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Foglight for Infrastructure 7.1.0 - Foglight for Net Monitor User and Reference Guide

Devices Management table

Purpose

The Devices Management view displays the monitored network devices.

How to get here

On the Devices Management dashboard, this view appears just above the Agent Alarms view.

Description of the View
 
Table 4. Devices Management view
Data displayed
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Device Name Override. The device name override, if one is specified.
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Device Name. The name of the monitored device.
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Device Status. The state of the highest severity alarm raised against the network device: Warning , Critical , or Fatal .
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Expected Response Time. The expected round-trip response time between the host on which the Net Monitor Agent is installed and the network device.
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Monitor Location. A color-coded indicator of the data collection state for each location from which this network device is monitored. Green indicates Normal, yellow Warning, orange Critical, and red the Fatal state.
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NetworkID. The ID of the private network to which the network device belongs, if applicable.
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Trace Route?. Indicates if the route from the monitoring agent to the network device is traced.

Net Monitor Performance Browser views

The Performance Browser contains the following views:

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Alarms view
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Device Detail view
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FAQ tab
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FAQts view
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Net Monitor Environment view
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Network Devices view
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Monitor tab
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Monitor Locations view
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Quick View
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Single Location Summary view
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Summary - All Devices view
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Summary - All Monitor Locations view
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Summary - Single Device Summary view
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Trace Result view

Alarms view

Purpose

The Alarms view lists the alarms generated against the selected object or group of objects in the Quick View.

 
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TIP: To acknowledge or clear one or more alarms appearing in this table, select them and click Acknowledge or Clear, as required. For more information about alarms in Foglight, see the Foglight User Guide.

How to get here
1
Navigate to the Performance Browser.
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On the Monitor tab, in the Net Monitor Environment view, select the Network Devices or Locations tile.
3
In the Quick View, in the panel on the left, select All Network Devices, a network device, or a monitoring location.
The Alarms view appears at the bottom of the panel on the right.
Description of the view
 
Table 5. Alarms view
Data displayed
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Alarm Message. The alarm message, explaining the reason for this alarm.
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Device Name. The name of the monitored device against which the alarm is generated.
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Monitor Location. The name of the host running the instance of the Net Monitor Agent that monitors this device.
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Severity. Indicates the alarm severity: Warning , Critical , or Fatal .
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Time. The time at which the alarm is generated.

Device Detail view

Purpose

The Device Detail view provides details about the selected network device. Use it to find out the average response times of this device from different monitoring locations, and to review its overall health.

How to get here
1
Navigate to the Performance Browser.
2
On the Monitor tab, in the Net Monitor Environment view, select the Network Devices tile.
3
In the Quick View, in the Network Devices view, select a network device.
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In the Summary - Single Device Summary view, click Explore.
The Device Detail view appears in the display area.
Description of embedded views

This view is made up of the following embedded views:

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Monitoring Locations Summary
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Monitoring Details from All Locations
Monitoring Locations Summary
 
Table 6. Monitoring Locations Summary view
Description

Lists the hosts from which the selected network device is monitored.

Data displayed
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Availability. A color-coded bar, representing the availability of the device over the selected time range. The color of the bar changes depending on the alarm state. Red indicates the Fatal state, orange indicates Critical, yellow means Warning, and green is the Normal state.
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Avg Packet Loss. The average percentage of time the data packets sent to the monitored device are not echoed back. By default, the monitoring agent sends five data packets to the monitored network device. The number of data packets the Net Monitor Agent sends to monitored devices is specified in the Net Monitor Agent properties.
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Avg Response Time. The average round-trip response time between the monitoring agent and the network device.
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Executions. The number of times the Net Monitor Agent sends data packets to the selected network device.
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Monitoring Location. The name of the host from which the selected network device is monitored.
Where to go next

Drill down on:

Trace Route Now. For more information, see Trace Result view.

Monitoring Details from All Locations
 
Table 7. Monitoring Details from All Locations view
Description

Shows how well the selected network device is responding to the data collection requests from all of the monitoring locations.

Data displayed
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Outage. A color-coded bar, representing the availability of the monitored network device over the selected time range. The color of the bar reflects the percentage of time the device is unresponsive.
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Packet Loss. The percentage of time the data packets sent to the monitored device are not echoed back, over the selected time range. By default, the monitoring agent sends five data packets to the monitored network device. The number of data packets the Net Monitor Agent sends to monitored devices is specified in the Net Monitor Agent properties.
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Response Time. The round-trip response time between the monitoring agent and the network device, over the selected time range.
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