Managing deprecated SolarWinds NPM integrations

As a tenant administrator, perform the following steps to edit and validate the integrations configured with 

SolarWinds NPM

. 

Before you begin

Ensure that the SolarWinds NPM host is accessible from your docker-enabled Linux server.

To edit a SolarWinds NPM integration

1. From BMC Helix Developer Tools , open the  Configured Integrations  tab   if the tab does not open by default.
   This tab shows deprecated SolarWinds NPM integrations and all other configured integrations. The following example shows the tile for a deprecated SolarWinds NPM integration: 
   

   The tile shows the following information:

   • The name of the integration with its build number.
   • The incoming data. In this example, 5,046 CIs and 36 events have been received.
   • The name of the user who modified the integration along with the time of the modification. In this example, it is the admin user.
   • The connector status. In this example, the status is Active.
2. On the deprecated SolarWinds NPM integration tile that you want to edit, select Edit from the actions menu .
3. Optionally, edit the following source details:
   • Integration name

   • API URL

     How do I obtain the API URL?

     The API URL is the name of the host where you have installed SolarWinds NPM, appended by port 17778. Ensure that you use the https protocol in the API URL.
     https://< 

     SolarWinds NPM

     _host_name>:17778

     SolarWinds NPM uses the following default ports:

     • API URL: 17778
     • User interface URL: 8787
   • User name and password
     Provide the same credentials as provided during installation of SolarWinds NPM.
   • Entity types (Events and CIs) to import 
4. In the Customize Entity Configuration section, click Configure and edit the following advanced settings for the entities that you have selected in the previous step.
   • Events: Specify the refresh time for events in seconds. By default, the refresh time is set to 60 seconds.
   • CIs: Specify the refresh time for CIs in hours. By default, the refresh time is set to 24 hours.
5. Click Update. 
   On the Configured Integrations  tab, the status of the integration changes to CONFIGURING. After the integration is configured completely, the status changes to CONNECTED .

To validate the SolarWinds NPM integration

• Ensure that the status of the integration is Connected. The following statuses are also valid:
  • Configuring
  • Disabled
  • Disconnected
• From BMC Helix Operations Management , go to Events to ensure that you can see the events in BMC Helix Operations Management .

• For more information, see Event monitoring.

• From BMC Helix Discovery, go to Explore > Data, and then click <count> Import Records in the Miscellaneous section to ensure that you can see the records from the source (host) in BMC Helix Discovery . Use these records further to create a business service model for the source depending on your use case requirements in BMC Helix AIOps. For more information, see Managing models.

SolarWinds NPM event classes

The following event classes are created in BMC Helix Operations Management to display the SolarWinds NPM data:

• SolarWindsEvent
  • Parent class name: EVENT

  • Attributes

    Name	Data type
    sourceEventID	INTEGER
    sourceNodeID	INTEGER
    type	INTEGER
    typeName	STRING
    instanceType	STRING
    displayName	STRING

• SolarWindsAlert
  • Parent class name: EVENT

  • Attributes

    Name	Data type
    alertActiveID	INTEGER
    alertName	STRING
    entityType	STRING
    alertObjectID	INTEGER
    displayName	STRING
    instanceType	STRING
    sourceNodeID	INTEGER

SolarWinds NPM event slot mappings

The following table lists the event slot mappings between SolarWinds NPM  and BMC Helix Operations Management .