Before you begin
This document provides a high-level look at the main steps required to install and configure Hitachi Ops Center by using the OVA with links to more detailed information.
Before installation, verify that your environment meets the system requirements and installation prerequisites.
The Ops Center OVA installs the following:
- Ops Center Common Services
- Ops Center Administrator
- Ops Center Automator
- Ops Center Analyzer server
- Ops Center Analyzer detail view server
- Ops Center Protector (Master)
- Ops Center API Configuration Manager
After the initial setup, you install Analyzer probe server and Analyzer viewpoint(optional) by using separate OVAs. Click here to see a visual representation of deploying Ops Center.
After preparing your virtualization server, deploy the Ops Center OVA.
To complete the initial setup after deploying the OVA, run the setup tool.
Before you can use Ops Center Analyzer, you must install the Analyzer probe server.
The Analyzer probe server OVA installs the following:
- Analyzer probe server server
- Protector ISM client
- API Configuration Manager server
To verify the installation and setup, log in to the Ops Center Portal.
By default, Common Services uses SSL/TLS communications immediately after installation. Because Common Services uses a self-signed certificate, you must set up SSL to use a valid server certificate as follows:
- Prepare the server certificate for Common Services.
- Set the server certificate and private key path information.
- Specify the SSL server settings for each product. If you are installing all Ops Center products on the same management server, you can use the cssslsetup tool to configure all the products at once.
- When using LDAP, specify the SSL server settings for an Active Directory server.
- Import certificates into each product.
- Import certificates into the Common Services truststore.
- Enable server certificate verification.
After you finish setting up SSL, you can complete your setup by logging in to the Ops Center Portal to complete one or more of the following tasks:
- Apply Ops Center product licenses.
- If using Kerberos, set up Kerberos authentication.
- Configure Ops Center Active Directory settings.
- If using external authentication, configure an external identity provider.
- Add data centers.
- Change your Ops Center login and password.
- Assign portal-level roles to Ops Center groups.
- Assign product-level roles from the Ops Center portal.
- Control local (non-AD) portal access.
- Manage local (non-AD) users and groups.
To install Ops Center Analyzer viewpoint, see the viewpoint installation documentation.