Creating an extended integration for LogicMonitor assets

LogicMonitor is a cloud-based infrastructure monitoring and performance optimization platform that provides comprehensive monitoring and analytics solutions for IT infrastructure and business applications. It helps organizations gain visibility into their entire technology stack, including networks, servers, storage, applications, and cloud resources.

The LogicMonitor Asset Load enables you to retrieve LogicMonitor devices. The information retrieved includes the device details, AWS state, permissions, and update information.

LogicMonitor REST API v3 Swagger Documentation: Devices

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Create the asset integration

Custom mappings

Before you start

Before you can create the integration you need to create an LMv1 token in LogicMonitor and set the token, along with your Account name, as global variables in Oomnitza.

Creating an LMv1 token in LogicMonitor

Adding your LogicMonitor token and Account name as global variables

Note on credential details

When setting up the integration, you will be prompted to provide your API credentials in the Credential details section. You can supply any value (such as a space) for the API key, or select an existing API credential from the list. This is to satisfy the criteria for running the integration.

Creating the asset integration

1. In Oomnitza, click Configuration> Integrations> Overview.
2. Click Block view
3. Scroll down to the Extended section for asset integrations.
4. Click NEW INTEGRATION.
5. Select the integration in the sidebar.
6. Click ADD.

Integration details overview

More information is provided about the following fields to help you complete the integration:

Installation type

Select Cloud if you want to store credentials in the Oomnitza cloud.

Select Local if you want to store credentials locally. Local extended integrations do not support AWS and OAuth authentication. If you want to sync Oomnitza with vendor applications that require AWS or OAUTH authentication, select Cloud.

Integration preferences

By default, the option Create & Update option is selected. Select this option  when you want to edit records and add new records. If you want to edit records and not add new records, select Update Only. If you only want to add new records, select Create Only.

Integration details

To review or update the integrations details, click Edit .

1. Update the integration name if necessary. 
2. Select an installation type.
3. For integration preferences, select an option.
4. Enter the name of the integration user.

Credential details

If you selected Cloud as the installation type, choose one of the following options:

• Select the credentials that were created for the integration.
• Edit the credentials that were created for the integration.
• Create new credentials

Schedule

By default, data is streamed to Oomnitza once every day.

You can configure the schedule to meet your needs such as changing the interval or changing the time so that the data is streamed when your system isn't busy.

1. Click the Edit .
2. Configure your schedule.
3. Click Update.

Mappings

To map the fields to Oomnitza, click Edit .

You can define rules for your integration by selecting Edit integration on the mapping page. For example, you may only want to run the integration if a certain contact or region exists. See Filtering integration results.  
You can add new fields to your integration by selecting Add new field   on the mapping page. All you need to do is specify the property name. See Creating custom API fields. 

Custom mappings

Map the LogicMonitor fields to Oomnitza fields and create custom mappings to get the user information that you need.

Complete these actions:

1. Click Smart Mapping to automatically detect appropriate mapping fields. Values from the integration can also be dragged to the appropriate field on the Oomnitza side, or selected from the integration field dropdown.
2. Create a custom mapping for the LogicMonitor ID. Complete the following steps:
   1. Click the down arrow on the ID field.
   2. Select Add new Oomnitza assets field.
   3. Change the name of the field to LogicMonitor Device ID.
   4. Select the Unique checkbox.
   5. Click CREATE. 
3. Map and assign a sync key to a unique field, such as the Device ID.
4. Click UPDATE. 

Tracking information for user loads 

When the integration is run, you can track the name of the credentials that were used and the source of the data. To do this, you map the following fields to Oomnitza:   

• Connect: API Token
• Connect: Account Name
• Connect: Credentials

Standard LogicMonitor to Oomnitza User Load mappings

AWS State
Auto Balanced Collector Group ID
Auto Properties Assigned On
Auto Properties Updated On
Azure State
Collector Description
Created On
Current Collector ID
Current Log Collector ID
Deleted Time in Milliseconds
Description
Device Type
Disable Alerting
Display Name
Enable Net Flow
GCP State
Host Group IDs
Host Status
ID
Inherited Property - Address
Is Preferred Log Collector Configured
Last Data Time
Last Raw Data Time
Link
Log Collector Description
Log Collector Group ID
Log Collector Group Name
Log Collector ID
Name
Net Flow Collector Description
Net Flow Collector Group ID
Net Flow Collector Group Name
Net Flow Collector ID
Preferred Collector Group ID
Preferred Collector Group Name
Preferred Collector ID
Related Device ID
Role Privileges
Scan Config ID
Synthetics Collector IDs
System Property - Address
To Delete Time in Milliseconds
Up Time in Seconds
Updated On
User Permission

Launching the integration

Your integration is in Draft mode until the required mandatory fields are added. When added, click Launch to activate your integration. 

If you selected Cloud as the installation type when creating the integration, see Running an extended integration

If you selected Local as the installation type when creating the integration, see Running an extended integration locally.

Viewing data ingested by Oomnitza

Viewing ingested asset data

For asset integrations, click Hardware. If the asset integration also ingests software data, click Software.

Viewing ingested user data

For user integrations, click People. If you chose the option to ingest User and SaaS user data, click Software > SaaS, click the SaaS app, and then click the Users tab. 

Related Links

• Running an extended integration
• Troubleshooting integrations
• Mapping extended integrations

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• Configure dashboards for your users and software
• Configure custom reports about your users and software
• Create workflows to automate tasks

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