Description

This connector enables hardware monitoring for VSP F-Series and G-Series Hitachi Storage Systems through the Hitachi Configuration Manager REST API on port 23451. If you are interacting with Hitachi SVP, use Hitachi G-Series (REST) instead.

This connector supersedes:

• HitachiGSeriesREST^[2]

hardware^[3] hitachi^[4] storage^[5]

Target

Typical platform: Hitachi VSP F-Series and VSP G-Series Storage Systems

Operating system: Storage System

Prerequisites

Leverages: Hitachi Configuration Manager

Technology and protocols: HTTP/REST

Examples

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

resourceGroups:
  <RESOURCE_GROUP>:
    resources:
      <HOSTNAME-ID>:
        attributes:
          host.name: <HOSTNAME> # Change with actual host name
          host.type: storage
        connectors: [ +HitachiConfigManagerREST ] # 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 Hitachi Configuration Manager (REST) connector will be automatically activated, 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 /ConfigurationManager/v1/objects/storages
  • Request Header:
    ${file::embeddedFile-1}
  • The response body contains: storageDeviceId (regex)

Metrics