HPE Morpheus VM Essentials

XorMon uses a HPE VME Manager REST API to collect data.
It is necessary to create a user and assign them a role with limited data access permissions.

Create New Role

  • Log in to HPE VME Manager and navigate to Administration -> Roles
  • Create new Role named "XorMon Monitoring"

    HPE VME - create role
  • Open the new role and assign Permissions

    • Permissions → Features
      Assign following permissions

      Admin
      Health: Read

      Infrastructure
      Set "Read" for all items except "Manage Placement" and "Toggle Maintenance," which should remain set to "None"
      Monitoring
      Logs - Read

      Operations
      Set "Read" for all items except "Wiki," which should remain set to "None"

      Provisioning
      Instances: List - Full
      For the others, the setting should remain "None"

      Snapshots
      Snapshots - Read

    • Permission → Groups
      Set "Default Acces" to "Read"

    • Permission → Instance Types
      Set "Default Acces" to "Full"

    • Permission → Cluster Types
      Set "Default Acces" to "Full"

Create User

  • Navigate to Administration -> Users

  • Create new User named "xormon"

  • Assign the newly created role to the user

    HPE VME - create role

Add HPE VME to XorMon

  • Navigate to XorMon UI -> Settings icon -> Device -> Server Virtualization -> HPE VME -> Add new device

    HPE VME - create role

  • Run "Test" for configured device, it must show "OK"

  • Wait about 1 hour, then reload the web browser, you should see it in XorMon UI