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# Set performance management preferences

Preferences (general, dashboards, charts, reports, data imports, and alerts) for performance management tasks can be set.

## Prerequisites

Only a user with Administrator permission can set preferences.

For security compliance, a password must be supplied upon exporting and importing a performance settings file. If you pass the settings file to another administrator, ensure that you also provide the password.

| NOTE: An imported metrics definition overrides server settings.

## About this task

In large environments, it can be time consuming to set up and configure multiple instances. Storage systems may have similar configuration and implementations across the environment. To assist with the implementation process, you can export and import settings. The settings are saved to an .xml file. You can select the client-side directory in which the file is saved. When importing a metrics definition file, it replaces any existing metrics definition file. When you import a user runbook dashboard, any existing templates remain intact; only nonconflicting runbooks are imported.

To set performance preferences:

## Steps

1. Select to open the Settings panel.
2. Select Preferences > Performance.
3. Modify any number of the following preferences:

   General preferences—apply to Charts, Dashboards, Heatmap, and Report creation dialogs.

   - Time Frame—Default time period that is limited to diagnostic and historical time periods
   - Stats Attribute—Default metric aggregation - Avg or Max
   - Use Volume Id for Performance Charts—If selected, the user-assigned volume identifier is displayed on charts relating to Thin Volumes. By default, Use Volume Id for Performance Charts is not selected, and the volume name is displayed in hexadecimal.
   - Unit Type—Unit type - Dynamic Units or Default Units

   Home Dashboard preferences

   Top 5 Most Active Storage Groups—Enables or disables the display of the most active storage groups.

   Charts preferences
   - Type—Timeline or Snapshot
   - Tooltip—Per Metric or Combined
   - Format Type—One Chart, One Chart per Instance, or One Chart per Metric
   - Decimal Places—Number of decimal places
   Reports preferences
   - Data Report Format—format options for report
   - Time Zone—Default time zone offset for report content
   - Number of Retention Days—Default report retention period
   - Include Time Zone in report name—Enables or disables the inclusion of the time zone in the report name.
   - Chart Report Type—PDF or Microsoft PowerPoint

     | NOTE: In a Microsoft PowerPoint chart where the number of instances or metrics (or both) is 50 or more, the data is displayed in a table format to improve readability.

   Dashboards preferences

   Landing Dashboard—Default landing dashboard when browsing to the Performance Dashboards section. You can choose Default (precanned) or a runbook.

   Alerts preferences

   - Send No Data Received Notification Emails—This setting enables or disables the transmission of no data received notification email messages.
   - Include PDF reports in Alert Notification Emails—This setting enables or disables the inclusion of PDF reports in alert notification email messages.
   - Send Low Disk Space Notification Emails—This setting enables or disables the transmission of "low disk space" notification email messages.
   - Send Critical Database Error Emails—This setting enables or disables the transmission of "critical database error" email messages.
   - Alert Status Reminder—This setting enables or disables an alert status reminder.
   - Limit of Real Time Traces from Alerts per Array—This setting configures the number of real-time traces for alerts that are allowed per storage system.

   Anomaly Detection preferences

   Enabled Anomaly Detection—This setting enables or disables the anomaly detection functionality, which calculates historical seasonality and detects anomalies outside the usual upper and lower boundaries. It is disabled by default.

   Alert on Anomaly Detection—This setting enables or disables and alert when an anomaly is detected.

4. Optional: Click Restore Defaults.
5. Click Apply.