Using ApplianceWatch PRO tips

You can use PRO Tips on System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) to notify you when storage-related problems occur in your virtual environment. If you choose, you can also enable PRO Tips to automatically repair many of those problems.

You must have a SCVMM agent and the ApplianceWatch PRO Hyper-V agent installed on Hyper-V servers to receive virtual machine-related storage events and an event log subscription to the SCVMM event log to receive problems related to virtual machines. When ApplianceWatch PRO receives these events, PRO rules are triggered in the management pack to immediately generate PRO Tips.

PRO Tips are part of the ApplianceWatch PRO management pack. The PRO Tips button in the SCVMM toolbar displays the number of Tips currently available. Optionally, you can configure PRO Tips to display in a pop-up window whenever a new Tip is added.

• Types of PRO Tips
  ApplianceWatch has several types of PRO Tips to help you identify storage-related issues that occur between Data ONTAP LUNs and Hyper-V virtual machines. Some of the PRO Tips offer automatic remediation, enabling ApplianceWatch to fix the issue automatically if you choose.
• Implementing PRO Tips automatically
  You can configure PRO Tips to automatically implement solutions for storage-related problems in your virtual environment to ensure that problems are resolved quickly.
• Implementing PRO Tips manually
  You can implement PRO Tips manually to resolve one or more storage-related problems. Use this option when you want to control when a solution is implemented.