Overview

About the PowerMax for Splunk Add-on and App

PowerMax for Splunk provides Splunk users with a backend Technology Add-on (TA) and frontend app to simplify interaction with Splunk Enterprise environments.

The Splunk Technology Add-on for PowerMax allows a Splunk Enterprise administrator to collect inventory, performance information, alert, and audit log information from VMAX/PowerMax storage arrays. The TA is a wrapper around the opensource library PyU4V, providing programmatic access to the Unisphere for PowerMax REST API. You can directly analyse data use it as a contextual data feed to correlate with other operational or security data in Splunk Enterprise.

The Splunk App for Dell EMC PowerMax allows a Splunk Enterprise administrator to data from PowerMax arrays through the TA and present them in pre-built dashboards, tables, and time charts for in-depth analysis.

The TA and App can be downloaded from the links below:

• Dell EMC PowerMax Add-on for Splunk Enterprise

• Dell EMC PowerMax App for Splunk Enterprise

From the PowerMax for Splunk 3.x release code for both the TA and app will be actively managed and maintained from the public Dell GitHub repo. The source for both code can be viewed and downloaded from the links below:

• Dell EMC PowerMax Add-on for Splunk Enterprise source

• Dell EMC PowerMax App for Splunk Enterprise source

What’s New in PowerMax for Splunk 3.0

• New categories have been added:

  • Masking View

  • IP Interface

  • iSCSI Target

  • Snapshot Policies

  • RDF Groups

  • Metro DR

  • Audit Logs

• The TA has been completely overhauled to integrate PyU4V to provide all required Unisphere for PowerMax REST API functionality.

• Users can now specify if they want to collect all metrics, key-performance indicator (KPI) metrics, or a custom set of metrics for each supported category in the PowerMax for Splunk TA.

• The now retired VMAX for Splunk sizer has been removed as a standalone script from the PowerMax for Splunk TA in favour of integrating its functionality directly into the TA. Now when a collection run exceeds the interval set for a given data input a warning message will appear in the logs along with a recommended interval to set.

• The TA has multiple code efficiency improvements to move to hash lookups over list iterations and use dictionaries and sets over lists where possible.

• The TA now has a full suite of unit tests and CI tests with full coverage of all code to improve reliability of submitted code and any future fixes.

• The TA now conforms to PEP8 and PyLint industry Python coding standards.

• The App has been redesigned so it will run entirely on KPI metrics. This is to cut down on the amount of data ingested into Splunk without impacting the functionality of the front end app.

• The App dashboard filter parameters are now bi-directional, they can be selected in any order and all other filter options will update accordingly to keep searches valid for your environment.

• The App dashboard charts have been set to use logarithmic scale on the y-axis instead of linear, this allows for better visualisation of results when there is a wide range on the y-axis.

• Documentation has had a complete redesign and is now also hosted on readthedocs.io.

Contact

For all issues or queries please contact powermax.splunk.support@dell.com. When contacting please include the following information:

• Detailed information about the problem you are having

• PowerMax for Splunk version

• Unisphere version

• Splunk Enterprise version

• Splunk Operating system version

• PowerMax for Splunk TA logs and splunkd logs if required

Starting in PowerMax for Splunk 3.x you can open GitHub issues or discuss topics related to PowerMax and Splunk. Feel free to open issues or topics if this is your preferred method of communication. You can find out more support information including where to get logs in Support.

Hours of Operation

Working Hours - Ireland (GMT+00:00):

Monday	08:00 - 16:30
Tuesday	08:00 - 16:30
Wednesday	08:00 - 16:30
Thursday	08:00 - 16:30
Friday	08:00 - 15:30
Saturday	Closed
Sunday	Closed

Holidays Observed 2021:

New Year’s Day	1st January
Saint Patrick’s Day	17th March
Easter Monday	5th April
May Bank Holiday	3rd May
June Bank Holiday	7th June
August Bank Holiday	2nd August
October Bank Holiday	25th October
Christmas Day	25th December
Saint Stephen’s Day	26th December