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Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager 1.5 - User Guide (for Azure environments)

Global Services Tab

Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Azure allows you to check the service status on various services in your cloud environment.

Figure 25. Global Services dashboard

To access the Global Services dashboard:
1
Log in to the Foglight browser interface.
2
Ensure that the navigation panel is open.
To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow on the left.
3
On the navigation panel, under Homes, click Cloud Manager.
The Cloud Manager dashboard opens.
4
Click Global Services in the actions bar.

 

Administration Tab

The Administration tab of the Cloud Manager dashboard contains links to agent administration tasks that you can use to manage Azure performance agents.

Figure 26. Administration dashboard

To access the Administration dashboard:
1
Log in to the Foglight browser interface.
2
Ensure that the navigation panel is open.
To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow on the left.
3
On the navigation panel, under Homes, click Cloud Manager.
The Cloud Manager dashboard opens.
4
Click Administration in the actions bar.

For more information, see the following topics:

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Tasks view
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Agents related commands
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Creating Azure Performance Agent
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Editing agent properties

Tasks view

The Tasks view allows you to create an Azure agent, to create virtual machine credentials, and to review license usage. For more information about how to create an Azure agent, refer to Creating Azure Performance Agent .

To review license usage:
1
Log in to the Foglight browser interface.
2
Ensure that the navigation panel is open.
To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow on the left.
3
On the navigation panel, under Homes, click Cloud Manager.
The Cloud Manager dashboard opens.
4
Click Administration.
The Administration dashboard opens.
5
On the Tasks view, click Review License Usage.
The Review License Usage dialog box opens.
6
Click Azure in the Review License Usage dialog box to review the current Azure license information.
The Azure license table shows the Account, Monitoring Agent, and Monitored Virtual Machine Count of your license.
7
Click the number in the Monitored Virtual Machine Count column.
The Virtual Machines dialog box opens and shows the detailed information about all monitored virtual machines.
If the number of monitored virtual machines goes beyond your valid license, the following message will shows on the Cloud Manager dashboard: “Caution: Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager is over-deployed by <number> monitored virtual machines. Please contact Quest to purchase additional licenses.”

Agents related commands

The Administration dashboard shows a list of existing agent instances and a set of agent management commands at the top of the list. Use it to verify that your agents are collecting data from the monitored environment.

The following commands are available:

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Add: Starts a workflow for creating new agent instances. For more information, see Creating Azure Performance Agent.
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Refresh: Refreshes the list of agent instances and their states.
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Activate: Activates one or more selected agent instances. Activating an agent instance starts the agent process on the machine on which the agent is installed.
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Deactivate: Deactivates one or more selected agent instances. Deactivating an agent stops the agent process on the machine on which the agent is installed.
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Start Data Collection: Starts the data collection for one or more selected agent instances. Starting an agent’s data collection causes the agent to begin monitoring the Hyper-V server and to send the collected metrics back to the Management Server.
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Stop Data Collection: Stops the data collection for one or more selected agent instances. Stopping an agent’s data collection causes the agent to stop monitoring the Hyper-V server.
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Edit Properties: Starts a workflow for editing the properties of one or more selected agent instances. Each agent comes with a set of properties that it uses to configure its correct running state. Editing agent properties .
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Remove: Deletes the selected agent instance.
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Update Agent: Updates the agent package to the latest version.
 
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IMPORTANT: Updating the agent package using this command generates the previously existing credentials. However, if you update the agent package by re-deploying its .gar file through the Agent Status page, the credentials need to be re-created. To do that, select an agent instance, click Edit Properties, and configure the required credentials on the Credentials tab of the Edit Tab Manager dialog box.

To perform any of the available commands, select one or more check boxes in the left-most column and click the appropriate button. For example, to start an agent’s data collection, select the check box in the agent row and click Start Data Collection.

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