Our IT departments are always looking for ways to decrease costs by increasing employee productivity.  In System Manager 9.9.1, we support this efficiency drive by integrating System Manager with our NetApp Active IQ®  tool to help you save time and reduce operational costs.   Active IQ is our flagship service that provides you with intelligent insights about your data storage environment. By integrating System Manager with our Active IQ, we support your proactivity by bringing alerts to the dashboard, as shown in the following figure. This gives you quick access and the capability to view support tickets without having to go to the Active IQ portal.         In addition, when firmware updates are available and recommended by Active IQ, System Manager will alert you on the dashboard to update the firmware. This supports your storage system reliability and resilience.     To learn more about System Manager 9.9.1, please visit this  link  for a list of helpful resources.   ... View more

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Security Enhancements in Active IQ Unified Manager 9.9 Part 1: Import a Remotely Generated CSR ... View more

We introduced our hardware visualization feature in System Manager 9.8. In System Manager 9.9.1, we enhanced the hardware visualization feature by expanding the number of supported systems and including switches. You now have access to the hardware visualization feature on our NetApp AFF C190, AFF A220, AFF A300, AFF A400, AFF A700, AFF A700s, AFF A800, AFF A320, AFF A250, and FAS500f systems. The supported switches include Cisco Nexus 3232 and Cisco Nexus 9336C-FX2.   To learn more about our hardware visualization feature, see Hardware Visualization in System Manager 9.8.   To learn more about System Manager 9.9.1, please visit this  link  for a list of helpful resources. ... View more

Enterprises are automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks to help improve employee productivity and cut down operating costs. To support this efficiency drive, in System Manager 9.9.1, we have implemented capabilities that enable you to generate Ansible playbooks for System Manager directly from the workflow interfaces by creating and modifying volumes and LUNs.   To locate this new feature, you navigate to the volume or LUN menu and create a new volume or LUN or edit an existing volume or LUN. If you are provisioning a new volume or LUN, you must select More Options to proceed.     After you fill in the provisioning or editing details, download the playbooks by selecting the Save to Ansible Playbook button located in the right bottom corner. These playbooks then leverage the Ansible modules for System Manager and you can execute the playbooks separately in your Ansible-ready environment.       You can install our NetApp supported Ansible modules by using the below command in your Linux machine -   ansible-galaxy collection install netapp.ontap --ignore-certs -f    Finally, you can enable and disable the new Ansible playbooks feature for System Manager in the cluster settings by navigating to the cluster menu on the left side of the screen and selecting Settings > UI settings to access the Edit UI Settings options.       You can discuss any additional questions you might have on Ansible playbooks for System Manager with the community by going to netapp.io and joining the slack channel.   To learn more about System Manager 9.9.1, please visit this  link  for a list of helpful resources. ... View more