Dell EMC PowerMax extension

• Latest Dynatrace
• Extension
• Published Oct 27, 2025

Monitor PowerMax Arrays for performance and health through the Dell Unisphere API.

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Overview

Use the Dynatrace Dell EMC PowerMax extension for ActiveGate to simplify monitoring of your PowerMax infrastructure and focus on essential insights into your PowerMax arrays.

The PowerMax extension runs on a Dynatrace ActiveGate and connects to the Dell Unisphere APIs.

Activate the extension in your environment via the in-product Hub, then provide the PowerMax connection and a user account to connect to Unisphere APIs.

Use cases

Requirements

The user account you provide to the extension must have the PerfMonitor role assigned to access the performance metric endpoints used by the extension.

SSL Configuration

To enable SSL communication between the ActiveGate and the Unisphere server, extract the CA certificate from the Unisphere server and place it on the ActiveGate.

The following command can be used to get the CA certificate of the Unisphere server:

$ openssl s_client -showcerts -connect {server_hostname}:8443 \
</dev/null 2>/dev/null|openssl x509 -outform PEM > {cert_name}.pem

This PEM key file needs to be placed on any ActiveGate that is running the extension, in a location that is accessible to the extension. The recommended default location for the PEM file is:

For more about Extensions 2.0 operations, see Extensions.

Compatibility information

Details

The extension package contains:

Summary of the PowerMax entities monitored:

The PowerMax extension collects metrics for PowerMax entities and builds topological relationships between them so that Dynatrace performance analytics can leverage causal dependencies and surface the root causes of issues. The following entities are monitored:

Licensing and cost

There is no charge for obtaining the extension, only for the data that the extension ingests. The details of license consumption depend on which licensing model you are using:

Metrics

License consumption is based on the number of metric data points ingested. The following formula provides approximate annual data points ingested assuming all feature sets are enabled.

(
  (
    ( 41 * number of Arrays)
  + ( 10 * number of Hosts)
  + (  4 * number of Boards)
  + (  9 * number of BE Directors)
  + (  1 * number of EDS Directors)
  + ( 10 * number of FE Directors)
  + (  3 * number of IM Directors)
  + (  1 * number of EM Directors)
  + (  9 * number of RDF Directors)
  + (  1 * number of RDFA)
  + (  8 * number of SRPs)
  + ( 15 * number of Disk Groups)
  + ( 26 * number of Storage Groups)
  + (  4 * number of Volumes)
  + (  9 )
  ) / <Metrics Collection Interval>
) * 60 minutes * 24 hours * 365 days data points per year

Logs

This extension does not ingest logs.

Classic licensing

In the Dynatrace classic licensing model, metric ingestion will consume Davis Data Units (DDUs) at the rate of .001 DDUs per metric data point. Multiply the above formula for annual data points by .001 to estimate annual DDU usage.

Feature sets

When activating your extension using monitoring configuration, you can limit monitoring to one of the feature sets. To work properly the extension has to collect at least one metric after the activation.

In highly segmented networks, feature sets can reflect the segments of your environment. Then, when you create a monitoring configuration, you can select a feature set and a corresponding ActiveGate group that can connect to this particular segment.

All metrics that aren't categorized into any feature set are considered to be the default and are always reported.

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Monitor PowerMax Arrays for performance and health through the Dell Unisphere API.