The following sections provide an overview of HPE: Edge Connect (Silver Peak) and the HPE: Edge Connect (Silver Peak) PowerPack:
What is HPE: Edge Connect (Silver Peak)?
HPE: Edge Connect (Silver Peak) is an SD-WAN management solution that captures data and information from the Silver Peak Unity Orchestrator about devices connected through Unity EdgeConnect. Users can measure the performance and availability of these devices and the connected network, which helps determine potential service delivery issues and maintain compliance.
What Does the HPE: Edge Connect (Silver Peak) PowerPack Monitor?
To monitor HPE: Edge Connect (Silver Peak) using SL1, you must install the HPE: Edge Connect (Silver Peak) PowerPack. This PowerPack enables you to discover, model, and collect data about Silver Peak Unity Orchestrator and devices connected via Unity EdgeConnect.
The HPE: Edge Connect (Silver Peak) PowerPack includes:
- A sample credential you can use as a template to create SOAP/XML credentials to connect to the Unity Orchestrator you want to monitor
- Dynamic Applications to discover, model, and monitor performance metrics, and to collect configuration data for Unity Orchestrator and connected devices
- Device Classes for each of the HPE: Edge Connect (Silver Peak) devices that SL1 monitors
- Event Policies and corresponding alerts that are triggered when HPE: Edge Connect services meet certain status criteria
- A device template for HPE: Edge Connect (Silver Peak) Unity Orchestrator
- A dashboard that displays key metrics for each device
Installing the HPE: Edge Connect (Silver Peak) PowerPack
Before completing the steps in this
Before upgrading to version 200 of the PowerPack, ScienceLogic recommends unaligning the "REST: Performance Monitor" Dynamic Application from existing root virtual devices.
Version 200 of the HPE: Edge Connect PowerPack is rewritten in the Snippet Framework. Due to this, any customizations to snippet code or snippet arguments will be overwritten.
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.
Ensure that you are running version 12.1.2 or later of SL1 before installing this PowerPack. For details on upgrading SL1, see the relevant SL1 Platform Release Notes.
To download and install the PowerPack:
- Search for and download the PowerPack from the PowerPacks page (Product Downloads > PowerPacks & SyncPacks) at the ScienceLogic Support Site.
- In SL1, go to the PowerPacks page (System > Manage > PowerPacks).
- Click the button and choose Import PowerPack. The Import PowerPack dialog box appears.
- Click [Browse] and navigate to the PowerPack file from step 1.
- Select the PowerPack file and click . The PowerPack Installer modal displays a list of the PowerPack contents.
- Click . 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 menu and select Install PowerPack.
Upon upgrading to version 200, the PowerPack may miss clearing some events due to changes in the cache from Python 2 to Python 3.