Foglight for Exchange 5.7.2 - User and Reference Guide

Table 157. Windows Services view
Description	This view displays a list of core OS and Exchange services running on the selected server.
Data displayed	Core OS Services. This list displays the core OS services being monitored on the selected server and their present state.
	Exchange Services. This list displays the Exchange services being monitored on the selected server and their present state.
Where to go next	Click on a service link to display additional details about the selected service.

Foglight for Exchange rules

Foglight for Exchange includes a number of predefined rules to monitor all critical components of Exchange on a continuous basis to ensure that the Exchange organization is functioning properly. The rules included in Foglight for Exchange alert you to key conditions that may affect the health of Exchange. Foglight allows you to modify these predefined rules or create your own rules to ensure you are monitoring statistics and alerting on conditions specific to your Exchange environment.

Foglight for Exchange provides additional dashboards for managing Foglight for Exchange rules:

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Rules dashboard (Dashboards > Administration > Rules > All)

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Exchange Rule Management dashboard (Dashboards > Exchange > Rule Management)


	NOTE: All original rules in each cartridge are reset when the cartridge is upgraded; therefore if you applied custom conditions to any original rules these modifications will be lost. It is recommended that when modifying rules you make a copy of the original, disable the original and enable the copy with the new condition. Use the copy rule icon to the far right of a rule on the Manage Rules dashboard to copy a rule.

This section describes the Exchange Rule Management dashboard and explains the tasks that can be performed from this dashboard:

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Rules dashboard

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Exchange Rule Management dashboard

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Managing Foglight for Exchange rules

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Rules reference

Rules dashboard

The Rules dashboard lists all rules that exist in your environment and allows you to drill down to rule definitions. From this dashboard you can copy, edit, and remove Foglight rules.


	NOTE: Predefined rules may be modified during regular software updates. To avoid losing changes to these rules, we recommend copying a rule and making edits to the copy. Enable the copy and disable the original rule. You may want to identify your custom rules with a unique prefix to make them easy to find.

To review and edit rules:

In the navigation panel, under Homes, click Administration.

In the Administration dashboard, click Rules > All.

The Rules dashboard opens.

From the Cartridge list, select ExchangeMonitoring.

The dashboard refreshes to display only the Foglight for Exchange rules.

From here, you can perform the following tasks:

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Review a short description of the rule.

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Review and edit threshold values.


	TIP: For rules that reference registry variables for threshold values, modify the threshold in the registry variable, rather than modifying the rule. For help finding and editing registry variables, search for “Registry Variable” in the online help.

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Copy rules.

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Edit rule conditions.

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Associate actions with rules.

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Create user-defined rules.

For help with these tasks, open the online help from the Rule dashboard.

Exchange Rule Management dashboard

The Exchange Rule Management dashboard contains a sortable list of all the conditional severity rules used by the Foglight for Exchange. From this dashboard you can quickly see which conditional rules are enabled/disabled, the states (fatal, critical or warning) with active conditions, predefined alarm threshold values, rules with current alarms, and a brief description of each rule.


	NOTE: The Rule Management dashboard does not display simple rules that do not have user-definable conditions defining when to raise an alarm. To edit the simple rules, use the Manage Rules dashboard.

Figure 48. Exchange Rule Management dashboard

The Exchange Rule Management dashboard includes the following tabs:

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Exchange Monitoring. Displays information about the Foglight for Exchange rules.

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Optional. Displays information about the Foglight for Exchangeoptional rules.

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Host Monitoring. Displays information about the Host Monitoring rules.


	NOTE: The host monitoring rules are only used if Foglight for Exchange is collecting the host metrics, as specified on the agent’s properties page. If the host metrics are being collected by Foglight for VMware or Foglight for Hyper-V, the host monitoring rules defined for the selected cartridge will be used instead.

Table 158. Exchange Rule Management dashboard information

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Description