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Monitor Nutanix AHV (Prism Central) with DumbMonit
Nutanix clusters through the v4 API of Prism Central: hosts degraded or in maintenance, AHV VMs and their power state, storage containers filling up, and unresolved alerts by severity.
DocumentationOfficial website: Nutanix
Product descriptions are in English, as in the product. The page labels follow your language.
What DumbMonit watches
Nutanix clusters, read through the v4 REST API of Prism Central. One Prism Central covers every cluster registered to it.
Typical use. Prism Central v4 API: clusters, hosts, AHV VMs, storage containers, alerts
Examples
- Prism Central pc.2024.3 or later
- AHV clusters
How it connects
What you need
- User name and passwordThe dumbmonit local user of Prism Central, with the Prism Viewer role.
Network ports to open
9440/TCPPrism Central API (HTTPS, default)
Setup steps: Create a read-only user in Prism Central
In Prism Central, open Admin Center → IAM → Identities and add a local user with a long random password.
dumbmonitOpen Admin Center → IAM → Authorization Policies and create a policy with the Prism Viewer role, for all entities, assigned to that user.
In DumbMonit, enter the Prism Central address (for example prism-central.lan) with that user name and password.
Heads-up. Needs Prism Central pc.2024.3 or later (v4 API); Prism Element alone is not supported. Prism Central uses a self-signed certificate: enable "Accept an unverifiable certificate" unless DumbMonit trusts it.