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Getting started with the Operations Center

Before you can use the Operations Center to manage your storage environment, you must configure it.

About this task

After you install the Operations Center, complete the following basic configuration steps:
  1. Designate the hub server.
  2. Add any spoke servers.
  3. Optionally, configure email alerts on the hub and spoke servers.

Figure 1 illustrates an Operations Center configuration.

Figure 1. Example of an Operations Center configuration with the hub and spoke servers
The illustration shows an icon that represents the Operations Center and is connected to an icon that represents the hub server. The icon that represents the hub server is also connected to four other icons, each of which represents a spoke server.