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Introduction to Unified Manager for DM Series

Unified Manager for DM Series enables you to monitor and manage the health and performance of your ONTAP storage systems from a single interface. You can deploy Unified Manager on a Linux server, on a Windows server, or as a virtual appliance on a VMware host.

After you have completed the installation and have added the clusters that you want to manage, Unified Manager provides a graphical interface that displays the capacity, availability, protection, and performance status of the monitored storage systems.

  • What the Unified Manager server does
    The Unified Manager server infrastructure consists of a data collection unit, a database, and an application server. It provides infrastructure services such as discovery, monitoring, role-based access control (RBAC), auditing, and logging.
  • Unified Manager for DM Series product documentation
    Unified Manager for DM Series is accompanied by a set of guides that describe how to install and use the product. Online help is also provided in the user interface.
  • Overview of the installation sequence
    The installation workflow describes the tasks that you must perform before you can use Unified Manager.
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