Creating an extended integration for New Relic assets

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You'll get visibility of your assets as data from New Relic is automatically transformed into consumable information and actionable insights.

Connect Oomnitza and New Relic in minutes

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

Before you create the asset integration, you need to have added your New Relic API credentials to Oomnitza.

Creating an asset integration

1. Click Configuration > Integrations.
2. Click Integrations List View .
3. On the Integrations page, scroll down to the Extended section for Assets.
4. Click NEW INTEGRATION.
5. In the New Asset Integration sidebar, click  New Relic .
6. To integrate Oomnitza with the  New Relic Asset Load, click APPLY and then click NEXT twice.

Connect page

1. Enter a descriptive name for the integration such as New Relic Assets. That'll be the name of the integration that is shown on the Integrations page.
2. Select Cloud as the installation type.
3. From the Credentials list, select the credentials from the Oomnitza vault that you added for the connection.
4. From the Integration Preferences list, select Create & Update. 
5. Enter the name of the user of the integration.
6. Enter the API domain for your New Relic instance such as api.newrelic or api.eu.newrelic.
7. Click Next.

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 NEXT.

Custom 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

Schedule

By default, asset 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. Configure your schedule.
2. Click FINISH.

Result

A new tile is created for the integration on the Integrations page. 

What to do next

If you want to see what information is collected now, click the tile on the Integrations page and click RUN.

Figure: Mock-up for illustration purposes

If you want to change the integration settings, you can click a navigation link on the page, such as 4 Mappings, and edit the settings. 

Tip
To view the information that is collected about your assets, click Assets.

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