HPE XP7 Operation & User’s Manual

Guide Part Number: P03776-005 Published: February 2019 Edition: 5 Abstract Automation Director is a software solution that provides the necessary tools to automate and simplify the end-to-end storage provisioning process for storage and data center administrators. The building blocks of the product are pre-packaged automation templates known as service templates. ...

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About Automation Director............................................................................................................8 User responsibilities ........................................................................................................ 10 Operational workflow for service administrators and service users.................................. ...

About tasks................................................................................................................................. 38 Tasks tab..........................................................................................................................38 About task status....................................................................... ...

Deleting users.................................................................................................................. 67 Configuring connection settings..................................................................................................67 Configuring VMware vCenter connections............................................ ...

Allocate Like Volumes with Configuration Manager: Service details..............................143 Data mobility service templates................................................................................................ 147 Allocate Volumes from Virtual Storage Machine: Service details...................................147 Exp ...

Stop virtual servers: Settings......................................................................................... 321 Hyper-V 2012 service templates...............................................................................................323 Add a virtual server (deploy/OS initial settings): Service details.................... ...

About Automation Director As a storage administrator, you spend a lot of time performing repetitive manual tasks. These tasks are not only time-consuming, but they also can be error-prone. Considering the changing landscape of data center operation, you must spend your time on mission-critical tasks that assure the smooth functioning of the data center. To fulfill the demand of data center tasks, you need software t ...

corresponding task that can be scheduled to run immediately or based on a schedule. A task can also be suspended, resumed, stopped, and archived based on your needs. The following figure shows the relationship between templates, services, and tasks. Infrastructure groups An infrastructure group organizes storage resources and enables you to associate them wit ...

groups to enable users to access the services in the service group. Automation Director includes predefined user groups and users can also create new user groups. User responsibilities System administrator After installing Automation Director, the system administrator completes the initial setup tasks of creating pools, discovering storage sys ...

System administrators Modify shared property settings. Create users and user groups. Create service groups and associate services with the groups. Create infrastructure groups and add storage resources with the groups. Associate infrastructure groups with service groups to enable the services in the service groups to use resources in the infrastructure groups. Admin Service administrators Service users ...

Built-in user accounts The System account (default password: manager) is for administering user management tasks, such as registering users, enabling access, and managing roles and permissions. It is also used to manage XP7 Command View Advanced Edition tasks and provides access to the XP7 Command View Advanced Edition UI. By logging on using the System account, you can access ...

Advanced Edition. The System account does not belong to any user group. NOTE: For information on how to change the system account password, see the HPE XP7 Automation Director Installation and Configuration Guide. Logging on Prerequisites To log on to Automation Director, have the following information available: • Automation Director web URL • User ID • Pass ...

• If you are an Admin user, you can click User Profile in the Administration tab. • An Admin user can also access user profiles in the Administration tab by navigating to Resources and Permissions > Users and Permissions > Users. Click a User ID link to open the profile. 2. Perform one or both of the following: • Click Edit Profile to open the Edit Profile dialog box and change the name, email ad ...

Register a license when accessing Automation Director for the first time after installation or when a license is expired. NOTE: You must obtain the Automation Director server license from your HPE representative. Procedure 1. Enter the Automation Director URL in a web browser. 2. In the logon window, click License. 3. In the License Information by Product dialog box, enter the license key using one of the following methods: • Click ...

The global task bar provides menus for accessing various features provided by Automation Director and, in the upper, right area of the task bar, includes your user name and details about when you last logged on. A button is also included that you can use to quickly log off the system. The global task bar is always visible, regardless of which window is active. Its three menus provide access to high-level actions and online help. The menus a ...

◦ Select About to open the About window to view license information. Global tabs The Dashboard and Tasks tabs are always visible, regardless of which window is active. Access to Services, Service Templates, and Administration tabs is dependent on the user role assigned. The tabs provide access to services, tasks, and administrative functions. Navigation pane This pane varies with th ...

returned by the search for details. Printing topics To print topics, right-click the topic and select Print or click the printer icon on the button bar. Role-based help Throughout Automation Director, help is provided based on the current user's logon ID and the assigned role and permissions. Role-based help is on the Guidance menu and on various windows, vi ...

If you must pay attention to a task or respond to a task, you can mark it as To Do. You can mark a task as To Do using any of the following methods: • In the Table View in the Tasks tab: ◦ Select More Actions > Mark as To Do for the task, or: ◦ Click the Mark as To Do flag for the task in the To Do column. • In the Task Details window, click the Mark as To Do button. You can quickly access the tasks that you marked as To Do by using t ...

the new tag, and click OK. • To create a tag group, first create a tag. Then scroll to the bottom of the Tag Group list and click Create Tag Group to enter a tag group name. Click OK. 4. Click Save. Creating tag groups You can organize tags in tag groups by dragging and dropping the tags to the desired group. Each tag can belong to only one tag group ...