Creating an extended integration for New Relic assets

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Get the information and insights that you need to reduce costs and the time that you spend on administration tasks such as:

• Configurable dashboards and list views of key asset and user information
• Configurable reports to share information about assets and users with your colleagues and management

Before you start

Creating an asset integration

Creating custom mappings

Before you start

To stream New Relic user data into Oomnitza, you need to have added your New Relic API credentials to Oomnitza.

You also need to have your API domain to hand to create the asset integration in Oomnitza. Your API domain will vary depending on where your account was created, for example api.newrelic for US accounts, or api.eu.newrelic for EU accounts.

Creating an 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, user 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 ..

Creating custom mappings

Map the New Relic fields to Oomnitza fields and create custom mappings to get the information that you need to manage your assets.

To take advantage of workflows, ensure you map the following New Relic fields to Oomnitza:

1. You must create a custom mapping for the New Relic Device Id field. To do this, complete these steps:
   1. Click the down arrow on the Id field.
   2. Select Add new Oomnitza assets field.
   3. Change the name of the new field to New Relic Device Id. 
   4. Enable the Unique checkbox.
   5. Click CREATE. 
2. Create custom mappings to map any other field that you want to add to Oomnitza:
   1. Click the down arrow on the field that you want to map.
   2. Select Add new Oomnitza assets field.
   3. Change the name of the field.
   4. Click CREATE. 
3. Select a sync key, such as New Relic Device Id. The field must have unique values.
4. When you've completed mapping the fields, click UPDATE.

Standard mappings

You can map the following fields to Oomnitza:

Application Summary Apdex Score
Application Summary Apdex Target
Application Summary Concurrent Instance Count
Application Summary Error Rate
Application Summary Host Count
Application Summary Instance Count
Application Summary Response Time
Application Summary Throughput
Connector Sync Time
Health Status
Id
Language
Last Reported At
Name
Reporting

Did you know? 
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. 

Launching the integration

Your integration is in Draft mode until all the required mandatory fields are added. Once you have added all of the required fields, select Launch to activate your integration. 

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

If you selected Local as the installation type when creating the integration, refer to 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

Unleash the power of Oomnitza

To get valuable actionable insights that help you manage your assets, learn how to:

• Configure dashboards for your assets and users
• Create asset and user workflows to automate tasks
• Configure custom reports about your assets and users

Next steps

Creating workflows for New Relic assets and users