HPE Alletra 5000/6000 Series

Introduction

The HPE Alletra 5000/6000 Series represents a line of enterprise-grade storage solutions offered by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). These storage systems are designed to cater to the demands of modern data-intensive workloads and applications in various industries. For business-critical workloads, HPE Alletra 6000 delivers fast, consistent performance and industry leading data efficiency.

• Alletra 6000 is developed from the foundation of HPE Nimble Storage architecture, proven to deliver speed, efficiency, and resiliency with cloud agility.
• It delivers up to 3X faster performance than previous HPE Nimble Storage All Flash Arrays.

Prerequisites

• OpsRamp Classic Gateway 14.0.0 and above.
• OpsRamp NextGen Gateway 14.0.0 and above.
• Customer need to provide End Device API and SSH user credentials with minimum operator level to fetch data from end device.
  Note: OpsRamp recommends using the latest Gateway version for full coverage of recent bug fixes, enhancements, etc..

Hierarchy of HPE Alletra 5000/6000 Series

The following Hierarchy is for 6000, however, this applies equally for 5000 as well.

    • HPE Alletra Group
          • HPE Alletra Pool
                  • HPE Alletra Volume
                  • HPE Alletra Array
                          • HPE Alletra Shelf
                                  • HPE Alletra Disk
                          • HPE Alletra Controller
                                  • HPE Alletra FC Port
                                  • HPE Alletra FC Interface
                                  • HPE Alletra Network Interface
                                  • HPE Alletra Fan
                                  • HPE Alletra Temperature Sensor
                                  • HPE Alletra Power Supply
                                  • HPE Alletra NVMe Port

Supported Metrics

Default Monitoring Configurations

HPE Alletra 6000 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 names in global scope:

   {appName nativeType - version}

   Ex: hpe-alletra-6000 HPE Alletra Group - 1(i.e, appName = hpe-alletra-6000, nativeType = HPE Alletra Group, 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 adheres to the following naming convention:

   {appName nativeType 'Template' - version}

   Ex: hpe-alletra-6000 HPE Alletra Group Template - 1(i.e, appName = hpe-alletra-6000, nativeType = HPE Alletra Group, version = 1)

3. Default Global Monitors

   You can find the Global Monitors for each Native Type at Setup > Monitoring > Monitors. Search with suggested names in global scope. Each Monitors adheres to the following naming convention:

   {monitorKey appName nativeType - version}

   Ex: HPE Alletra Group Monitor hpe-alletra-6000 HPE Alletra Group 1 (i.e, monitorKey =HPE Alletra Group Monitor, appName = hpe-alletra-6000, nativeType = HPE Alletra Group, version = 1)

Configure and Install the HPE Alletra 6000 Integration

1. From All Clients, select a client.
2. Go to Setup > Account.
3. Select the Integrations and Apps tab.
4. The Installed Integrations page, where all the installed applications are displayed. If there are no installed applications, it will navigate to the Available Integrations and Apps page.
5. Click + ADD on the Installed Integrations page. The Available Integrations and Apps 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 Alletra 5000/6000 Series tile.
7. From the Configurations page, click + ADD. The Add Configuration page appears.
8. Enter the below mentioned 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/Alert Polling: enables integrating third party alerts into OpsRamp using further configurations.
• Below are the default values set for:
  • Alert Severity Filter: Possible values of Alert Severity Filter configuration property are “[WARNING”,“CRITICAL]”.
  • Alert Cleared Status: “[ACKNOWLEDGED]”
  • Alert Severity Mapping: Possible values of Alert Severity Mapping Filter configuration property is {“WARNING”:“Warning”,“CRITICAL”:“Critical”}.

9. Select the below mentioned 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. Click NEXT
14. Below are the optional steps you can perform on the Installation page.

• 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.

• Click +ADD to create a new collector by providing a name or use the pre-populated name.

15. Select an existing registered profile.

16. 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 the HPE Alletra 6000 application.

View the HPE Alletra Details

To discover resources for HPE Alletra 6000.

1. Navigate to Infrastructure > Search > STORAGE > HPE Alletra 6000.
2. The HPE ALLETRA 6000 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 HPE Alletra 6000.

Resource Filter Input Keys

Dell Power Store application Resources are filtered and discovered based on few resource attributes.

Supported Alert Custom Macros

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

Risks, Limitations & Assumptions

• The integration can manage critical/recovery failure alerts for the following two scenarios when the user activates App Failure Notifications in the settings:
  • Connectivity Exception
  • Authentication Exception
• Integration will send any duplicate/repeat failure alert notification for every 6 hours.
• Integration can not control monitoring pause/resume actions based on above alerts. Metrics can be used to monitor resources and can generate alerts based on the threshold values.
• OpsRamp has provided 5392 as default API Port value for processing Alletra 6000 Rest APIs and 22 as default SSH Port to connect to Alletra command line through SSH. Users can modify these values from application configuration page at any point of time if requires.
• Event/Alert polling will be started only if the user enables Event/Alert Polling in configuration. Possible values of Alert Severity Filter configuration are “WARNING”,"CRITICAL". Based on these values alerts will be filtered and user can customize this at any point of time.
• OpsRamp has given default mappings to map Alletra Severity with OpsRamp Severities as part of Alert Severity Mapping configuration. User can modify them as per their use-case at any point of time from application configuration page. Possible OpsRamp Severities are Critical, Warning, Ok, Info. Provided below default severity mapping in configuration:
  • {“WARNING”:“Warning”,“CRITICAL”:“Critical”}
• User can also mention possible alert cleared status. we are considering “ACKNOWLEDGED” status as default.
• Component level thresholds can be configured on each resource level.
• No support of showing 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.
• This application supports both Classic Gateway and NextGen Gateway.
• Support for Macro replacement for threshold breach alerts (i.e, customisation for threshold breach alert’s subject, description).
• Latest snapshot metric is available from Gateway version 14.0.0.

Version History

References

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