Introduction

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The following sections provide an overview of OpenStack and the OpenStack PowerPack:

What is OpenStack?

OpenStack is an open-source software platform for cloud computing. It uses numerous interrelated components to control large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. Users can manage their OpenStack resources through the OpenStack portal, the OpenStack API, or the OpenStackClient (OSC) command line interface.

What Does the OpenStack PowerPack Monitor?

To monitor OpenStack resources using SL1, you must install the OpenStack PowerPack. This PowerPack enables you to discover, model, and collect data about OpenStack devices.

The OpenStack PowerPack includes:

  • Two example Credentials you can use as templates to create SOAP/XML credentials to connect to the OpenStack domain you want to monitor

  • Dynamic Applications to discover, model, and monitor performance metrics and collect configuration data for OpenStack resources
  • Device Classes for each of the OpenStack component devices that SL1 monitors
  • Event Policies and corresponding alerts that are triggered when OpenStack component devices meet certain status criteria

The OpenStack PowerPack supports OpenStack.org distribution.

Installing the OpenStack PowerPack

Before completing the steps in this section, you must import and install the latest version of the OpenStack 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.)

The minimum required MySQL version is 5.6.0.

To download and install the PowerPack:

  1. Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) 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.