Storage, Backup and Hyperconverged

Connection reference for 46 array, backup, and hyperconverged collectors.

Arrays, backup platforms, and hyperconverged systems. See Supported Devices for how to read these entries.

Cohesity

Cohesity Backup

Field	Value
Device type	`COHESITY_BACKUP`
User role	“Viewer”
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address of any node, or DNS name of the cluster User: user name Password Domain: the user’s domain, for example company.com or LOCAL API Token: cluster API key, an optional replacement for User and Password
Notes	Requires the Cohesity Management SDK, installed separately on the data collection machine: `pip install cohesity-management-sdk`

Cohesity Helios

Field	Value
Device type	`COHESITY_HELIOS_DEVICE`
User role	Helios API key with access to the target cluster
Default ports	443
Collection method	API, via the Cohesity Helios cloud broker
Required parameters	Password: Helios API key, not the cluster’s own password IP: not a network address. Enter the target cluster’s Helios Cluster ID
Optional parameters	User: not used by this collector, leave blank
Notes	An alternative connectivity path to the Cohesity Backup collector above, for clusters managed through Cohesity’s Helios cloud control plane rather than reachable directly on their own IP.

Cohesity Helios SaaS

Field	Value
Device type	`COHESITY_HELIOS_SAAS_DEVICE`
User role	Helios API key
Default ports	443
Collection method	API, via the Cohesity Helios cloud (SaaS only, no on-premise cluster)
Required parameters	Password: Helios API key
Optional parameters	User: not used by this collector, leave blank
Notes	Collects FortKnox vault and Microsoft 365 backup job data only. It does not duplicate the per-cluster job, policy, or inventory data already collected by the Cohesity Backup or Cohesity Helios collectors.

NetBackup

Field	Value
Device type	`NETBACKUP_BACKUP`
User role	“NetBackup Read-Only Operator”
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password API Token
Notes	Generate the API token under Access Keys, then API Keys.

Commvault

Commvault Backup

Field	Value
Device type	`COMMVAULT_BACKUP`
User role	Role with global “View” and Commcell “Use Commcell” privileges
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Notes	On some Commvault versions “Use Commcell” is not available as an option. Where that is the case, the requirement can be disregarded.

Dell EMC

Compellent

Field	Value
Device type	`COMPELLENT_DEVICE`
User role	“Reporter”
Default ports	3033
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name for Storage Center User: user name Password Serial Number: serial number of the array
Notes	Contact Visual One before deploying this collector, as it may require adjustments for your environment.

Data Domain

Field	Value
Device type	`DATA_DOMAIN`
User role	“User”
Default ports	22
Collection method	SSH/CLI
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password

Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS)

Field	Value
Device type	`ECS_DEVICE`
User role	Any user with read-only access or higher
Default ports	4443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password

Isilon / PowerScale

Field	Value
Device type	`ISILON_DEVICE, POWERSCALE_DEVICE`
User role	Copy “Statistics Admin” and add read access to Cluster, NFS, and SMB
Default ports	8080
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password

PowerStore

Field	Value
Device type	`POWERSTORE_DEVICE`
User role	“Operator”
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password

ScaleIO

Field	Value
Device type	`SCALEIO_DEVICE`
User role	“Monitor”
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Notes	Contact Visual One before deploying this collector, as it may require adjustments for your environment.

Unity

Field	Value
Device type	`TEST_UNITY_DEVICE`
User role	“Operator”
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password

VMAX / PowerMax

Field	Value
Device type	`TEST_VMAX_DEVICE, POWERMAX_DEVICE`
User role	“PerfMonitor”
Default ports	8443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name for Unisphere User: user name Password Serial Number: Symmetrix ID of the array
Notes	Requires Unisphere 10.2 or higher.

VNX

Field	Value
Device type	`VNX_DEVICE`
User role	“Operator” with CLI access is sufficient for utilization and configuration data. Root access is required to also collect performance data.
Default ports	443, 8443
Collection method	CLI
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password CLI Path: path where navisseccli.exe is installed
Notes	Requires the EMC Navisphere Command Line Interface installed on the data collection machine.

VPLEX

Field	Value
Device type	`VPLEX_DEVICE`
User role	“readonly”
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Notes	Contact Visual One before deploying this collector, as it may require adjustments for your environment.

XtremIO

Field	Value
Device type	`XTREMIO_DEVICE`
User role	“read-only”
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Optional parameters	Array Name: cluster name, if more than one exists in a single management console

Hitachi Vantara

Ops Center (VSP)

Field	Value
Device type	`HITACHI_OPS_DEVICE`
User role	Read-only user created in Ops Center
Default ports	443, 8443, 20961
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name for Ops Center Common Services User: Ops Center user name Password Serial Number: serial number of a storage system

VSP 360

Field	Value
Device type	`HITACHI_VSP360_DEVICE`
User role	OAuth2 client credential pair (Client ID and Client Secret) registered on the VSP 360 appliance
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name of the VSP 360 appliance User: OAuth2 Client ID Password: OAuth2 Client Secret Serial Number: scopes collection to one array at a time
Optional parameters	Port, default 443
Notes	For Hitachi’s newer converged management appliance, which bundles Administrator, Analyzer, and Configuration Manager.

