nCipher HSM

nCipher HSM

Monitor your nCipher Hardware Security Modules (HSM) over SNMP

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Overview

This extensions collects important nCipher infrastructure metrics to monitor the health and availability of devices. Metrics are collected through SNMP get polling.

Use cases

Monitor the availability of security appliances
Detect device anomalies and avoid outages

Compatibility information

nCipher HSM devices (NCIPHER-MIB support)

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Extension content

Content typeNumber of items included

screen logs cards

2

screen layout

2

generic relationship

1

screen dql table

1

document dashboard

1

log processing rule

1

dashboards

1

metric metadata

11

generic type

1

screen entities lists

1

screen chart groups

8

Feature sets

Below is a complete list of the feature sets provided in this version. To ensure a good fit for your needs, individual feature sets can be activated and deactivated by your administrator during configuration.

Feature setsNumber of metrics included

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
nCipher hardserverFailed	ncipher.hardserverFailed	True if the hardserver is not running or is not responding. If the hardserver is not running, then most of the rest of the information is unreliable or missing.	Count
nCipher modulesFailed	ncipher.modulesFailed	True if any HSM modules have failed.	Count
nCipher load	ncipher.load	Percentage of total available HSM capacity currently utilized.	Percent

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
nCipher connModuleStatsObjectCount	ncipher.connModuleStatsObjectCount	The object count on this module, for this connection. This gives an indication of current load.	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
nCipher tempSP	ncipher.tempSP	Current operating temperature of Security Processor. See HSM Installation Guide for temperature ranges.	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
nCipher netHSMUptime	ncipher.netHSMUptime.count	Uptime of the hardserver.	Count
nCipher netHSMPSUFailure	ncipher.netHSMPSUFailure	Pwer Supply failure status. True if the unit is reporting a power supply failure. Each HSM has 2 hot-swappable PSUs.	Count
nCipher netHSMCurrentTemp	ncipher.netHSMCurrentTemp	Current temperature of the netHSM. See HSM Installation Guide for temperature ranges.	Count
nCipher netHSMCurrentTemp2	ncipher.netHSMCurrentTemp2	Current temperature of the netHSM. See HSM Installation Guide for temperature ranges.	Count
nCipher netHSMTamperBattery1	ncipher.netHSMTamperBattery1	Current voltage on Tamper Battery 1.	Count
nCipher netHSMTamperBattery1	ncipher.netHSMTamperBattery2	Current voltage on Tamper Battery 2.	Count

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