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Foglight for Infrastructure 7.1.0 - User Guide

Using Foglight for Infrastructure Monitoring log files with Foglight Log Monitor Monitoring IBM PowerVM environments
Before you begin Managing PowerVM HMC agents Monitoring your PowerVM environment
Advanced system configuration and troubleshooting Reference
Foglight for Infrastructure views Foglight Log Monitor views Rules Metrics
Appendix: Building regular expressions in Foglight

Agents

The Agents view shows all the infrastructure agents monitored in the Infrastructure environment. The Agents table refreshes when a different agent type is selected from the Selected Agent Type drop-down list.

The Agents table includes the following columns:

The Administration view’s toolbar includes the following buttons:

Edit Agent Type Defaults: allows you to edit the default agent type properties.
Edit Shared Agent Properties: allows you to edit the shared agent type properties.
Edit Agent: allows you to edit the agent properties for the selected agent or agents.
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Click Edit Agent Type Defaults.
Clicking the View button on the right side of a default property opens the Agent Property List dialog box, which lists the property rows. From here, you can click:
Edit: allows you to edit the currently selected property list, by adding and removing rows.
Copy: allows you to edit the displayed properties and save the copy as a new shared property list. When saved, the copy becomes the selected item in the drop-down list.
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Click Save to save the changes made to the default properties.
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Click Edit Shared Agent Properties.
Clicking the View button on the right side of a shared property opens the Agent Property List dialog box, which lists the property rows. From here, you can click:
Edit: allows you to edit the currently selected property list, by adding and removing rows.
Copy: allows you to edit the displayed properties and save the copy as a new property list. When saved, the copy becomes the selected item in the drop-down list.
Clicking the Delete button on the right side of a shared property deletes the property list currently selected in the drop-down. Default property lists cannot be deleted from the system.
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Click Save to save the changes made to the shared properties.
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Click Edit Agent.
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Click Edit Agent.
Clicking the View button on the right side of a property opens a pop-up which lists the property rows.
5
Click Save to save the changes made to the agent properties.

Rule Configuration

The Rule Configuration view of the Infrastructure Environment dashboard contains links to rules and alarms tasks that you can use to manage Infrastructure rules and alarms.

The Rule Configuration view consists of the following:

By default, the following columns are displayed in the Rules view:

Enabled: Indicates if the rule is enabled or disabled . You can sort the list of rules by state, by clicking the Enabled column.
Rule: Contains the rule name. Click the rule name to start the workflow for viewing and editing rule details.
Alarms: Contains the number of alarms (multiple-severity rules only) generated by the rule. Clicking that column shows a list of alarms indicating for each alarm its severity, when the alarm was generated, and the alarm message.
Applies to: Shows the object name that is applied to this custom rule.
Description: Contains the rule description.

The Rule Configuration dashboard shows a list of existing rules and a set of rule management commands at the top of the list. Use the Enable Rule and Disable Rule buttons to activate or deactivate one or multiple rules at once.

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On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click Infrastructure.
The Infrastructure dashboard opens.
4
Click Administration > Rule Configuration.
The Rule Configuration dashboard opens.
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On the Rules list, select one or more check boxes in the left-most column, and then click Enable Rule.
The Enable Rules dialog box opens.
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In the Enable Rules dialog box, click Yes.
The Rules list refreshes with the rules’ status updated automatically.
3
On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click Infrastructure.
The Infrastructure dashboard opens.
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Click Administration > Rule Configuration.
The Rule Configuration dashboard opens.
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On the Rules list, select one or more check boxes in the left-most column, and then click Disable Rule.
The Disable Rules dialog box opens.
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In the Disable Rules dialog box, click Yes.
The Rules list refreshes with the rules’ status updated automatically.

The Rule Configuration dashboard shows a list of existing rules and a set of rule management commands at the top of the list. Use the Add Custom Rule button to create a new rule as needed.