HNAS

Field	Value
Device type	`HITACHI_HNAS_API_DEVICE (primary, preferred)` `HITACHI_HNAS_DEVICE (alternate, legacy)`
User role	API: a read-only API key, created over SSH to the HNAS node using `apikey-create`, then `apikey-update` to strip the default full-access scope and grant native-rest-read only. The key text is shown once, at creation. SSH/CLI alternate: “user” is sufficient for basic capacity data, “supervisor” is required for detailed volume data. It must be created at the cluster level rather than the SMU, using `user add <name> <password> user`. This is the only way to create a read-only user with CLI access.
Default ports	8444 (alternate: 22)
Collection method	API (alternate: SSH/CLI)
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name of an HNAS node, not the SMU. Only one node per cluster is needed to retrieve data for all of them. Password: for the API collector this holds the API key rather than a device password User: required for the SSH/CLI alternate, not used by the API collector
Optional parameters	Port
Notes	The API collector probes API version 8 first, which requires NAS OS 14.5 or later, then falls back to version 7.

HCP

Field	Value
Device type	`HITACHI_HCP_DEVICE`
User role	“Monitor”
Default ports	9090
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Notes	The user must be added under each tenant, and the management API must be enabled under security settings.

HPE

3PAR

Field	Value
Device type	`THREE_PAR_DEVICE`
User role	“Browse”
Default ports	8080
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password Port: HTTPS port, default 8080
Notes	Verify the StoreServ WSAPI server is running with the CLI command `showwsapi`. Confirm HTTPS is enabled and that the correct HTTPS port is set in Visual One. Enable the WSAPI server and HTTPS with `startwsapi` and `setwsapi -https enable`.

Alletra 9000 Series

Field	Value
Device type	`HP_ALLETRA_DEVICE`
User role	“Browse”
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Notes	For Alletra 9000 Series arrays, which are based on 3PAR architecture.

Alletra 5000/6000 Series

Field	Value
Device type	`NIMBLE_ALLETRA_DEVICE`
User role	“Guest”
Default ports	443, 5392
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Notes	For Alletra 5000 and 6000 Series arrays, which are based on Nimble architecture.

Primera

Field	Value
Device type	`HP_PRIMERA_DEVICE`
User role	“Browse”
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password

Nimble

Field	Value
Device type	`NIMBLE_DEVICE`
User role	“Guest”
Default ports	443, 5392
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password

StoreOnce

Field	Value
Device type	`HP_STOREONCE_API_DEVICE (primary)` `HP_STOREONCE_DEVICE (alternate, for older arrays)`
User role	“Observer”
Default ports	443 (alternate: 22)
Collection method	API (alternate: SSH/CLI)
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Notes	Newer arrays with no CLI support must use the API collector.

IBM

DS8000

Field	Value
Device type	`DS8K_DEVICE`
User role	“Monitor”
Default ports	1751, 22
Collection method	IBM DSCLI
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Notes	Requires IBM DSCLI installed on the data collection server. The directory containing dscli.exe must be added to the system PATH.

FlashSystem / Storwize / SVC

Field	Value
Device type	`IBM_FLASH_SYSTEM (primary, preferred, covers all models below)` `IBM7200_DEVICE, IBM9100_DEVICE, IBM9200_DEVICE, IBM9500_DEVICE, SVC_DEVICE, V7000_DEVICE, V9000_DEVICE, FLASH900_DEVICE (alternate, legacy)`
User role	“Monitor” for both methods
Default ports	7443 (alternate: 22)
Collection method	API (alternate: SSH/CLI)
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Notes	The legacy device types share one underlying SSH/CLI collector, so choose whichever matches your device most closely. That choice only affects how the device is displayed in Visual One.

Spectrum Protect / TSM

Field	Value
Device type	`TSM_BACKUP`
User role	“Self Service”
Default ports	1500
Collection method	TSM Administrative CLI (dsmadmc)
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password Port: TCP port, default 1500 CLI Path: path to dsmadmc.exe
Notes	Requires TSM Administrative Tools (dsmadmc) installed on the data collection machine.

Infinidat

InfiniBox

Field	Value
Device type	`INFINIDAT_DEVICE`
User role	“READ_ONLY”
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Optional parameters	Infinimetrics IP: needed for performance metrics

NetApp

C-Mode (Clustered Data ONTAP)

Field	Value
Device type	`NETAPP_CLUSTER_API (primary, preferred)` `NETAPP_CLUSTER (alternate, legacy)`
User role	“readonly”
Default ports	443 (alternate: 22)
Collection method	API (alternate: SSH/CLI)
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Optional parameters	Port
Notes	The API collector uses ONTAP’s REST API for ONTAP 9.6 and later. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP is also supported and requires no additional configuration.

