Active IQ Config Advisor is NetApp’s standard configuration validation and health-check tool utilized during post-deployment, site remediation, and system upgrade procedures. Config Advisor collects system status, cabling information, software configurations, firmware revisions, and switch configurations across storage controllers, disk shelves, cluster interconnect switches, and management networks.

Once data collection completes, Config Advisor executes hundreds of heuristic validation rules against official NetApp best practices and hardware support standards. It generates an actionable diagnostic report highlighting configuration errors, cabling mismatches, unoptimized shelf topologies, unsupported firmware versions, or High Availability (HA) misconfigurations. Active IQ OneCollect is an evidence gathering and log collection framework intended for data collection rather than automated rule-based deployment verification. The NetApp Shift Toolkit is a migration utility designed to convert virtual machine disk formats across hypervisors. Active IQ Unified Manager is an ongoing, operational monitoring and alerting platform for production clusters rather than a post-deployment checklist validation utility.