Dell PowerStore Rest API
Pack Assets
Monitored Objects
The Pack Dell PowerStore collects metrics for:
- Alerts
- Hardware
Collected Metrics
- Alerts
- Hardware
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| alerts.severity.none.count | Number of alerts with none severity | |
| alerts.severity.info.count | Number of alerts with information severity | |
| alerts.severity.minor.count | Number of alerts with minor severity | |
| alerts.severity.major.count | Number of alerts with major severity | |
| alerts.severity.critical.count | Number of alerts with critical severity |
| Metric name | Description | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| appliance status | Appliance lifecycle state | |
| battery status | Battery lifecycle state | |
| dimm status | DIMM lifecycle state | |
| disk status | Disk lifecycle state | |
| enclosure status | Enclosure lifecycle state | |
| fan status | Fan lifecycle state | |
| node status | Node lifecycle state | |
| io module status | IO module lifecycle state | |
| power supply status | Power supply lifecycle state | |
| sfp status | SFP lifecycle state |
Prerequisites
To control your Dell PowerStore, the Rest API must be configured. E.g: https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/common/pwrstr-apig_en-us.pdf
Setup
- Online License
- Offline License
- Install the Centreon Plugin on every Poller:
yum install centreon-plugin-Hardware-Storage-Dell-Powerstore-Restapi
- On the Centreon Web interface in Configuration > Plugin packs > Manager, install the Dell PowerStore Rest API Pack
- Install the Centreon Plugin on every Poller:
yum install centreon-plugin-Hardware-Storage-Dell-Powerstore-Restapi
- On the Centreon Central server, install the Centreon Pack from the RPM:
yum install centreon-pack-hardware-storage-dell-powerstore-restapi
- On the Centreon Web interface in Configuration > Plugin packs > Manager, install the Dell PowerStore Rest API Pack
Host configuration
- Add a new Host and apply the HW-Storage-Dell-Powerstore-Restapi-custom Host Template
Once the template applied, some Macros have to be configured:
| Mandatory | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| X | APIPORT | Port used (Default: 443) |
| X | APIPROTO | Specify https if needed (Default: 'https') |
| X | APIUSERNAME | Api username |
| X | APIPASSWORD | Api password |
| APIEXTRAOPTIONS | Any extra option you may want to add to the command (eg. a --verbose flag) |
How to test the Plugin and what are the main options for?
Once the plugin installed, log into your Centreon Poller CLI using the centreon-engine user account
and test the Plugin by running the following command (Parameters such as api-username or api-passwordhave to be adjusted):
/usr/lib/centreon/plugins/centreon_dell_powerstore_restapi.pl \
--plugin=storage::dell::powerstore::restapi::plugin \
--mode=alerts \
--hostname='10.30.2.79' \
--port='443' \
--proto='https' \
--api-username='myapiusername' \
--api-password='myapipassword' \
--verbose
Expected command output is shown below:
CRITICAL: 1 alerts detected | 'alerts.severity.none.count'=0;;;0; 'alerts.severity.info.count'=1;;;0; 'alerts.severity.minor.count'=0;;;0; 'alerts.severity.major.count'=1;;;0; 'alerts.severity.critical.count'=0;;;0; 'alerts.problems.current.count'=1;;;0;
critical: alert [severity: major] [name: XMS_JBOD_CONTROLLER_SAS1_HEALTH_LEVEL_LEVEL_1_CLEAR] [resource: ] 2021-09-08T08:13:14.804936+00:00
The command above monitors alerts (--mode=alerts).
It uses api-username (--api-username='myapiusername'), an api-password (--api-password='myapipassword')
and it connects to the host 10.30.2.79 (--hostname='10.30.2.79')
on the port 443 (--port='443') using https (--proto='https').
All the options as well as all the available thresholds can be displayed by adding the --help
parameter to the command:
/usr/lib/centreon/plugins/centreon_dell_powerstore_restapi.pl \
--plugin=storage::dell::powerstore::restapi::plugin \
--mode=alerts \
--help