APIs for Appliance statistics

Question

We're using the latest version of the openmanage appliance (for vmware).  I'm trying to get some management stats out of it - so that we know it's not being overwhelmed, has enough space, memory etc. We use Zabbix for monitoring.  I've had a bit of a look around the potential ways of getting ssh enabled which seem pretty painful, so have had a look at the APIs.  I'm well aware that I can use them to discover metrics of the devices being managed by the appliance, but can't spot anything for monitoring the appliance ITSELF. Has anyone managed to crack monitoring of one of these instances (apart from a ping / http response)? ta Ash

DELL-Chris H · Accepted Answer

AshGreen_LCC,

You should be able to use the following API to get the details on CPU, memory and storage.

/api/ApplicationService/SystemResourceUsage

Let me know if this is what you are looking for and if this helps.

AshGreen_LCC · Answer

Hi Chris, thats the one! Do you have any idea what the values are presented in, as there's not a lot on the "GET method for ApplicationService.SystemResourceUsage" page. Are they based on percentage used?

ta

DELL-Marco B · Answer

Hello, unfortunately I don't have details about this command, and what will be the output. Can you test it? Thanks

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