Foglight for Exchange 5.8.2 - User and Reference Guide

To change the time unit, select the value displayed in the Time Unit column. Select the new time unit (days, hours or minutes) in the dialog and select Update.

Select the Save Edited Collection Information toolbar button to save your selections.


	NOTE: Modifying the interval or time unit using the Metrics Management page also modifies the collection interval for the corresponding collector in the defaultSchedule (Agent Properties page).

To enable the collecting or display of optional metrics:


	NOTE: You can only enable a collection group, not individual metrics within a collection group.


	NOTE: Enabling metrics may affect performance. It is recommended that you only enable metrics in order to pinpoint a specific issue and to then reset the default metric collections when finished.

From the Exchange Metrics Management page, locate the collection group to be enabled.

Click the check box in the corresponding Collection Group | Collecting cell.

Select the check box in the metric’s collection dialog and select Update.

A green check mark is displayed in the Collection Group | Collecting column on the Metrics Management page.

Once the collecting of a collection group is enabled, you can then enable the display of these metrics.

Click the check box in the corresponding Collection Group | Display column.

Select the check box in the metric’s display dialog and select Update.

A green check mark is displayed in the Collection Group | Display column back on the Metrics Management page.


	NOTE: If you enabled the collecting of multiple collection groups and want to enable the display of all these metrics, you can use the Enable Metric Display toolbar button instead of enabling them all individually.

Select the Save Edited Collection Information toolbar button to save your selections.

On the Save dialog, click Save to confirm that you want to save your selection.

A Save Collections dialog appears informing you that your selection(s) have been saved. Click the close button in the upper right-hand corner to close the dialog and return to the Exchange Metrics Management dashboard.

To disable the collecting or display of optional metrics:

From the Exchange Metrics Management page, locate the collection group to be disabled.

Click the enabled check box (contains a green check mark) in the corresponding Collection Group column (Collecting or Display).

Clear the check box on the dialog and select Update.

The green check mark is cleared from the selected column back on the Metrics Management page.

Select the Save Edited Collection Information toolbar button to save your selections.

On the Save dialog, click Save to confirm that you want disable the selected metric collection.


	NOTE: To disable the collection and display of all previously enabled collection groups, use the Clear Metric Collections toolbar button.

To display the metrics being collected by default:

From the Exchange Metrics Management page, select the View Metrics Collected by Default button.

The Active Directory Default Metrics dialog appears which lists the metrics that are being collected and displayed by default.


	NOTE: Metrics being collected and displayed by default cannot be disabled using the Metrics Management dashboard.

To close this dialog, select the close button in the upper right-hand corner of the dialog.

Using the Agent Status and Agent Properties dashboards

On the agent’s properties page, you can use the Data Collection Scheduler setting to define the data collection schedule to be used or to modify a data collection interval.

To display an agent’s properties page, use one of the following methods:

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From the navigation panel, navigate to Dashboards > Administration > Agents > Agent Status. On the Agent Status dashboard, select an agent from the list and click Edit Properties. The Agent Status dashboard refreshes, showing the current properties for the selected agent instance.

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From the navigation panel, navigate to Dashboards > Administration > Agents > Agent Properties. On the Agent Properties dashboard, select an agent. The Properties panel is displayed, showing the current properties for the selected agent instance.

To modify the data collection interval:

Open the agent’s properties page.


	NOTE: If accessing this page through the Agent Status dashboard, select Modify the properties for all ExchangeAgent agents to activate the properties on the page.