#861 Some Ideas for OIC Fleet Management

 

As you can see, the above graphic is WIP.

I am getting some ideas together on this and seeing how the OIC Monitoring APIs can help me out here.

Use case is I have a fleet of OIC instances and need some intel on them.

Connections 

Here I want a list of my configured connections and their status - I will write the salient data to a file -

Here is an excerpt from the output file - 

I use the following apis - 

 

I test these in Postman to get the response JSON for use in defining the OIC Invokes - 

I orchestrate the calls via an OIC integration - creating a REST connection to my OIC instance.

The above part creates the output file using the FILE STAGE action.

I now invoke the OIC REST api to get the configured connections -

The Map for q is as follows - I am looking for all configured connections with the prefix AA- (these all belong to me)

I then write the connection name to the file (WriteConnectionDetails) -

Then I test the individual connections (TestConnection) - Invoke configured as follows -

Now to the Scope Fault Handler -

 

As you can see, I specifically check for Locked Connections - 

Final step is to write the file created by STAGE FILE to an ftp directory - I am using the embedded OIC File Server here.

Connectivity Agents

Here I check the status of OIC agents, using the following api -

 

 

This returns a list of agents within their agent groups -

Let's look at one of my agents - 

Here is the relevant json - 

...

All the salient info is here - agent group, agent name and status.

Output file extract - 

I won't go into great detail on the integration here - suffice to say I use the same OIC REST connection as follows -

 

notice the 2 For Each Loops - 

The first loop -

The second loop - 

Integration Errors

Here I call the following 2 apis - 

First I invoke Retrieve Errored Instances and iterate over the errored instances, invoking Retrieve an Errored Integration Instance.

The output file is as follows - 

Conclusion

I got these basic samples together very quickly. Naturally, I could have written the data to a DB instead of to a file. Essentially, I could have pushed this data anywhere. 

I mentioned fleet in the title, i.e. more than 1 OIC instance. My REST api connection for leveraging the OIC Monitoring included the hardcoded OIC instance url, so I would need such a connection for each OIC instance, or else use another form of authentication.