Introduction to the ScienceLogic: PowerFlow PowerPack

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This section describes how to monitor SL1 PowerFlow in SL1 using the "ScienceLogic: PowerFlow" PowerPack.

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What Does this PowerPack Monitor?

This PowerPack lets you configure SL1 to create an alert if an SL1 PowerFlow application fails.

The "ScienceLogic: PowerFlow" PowerPack includes the following features:

  • The "ScienceLogic: PowerFlow Healthcheck Configuration" Dynamic Application includes an Event Policy that generates a Major event when the state returned by the healthcheck action is "not okay" or "not skipped". This Dynamic Application runs every six hours by default and it does not work for single-node PowerFlow systems
  • The "ScienceLogic: PowerFlow Queue Configuration" Dynamic Application, which monitors the status of the PowerFlow RabbitMQ service
  • The "ScienceLogic: PowerFlow Workers Configuration" Dynamic Application, which monitors the status of the PowerFlow RabbitMQ workers
  • Event Policies and corresponding alerts that are triggered when an application in PowerFlow fails
  • A Device Class and a Device Template for PowerFlow
  • Sample SOAP/XML and SSH/Key Credentials for connecting to PowerFlow

Installing the PowerPack

Before completing the steps in this section, you must import and install the latest version of the ScienceLogic: PowerFlow 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. Download the PowerPack from the ScienceLogic Support Site.
  2. In SL1, go to the PowerPack Manager page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
  3. In the PowerPack Manager page, click the Actions button, then select Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack dialog box appears.
  4. Click the [Browse] button and navigate to the PowerPack file.
  5. When the PowerPack Installer modal appears, click the Install button to install the PowerPack.

If you exit the PowerPack Installer modal without installing the imported PowerPack, the imported PowerPack will not appear in the PowerPack Manager 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.

Upgrading the PowerPack to Version 107 or Later

As of version 107 of this PowerPack, several items were removed from the pack and may no longer function. If you are upgrading from a previous release to version 107 or later, ScienceLogic recommends manually deleting them from your SL1 system.

  • The following items were removed from the PowerPack:

    • Dashboards:

      • REST Discovery Initiation

    • Dashboard widgets:

      • REST Discovery Initiation

      • REST Discovery Log Widget

    • Run book action policies:

      • REST Discovery: Phase 0 - Device Creation

      • REST Discovery: Phase I - Collection Test Lookup

      • REST Discovery: Phase II Credential Check

      • REST Discovery: Phase III - Apply template

    • Run book automation policies:

      • REST Discovery - Application Alignment

      • REST Discovery - Device Creation

    • Execution environments:

      • silo_rba_discovery

      • silo_logs

    • Event policies:

      • REST Device Discovery

    • Dynamic Applications:

      • REST: Performance Metrics Monitor

      • REST: Performance Metrics Monitor (PowerFlow)