This section guides you through setting up, configuring, and managing the Dell Power Store integration in OpsRamp.

Prerequisites

  • OpsRamp Classic Gateway (Linux) version 14.0.0 or later.
  • OpsRamp NextGen Gateway version 14.0.0 or later.
  • OpsRamp recommends using the latest Gateway version for full coverage of recent bug fixes and enhancements.
  • Required Operator level user with rest API read permissions to fetch Discovery and monitoring related information.
  • Ensure that the provided IP address/host name, port, and credentials are valid and accessible for successful integration.
    • Verify network connectivity from the gateway using:
      ping <IP Address/Host Name>
    • Check port accessibility using:
      telnet <IP Address/Host Name> <Port>

Configure Dell Power Store Integration

Click here to Configure and Install the Dell Power Store Integration
  1. From All Clients, select a client.
  2. Navigate to Setup > Account.
  3. Select the Integrations tab.
  4. The Installed Integrations page, where all the installed integrations are displayed. Click + ADD on the Installed Integrations page.
  5. If you do not have any installed applications, you will be navigated to the Available Integrations page. The Available Integrations page displays all the available applications along with the newly created application with the version.
    Note: Search for the application using the search option available. Alternatively, use the All Categories option to search.
  6. Click +Add in the Dell Power Store tile.
  7. In the Configurations page, click + ADD. The Add Configuration page appears.
  8. Enter the following BASIC INFORMATION:


FunctionalityDescription
NameEnter the name for the configuration.
IP Address/Host NameIP address/host name of the target device.
PortPort

Example: Default port value is 443.
CredentialSelect the Credential from the drop-down list.

(Optional): Click + Add to create a credential. The ADD CREDENTIAL window is displayed. Enter the following information.
  • Name: Credential name.
  • Description: Brief description of the credential.
  • User Name: User name.
  • Password: Password.
  • Confirm Password: Confirm password

Notes:

  • By default the Is Secure checkbox is selected.
  • Ip Address/Host Name and Port should be accessible from Gateway.
  • Select the following:
    • App Failure Notifications: if turned on, you will be notified in case of an application failure that is, Connectivity Exception, Authentication Exception.
    • Event Polling: enables integrating third party alerts into OpsRamp using further configurations.
    • Alert On Root Resource: Event Polling alerts get generated on root resource
      • Below are the default values set for:
        • Alert Severity Filter: Provides alerts severity and gets integrated out of all possible alerts.
          • Default Values: NONE, INFORMATION, MINOR, MAJOR, CRITICAL.
          • Possible Values: FATAL, CRITICAL, MAJOR, MINOR, DEGRADED, INFORMATIONAL, DEBUG, UNKNOWN.
        • Alert Cleared Status:
          • Default Values: CLEARED.
          • Possible values of Event/Alert Cleared Status configuration property are “ACKNOWLEDGED”,“SUPPRESSED”,“RESOLVED”.
        • Alert Severity Mapping:
          • Default Values: {“Critical”:“Critical”,“Major”:“Critical”,
            “Minor”:“Warning”,“Info”:“Info”,“None”:“Info”}
          • Possible values of Alert Severity Mapping Filter configuration property are “new”:{“critical”: “Critical”,“error”: “Critical”,“warning”: “Warning”,“information”: “Info”,“normal”: “Info”},“acknowledged”: {“critical”: “Critical”,“error”: “Critical”,“warning”: “Warning”,“information”: “Info”,“normal”: “Info”},“obsolete”: {“critical”: “Ok”,“error”: “Ok”,“warning”: “Ok”,“information”: “Ok”,“normal”: “Ok”},“resolved”: {“critical”: “Ok”,“error”: “Ok”,“warning”: “Ok”,“information”: “Ok”,“normal”: “Ok”}.
  1. Select the following Custom Attributes:
FunctionalityDescription
Custom AttributeSelect the custom attribute from the dropdown list.
ValueSelect the value from the dropdown list.

Note: The custom attribute that you add here will be assigned to all the resources that are created by the integration. You can add a maximum of five custom attributes (key and value pair).

  1. In the Native Types section, select the native types to be discovered.
  2. In the DISCOVERY SCHEDULE section, select Recurrence Pattern to add one of the following patterns:
    • Minutes
    • Hourly
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly

  3. Click ADD.

Now the configuration is saved and displayed on the configurations page after you save it. From the same page, you may Edit and Remove the created configuration.

  1. Under the ADVANCED SETTINGS, Select the Bypass Resource Reconciliation option, if you wish to bypass resource reconciliation when encountering the same resources discovered by multiple applications.

    Note: If two different applications provide identical discovery attributes, two separate resources will be generated with those respective attributes from the individual discoveries.

  2. Click NEXT.

  3. (Optional) Click +ADD to create a new collector by providing a name or use the pre-populated name.

  4. Select an existing registered profile.

  5. Click FINISH.

The application is installed and displayed on the INSTALLED INTEGRATION page. Use the search field to find the installed integration.

Modify the Configuration

View the Dell Power Store details

To discover resources for Dell Power Store.

  1. Navigate to Infrastructure > Search > Storage > Dell Power Store.
  2. The Dell Power Store page is displayed, select the application name.
  3. The RESOURCE DETAILS page appears from the right.
  4. Click the ellipsis (¦) on the top right and select View details.
  5. Navigate to the Attributes tab to view the discovery details.
  1. Click the Metrics tab to view the metric details for Dell Power Store.