XenServer

Introduction

Citrix XenServer is a hypervisor platform that enables the creation and management of virtualized server infrastructure.

Supported metrics

Configure and Install the integration

1. From All Clients, select a client.

2. Navigate to Setup > Account.

3. Select the Integrations and Apps tab.

4. The Installed Integrations page, where all the installed applications are displayed. If there are no installed applications, it will navigate to the Available Integrations and Apps page.

5. Click + ADD on the Installed Integrations page. The Available Integrations and Apps page displays all the available applications along with the newly created application with the version.
   Note: Search for the application using the search option available. Alternatively, use the All Categories option to search.

6. Click ADD on the XenServer tile.

7. Enter the gateway profile name or select a gateway profile on the Installation tab and click NEXT.
   Note: The selected gateway should be up and running.
   CONFIGURATION
   Provide all details related to the device.

8. Name: Configuration name

9. IP Address: IP Address

10. CredentialSet: You can select a credential from the list or add a credential.
    To add a credential:

    1. Click the +ADD option available in the CredentialSet dropdown. The ADD CREDENTIAL window is displayed. Enter the following information:
       • Name: Credential name.
       • Description: Brief description of the credential.
       • User Name: User name.
       • Password: Password
       • Confirm Password: Confirm password
       • Port: Port number. Set 443 for a secure connection. For unsecured connections, use port 80.
       • Secure: Select the Secure checkbox for encryption.
       • Connection Timeout (ms): Timeout in milliseconds. Default time-out is 1000 milliseconds
    2. Click ADD to add the credential to the credential list.
       
       

11. FILTER BY RESOURCE TAG: Click Any or All of the rules below to match any one or all of the conditions you define for filtering.
    Enter/select the values in the Key, Operator, and Value fields for filtering the resources.

12. FILTER BY RESOURCE TYPE:
    ALL: All the existing and future resources will be discovered.
    SELECT: You can select one or multiple resources to be discovered.

13. ACTIONS_LABEL: Select the Manage Device option, if you want the discovered devices to be managed.

14. DISCOVERY SCHEDULE: Discovery is triggered based on the scheduled time. New resources added to the environment are automatically discovered.
    Choose one of the following Recurrence Patterns:

    • Hourly
    • Daily
    • Weekly
    • Monthly
    • None (On-demand discovery)
      
      

15. Click FINISH.

The XenServer integration is installed and displayed on the INSTALLED INTEGRATIONS page.

Supported templates

The gateway is the collector type for the following supported Citrix XenServer metrics:

Next steps

Assign monitoring templates to the resource

After a discovery profile is created, you can do the following:

1. Go to Infrastructure > Resources.
2. From the Citrix Xenserver resources page, click the resource name and go to the resource details.
3. Go to Monitors > Template.
4. From the Templates screen, click +Assign Templates.
5. From the Apply Templates screen, go to Select Templates > Available templates and select the templates.
6. Click Assign.
   Validate that the resource was successfully added to OpsRamp.

Validation the resource is successfully added

The gateway monitors the application using the assigned templates and displays the results in a graphical format.
To confirm that the device is being monitored, review the following:

• The graph are plotted for each metric in the template.
• Alerts are generated for metrics in the template by giving thresholds.