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RapidOSS APG Plugin

RapidOSS is an IT operations management solution that provides IT management information to users through a unified, consistent web based user interface. APG is a real-time and historical performance reporting and trending solution
RapidOSS APG plugin enables users to access performance reports, graphs, and real-time events provided by APG through RapidOSS UI.

APG is an open solution that supports industry standard interfaces (SNMP traps, SOAP, etc.) enabling high quality, seamless integration. This document describes the integration objectives, points of integration and the technical infrastructure used to facilitate the integration.

Event integration

APG provides a sophisticated mechanism to define alerts to inform the operations when performance metrics exceed defined thresholds etc., and can send alerts as SNMP traps. RapidOSS APG plugin processes these traps and creates and clears events in RapidOSS.
APG plugin leverages SNMP trap processing capabilities of RapidOSS. SNMP traps are parsed and passed to a groovy script as a map (name value pairs), enabling use of full power of groovy to implement the logic.

Taking advantage of the modeling capabilities of RapidOSS, APG event model includes properties (fields) that are relevant to the alerts sent by APG.

Historical performance graphs

APG collects & stores performance data, and generates dynamic graphs that are invaluable for IT operations. RapidOSS APG plugin integrates the APG graphs into the UI allowing users to access them in context, seamlessly, where they are relevant to the task at hand.
APG exposes the performance data and the graphs via SOAP web services API. RapidOSS APG plugin retrieves data and graps via the SOAP API as demanded. APG Plugin leverages RapidOSS SOAP integration capabilities, that makes APG SOAP calls available as simple groovy methods. This approach makes it easy to further enhance/customize the out of the box integration provided by the plugin.

By default, the links to performance graphs are included in event details and object (device, interface, etc.) details views in RapidOSS, enabling one click access to APG graphs.

Instrumentation

RapidOSS build on RapidCMDB technology that provides powerful modeling capabilities that open up range of possibilities. For example, it is possible to extend the (Network) Interface class with properties such as utilization, etc. and populate these values with data from APG.
When a user looks at the Interface details in the UI, the properties of the Interface would be shown to the user including the properties instrumented by APG seamlessly. Similarly administrators developing scripts for automation, custom UIs, etc. can use this data (i.e. myInterface.utilization) without having to have any knowledge of APG, SOAP or any other low level integration detail.