Description

This connector monitors environmental sensors, physical disks, management network cards and fiber ports for Pure Storage FA Series arrays. It relies on the Pure Storage REST API version 1.13 and higher.

This connector supersedes:

• PureStorage^[2]

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

Target

Typical platform: Pure Storage

Operating system: Storage System

Prerequisites

Leverages: Pure Storage REST API

Technology and protocols: HTTP/REST

This connector is not available for the local host (it is applicable to remote hosts only).

Examples

metricshub HOSTNAME -t storage -c +PureStorageREST --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: [ +PureStorageREST ] # 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 Pure Storage FA Series (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:
  • POST /api/1.13/auth/apitoken
  • Request Header:
    ${file::embeddedFile-1}
  • Request Body:
    {"password":"%{PASSWORD}","username":"%{USERNAME}"}
  • The response body contains: api_token (regex)

Metrics