Orion Integration with CA Spectrum

According to a white paper solarwinds-marketing.s3.amazonaws.com/.../SolarWinds Integration with 3rd Party Products FINAL[1].pdf, Spectrum integrates with CA Spectrum. Not really seeing any documentation of even discussions on this. Spectrum doen not seem to even come close to recognizing anything SAM is sending over...Any resources available?

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aLTeReGo

As the integration document references you can use SNMP Traps, Syslog, and email notifications to forward alert and event information from Orion to CA's Spectrum. If you have some development expertise or wish to work with professional services tighter integration can be obtained by leveraging Orion's API though our freely available SDK.

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jere557

Is this type of forwarding possible using the Enterprise Operations Console to collect the traps, and syslogs and forward it from there? Or, would we have to have all of our instances individually forwarding their syslog, etc to our CA Spectrum? Oh, and to note to your previous answer, i have no development expertise hahaha!

sean.martinez

Solarwinds Enterprise Operations Console is only to aggregate data from multiple Solarwinds Orion Instances to get a global view of the infrastructure. EOC cannot collect any data from multiple installations and forward it on to other vendors, and the Orion SDK/API is not available for EOC 1.x.

As mentioned in the whitepaper, you would need to leverage the API to pull data out and send it out. Each CA Deployment I have seen is different, so it will depend on what you are using.

The Orion API Supports Python, just like CA Spectrum uses python scripting.

jere557

Ah dang. Alright. Thanks Sean! We were hoping there'd be a way to have EOC forward it, but it doesn't sound like it's made for that. I'll have to see how our other team is using CA Spectrum to further analyse what they need sent over. I'm still not exactly sure how they're using it, and i have no access to their system. It sounds like using the API, we can probably get what they want, i just don't want to replicate onto a bunch of unique instances if i could leverage EOC.

Also, Thank you for your service, sir!!