EMC VPLEX Version 5

Description

It monitors the Enclosure and Physical Disks as well as the various environment sensors (fans, power supplies, Memory, Directors and Network cards)

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Enterprise Connector

This connector requires the Enterprise edition of MetricsHub.

Superseded Connector

This connector is superseded by:

• VPLEX

Target

Typical platform: Dell EMC VPLEX

Operating system: Storage System

This connector is not available for the local host (it is applicable to remote hosts only).

Prerequisites

Leverages: EMC VPLEX REST API Version 5 and lower

Technology and protocols: HTTP

Examples

CLI

metricshub HOSTNAME -t storage -c +VPLEX5 --https --http-port 443 -u USERNAME

metricshub.yaml

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: storage
        connectors: [ +VPLEX5 ] # Optional, to load only this connector
        protocols:
          http:
            https: true
            port: 443 # or probably something else
            username: <USERNAME> # Change with actual credentials
            password: <PASSWORD> # Encrypted using metricshub-encrypt

Connector Activation Criteria

The EMC VPLEX Version 5 connector must be selected manually, and its status will be reported as OK if all the below criteria are met:

• The HTTP Request below to the managed host succeeds:
  • GET /vplex/engines
  • Request Header: ${file::embeddedFile-8}
  • The response body contains: "response"\s*: (regex)

Metrics

Type	Collected Metrics	Specific Attributes
enclosure	hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="enclosure", state="present"}	id model name serial_number type vendor
fan	hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="fan", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name
memory	hw.status{hw.type="memory", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="memory", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name serial_number
network	hw.network.bandwidth.limit hw.network.up hw.status{hw.type="network", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="network", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id info name physical_address physical_address_type
other_device	hw.status{hw.type="other_device", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="other_device", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id info name
physical_disk	hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="physical_disk", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id name serial_number
power_supply	hw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="degraded|failed|ok"} hw.status{hw.type="power_supply", state="present"}	hw.parent.id hw.parent.type id info name