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Using PowervRNI to connect to Network Insight SaaS

October 13, 2018 / Martijn / 0 Comments

VMware is pretty heavily invested in the cloud. Not only to manage your cloud environments, but also products as Software-as-a-Service offerings, next to the regular on-premises offerings. At the time of this post, there are 19 VMware products that you can purchase via the SaaS model. This is a variation between models like VMware Cloud on AWS where you get an Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Network Insight where you get the product hosted in the cloud.

Network Insight SaaS

So there’s a SaaS version of Network Insight. Effectively, this means that the Platform (the user-interface and data repository) is hosted in the … Read more

Using PowervRNI to configure SNMP settings on data sources

September 3, 2018 / Martijn / 0 Comments

Version 1.2 of PowervRNI was just released and it contains 2 new cmdlets:

Get-vRNIDataSourceSNMPConfig
Set-vRNIDataSourceSNMPConfig

You can use these cmdlets to see and update SNMP configuration on specific data sources. All Arista, Brocade, Cisco, Dell, and Juniper devices are data sources where SNMP can be enabled for richer data collection. This basically turns on interface counter collections, so you can have pretty graphs like this:

Examples

To give you an idea of how to use these new cmdlets, check out the examples below. Of course, there is also documentation available in the module itself, viewable via the Get-Help cmdlet.

Get-vRNIDataSourceSNMPConfig

PowervRNI is now on PowerShell Gallery

March 5, 2018 / Martijn / 0 Comments

PowerShell is about making things easy and consumable. Same goes for PowervRNI, making repetitive tasks in vRealize Network Insight easier and make it possible to extract information from vRNI.

It’s not that easy to load a custom module into PowerShell though, you have to download 1 or 2 files, then load it into your PowerShell session by referencing those local files. The PowerShell Gallery is a pretty awesome way to also make module management very easy. All you have to do is use the Install-Module command and it downloads and installs the module for you.

For the module authors, … Read more

Using PowervRNI to Quickly Add Applications

February 12, 2018 / Martijn / 0 Comments

This is the second post in a series on how to use PowervRNI to manage Applications within your vRealize Network Insight environment. If you’d like to learn about managing Data Sources with PowervRNI, check here.

Applications

Introduced in vRealize Network Insight 3.2 in the begin of 2017, Applications are logical containers which can contain the structure of applications (including tiering). You can use these application containers to better visualize what network flows are going between specific applications or even application tiers. Next to insights into your applications, you can also use it to take a per-application approach to micro-segmentation, … Read more

Using PowervRNI to Quickly Add Data Sources

January 23, 2018 / Martijn / 0 Comments

This is the first post in a series on how to use PowervRNI to manage your vRealize Network Insight environment. Starting with Data Sources.

Data Sources

Brief background; data sources in vRNI are endpoints from which vRNI retrieves information from. Examples are: vCenter, NSX, Switches, Routers, Firewalls, an AWS account or converged infrastructure systems like Cisco UCS or HP OneView.

Adding data sources is usually only performed when vRNI is installed into the environment and every time a new endpoint is added to your environment (for example a new vCenter environment, or when a new switch is plugged in).… Read more

Introducing PowervRNI

January 2, 2018 / Martijn / 0 Comments

I am excited to introduce PowervRNI to the world! In the 3.6 release of vRealize Network Insight (vRNI) in November, there was a public API added. Through this API, you can offload certain tedious tasks like creating applications and managing data sources. I was using the private API for a couple of things already, like importing data sources. With the release of the public API, I could move those things to use the public (and supported) API. Ever since then, I’ve been working on PowervRNI.

PowervRNI

The first release of PowervRNI is on GitHub here. With this … Read more

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