HPE SimpliVity

Introduction

HPE SimpliVity is a hyper-converged platform that seamlessly integrates infrastructure, advanced data services, and AI-driven operations. Its hyper-efficiency enhances performance, optimizes storage usage, and accelerates backup and restore functions.

HPE SimpliVity integration of OpsRamp enables you to gain centralized visibility and control over the entire hybrid IT infrastructure of your organization. With the help of this integration, administrators can manage and monitor HPE SimpliVity environments along with the other critical IT resources. This unified approach streamlines operations, enhances agility, and ensures maximum uptime across the infrastructure stack, delivering unparalleled value and performance.

Key Use cases

Discovery Use cases

• Discovers the SimpliVity components.
• Publishes relationships between resources to have a topological view and ease of maintenance.

Monitoring Use cases

• Provides metrics related to job scheduling time and status
• Concern alerts will be generated for each metric to notify the administrator regarding the issue with the resource.

Prerequisites

• OpsRamp Classic Gateway 15.0.0 and above.
• OpsRamp NextGen gateway 15.0.0 and above.
• Valid IP Address/hostname and credentials to access HPE Simplivity Omnistack REST APIs.

Hierarchy of SimpliVity

    · HPE SimpliVity Federation
            · HPE SimpliVity OmniStack Cluster
                    · HPE SimpliVity Omnistack Virtual Controller
                    · HPE SimpliVity OmniStack Host
                          · HPE SimpliVity OmniStack Host Accelerator
                          · HPE SimpliVity Storage Adapter
                                  · HPE SimpliVity Logical Drive
                                          · HPE SimpliVity Drive Set
                                                  · HPE SimpliVity Physical Drive
                          · HPE SimpliVity Virtual Machine
                    · HPE SimpliVity Datastore
                    · HPE SimpliVity External Store

Supported Metrics

Default Monitoring Configurations

HPE SimpliVity 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: hpe-simplivity HPE SimpliVity OmniStack Cluster - 1(i.e, appName = hpe-simplivity, nativeType = HPE SimpliVity OmniStack Cluster , version = 1)

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: hpe-simplivity HPE SimpliVity OmniStack Cluster Template- 1(i.e, appName = hpe-simplivity, nativeType = HPE SimpliVity OmniStack Cluster, version = 1)

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: HPE SimpliVity OmniStack Cluster Monitor hpe-simplivity HPE SimpliVity OmniStack Cluster 1 (i.e, monitorKey =HPE SimpliVity OmniStack Cluster Monitor, appName = hpe-simplivity, nativeType = HPE SimpliVity OmniStack Cluster, version = 1)

Configure and Install the HPE SimpliVity 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 on the HPE SimpliVity tile.
7. From 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 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.

9. Select the following Custom Attribute:

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 RESOURCE TYPE section, select:

    • ALL: All the existing and future resources will be discovered.
    • SELECT: You can select one or multiple resources 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.
Note: 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. You can either use the pre-populated name or give the name to your collector.

16. Select an existing registered profile.

17. Click FINISH.

The integration 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 HPE SimpliVity.

View the HPE SimpliVity Details

To discover resources for HPE SimpliVity:

1. Navigate to Infrastructure > Search > HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE > HPE SimpliVity. The HPE SimpliVity page is displayed
2. Select the application on the HPE SimpliVity page
3. The RESOURCE 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 HPE SimpliVity.

View resource metrics

To confirm HPE SimpliVity monitoring, review the following:

• Metric graphs: A graph is plotted for each metric that is enabled in the configuration.
• Alerts: Alerts are generated for metrics that are configured as defined for integration.

Resource Filter Input keys

HPE SimpliVity resources are filtered and discovered based on the following keys:

Supported Alert Custom Macros

Customize the alert subject and description with the following macros so that it can generate alerts accordingly.
Supported macros keys:

Risks, Limitations and Assumptions

• Application can handle Critical/Recovery failure alert notifications for the following two cases when user enables App Failure Notifications in configuration
  • Connectivity Exception
  • Authentication Exception
• Application cannot control monitoring pause/resume actions based on above alerts. Metrics can be used to monitor HPE Simplivity resources and can generate alerts based on the threshold values.
• Component level thresholds can be configured on each resource level.
• No support is provided for showing the activity logs.
• The Template Applied Time will only be displayed if the collector profile (Classic and NextGen Gateway) is version 18.1.0 or higher.
• The minimum supported version for the option to get the latest snapshot metric is Nextgen-15.0.0.
• This application supports both Classic Gateway and NextGen Gateway.

Version History