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by Hope Rodriguez, Ruben Moreno, Johanna Hislop, Marion Hejny, Tiberiu Hajas, Lloyd
IBM Spectrum Family: IBM Spectrum Control Standard Editon
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Chapter 1. Introducing IBM Spectrum Control
1.1 IBM Spectrum Family
1.2 Software Defined Storage
1.3 Overview of IBM Spectrum Storage Family
1.3.1 Software Defined Storage control plane
1.3.2 Software Defined Storage data plane
1.4 Spectrum Control components
1.5 Spectrum Control architecture
1.6 Spectrum Control products
1.6.1 Licensing
1.6.2 IBM Virtual Storage Center and Spectrum Control unbundling
1.6.3 Spectrum Control Standard Edition features
1.6.4 Spectrum Control Advanced Edition comparison to the Standard Edition
1.7 IBM Copy Services Manager
1.8 Web-based GUI enhancements
1.8.1 Identifying hot spots in the web-based GUI
1.8.2 Spectrum Control Cinder driver
1.8.3 Spectrum Control agile development
1.9 VMware
1.10 Cognos reporting
1.11 Service Management Connect
Chapter 2. Installation and upgrade checklist and considerations
2.1 Preinstallation planning
2.1.1 Planning checklist
2.1.2 Installation image considerations
2.2 Installation outline
2.2.1 Installation checklist
2.2.2 Installation
2.2.3 Postinstallation tasks
2.3 Upgrade summary
2.3.1 Planning considerations
2.3.2 Pre-upgrade steps
2.3.3 Upgrade steps
2.3.4 Post-upgrade tasks
2.4 Installing the Reporting component later
Chapter 3. Setting up authentication
3.1 Planning for authentication
3.1.1 Authentication and authorization
3.1.2 Assigned roles
3.1.3 Single sign-on
3.2 Implementing authentication
3.2.1 Implementing Local OS authentication and an internal user ID
3.2.2 Implementing external authentication (direct LDAP) and a local internal user ID
3.2.3 Implementing external authentication (implicit) and a local internal user ID
3.2.4 Implementing external authentication and a domain internal user ID
3.3 Use case: Configuring Spectrum Control to authenticate with Bluepages for an intranet user
3.3.1 Adding a Bluepages SSL certificate
3.3.2 Configuring the federated repository
3.3.3 Configuring web security
3.3.4 Performing a test communication with Bluepages
3.3.5 Adding a specific Bluegroup to Spectrum Control role-based authorization
Chapter 4. Configuration and administration considerations, tasks, and use cases
4.1 Adding resources to Spectrum Control
4.1.1 Adding IBM storage systems
4.1.2 Adding storage systems from other vendors
4.1.3 Adding fabrics and switches
4.1.4 Next steps
4.1.5 Updating and testing a data source
4.2 Adding servers
4.2.1 Choosing an agentless server versus a Storage Resource agent
4.2.2 Adding an agentless server
4.2.3 Deploying a Storage Resource agent
4.3 Storage Resource agent use cases
4.3.1 Updating agent properties
4.3.2 Changing the IP address or DNS name for Storage Resource agents
4.4 Additional configuration tasks
4.4.1 Installing additional applications
4.4.2 Backing up Spectrum Control
4.4.3 User authentication
4.4.4 Tivoli Common Reporting/Cognos Reporting single sign-on
4.4.5 User management in Spectrum Control
4.4.6 Preferred practices configuration tips
4.5 Dashboard administration use cases
4.5.1 Viewing the quick status on the dashboard
4.5.2 Handling alerts: Critical and warning
4.5.3 Handling device condition: Warnings and errors
4.5.4 Clearing unreachable switches
4.5.5 Handling performance monitors
4.6 Fabric administration use cases
4.6.1 Viewing inter-switch connections
4.6.2 Viewing NPV switch ports and internal routes
Chapter 5. Service-oriented storage management using IBM Spectrum Control
5.1 Getting insights into how your storage is consumed
5.1.1 How to mitigate the risk of your pool running out of space
5.1.2 Monitoring your Easy Tier pools
5.1.3 How to mitigate the risk of overprovisioning
5.1.4 Creating input for your chargeback report
5.1.5 Rollup reports across different Spectrum Control servers
5.2 Organizing capacity data around applications and business units
5.3 Getting an overview of the resources that are associated with your applications
5.4 Drilling into resource details for problem determination and performance analysis
Chapter 6. Advanced alert management
6.1 Alerting overview
6.2 Alerts
6.2.1 Features
6.2.2 Triggering conditions for alerts
6.2.3 Reporting
6.3 Alerting and event processing
6.3.1 Scenario 1: Monitoring and being notified about storage utilization
6.3.2 Scenario 2: Performance troubleshooting with advanced alert management
6.3.3 Scenario 3: Closely monitoring new application usage with advanced alert management
Chapter 7. Managing IBM Spectrum Scale with IBM Spectrum Control
7.1 Historical overview of Spectrum Scale support in Spectrum Control
7.2 Troubleshooting scenarios
7.2.1 Adding Spectrum Scale files and objects to Spectrum Control
7.2.2 Usage scenarios for troubleshooting Spectrum Scale
7.3 Advantages of using the Spectrum Control web-based GUI to manage Spectrum Scale clusters
7.4 Advantages of using the Spectrum Scale GUI to manage Spectrum Scale
Chapter 8. IBM Spectrum Control Advanced Edition overview
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Cloud configuration
8.2.1 Tiering
8.2.2 Service classes
8.2.3 Capacity pools
8.3 Storage provisioning
8.4 Optimization
8.4.1 Balancing pools
8.4.2 Analyzing tiering
8.4.3 Volume transformation
8.5 IBM Spectrum Protect Snapshot
Appendix A. Managing security vulnerabilities
IBM Product Security Response Team overview
Communicating about security vulnerabilities
Finding the security bulletins
Resolving security vulnerabilities for Spectrum Control
Vulnerabilities for other products
Vulnerabilities with the operating systems
Reporting a security vulnerability
Appendix B. Reporting scripts
Overview
Sample script with native SQL statement
Sample script to run as a batch report
Sample script for Cognos
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