Foglight Evolve 9.3 - Upgrade Guide


	NOTE: Alternatively, you can deploy the updated agent package (VMware-Performance-64bit-<version>.gar) using the browser interface; for details, see Appendix: Deploying an agent package using the browser interface. NOTE: If the VMware agent was modified to use custom memory settings as described in the Note for installations monitoring large VMware environments section, reapply those settings by editing the baseline.jvmargs.config file before activating the upgraded agent.

Activate all VMware Performance agents. On the VMware Environment dashboard > Administration tab, select the deactivated VMware Performance agents, and click Activate on the menu bar.

Upgrading the VMware Horizon View agent

Foglight for VMware Horizon View uses VMware Horizon View Agent instances to collect information from monitored hosts.

To upgrade a VMware Horizon View agent:

Install the latest version of Foglight for VMware Horizon View over the older version. Do not delete the older version of the .car file. For cartridge installation instructions, see “Installing Foglight cartridges” in the Foglight Administration and Configuration Help.

On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click VMware Horizon View to open VMware View Environment dashboard.

Click the Administration tab.

The Agent Version column in the Agents table shows the agents that are out of date.

Click Update Agent once for each Foglight Agent Manager instance on which outdated VMware Horizon View agents are running.

The selected agents are updating. When the operation completes, the Agent Version column is updated to read Version Up To Date.

Click the Details tab, then the Desktops tile.

In the Quick View, identify whether there are any Unmanaged or Terminal Server Hosts instances.


	NOTE: The Summary view for any Unmanaged or Terminal Server Hosts instances would displays no data. This is due to the default properties used by the View Discovery Wizard to create Infrastructure agents, for any Unmanaged or Terminal Server Hosts.

If any Unmanaged or Terminal Server Hosts instances exist on the list, update the properties for their corresponding Infrastructure agents.


	NOTE: If some instances on the list do not have a corresponding Infrastructure agent, you must first create an Infrastructure agent manually, define appropriate agent properties, and create the correct credentials for them. Alternatively, you can add these instances to an existing credential’s resource mapping.

On the navigation panel, click Administration > Agents > Agent Status, to open the Agent Status dashboard.

Select the Infrastructure agent that needs edits, and click Edit Properties.

Click Modify the private properties for this agent.

In the Properties area, set to True the following options: Collect CPU metrics, Collect disk metrics, Collect memory metrics, and Collect network metrics.

Click Save.

Repeat steps b to e for all other Infrastructure agents used for monitoring Unmanaged or Terminal Server Hosts.

The Infrastructure agents now start to collect CPU, disk, memory, and network metrics from the monitored hosts and the VMware View Environment dashboard will display this information correctly.

Upgrading the Hyper-V agent

Foglight for Hyper-V uses Hyper-V Agent instances to collect information from monitored hosts. Upgrading Foglight for Hyper-V on the Management Server makes an upgraded Hyper‑V Agent package available for deployment.


	NOTE: Hyper-V agents are not created automatically in Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition. If you have not previously created Hyper-V agents, there will not be any agents to upgrade.

To upgrade the Hyper-V agents:

Deactivate all Hyper-V agents.

On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click Administration > Agents > Agent Status.

On the Agent Status dashboard, select the existing Hyper-V Agent instances and click Deactivate.


	TIP: Use Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click to select multiple items.

Install the latest version of Foglight for Hyper-V over the older version. Do not delete the older version of the .car file. For cartridge installation instructions, see “Installing Foglight cartridges” in the Foglight Administration and Configuration Help.

Upgrade the agent package. On the Hyper-V Environment dashboard > Administration tab, select all agent instances from the Agents table, and click Update Agent on the menu bar.


	TIP: In this way, the credentials for the existing Hyper-V agents are created automatically.


	NOTE: Alternatively, you can deploy the updated agent package (HypervAgent.gar) using the browser interface; for details, see Appendix: Deploying an agent package using the browser interface. In this case, you need to create the corresponding credentials any existing Hyper-V agents manually, after deploying the agent package.