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Foglight for vCloud Director 5.7.4.1 - User and Reference Guide

Getting Started Setting Up Monitoring Agents Investigating Resource Consumption Levels Investigating Object Dependencies Reference

Getting Started to Set Up and Administer Monitoring Agents

Foglight for vCloud Director includes a set of dashboards that allow you to monitor your virtual environment and manage monitoring agents. The vCloud Environment dashboard consists of several tabs, each focusing on a specific aspect of your monitoring needs. The Administration tab

To access this tab, on the navigation panel, under Dashboards, choose vCloud Director > vCloud Environment, and then open the Administration tab.

Exploring the Available Tasks

The Tasks area contains a link to the vCloud Discovery Wizard, Discover vCloud Server Groups. You can use this wizard to find a vCloud server group and the related cells in your environment. For more information, see Discovering Server Groups.

Figure 2. Tasks area

Exploring the Agents table

The Agents table lists the existing agent instances and allows you to manage them. It contains a set of columns that indicate various states of individual agent instances, along with several commands that you can issue to manage them. For example, to see if an agent instance is collecting data, look at the agent’s Data Collection column. A green check mark indicates that the agent is collecting data.

Figure 3. Agents table

Table 1. Agents table

The name of the agent instance.

The name of the machine on which the Agent Manager process is running.

Indicates if the agent process is running.

Indicates if the agent is collecting data from the monitored environment.

The total numbers of Warning, Critical, and Fatal alarms.

Allows you to edit the agent’s properties.

Allows you to download the agent log file.

Indicates if the agent is running the latest version of the agent package (), or it needs to be updated ().

Exploring the toolbar

The toolbar appearing on top of the Agents table provides a set of commands that allow you to manage agent instances. To issue any of the available commands, simply select one or more agent instances using the check boxes in the left-most column, and click the appropriate button on the toolbar. For example, to start an agent’s data collection, select the agent and click Start Data Collection.

Figure 4. Agents table toolbar

Starts a workflow for creating new agent instances. For more information, see Configuring Monitoring Agents for Data Collection.

Refreshes the list of agent instances and their states.

Activates one or more selected agent instances. Activating an agent instance starts the agent process on the machine on which the agent is installed.

Deactivates one or more selected agent instances. Deactivating an agent stops the agent process on the machine on which the agent is installed.

Starts the data collection for one or more selected agent instances. Starting an agent’s data collection causes the agent to begin monitoring the associated vCloud server and to send the collected metrics back to the Management Server.

Stops the data collection for one or more selected agent instances. Stopping an agent’s data collection causes the agent to stop monitoring the associated vCloud server.

Deletes the selected agent instance.

Updates the agent package to the latest version that is installed on the Management Server.

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