Introduction

Onboarding involves designing management policies for your enterprise operations and for the resources you want to monitor, followed by implementation steps to configure resource discovery and monitoring.

The following figure shows the design and implementation steps.

Onboarding Process

Onboarding Process

The following sections summarize each of the onboarding steps. See the Concepts Guide and Platform documentation for more detailed information.

Design

Tenancy

Tenancy refers to partitioning your environment into client entities. A client can represent:

  • a business unit or department.
  • locations where resources are deployed, such as public cloud accounts or data centers.
  • resources allocation policy, such as development, staging, or production.

It is recommended that you define a tenancy structure that best matches your organizational structure.

Access control

Access control authenticates users and grants permissions to user according to role. Access control design options include:

  • single sign-on (SSO) using an external SSO system or native authentication.
  • two-Factor authentication.
  • providing user accounts at the client level or limiting user accounts at the organization, or partner, level.
  • defining roles and access levels for the role.

Instrumentation

Built-in instrumentation is provided to collect metric data. You can specify the type of instrumentation to use depending on the resource type.

Resource organization

Organize your resources into logical categories, including:

  • resource groups that logically associate resources.
  • sites, which are resources residing in the same geographical location.
  • service maps, which logically group resources that provide a service.

Resource organization helps you manage your environment at scale because you can reason about resource classes instead of individual resources.

Implementation

Management policies

Resource management policies simplify onboarding new resources by automating actions performed on the resource when the resource is discovered. Automated actions include assigning or associating:

  • monitoring templates
  • availability definitions
  • knowledge base articles
  • credentials
  • jobs
  • custom attributes

Resource credentials

Access credentials are needed to discover and monitor resources, such as SNMP credentials to manage SNMP-enabled resources. Credentials need to be collected and put in the credential store.

Discovery

Discovery finds and onboards managed resources. Numerous integrations are supported for discovering common resources.

Validation

To validate that resources are successfully onboarded, view the dashboard infrastructure list page, and locate the resource. For a more complete validation, it is recommended that you use the reporting feature, which provides the following information:

  • a full inventory of onboarded resources
  • the status of onboarded resources

Next steps