IT Monitoring Systems Capabilities
The following table lists the capabilities of VDX Analytics when it is integrated with IT monitoring tools.
Table 6:IT Monitoring Tools Details
Capability | Details |
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AppDynamics |
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Retrieve objects (including all raw property information) |
Retrieves computers, applications, tiers, nodes, business-transactions and application back-ends. |
Retrieve health states |
Retrieves health states based on application events and Health Rule violations. |
Retrieve object relationships |
Retrieves: Business Application Contains Tier Business Application References Backend Tier Contains Node Machine Hosts Node Tier Contains Machine Tier Contains Business Transaction. |
Retrieve alerts and alarms |
Retrieves alerts from application events. |
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management (DX APM) |
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Retrieve objects (including all raw property information) |
Retrieves agent management module elements. |
Retrieve health states |
Retrieves health states of the agent management module elements. |
Retrieve object relationships |
Retrieves relationships between the agent and the managed modules. |
Retrieve alerts and alarms |
Retrieves alerts from the agent management modules. |
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (MS SCOM) |
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Retrieve objects (including all raw property information) |
Retrieves all entities including all property values. Component types are derived from the base classes of the entities. |
Retrieve health states |
Retrieves health states, maintenance mode and availability information of the entities. |
Retrieve object relationships |
Retrieves all relationships between all entities. |
Retrieve alerts and alarms |
Retrieves all monitoring alerts. |
Act on alerts and alarms |
Set the resolution state of alerts to Acknowledged. Set the resolution state of alerts to Closed (255). Update the following alert properties: Owner, Ticket ID, Resolution State, and all custom fields. |
Mitel Performance Analytics (MPA) |
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Retrieve objects (including all raw property information) |
Retrieves components (devices and containers). |
Retrieve health states |
Retrieves component health states. |
Retrieve object relationships |
Retrieves component relationships. |
Retrieve alerts and alarms |
Retrieves alerts (alarms). |
Act on alerts and alarms |
Set alert properties, acknowledge, resolve alerts. |
Nagios Core and Nagios Xi |
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Retrieve objects (including all raw property information) |
Retrieves hosts, services and groups. |
Retrieve health states |
Retrieves health states of hosts and services. |
Retrieve object relationships |
Retrieves relationships between host and service groups with the containing hosts and services. |
Retrieve alerts and alarms |
Retrieves alerts by translating unhealthy state changes of hosts and services into alerts. |
Act on alerts and alarms |
In Nagios, acknowledge alerts. You must configure the Nagios server for this capability. |
PRTG Network Monitor (PRTG) |
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Retrieve objects (including all raw property information) |
Retrieves sensors, devices and groups. The type of devices are derived from the group name the devices are related to. |
Retrieve health states |
Retrieves health states of sensors, devices and groups. Health states of devices and groups can be calculated based on the worst sensor state or the device or group status (configurable on the Settings > Integrations page). |
Retrieve object relationships |
Retrieves relationships between devices and sensors, and between groups and devices. |
Retrieve alerts and alarms |
Retrieves alerts for unhealthy sensors. |
Act on alerts and alarms |
Acknowledge unhealthy sensor alerts. |
Retrieve incidents |
Retrieves Incidents from PRTG. |
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), Application Performance Monitor (APM), Virtual Infrastructure Monitor (VIM) |
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Retrieve objects (including all raw property information) |
Retrieves nodes, volumes, groups, virtual machines (VIM), applications (APM), network interfaces (NPM) and transactions (SUEM). |
Retrieve health states |
Retrieves health states of all collected objects based on the Status property using the following logic: Healthy status includes: Up, Dormant, Active, Inactive, Expired Warning status includes: Warning, Mixed Availability, Misconfigured, Unconfirmed Critical status includes: Down, Shutdown, Lower Layer Down, Unreachable, Critical Not Monitored status includes: External, Monitoring Disabled In Maintenance Mode status includes: Unmanaged Unknown status includes: Unknown, Testing, Not Present, Unplugged, Could not Poll, Disabled, Not Licensed |
Retrieve object relationships |
Retrieves group member relationships and all relationships between components. |
Retrieve alerts and alarms |
Retrieves all alerts. |
Act on alerts and alarms |
Set Acknowledged field of alert to True. Set State field of alert to Reset. |
Splunk |
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Retrieve objects (including all raw property information) |
Retrieves rules from services, alerts, fired_alerts. |
Retrieve health states |
Retrieves health states of the rules from services, alerts, fired_alerts details. |
Retrieve alerts and alarms |
Retrieves alerts from services, alerts, fired_alerts. |
Vantage DX Monitoring |
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Retrieve objects |
Retrieves robot managers, robots, and groups (based on the configured tags). |
Retrieve health states |
Retrieves health states of retrieved objects. |
Retrieve object relationships |
Retrieves relationships between robots and robot applications. |
Retrieve alerts and alarms |
Retrieves alerts. |
VMware vCenter |
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Retrieve objects (including all raw property information) |
Retrieves all host systems and virtual machines. |
Retrieve health states |
Retrieves healthy, warning, critical states and maintenance mode information of host systems and virtual machines. |
Retrieve object relationships |
Retrieves relationships between the hosts and virtual machines. |
Retrieve alerts and alarms |
Retrieves active alarms from hosts and virtual machines and translate them into alerts. |
Act on alerts and alarms |
Acknowledge alarms from hosts and virtual machines. |
WhatsUp Gold |
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Retrieve objects (including all raw property information) |
Retrieves devices and device groups. |
Retrieve health states |
Retrieves health states based on the nInternalMonitorState field of the device or device group as follows: 1 is Critical, 2 is Maintenance Mode, 3 is Healthy, everything else is Unknown. |
Retrieve object relationships |
Retrieves relationships between device groups and between device group and devices. |
Retrieve alerts and alarms |
Retrieves alerts when devices go down. |
Zabbix |
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Retrieve objects (including all raw property information) |
Retrieves hosts and host groups (shown in VDX Analytics as objects and groups). |
Retrieve health states |
Retrieves health states of the hosts, based on active problem events. A worst health state roll-up is performed for the host groups. |
Retrieve object relationships |
Retrieves all relationships between hosts and host groups. |
Retrieve alerts and alarms |
Retrieves events from triggers, items and discovery rules and displays as alerts. |
Act on alerts and alarms |
Zabbix problem events are acknowledged in VDX Analytics without closing the problem. |