Creating an extended integration for Prometheus assets

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Creating the integration

Creating custom mappings

Before you start

The Prometheus asset load enables you to construct your own API queries using the Prometheus API. 

When you create the user integration you will need to supply the following:

1. Your Prometheus Base URL, or URL of your Prometheus server for example: http://prometheus.example.org:9090
2. Your Prometheus Query URL, for example: /api/v1/query
3. Your Prometheus Query, for example: query=up
4. LookBack Period in hours. The Start or lookback time of the query.
5. Query resolution step width in seconds. Query resolution time in seconds.

Before you can create the user integration with Oomnitza, you need to have added your Prometheus username and password to Oomnitza. To do this, complete the following steps:

1. In Oomnitza, go to Configuration>Security>Credentials.
2. Click Add new credential (+).
3. Search for the integration, and then click the forward button > to select the integration.
4. Enter the user name and password of your account
5. Click Create.

Integration not in the list? Click Advanced Mode and complete these steps:

1. Add the information details.
2. Click the AUTHORIZATION tab.
3. Ensure that Basic Auth is selected as the authorization type.
4. Enter the user name and password of your account.
5. Click Create. 

Creating the integration

To configure the integration for the Prometheus Asset Load, complete the following steps:

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. 

Creating custom mappings

Map Prometheus fields to Oomnitza fields to get the asset information that you need. For the field mapping, it is recommended to follow these steps:

1. Create a custom mapping for the Instance field. To do this, complete these steps:
   1. Click the down arrow on the Instance field.
   2. Select Add new Oomnitza assets field.
   3. Change the name of the new field to Prometheus Instance. 
   4. Select the Unique checkbox.
   5. Click CREATE. 
2. Map and assign a sync key to a unique field, such as the Prometheus Instance. 
3. Click UPDATE.

Tracking information for asset loads 

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

• Connect: Credentials
• Connect: Lookback period in hours
• Connect: Prometheus Base URL
• Connect: Prometheus Query
• Connect: Prometheus Query URL
• Connect: Query resolution step width in seconds

Custom mappings

Alias
Connector Sync Time
Instance
Job
Name

 Learn more about mapping

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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