Supervision and Administration

Administration

By clicking on the Services tab, you will be taken to a page summarising the status of the various services that make up DC Netscope, as well as the connection status between DC Netscope and the vCenters.

For each of the services, you will find:

  • the name of the service
  • its operating status
  • an action button to change its status
  • a button to download its logs

For each vCenter, you will find:

  • the name of the vCenter
  • the connection status

Supervision

It is possible to integrate DC Netscope with monitoring tools: indeed DC Netscope exposes two API points which allow to retrieve the following information via an HTTP request

  • status of DC Netscope services:
  • status of DC Netscope's connection to vCenters:

We offer ready-made configurations for the following monitoring tools:

These can be downloaded as shown in the following screenshot:

Attention

The configration files are customised with DC Netscope HTTP security tokens. If in the meantime you change the configuration of DC Netscope regarding HTTP security tokens, you need to change the supervision configuration. One possibility is to generate a new configuration to replace the old one. the old one.

PRTG

First you have to download the PRTG configuration file from the menu Download supervision template:

Then, on your PRTG server, you must locate the folder containing the PRTG templates:

Drop the template file in the folder:

From the PRTG interface, add a device (device):

Choose the location of the new device:

Choose a name for the new device and specify the IP address of the DC Netscope VM:

Finally, choose the template DC Netscope template and proceed with the creation:

DC Netscope should now be monitored by PRTG:

Zabbix

First you have to download the Zabbix configuration file from the menu Download supervision template:

Then go to the host configuration screen:

And choose to import a host:

And select the file that was generated by DC Netscope.

Nagios

First you need to download the Nagios configuration file from the Download supervision template:

And place this file in the nagios configuration folder, which with the Docker image is:

/opt/nagios/etc/conf.d

This configuration file should be automatically taken into account.

Manually

It is possible to use the DC Netscope API to monitor the status of DC Netscope:

  • Service Status: http://<IP_DCNETSCOPE>:5000/api/health/services/all
  • vCenters status: http://<IP_DCNETSCOPE>:5000/api/health/vcenters/all

Please note the following information:

  • The default port to use is 5000. If HTTPS has been enabled, it will be 5443. An HTTP redirect is automatically made.
  • If an HTTP security token has been generated, it must be specified.

For information, here are some functional curl commands with the following parameters:

  • address: 1.2.3.4
  • port: 5000 (5443 if https active)
  • protocol: http (https if https active)
  • HTTP security token: token1234 (do not put anything if no token)
curl -k -H "token-api:token1234" http://1.2.3.4:5000/api/health/services/all
curl -k -H "token-api:token1234" http://1.2.3.4:5000/api/health/vcenters/all
curl -k https://1.2.3.4:5443/api/health/services/all
curl -k -H "token-api:token1234" https://1.2.3.4:5443/api/health/vcenters/all