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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

NoteBefore you install and configure the product, you must be familiar with the available system configurations, authentication methods, and installation options. For more information, see the product overview.

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.

Step 1: Verify the system requirements and prerequisites

Before installation, verify that your environment meets the system requirements and installation prerequisites.

Step 2: Deploy the software

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.

Step 3: Set up the software

To complete the initial setup after deploying the OVA, run the setup tool.

NoteFor information on configuring each product after you complete the Ops Center setup, see the product manuals for each product.
Step 4: Install the Analyzer probe server OVA

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
Step 5: Log in to the Ops Center Portal

To verify the installation and setup, log in to the Ops Center Portal.

Step 6: Configure SSL Communications

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:

  1. Prepare the server certificate for Common Services.
  2. Set the server certificate and private key path information.
  3. 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.
  4. When using LDAP, specify the SSL server settings for an Active Directory server.
  5. Import certificates into each product.
  6. Import certificates into the Common Services truststore.
  7. Enable server certificate verification.
Step 7: Complete your setup in the Ops Center Portal

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:

Step 8: Install Analyzer viewpoint (optional)

To install Ops Center Analyzer viewpoint, see the viewpoint installation documentation.

Deployment overview (graphical view) GUID-848770D3-E063-41EA-A448-DD4F82C664E1-low.png

 

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