7-Mode (Data ONTAP 7-Mode)

Field	Value
Device type	`NETAPP_DEVICE`
User role	Administrator role, required for CLI access
Default ports	22
Collection method	CLI/SSH
Required parameters	IP: IP addresses or DNS names, comma separated with no spaces, for example NetApp01,NetApp02 User: user name Password
Notes	Specify one IP address or DNS name per node.

E-Series

Field	Value
Device type	`ESERIES_DEVICE`
User role	“Monitor”
Default ports	2044, 8443
Collection method	SANtricity Secure CLI (SMcli)
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Notes	Requires SANtricity Storage Manager installed on the data collection machine, with the path to smcli.exe in the PATH environment variable.

Nutanix

Nutanix / Prism

Field	Value
Device type	`NUTANIX_V4_DEVICE (primary, preferred, Prism Central v4)` `NUTANIX_DEVICE (alternate, legacy, Prism v0.8 to v3)`
User role	“Prism Viewer”
Default ports	9440, 443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name of Prism Central User: user name Password
Optional parameters	Port
Notes	NUTANIX_V4_DEVICE replaces the older v0.8 to v3 collector and is the preferred method for new deployments. The legacy collector remains available for compatibility. A single collection reports the Nutanix cluster both as a storage device and as its hypervisor, ESXi or AHV, including cluster, host, datastore, and VM detail. If a vCenter runs entirely on Nutanix, a separate VMware collection is not needed. If a vCenter spans Nutanix and other hardware, consult Visual One staff to avoid duplicate reporting.

Oracle

Exadata

Field	Value
Device type	`ORACLE_EXADATA`
User role	Cell Monitor, or equivalent, on one compute node and all storage cells, with host equivalence configured so that an authenticated session on the compute node can reach the storage cells without re-authenticating.
Default ports	22
Collection method	SSH/CLI
Required parameters	IP: IP address of the compute node User: user name Password Cells: comma separated storage cell IPs
Notes	Requires additional configuration, including a shell script and an ASM instance query. Consult Visual One staff for support.

ZFS

Field	Value
Device type	`ZFS_DEVICE`
User role	Any role with read-only access or higher
Default ports	22
Collection method	SSH/CLI
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password

Pure

FlashArray

Field	Value
Device type	`PURE_DEVICE`
User role	“readonly”
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Optional parameters	API Token
Notes	For FlashArrays with unified file storage enabled, an API token is required to collect file system utilization data. Generate it on the FlashArray’s user management screen.

FlashBlade

Field	Value
Device type	`FLASHBLADE_DEVICE`
User role	“readonly”
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name API Token
Notes	Generate the API token on the FlashBlade’s user management screen.

Qumulo

Qumulo Core

Field	Value
Device type	`QUMULO_DEVICE`
User role	“Observer”
Default ports	443, 8000
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password

Rubrik

Rubrik Security Cloud

Field	Value
Device type	`RUBRIK_RSC_DEVICE`
User role	Service account with permission to view all resources
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: <IP>.my.rubrik.com User: client_id, including the “client\|” prefix Password: client_secret Cluster UUID: from Cluster Details
Notes	Preferred over the legacy CDM collector. For the service account role, start from the built-in “Auditor” template, then update its “Assign System Configuration Privileges” and “Rubrik Application Privileges” settings to include all view privileges.

Rubrik CDM (legacy)

Field	Value
Device type	`RUBRIK_BACKUP`
User role	“Read-Only Administrator” service account, created in CDM
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	User: service user ID, which should include the “User:::” prefix Password: the service user’s secret, added as an SSH key in Visual One IP: IP address or DNS name
Notes	In Visual One, choose the “use SSH key instead of password” option and store the service account secret there.

Scality

RING

Field	Value
Device type	`SCALITY_DEVICE`
User role	Read only
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name of the Supervisor User: user name Password

Silk

Silk Cloud Data Platform

Field	Value
Device type	`SILK_DEVICE`
User role	Read-only
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password
Notes	Reports as a “storage device” in Visual One.

Synology

DiskStation Manager

Field	Value
Device type	`SYNOLOGY_DEVICE`
User role	Read-only user with REST API privilege
Default ports	5001
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password

Tintri

VMstore

Field	Value
Device type	`TINTRI_DEVICE`
User role	“Read Only”
Default ports	443
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password

Veeam

Veeam Backup

Field	Value
Device type	`VEEAM_BACKUP`
User role	“Veeam Backup Viewer”
Default ports	9419
Collection method	API
Required parameters	IP: IP address or DNS name User: user name Password