Introduction to the Datacenter Advanced Enrichment Actions PowerPack

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This section describes how to use the run book actions in the "Datacenter Advanced Enrichment Actions" PowerPack.

You can use the run book actions in this PowerPack to collect additional diagnostic information when events occur and to provide instructions on how to troubleshoot issues. This additional information about an event is intended to assist the engineer responsible for troubleshooting and resolving that event.

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What is the Datacenter Advanced Enrichment Actions PowerPack?

The "Datacenter Advanced Enrichment Actions" PowerPack contains run book actions that you can use with run book automations to collect additional diagnostic information when events occur and to provide instructions on how to troubleshoot issues. This additional information about an event is intended to assist the engineer responsible for troubleshooting and resolving that event.

What Technologies are Supported?

The "Datacenter Advanced Enrichment" PowerPack contains over 350 run book actions that define different diagnostic information to be collected. In other words, you can execute over 350 different sets of commands with this PowerPack. Each set of commands is specific to a type of device.

The following table lists the number of command sets for each type of device:

Device Type Number
Cisco ACE 2
Cisco CSP 2
Cisco Route/Switch 33
Cisco IOS 80
Cisco IOS-XE 33
Cisco IOS-XR 35
Cisco NSO 3
Cisco NX-OS 12
Cisco OLT 1
Cisco StarOS 32
Cisco Collaboration 3
Cisco Unified Communication Manager 20
Cisco UCS 17
Cisco UCS C-Series 17
Cisco Wireless 18
Citrix NetScaler 10
F5 21
Juniper JUNOS 3
Juniper ScreenOS 3
NetApp 3

Unsupported Configurations

The following configurations are not supported by the "Datacenter Advanced Enrichment Actions" PowerPack:

  • Customer-created run book actions that build command lists to be executed by the "Enrichment: Util: Collect Enrichment Data" run book action are not supported without prior authorization from ScienceLogic.
  • Modifications of any kind to the code supplied in the "Datacenter Advanced Enrichment Actions" PowerPack are not supported without prior authorization from ScienceLogic.

Overview of Configuring the PowerPack

There are two general steps you need to take to configure the content in the "Datacenter Advanced Enrichment Actions" PowerPack:

  1. Configure one or more run book automation policies that use the run book actions included in the PowerPack. This is described in the Creating Run Book Automation Policies chapter.
  2. Configure credentials for the devices that are aligned with the run book automation policies. This is described in the Configuring Device Credentials chapter.

Installing the Datacenter Advanced Enrichment Actions PowerPack

By default, installing a new version of a PowerPack overwrites all content from a previous version of that PowerPack that has already been installed on the target system. You can use the Enable Selective PowerPack Field Protection setting in the Behavior Settings page (System > Settings > Behavior) to prevent new PowerPacks from overwriting local changes for some commonly customized fields. For more information, see the section on Global Settings.

To download and install the PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacksSyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. Click the Actions button and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack dialog box appears.
  4. Click [Browse] and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
  5. Select the PowerPack file and click Import. The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
  6. Click Install. The PowerPack is added to the PowerPacks page.

If you exit the PowerPack Installer modal without installing the imported PowerPack, the imported PowerPack will not appear in the PowerPacks page. However, the imported PowerPack will appear in the Imported PowerPacks modal. This page appears when you click the Actions menu and select Install PowerPack.