Infoblox BloxOne provides a monitoring feature you can use to integrate with your monitoring tools to obtain host metrics directly from the hosts themselves. When you set up a monitoring configuration, BloxOne uses APIs on the associated hosts, so your monitoring tools can query host metrics via TCP ports 443 and 8443, based on the configured authentication method. For example, host metrics such as onprem_host_last_disconnected_timestamp
in Epoch time (in seconds) is helpful to know in case the host is disconnected from the cloud network. A value of '0' indicates the host is connected. Note that host metrics will be served on port 8443 only when you have enabled the remote access VPN application. In this case, port 443 will not be available.
To integrate the monitoring feature with your tools, you first set up a monitoring configuration, and then apply it to selected hosts. You can choose a desired authentication method when setting up the configuration. You can create multiple configurations and apply them to selected hosts. When you enable the Apply to New Hosts option, the configuration becomes the default, and all newly created hosts will automatically inherit the monitoring configuration.
Only one default monitoring configuration can be used at any given time. If you set up another monitoring configuration and select the Apply to New Hosts option, the new configuration becomes the default for all newly created hosts, and the previous default configuration will be disabled.
All the monitoring events are recorded in the audit log. For information, see Viewing Audit Logs.
With this release, you can obtain the following host metrics when you enable a monitoring configuration on the host:
Host CPU, memory, and storage
Port metrics
Protocol metrics
The BloxOne monitoring feature also supports the following for metrics endpoints:
Metrics endpoints are exposed to your monitoring tools
TLS (HTTPS) support for metrics endpoints
Authentication configuration for host metrics (basic, client certificate, or no authentication)
Default configuration for all newly created hosts (Apply to New Hosts option)
Support for scraping metrics in JSON format
Support for multiple configurations
Bulk deletion for multiple configurations
Audit logging
The Manage > Infrastructure > Monitoring page provides a card view and a table view for displaying information. You can toggle between the card and table view by clicking the icon on the upper right corner of the navigation bar.
Card view
Table view
By default, the card view displays the following information for each configuration you have created:
The name of the configuration.
The authentication type.
The description (if any) of the configuration.
Apply to New Host: This appears for the configuration you have enabled as the default for all newly created hosts. Note that only one configuration can be enabled as the default at any given time. If you enable another configuration as the default, the previous default configuration will be disabled.
When you toggle to the table view, the Monitoring page can display some or all of the following fields. By clicking the hamburger menu next to the fields, you have the flexibility to select or deselect the fields (including associated tags) as well as their order to be displayed in the table view.
CONFIGURATION NAME: The name of the configuration.
AUTHENTICATION TYPE: The authentication type.
DESCRIPTION: The description of the configuration.
In the right panel, click to expand Enabled Hosts to view the list of hosts on which you have enabled monitoring.
You can also do the following:
Perform a local search to view monitoring configurations based on your filtering criteria; and you can page through the results. BloxOne supports the following field for local search on the Monitoring page: Name.
Click the … icon next to a configuration and choose one of the following:
General Information: View general information of the monitoring configuration, as describe in Viewing General Monitoring Information.
Edit: Edit the respective configuration card, as described in Editing Monitoring Configuration.
Remove: Choose this to remove the respective configuration. Click Delete in the confirmation dialog to confirm the removal. For information, see Removing Monitoring Configuration.
Refresh Status: Refresh the status of the configuration.
For more information, see the following: