Introduction

Dell EMC PowerStore is designed to deliver the performance, availability, automation and agility that modern applications require, while reducing complexity across hybrid cloud deployments.

With VMware users in mind, PowerStore integrates seamlessly into VMware management frameworks to simplify storage management for administrators and increase overall efficiency.

OpsRamp integrates with Dell PowerStore through REST APIs.

Key features and benefits

• Integrates with VMware management, improving administrator efficiency

• Allows you to run virtualised applications co-resident with data, reducing latency

• Optimised for the latest modern data storage technology (NVMe and SCM)

• Linear scale-out and scale-up capability increases storage capacity and performance for VMware environments

• Enables always inline data reduction (compression and deduplication), improving vVols storage footprint.

Prerequisites

• OpsRamp Classic Gateway(Linux) 14.0.0 and above.
• OpsRamp NextGen Gateway 14.0.0 and above.
  Note: OpsRamp recommends using the latest Gateway version for full coverage of recent bug fixes, enhancements, etc.
• Make sure to uncheck ByPass Resource reconciliation checkbox, while installing the sdk 2.0 application during migration.
• Required Operator level user with rest API read permissions to fetch Discovery and monitoring related information.

Hierarchy of PowerStore Storage Cluster resources:

• Powerstore Storage Cluster
        • Powerstore Storage Appliance
                • Powerstore Storage Node
                • Powerstore Storage Volume
                        • Powerstore Volume Group
                • Powerstore Storage FC port
                • Powerstore Storage ETH Port
        • PowerStore Host
                • Powerstore Host Group
        • Powerstore NAS server
                • Powerstore Storage File System

Supported Metrics

Default Monitoring Configurations

Dell Power Store has default Global Device Management Policies, Global Templates, Global Monitors and Global Metrics in OpsRamp. You can customize these default monitoring configurations as per your business requirement by cloning respective Global Templates and Global Device Management Policies. It is recommended to clone them before installing the application to avoid noise alerts and data.

1. Default Global Device Management Policies

   You can find the Device Management Policy for each Native Type at Setup > Resources > Device Management Policies. Search with suggested name in global scope. Each Device Management Policy follows below naming convention:

   {appName nativeType - version}

   Ex: dell-power-store Powerstore Storage Volume - 2 (i.e, appName = dell-power-store, nativeType = Powerstore Storage Volume , version = 2)

2. Default Global Templates

   You can find the Global Templates for each Native Type at Setup > Monitoring > Templates. Search with suggested names in global scope. Each template follows below naming convention:

   {appName nativeType 'Template' - version}

   Ex: dell-power-store Powerstore Storage Appliance Template - 2(i.e, appName = dell-power-store, nativeType = Powerstore Storage Appliance, version = 2)

3. Default Global Monitors

   You can find the Global Monitors for each Native Type at Setup > Monitoring > Monitors. Search with suggested name in global scope. Each Monitors follows below naming convention:

   {monitorKey appName nativeType - version}

   Ex: Powerstore Storage Appliance Monitor dell-power-store Powerstore Storage Appliance 2 (i.e, monitorKey =Powerstore Storage Appliance Monitor, appName = dell-power-store, nativeType = Powerstore Storage Appliance , version = 2)

Configure and Install the Dell PowerStore 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:

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”}.

9. Select the following Custom Attributes:

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).

10. In the Native Types section, select the native types to be discovered.
11. In the DISCOVERY SCHEDULE section, select Recurrence Pattern to add one of the following patterns:
    • Minutes
    • Hourly
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly
      
      
12. 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.

13. 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.

14. Click NEXT.

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

16. Select an existing registered profile.

17. 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

• See Modify an Installed Integration or Application article.

  Note: Select the Dell Power Store application.

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.

6. Click the Metrics tab to view the metric details for Dell Power Store.

Resource Filter Input Keys

Dell Power Store application Resources are filtered and discovered based on the following keys:

Supported Alert Custom Macros

Customize the alert subject and description with below macros then it will generate alerts based on customisation.

Supported macros keys:

Risks, Limitations And Assumptions

• Application can handle Critical/Recovery failure alert notifications for below two cases when user enables App Failure Notifications in configuration:
  • Connectivity Exception
  • Authentication Exception
• Application will send duplicate/repeat failure alert notification for every 6 hours.
• Application cannot control monitoring pause/resume actions based on above alerts. Metrics can be used to monitor Powerstore resources and can generate alerts based on the threshold values.
• OpsRamp has provided 443 as default Port value for processing Power store Rest APIs. Users can modify this value from the application configuration page at any point of time if required.
• The Template Applied Time will only be displayed if the collector profile (Classic and NextGen Gateway) is version 18.1.0 or higher.
• Power store Event/Alert polling will be started only if the user enables Event/Alert Polling in configuration. Possible values of Alert Severity Filter configuration are Critical, Major, Minor, Info, None.
• OpsRamp has given default mappings to map Power store Severity with OpsRamp Severities as part of Alert Severity Mapping configuration. Users can modify them as per their use-case at any point of time from the application configuration page. Possible OpsRamp Severities are Critical, Warning, Ok, Info.
• Provided below default severity mapping in configuration {“Critical”:“Critical”,“Major”:“Critical”,“Minor”:“Warning”,“Info”:“Info”,“None”:“Info”}
• Latest snapshot metric support from gateway version 14.0.0.

Version History

References

Dell EMC PowerStore REST API Developer’s Guide: https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/common/pwrstr-apig_en-us.pdf

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