nCipher HSM extension
- Latest Dynatrace
- Extension
- Published Oct 27, 2025
Monitor your nCipher Hardware Security Modules (HSM) over SNMP.
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Overview
Monitor nCipher HSM health and availability to prevent failures and downtime.
Use cases
- Monitor the availability of security appliances.
- Detect device anomalies and avoid outages.
Compatibility information
Supports nCipher HSM devices that implement the NCIPHER-MIB standard.
Setup and activation
Activate the extension in your environment using the in-product Hub, provide the necessary device configuration, and you're all set up.
Details
This extension collects important nCipher infrastructure metrics to monitor device health and availability. Metrics are collected through SNMP polling.
The extension package contains:
- SNMP data source configuration
- Overview dashboard
- Custom topology types extracted from metric dimensions
- nCipher device
- Unified analysis screens
SNMP MIB files used for monitoring:
- NCIPHER-MIB
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.
A metric inherits the feature set of a subgroup, which in turn inherits the feature set of a group. Also, the feature set defined on the metric level overrides the feature set defined on the subgroup level, which in turn overrides the feature set defined on the group level.
net-hsm-stats
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| nCipher netHSMUptime | ncipher.netHSMUptime.count | Uptime of the hardserver. |
| 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. |
| nCipher netHSMCurrentTemp | ncipher.netHSMCurrentTemp | Current temperature of the netHSM. See HSM Installation Guide for temperature ranges. |
| nCipher netHSMCurrentTemp2 | ncipher.netHSMCurrentTemp2 | Current temperature of the netHSM. See HSM Installation Guide for temperature ranges. |
| nCipher netHSMTamperBattery1 | ncipher.netHSMTamperBattery1 | Current voltage on Tamper Battery 1. |
| nCipher netHSMTamperBattery1 | ncipher.netHSMTamperBattery2 | Current voltage on Tamper Battery 2. |
module-stats
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| nCipher tempSP | ncipher.tempSP | Current operating temperature of Security Processor. See HSM Installation Guide for temperature ranges. |
nc-series
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| nCipher modulesFailed | ncipher.modulesFailed | True if any HSM modules have failed. |
| nCipher load | ncipher.load | Percentage of total available HSM capacity currently utilized. |
conn-module-stats
| Metric name | Metric key | Description |
|---|---|---|
| nCipher connModuleStatsObjectCount | ncipher.connModuleStatsObjectCount | The object count on this module, for this connection. This gives an indication of current load. |
