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Forwarding events to SAP Data Intelligence

You can configure Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator to forward events to SAP Data Intelligence (Intelligent Insights).

Before you begin

Attention
The connection between XClarity Orchestrator and SAP Data Intelligence uses encrypted transport but does not verify the TLS certificate of the remote system.

About this task

If resource-based access control is enabled, data is forwarded for only those resources that you can access using access-control lists. If you are not a member of a group to which the predefined Supervisor role is assigned, you must assign one or more access-control lists to the forwarders that you create. If you want to send data for all resources that you can access, select all access-control lists that are associated that are available to you. If you are a member of a group to which the predefined Supervisor role is assigned, you can choose to send data for all resources, or you can choose to assign access control lists to limit the resources.

You cannot filter data that is forwarded to SAP Data Intelligence.

The following example shows the default format for data that is forwarded to SAP Data Intelligence. Words between double square brackets are attributes that are replaced with actual values when data is forwarded.
{\"msg\":\"[[EventMessage]]\",\"eventID\":\"[[EventID]]\",\"serialnum\":
\"[[EventSerialNumber]]\",\"senderUUID\":\"[[EventSenderUUID]]\",\"flags\":
\"[[EventFlags]]\",\"userid\":\"[[EventUserName]]\",\"localLogID\":
\"[[EventLocalLogID]]\",\"systemName\":\"[[DeviceFullPathName]]\",\"action\":
[[EventActionNumber]],\"failFRUNumbers\":\"[[EventFailFRUs]]\",\"severity\":
[[EventSeverityNumber]],\"sourceID\":\"[[EventSourceUUID]]\",
\"sourceLogSequence\":[[EventSourceLogSequenceNumber]],\"failFRUSNs\":
\"[[EventFailSerialNumbers]]\",\"failFRUUUIDs\":\"[[EventFailFRUUUIDs]]\",
\"eventClass\":[[EventClassNumber]],\"componentID\":\"[[EventComponentUUID]]\",
\"mtm\":\"[[EventMachineTypeModel]]\",\"msgID\":\"[[EventMessageID]]\",
"sequenceNumber\":\"[[EventSequenceID]]\",\"timeStamp\":\"[[EventTimeStamp]]\",
\"args\":[[EventMessageArguments]],\"service\":[[EventServiceNumber]],
\"commonEventID\":\"[[CommonEventID]]\",\"eventDate\":\"[[EventDate]]\"}"

Procedure

To forward event data to SAP Data Intelligence, complete the following steps.

  1. From the XClarity Orchestrator menu bar, click Monitoring (Monitoring icon) > Forwarding, and then click Data Forwarders in the left navigation to display the Data Forwarders card.
  2. Click the Create icon (Add icon) to display the Create Data Forwarder dialog.
  3. Specify the forwarder name and optional description.
  4. Choose to enable or disable the forwarder by clicking the State toggle.
  5. Select Intelligent Insights as the forwarder type.
  6. Click Configuration, and fill in the protocol-specific information.
    • Enter the hostname or IP address of SAP Data Intelligence.
    • Enter the port to use for forwarding events. The default is 443.
    • Enter the resource path on which the forwarder is to post the events (for example, /rest/test).
    • Select the REST method. This can be one of the following values.
      • PUT
      • POST
    • Select the protocol to use for forwarding events. This can be one of the following values.
      • HTTP
      • HTTPS
    • Enter the time-out period (in seconds) for the request. Default is 30 seconds.
    • If authentication is required, select one of the following authentication types.
      • Basic. Authenticates to the specified server using the specified tenant, user ID, and password.
      • Token. Authenticates to the specified server using the specified token header name and value
  7. Click Access Control Lists, and select one or more access-control lists that you want to associated with this forwarder.

    If resource-based access is enabled, you must select at least one access-control list.

    Tip
    Users that are members of a group to which the predefined Supervisor role is assigned can optionally select Match Everything instead of selecting an access control lists so that forwarded data is not restricted.
  8. Click Create to create the forwarder.

After you finish

You can perform the following actions from the Data Forwarders card.

  • Enable or disable a selected forwarder by selecting the toggle in the State column
  • Modify a selected forwarder by clicking the Edit icon (Edit icon).
  • Remove a selected forwarder by clicking the Delete icon (Delete icon).