Dell EMC Storage monitoring with Topologix

Infrastructure & Networking

One integration, four Dell EMC platforms picked at setup — PowerStore (PowerStore Manager REST), PowerMax (Unisphere for PowerMax), Unity / UnityXT (Unisphere Management), and PowerScale (OneFS Platform API) — normalized onto one storage card: health, capacity, and per-item usage and performance, where the monitored items are volumes, storage groups, LUNs, or quotas depending on the family.

Requirements

  • A monitoring account per family: PowerStore Storage Operator or Monitor; PowerMax the Monitor role on Unisphere; Unity Storage Operator; PowerScale a role with ISI_PRIV_LOGIN_PAPI + ISI_PRIV_STATISTICS.
  • HTTPS reach to the management URL — PowerStore and Unity on 443, Unisphere for PowerMax on 8443, OneFS on 8080 — from the server or a proxy agent; the Verify TLS certificate toggle covers self-signed appliances.

1 · Set up the integration

  1. Open the Integrations pageClick Integrations in the toolbar and pick Dell EMC Storage from the catalogue.
  2. Pick the Dell EMC familyFour tiles: PowerStore, PowerMax, Unity / UnityXT, PowerScale. The choice fixes the API and what the per-item rows mean.
  3. Enter the URL and credentialsThe Management URL (with the family’s port), Username, and Password.
  4. Create, then verifyClick Create, then reopen the integration and click Test — PowerStore, Unity, and PowerScale report the cluster name; PowerMax reports the Symmetrix id (the first system on the Unisphere is the one monitored).
The integration catalogue — Dell EMC Storage found via search.
The integration catalogue — Dell EMC Storage found via search.
The Dell EMC Storage configuration drawer with example values. Every screen in this guide is the real product.
The Dell EMC Storage configuration drawer with example values. Every screen in this guide is the real product.
Target on a private network? Route it through a proxy agent. Proxy agents run inside your network — behind NAT, on a management VLAN, in an air-gapped segment — and reach targets the Topologix server can't. The agent polls the server every 15 seconds for its assignments, runs the checks locally, and pushes results back every 5 seconds, so no inbound firewall rules are ever needed. Set a default proxy on the integration; every metric source can override it. If a proxy goes offline, its sources are marked stale within ~90 seconds and the last known values stay visible.

2 · Add it to a flow

  1. Select the storage nodeClick the node, open Metrics, then + Add and choose the Dell EMC integration.
  2. Pick the items to monitorThe picker lists what the family exposes: PowerStore volumes, PowerMax storage groups, Unity LUNs, PowerScale quotas. Optional Volume latency and Used % thresholds turn a breaching row red.
  3. SaveSet the interval and click Add Source. The card shows system health, a capacity bar, system-level performance where the family provides it, and a row per selected item with capacity and IO figures.
Live canvas screenshots for this integration require a real Dell EMC Storage environment, so this guide shows the configuration screens only — the flow steps above work exactly like every other integration.

Good to know

  • Per-item depth varies by family: PowerStore adds IOPS and read/write latency (reported in µs, converted) via /metrics/generate; PowerMax reads five-minute average HostIOs / response times / MB/s per storage group; Unity is capacity-only per LUN in v1; PowerScale reports cluster IOPS + disk throughput plus per-quota usage.
  • Unity authenticates with the EMC session-cookie + CSRF-token dance and re-logs-in transparently when the appliance expires the session; PowerStore and PowerMax use Basic auth per call.
  • A PowerScale cluster with no quotas configured still populates the cluster-level card — quotas are only the per-item rows.

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