What is new in the Unified App and Add-on?

Splunk and Elastic
Audience
Public
Product
FlashBlade
FlashArray
FlashBlade > Purity//FB
FlashArray > Purity//FA
Technology Integrations
Splunk and Elastic
Source Type
Documentation

  • Combined dashboards for FlashArray and FlashBlade in a single app
    • New dashboards for FlashArray
      • Pod Inventory
      • Volume Group
    • New dashboards for FlashBlade
      • Audits
  • The new App and Add-on support Splunk versions from 7.3 to 9.1+ and have Python3 as the default interpreter
  • The Unified Add-on supports FlashArray REST API 1.13 to 2.8 (FA//Purity Version 5.0.0 and above)
  • The Unified Add-on supports FlashBlade REST API 1.0 to 2.4

Topology

The PureStorage Unified App has been distributed in two parts.

  1. The PureStorage Unified Add-on app, which fetches the logs/metrics from FlashArray(s) and/or FlashBlade(s).
  2. The PureStorage Unified App for visualizing the fetched data from FlashArray and FlashBlades.

    The app can be set up in two ways:

    1) Standalone Mode

    Install the Add-on and the app on the same Splunk instance.

    2) Distributed Environment

    Search Head

    • Install both the Unified App and Add-on.
    • No need to configure the Add-on here.

    Indexer

    • If you want to use a custom index to store the data collected from the FlashArray and FlashBlade, define it here.
    • No need to install the App or the Add-on here.

    Heavy Forwarder

    • Install and configure the Add-on. (This instance should have network access to the FlashArray and/or FlashBlade)
    • Do not install the Unified app here.
    Note:

    As the PureStorage Unified Add-on (TA) requires the Splunk Enterprise software, it cannot be installed on the Universal Forwarder.