Collector plugin for ILO

[mihkelvain]

Ilo has rest api for some time and for later ilos (v5) it actually returns useful information that can be used for monitoring. For example
/redfish/v1/Systems/1/NetworkAdapters/1/
using this:
https://ilorestfulapiexplorer.ext.hpe.com/
there are values like: GoodReceives, BadReceives, etc. Using different calls, we can track status of disks, memory, etc and if those changes are collected and transferred to some database, then alerts can be integrated with ticketing system of choice. Personally for me it seems very cool thing to have.
Using metrics from ilo and OS it is easier to debug and understand if problem is mostly related to hardware or its more in OS side. Also every change done in ILO is more easily trackable. Ofc this api can be used to management tasks also, but snap could benefit from it and use it for metrics.

I made this feature request for ILO currently, but most HW devices provide some api - idrac, bigip, cisco switches/bladecenters, arista etc. It would be cool to collect metrics using snap and api-s they provide. Yes, I know that snmp is there and has been there for ages, but still :)

[mihkelvain]

I don't know how to add labels :)
plugin-wishlist/collector, help-wanted

[andrzej-k]

I really like you idea for such plugin @mihkelvain. I've also added the label you've wanted.