Cisco HyperFlex

Cisco HyperFlex integration uses REST APIs to enable hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform components monitoring.

Category: Compute

Step 1: Create a credential

1. Select a client from the All Clients list.
2. Go to Setup > Accounts > Clients.
3. On the client Credentials tab, add the credential information.

Step 2: Configure the integration

1. From All Clients, select a client.

2. Go to Setup > Integrations > Integrations.

3. From Available Integrations, select Compute > Cisco HyperFlex.

4. Enter:

   Property	Description
   Name	Name for the integration. (required)
   IP address	Location of the installation. (required)
   Credentials	Credential for the integration. (required)

5. Click Install.

Step 3: Add a discovery profile

1. From the Cisco Hyperflex integration, click Add.

2. Enter:

   Property	Option	Description
   Profile details (required)	Profile name	Name of the profile.
   	Host name	Name of host.
   	Select Management Profile	Drop down list of available management profiles.
   Filter criteria (optional)	Smart Filters	Action used to filter resources based on the resources types. All Resources is used to discover all resource types. Virtual Machines is used to discover VMs; deselect if you do not want to discover VMs.
   	Resource Filters	Action used to filter resources based on resource attributes.
   Perform actions (optional)	Manage Device	Action used to manage the resource.
   Discovery schedule (optional)	Recurrence Pattern	Action used to schedule the discovery process. Discovery triggers are based on the scheduled time. Newly resources types are automatically discovered and managed.

3. Click Save. Optionally, scan for the resource with the following steps:

4. Go to the Discovery Profiles section.

5. Select the profile.

6. Click Scan Now.

Supported templates

The gateway is the collector type for the following supported HyperFlex metrics:

Event processing

Event data is collected from the configured Hyperflex cluster and posted directly to alerts. The following templates do data collection and post alerts:

• CI-HyperflexAlarmTemplate
• CI-HyperflexClusterEventsTemplate

These templates do not have metric graphs or the latest snapshot data.

Next steps

After creating the discovery profile, you can continue with the following actions.

Assign monitoring templates to the resource

1. Go to Infrastructure > Resources.
2. From the Cisco HyperFlex resources page, click the resource name and go to the resource details.
3. Go to Monitors > Template.
4. From the Templates screen, click +Assign Templates.
5. From the Apply Templates screen, go to Select Templates > Available templates and select the templates.
6. Click Assign.

Validation the resource is successfully added

The gateway monitors the application using the assigned templates and displays the results in a graphical format.

To confirm that the device is being monitored, review the following:

• The graph plotted for each metric in the template.
• Alerts generated for metrics in the template by giving thresholds.

Supported metrics