Vectra Rest API

Pack Assets

Templates

The Centreon Pack Vectra Rest API brings a host template:

Net-Vectra-Restapi-custom

It brings the following service templates:

Service Alias	Service Template	Service Description	Default	Discovery
Cpu	Net-Vectra-Cpu-Restapi	Check the rate of utilization of CPU for the machine	X
Disk	Net-Vectra-Disk-Restapi	Check disk usage	X
Interfaces	Net-Vectra-Interfaces-Restapi	Check interfaces		X
Memory	Net-Vectra-Memory-Restapi	Check memory usage	X
Sensors	Net-Vectra-Sensors-Restapi	Check sensors		X
Uptime	Net-Vectra-Uptime-Restapi	Time since the server has been working and available	X

Discovery rules

Rule Name	Description
Net-Vectra-Restapi-Interface-Name	Discover network interfaces and monitor bandwidth utilization
Net-Vectra-Restapi-Sensor-Name	Discover network sensors and monitor utilization

More information about discovering services automatically is available on the dedicated page and in the following chapter.

Collected metrics & status

Metric Name	Unit
cpu.utilization.percentage	%

Metric Name	Unit
disk.usage.bytes	B
disk.free.bytes	B
disk.usage.percentage	%
raid status

Metric Name	Unit
interface status
interface_name#interface.traffic.peak.bitspersecond	b/s

Metric Name	Unit
memory.usage.bytes	B
memory.free.bytes	B
memory.usage.percentage	%
dimm status

Metric Name	Unit
sensor status
sensor connectivity statu
sensor trafficdrop status
sensor interface status
sensor_name~interface_name#interface.traffic.peak.bitspersecond	b/s

Metric Name	Unit
system.uptime.seconds

Prerequisites

The Pack uses the following API endpoints:

/health/connectivity
/health/cpu
/health/disk
/health/memory
/health/sensors
/health/system
/health/trafficdrop

Setup

Monitoring Pack

If the platform uses an online license, you can skip the package installation instruction below as it is not required to have the pack displayed within the Configuration > Monitoring Connector Manager menu. If the platform uses an offline license, install the package on the central server with the command corresponding to the operating system's package manager:

Alma / RHEL / Oracle Linux 8
CentOS 7
Debian 11 & 12

dnf install centreon-pack-network-vectra-restapi

yum install centreon-pack-network-vectra-restapi

apt install centreon-pack-network-vectra-restapi

Whatever the license type (online or offline), install the Vectra Rest API Pack through the Configuration > Monitoring Connector Manager menu.

Plugin

Since Centreon 22.04, you can benefit from the 'Automatic plugin installation' feature. When this feature is enabled, you can skip the installation part below.

You still have to manually install the plugin on the poller(s) when:

Automatic plugin installation is turned off
You want to run a discovery job from a poller that doesn't monitor any resource of this kind yet

More information in the Installing the plugin section.

Use the commands below according to your operating system's package manager:

Alma / RHEL / Oracle Linux 8
CentOS 7
Debian 11 & 12

dnf install centreon-plugin-Network-Vectra-Restapi

yum install centreon-plugin-Network-Vectra-Restapi

apt install centreon-plugin-network-vectra-restapi

Configuration

Host

Log into Centreon and add a new host through Configuration > Hosts.
Fill the Name, Alias & IP Address/DNS fields according to your Vectra server settings.
Apply the Net-Vectra-Restapi-custom template to the host.
Once the template is applied, fill in the corresponding macros. Some macros are mandatory.

Mandatory	Macro	Description
	APIEXTRAOPTIONS	--insecure
	APIPORT	(Default: '443')
	APIPROTO	(Default: 'https')
X	APITOKEN

How to check in the CLI that the configuration is OK and what are the main options for?

Once the plugin is installed, log into your Centreon poller's CLI using the centreon-engine user account (su - centreon-engine) and test the plugin by running the following command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins/centreon_vectra_restapi.pl \
    --plugin=network::vectra::restapi::plugin \
    --mode=memory \
    --hostname='10.0.0.1' \
    --port='443' \
    --proto='https' \
    --token='mytoken'

The expected command output is shown below:

OK: Ram total: 187.39 GB used (-buffers/cache): 85.47 GB (45.61%) free: 59.08 GB (31.53%) - All dimm are ok | 'memory.usage.bytes'=91772731392B;;;0;201210691584 'memory.free.bytes'=63436963840B;;;0;201210691584 'memory.usage.percentage'=45.61%;;;0;100
Dimm 'mc0' status: ok
Dimm 'mc1' status: ok
Dimm 'mc2' status: ok

All available options for a given mode can be displayed by adding the --help parameter to the command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins/centreon_vectra_restapi.pl \
    --plugin=network::vectra::restapi::plugin \
    --mode=memory \
    --help

All available modes can be displayed by adding the --list-mode parameter to the command:

/usr/lib/centreon/plugins/centreon_vectra_restapi.pl \
    --plugin=network::vectra::restapi::plugin \
    --list-mode

Troubleshooting

Please find the troubleshooting documentation for the API-based plugins in this chapter.

Pack Assets​

Templates​

Discovery rules​

Collected metrics & status​

Prerequisites​

Setup​

Monitoring Pack​

Plugin​

Configuration​

Host​

How to check in the CLI that the configuration is OK and what are the main options for?​

Troubleshooting​