APTARE IT Analytics Certified Configurations Guide

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Product(s): APTARE IT Analytics (10.5)
  1. Portal and database servers
    1.  
      Portal supported operating systems
    2.  
      Recommended portal configurations
    3.  
      Oracle Database and Memory Requirements
    4. Supported browsers and display resolution
      1.  
        Linux portal server: Exported and emailed reports
    5.  
      Supported third-party and open source products
  2. Data Collector server configurations
    1.  
      Data Collector supported operating systems
    2. Data Collector server memory and CPU guidelines
      1.  
        Customize the Linux file handle setting for large collections
      2.  
        Factors impacting Data Collector performance and memory requirements
    3.  
      Data Collector prerequisites
    4.  
      Firewall configuration: Default ports
  3. Capacity Manager configurations
    1.  
      Supported storage arrays and access requirements
    2.  
      IBM Arrays: Modify profile
    3.  
      Creating a NetApp user with API privileges
    4.  
      Creating a NetApp cluster-mode user with API privileges
    5. Array/LUN performance Data Collection
      1.  
        Port performance metrics
    6.  
      EMC Isilon metrics
    7.  
      NetApp cluster-mode metrics
    8.  
      EMC Symmetrix enhanced performance metrics
    9.  
      Host resources prerequisites and configurations
    10. Host access privileges, sudo commands, ports, and WMI proxy requirements
      1.  
        Access requirements by OS
    11.  
      WMI proxy requirements for Windows host Data Collection
    12.  
      Host resources supported configurations
    13.  
      Supported host bus adapters (HBAs)
  4. Cloud configurations
    1.  
      Supported systems and access requirements
  5. Virtualization Manager configurations
    1.  
      Supported versions
    2. Virtualization Manager Data Collector requirements for VMware
      1.  
        Creating a VMware Read-Only user
    3.  
      Virtualization Manager Data Collector requirements for Microsoft Hyper-V
  6. File Analytics configurations
    1. Data Collector probes by storage type
      1.  
        CIFS shares
      2.  
        Host inventory probe
  7. Fabric Manager configurations
    1. Switch vendors
      1.  
        Download Cisco Data Center Network Manager
  8. Backup Manager configurations
    1.  
      Backup solutions and versions
    2.  
      Centralized NetBackup Data Collection requirements
    3. Veritas NetBackup 8.1 (and later) requirements for centralized collection
      1.  
        Required Software
  9. Internal TCP port requirements
    1.  
      Internal TCP port requirements
    2.  
      Internal portal server ports
    3.  
      Internal data collector ports

Supported systems and access requirements

For specific prerequisites and configuration requirements, see the Cloud Data Collector information.

Data Collectors require the following privileges to access APIs and underlying details:

  • On Linux, root privileges for SSH and Telnet

  • On Windows, administrator privileges for WMI.

Table: Data Collection Prerequisites

Vendor

Subsystems

Dev Mgr/API/CLI

Access Requirements

Ports

Notes

Amazon Web Services

  • S3 Bucket (Details and Usage) - Simple Storage Service (S3) for storage in the cloud

  • EC2 Details - Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) for computing services, much like virtual servers

  • Billing Records - Usage and corresponding charges, by service

AWS Java SDK

Before a Data Collector can gain read-only access to retrieve data the following steps are required in Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  1. Configure an S3 Bucket to Receive Billing Reports.

  2. Activate AWS detailed billing.

  3. Select Cost Allocation Tags.

  4. Create an AWS IAM User.

  5. Generate Access Keys.

  6. Link AWS Accounts for Collection of Consolidated Billing Data.

https 443 for read-only access to the data

AWS reports are under Capacity Manager and Virtualization Manager.

Microsoft

  • Azure Virtual Machine

  • Azure Storage Account

  • Azure Billing

  • Azure Backup

REST API

Prerequisite: Install the Azure Powershell client on a Windows computer. Execute Microsoft Azure Powershell as an administrator.

  1. Find your Tenant ID and Azure Subscription ID

  2. Register a new Application

  3. Create a Principle and assign Contributor role to the application.

  4. Find your Azure Application ID, Offer ID Application Password.

443

The Data Collector only supports Azure resources deployed with the Resource Manager model.

OpenStack

OpenStack Swift (Juno10, TBC), SwiftStack v2.2

  • Keystone v2

  • Proxy path for Swift configuration files must be specified.

  • Controller credentials that have access to tenants/projects.

  • Swift proxy server credentials with super-user privileges.

35357 for Keystone Admin

5000 for Keystone Public

22 for SSH

  • If multiple proxies exist, APTARE IT Analytics uses only one. Capacity reports will reflect only one proxy.

  • Configure the policy to use the address of the actual proxy server, not the server responsible for load balancing.

  • Capacity data is collected from devices mapped to OpenStack nodes.

OpenStack

OpenStack Ceilometer

REST API

  • Keystone v2

  • Credentials that have admin access to tenants/projects.

35357 for Keystone Admin

5000 for Keystone Public

8777 for Ceilometer API Service

8774 for Compute