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This is a relatively unknown plugin for DFM/Operations Manager, now called OnCommand Unified Manager. The Plugin helps to answer a number of questions related to storage utilization and storage efficiency savings.  It also helps in identifying ways to improve the storage utilization.  It is implemented as a script that can be installed on the Operations Manager server.   The script can be scheduled for execution in Operations Manager and generates a set of web pages that provide an Efficiency Dashboard for the NetApp storage systems managed by Operations Manager.  Two primary charts are produced with additional charts to provide detailed breakdowns of how the storage space is being consumed.  These charts can be produced to represent all storage systems being monitored by Operations Manager, ‘groups’ of storage systems as grouped in Operations Manager or a single storage system. I wonder why they don’t include this as a tab inside OnCommand Unified Manager by default.

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Download it from here:
http://support.netapp.com/NOW/download/tools/omsed_plugin/

1) To install from the OnCommand Unified Manager browser interface:

a) Login to Operations Manager as an administrator. Click Management > Scripts.
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b) On the Scripts page choose the option to select the omeff_oc52_windows64.zip file you downloaded above and click Add Script.storageeffplugin-5.2-2

c) On the Confirm page, read the summary and click Add.storageeffplugin-5.2-3

d) After the script is installed, in the lower section, select the script check box and click “No” under the Schedule column.storageeffplugin-5.2-4

e) On the add a schedule page, enter a name for the plugin such as Storage Efficiency Plugin and at the bottom, enter the schedule of your choice. I run it daily at 05:00 AM. Click Add Schedule when done and you should see the schedule you chose.

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2) If you want to install from the the OnCommand Unified Manager CLI:

C:\Program Files\NetApp\DataFabric Manager\DFM\bin\dfm script add omeff_oc52_windows64.zip

3) Access the Dashboard. After the script has run the first time, the dashboard will be available. Its located at the root on your OnCommand URL. Just add /dashboard.html at the end as shown in the example below.

https://nocumc.lab.slice2.com:8443/dashboard.html

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