I’ve been playing with the Aria Operations Management Pack Builder over the last week, and have started another educational/tech-demo to integrate Aria Operations with Ubiquiti UniFi. This MP will give a quick overview of your UniFi environment, with interactive widgets. Selecting the UniFi device in the top left will populate the Uplink Graphs, Device Utilization…
My latest blog series has covered the creation of a custom management pack for Aria Operations to monitor phpIPAM, mostly as an educational / technical demo project.In this post we’ll cover the management pack installation and a showcase about the new dashboard we have to visualise the IP Addressing space, and how it links to…
Welcome back again!In Part 1 we covered how to authenticate to your API endpoint.In Part 2 we covered how to create API requests, turn the API responses into Aria Ops Objects, and configured the relationship hierarchy of those objects.In Part 3 we covered the MP Import & Configuration, then created some Views, Super Metrics and Dashboards to visualise the…
Welcome back again! In Part 1 we covered how to authenticate to your API endpoint.In Part 2 we covered how to create API requests, turn the API responses into Aria Ops Objects, and configured the relationship hierarchy of those objects.In this post we will build the MP, import it to Aria Operations and start to build some…
Welcome back to this Aria Operations Management Pack Builder series, in Part 1 we covered how to authenticate to your API endpoint. In this post we can get to the fun stuff. We’ll create some API calls to pull subnet and IP information from phpIPAM, and create some relationships (e.g. Subnet -> IP Address ->…
If you want to extend your Aria Operations monitoring to 3rd party environments, there are some pre-made management packs for a number of popular applications.But what if you can’t find what you need? If it has an API, we can build it without writing code! For this example, I’m going to build a Management Pack…
Most of the Holodeck environments I deploy are on NFS primary storage. The Synology device I have requires an additional ESX driver to enable the hardware acceleration features when using NFS.To streamline the deployment I’ve created a custom ESX image with the driver baked-in so I don’t have to roll it out after a deployment….
In a previous post I did some benchmarking of NFS storage in a holodeck environment. The performance gains over a nested vSAN environment were significant, so others may want to run this for their testing. The automated holodeck provisioning is fantastic for vSAN OSA/ESA deployment but at the time of writing we do not have…
Running a nested test lab is fantastic for convenience and cost savings. The down side is that performance tends to suffer.With VCF Holodeck we have a couple of storage options, and in this post I plan to compare benchmarks. These numbers will not be good, but I’m aiming to determine which is the least shitty…
For this example, we’ll be showing how to upgrade/converge a basic vSphere 8 environment without VCF to VCF 9. First, review the official documentation for the pre-requisites and relevant steps. Our demo platform here is a single vSphere 8.0u3 vCenter and 4x ESX hosts running 8.0u3 and vSAN. The quick overview of the steps for…