UIM Monitoring Setup for Huawei Virtualization Platform

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

The article describes alternatives for monitoring the Huawei Virtualization Platform using UIM. 

Resolution

There is no official UIM probe dedicated to reporting directly from Huawei virtualization products (like Huawei FusionCompute, Huawei SingleCLOUD, Huawei CloudStack variants, or other Huawei-branded hypervisors) listed in the standard UIM probe support matrix. The official probe lists from Broadcom do not include a dedicated “Huawei virtualization” probe similar to the VMware or XenServer probes.

 

However, there are some alternative ways you could monitor Huawei virtualization in UIM: 

Use generic methods (SNMP / SSH / WMI / OS-level monitoring):

If the underlying virtualization platform exposes performance statistics via SNMP or standard OS counters, UIM probes like snmpcollector, net_connect, perfmon (Windows) and rsp/sysstat (Linux) can gather host and VM metrics.

This doesn’t provide the same deep VM-stack insight as a dedicated API probe (like VMware), but gives basic availability and resource metrics.

 

Please see: 

snmpcollector (SNMP Data Monitoring) Release Notes

snmpcollector Device Support

net_connect Metrics

 

Via an intermediary platform like Spectrum or cross-integration:

UIM integrates with tools like CA Spectrum (DX NetOps), which may have broader virtualization capabilities. If Spectrum supports Huawei virtualization stack (e.g., via SNMP/DM or API), then UIM might indirectly receive monitoring data through that integration.

 

How Virtual Host Manager Works with Huawei SingleCLOUD

 

Use Huawei’s APIs or integration tools externally:

Some Huawei virtualization products (e.g., SingleCLOUD) have REST APIs or management APIs — you could use UIM’s restmon or a custom probe to gather metrics if the API offers the data you need.

This requires a custom template/probe configuration and scripting on your UIM side.