3
On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click Infrastructure.
The Infrastructure dashboard opens.
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Click Administration > Rule Configuration.
The Rule Configuration dashboard opens.
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Click Add Custom Rule on the Rules table.
The Create Custom Rule dialog box opens.
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In the Create Custom Rule dialog box, specify the following:
b
Select an Object Type, and then select a metric from the Metric drop-down list. The value of Metric varies from the Object Type.
c
Select either Threshold or % Change, and then specify the following values as needed.
Threshold: Specify Condition, Time Period, Severity, and then specify whether or not fire actions if the specified data attempts are reached. The value of Condition cannot be negative.
% Change: Specify Condition, Time Period, and Severity Label. The value of Condition cannot be negative.
c
(Optional) Notifications: Click Add New, then the Edit Notification Config - Dialog box appears. In this dialog box, type the E-mail Address and Description as needed, and then click Add.
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Click Save.
The Rules table refreshes automatically to show the newly added rule.

The Rule Configuration dashboard shows a list of existing rules and a set of rule management commands at the top of the list. Use the Remove Custom Rule button to delete existing custom rule(s) as needed.

3
On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click Infrastructure.
The Infrastructure dashboard opens.
4
Click Administration > Rule Configuration.
The Rule Configuration dashboard opens.
5
Click Remove Custom Rule on the Rules table.
The Remove dialog box opens.
6
Click Yes.
The Rules table refreshes automatically and removes the selected rule.

Using Foglight for Infrastructure agents

Foglight for Infrastructure uses agents to collect information about the monitored hosts. Agents communicate with the Foglight Management Server using the Foglight Agent Manager.

For more information, see these topics:

Configuring Multiple Instances for Monitoring using Silent Installation

Foglight for Infrastructure silent installation uses scripts and a CSV file to setup multiple Infrastructure agents on a given Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM). The CSV file defines the instances to be created. For more information, see Contents of the Input CSV File .

To add multiple agents using the silent installation through a command line interface:

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Navigate to Administration > Cartridges > Components for downloads.
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Extract the Infrastructure_Command_Line_Installer.zip file to a temporary folder.
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Extract infrastructure_agents_silent_install.groovy to the <FMS_HOME>/bin/ directory.
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Go to the command line and run the command: <FMS_HOME>/bin/fglcmd -srv <fms_host_name> -port <fms_url_port> -usr <fms_user_name> -pwd <fms_user_password> -cmd script:run -f infrastructure_agents_silent_install.groovy fglam_name <fglam_name> instances_file_name <instances_file_name> lockbox_name <lockbox_name> lockbox_password <lockbox_password>

The CSV file contains data regarding a list of instances to monitor.

Description

The required Infrastructure agent name.

If no value is entered in this field, a default value from the template will be imported as follows: Monitor@ + hostName.

For example: for the host name MyHost, an agent will be created with the name Monitor@MyHost

The target host name or IP address to be monitored.

The host name to be used to store this host’s data in the Foglight data model.

The operating system of the monitored host.

The possible value includes: Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX.

Specifies whether the monitored host is a virtual machine.

The possible values are either True or False.

If no value is entered in this field, the default value False will be used.

If this filed is set to True, it will not collect metrics for CPU, Memory, Network, and Disk.

SSH port the agent is connected to.

If no value is entered in this field, it will use the default value 22.

The domain name of your Windows environment (if configured in your environment).

OS User Name

The user name required for connecting to the operating system.

The password for the user of the operating system specified above.

Description

A CSV file that specifies the monitoring output of all given instances from the input CSV file: original file name + output.csv.

The name of the monitored Infrastructure agent.

The agent type of the monitored Infrastructure agent.

The target host name or IP address monitored by Infrastructure agent.

Specifies whether the Infrastructure agent was created successfully or failed. The possible values are either Successful or Failed.

An error message in case the credential creation failed.

An error message in case the agent creation failed.

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