Adding Hyperconverged Infrastructure Devices for Monitoring

ObserveOps (formerly known as AIOps) monitors Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) devices by discovering them through a credential profile and provisioning them as monitors. Once provisioned, ObserveOps continuously collects performance metrics and generates alerts based on what it finds.

HCI Vendors Supported

Vendor
Nutanix

Adding a Nutanix HCI Device

ObserveOps supports discovery of Nutanix Cluster and Nutanix AHV (Host). Discovery of a Nutanix Cluster runs through Prism and also fetches all hosts associated with the cluster. When discovering a Nutanix Host, ObserveOps provisions the host as a monitor and treats all VMs as instances of that host.

1. Create a Credential Profile

Go to Menu. Select Settings . Select Discovery Settings . Select Credential Profile. The Credential Profile screen opens. Select Create Credential Profile.

The Create Credential Profile form opens.

Field	What to Enter
Credential Profile Name	A unique name to identify this profile
Protocol	Select HTTP/HTTPS
Username	The Nutanix Prism username
Password	The password for that account

Select Test to verify the credentials connect to the device. Select Reset to clear all fields. Select Add Credential Profile to save.

2. Create a Discovery Profile

Go to Menu. Select Settings . Select Discovery Settings . Select Discovery Profile. The Discovery Profile screen opens. Select Create Discovery Profile.

The Create Discovery Profile form opens. Select HCI from the sidebar.

Field	What to Enter
Discovery Profile Name	A unique name to identify this profile
IP / Host	The IP address of the Nutanix Prism instance
Collectors	One or more Collectors for data collection. If you skip this, ObserveOps selects a Collector automatically.
Groups	One or more Groups to assign to provisioned monitors
Credential Profile	Select the HCI credential profile you just created
Tags	Tags to assign to discovered devices
URL Type	Select HTTP or HTTPS to match your Nutanix configuration
Port	Pre-populated. No change needed.
Ping Check	On by default. Toggle off to discover devices that don't respond to ping.
Notify Team	Email addresses, handles, or user profiles to notify when discovery completes

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Select Collectors based on how you want to distribute the monitoring load.

Select Save and Run to save and start discovery immediately. Select Save and Exit to save without running.

3. Provision the Discovered Devices as Monitors

After the discovery run completes, ObserveOps shows all discovered clusters and hosts. Select the ones you want to add as Monitors.

Select Add Selected Objects to provision the selected devices as monitors. ObserveOps now collects metrics continuously.

To view the monitors, go to Menu. Select Monitor. Select HCI.

The HCI devices are now added to ObserveOps.