Using Foglight for VMware
Introducing the virtual infrastructure
Navigation basics
Reference
Foglight for VMware browser interface elements
Breadcrumbs
Time Range
Sortable lists
Alarms and their status indicators
Mouse-over actions
Interacting with Foglight for VMware
About VMware roles
Exploring administrative tasks
VMware Performance Agent configuration
Rule Configuration tab
Advanced Options tab
User Level Access tab
Black List tab
License Control tab
Agents view
Accessing the Administration tab
Configuring monitoring agents for data collection
Viewing the overall system status
Exploring your VMware environment
Investigating performance metrics
Exploring VMware alarms
Setting the alarm sensitivity level
Administering monitored ESX hosts and virtual machines
Shutting down and rebooting ESX hosts, and enabling maintenance
Creating virtual machines
Suspending, rebooting and powering off virtual machines
Shutting down a guest OS and switching to standby mode
Deleting virtual machines
Creating, managing, and reverting to virtual machine snapshots
Automating VMware administration with workflows
Additional features
VMware Performance Agent and Agent Manager configuration
Configuring agent properties
Setting the Configuration properties
Setting the FileCollector properties
Setting the vSwitchCollector properties
Setting the Duplicate VM List properties
Setting the Black List properties
Setting the Data Collection Scheduler properties
Views
Appendix: Alarm Messages
Appendix: Metrics
VMware Alarms views
VMware Explorer views
Rules
Administration tab
Cost tab
CPU tab
Event Analytics tab
FAQts tab
Memory tab
Monitor tab
Network tab
Performance tab
Processes tab
Related Objects views
Resource Pools Relationship Tree view
Shares tab
Storage tab (Cluster)
Storage tab (Datacenter)
Storage tab (ESX Host)
Storage tab (Virtual Machine)
Summary tab
Summary (All Clusters) tab
Summary (All Datacenters) tab
Summary (All Resource Pools) tab
Summary (All Servers) tab
Summary (All Virtual Machines) tab
Virtual Infrastructure view
VMware Explorer Primary view
VMs tab
VMware Modeler views
VMware VirtualCenter views
VMware Environment views
Agents view
Alarms view
Cluster Summary view
Summary - All Clusters view
Clusters view
Datacenter Summary view
Summary - All Datacenters view
Datacenters view
Summary - Datastore view
Summary - Datastore view
Datastores view
Datastore tab
Datastore view
ESX Host Summary view
Summary - All ESX Hosts view
ESX Hosts view
FAQts tab
Instances and Limits view
OS Mapping view
Metrics Collection Management View
Quick-View
Resource Pool Summary view
Summary - All Resource Pools view
Resource Pools view
Virtual Center Summary view
Summary (All Virtual Centers) view
Virtual Centers view
Virtual Environment Overview
Virtual Machine Summary view
Summary - All Virtual Machines view
Virtual Machines view
Summary - Standard Virtual Switch view
Summary - Distributed Virtual Switch view
Summary - Cisco Virtual Switch view
Standard vSwitch Topology and Distributed vSwitch Topology views
Summary - All Virtual Switches view
Topology views
Virtual Switches view
Other views
Agent Rules
Cluster Rules
VMW Cluster CPU Estimated Fill Time
VMW Cluster CPU Utilization
VMW Cluster Disk IO
VMW Cluster Memory Estimated Fill Time
VMW Cluster Memory Utilization
VMW Cluster Network IO
VMW Cluster Percent Ready
VMW Cluster Redundancy Verification
Datacenter Rules
VMW Datacenter CPU Utilization
VMW Datacenter Disk IO
VMW Datacenter Memory Utilization
VMW Datacenter Network IO
VMW Datacenter Percent Ready
Datastore Rules
Resource Pool Rules
VMW Resource Pool CPU Utilization
VMW Resource Pool Disk IO
VMW Resource Pool Memory Utilization
VMW Resource Pool Network IO
VMW Resource Pool Percent Ready
ESX Server Rules
VMW ESX Host Connected - No metrics rule
VMW ESX Server Balloon Memory Deflation
VMW ESX Server Consumed Vs. Granted Memory
VMW ESX Server CPU 0 High Utilization
VMW ESX Server CPU Estimated Fill Time
VMW ESX Server CPU Utilization
VMW ESX Server Disconnected
VMW ESX Server Disk IO
VMW ESX Server Heap Free Memory
VMW ESX Server Memory Estimated Fill Time
VMW ESX Server Memory Utilization
VMW ESX Server Memory Utilization Upward Trend
VMW ESX Server Network IO
VMW ESX Server Queue Latency
VMW ESX Server Queue Latency Deviation
VMW ESX Server Total Latency
VMW ESX Server Total Latency Deviation
VirtualCenter Rules
VMW VirtualCenter CPU Utilization
VMW VirtualCenter Disk IO
VMW VirtualCenter Memory Utilization
VMW VirtualCenter Network IO
VMW VirtualCenter Percent Ready
Virtual Machine Rules
VMW Virtual Machine Active Vs. Granted Memory
VMW Virtual Machine Balloon Memory Deflation
VMW Virtual Machine Balloon Memory Target
VMW Virtual Machine Consumed Vs. Granted Memory
VMW Virtual Machine CPU Utilization
VMW Virtual Machine Disk Command Aborts
VMW Virtual Machine Disk IO
VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Estimated Fill Time
VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Utilization
VMW Virtual Machine Memory Allocation Versus Limit
VMW Virtual Machine Memory Swapping
VMW Virtual Machine Memory Utilization
VMW Virtual Machine Network IO
VMW Virtual Machine Percent Ready
VMW Virtual Machine Power State Change
VMW Virtual Machine VMware Tools
VMW Virtual Machine Zero Page Memory Detection
VMW Stale Data Management Rule
Virtual Switch Rules
VMW Distributed Virtual Switch Available Ports
VMW Distributed Virtual Switch Network Utilization
VMW Distributed Virtual Switch Packet Loss
VMW Standard Virtual Switch Available Ports
VMW Standard Virtual Switch Network Packet Loss
VMW Standard Virtual Switch Network Utilization
VMW Virtual Switch Credentials Invalid
FAQts tab
Through three embedded views (the Categories, Question, and Answer views), the FAQts tab enables you to ask Foglight for VMware questions and provides the answers to those questions.
Figure 104. FAQts tab
The FAQts view appears on both the Virtual Environment Summary and VMware Explorer dashboards as a navigation tab.
The FAQts view is made up of the following embedded views:
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This view provides an answer to the question selected in the Questions view. The answer appears in the following form:
Top x <objects of category>…
where x is the number of objects of the category you provided in the Categories view.
Specify x by entering a number. The answer is relative to the subset of the infrastructure you are viewing in the dashboard. For example, the top 5 datastores are different for each individual cluster in the infrastructure.
This view lists the categories for which questions can be answered for you by Foglight for VMware.
Click a category in the list to select it.
This view lists the questions, for the category selected in the Categories, that can be answered for you by Foglight for VMware.
Click a question in the list to select it.
Instances and Limits view
Figure 105. Instances and Limits view
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The Instances and Limits view appears in the display area.
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OS Mapping view
Figure 106. OS Mapping view
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The OS Mapping view appears in the display area.
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allows you to edit the priority sequence.Metrics Collection Management View
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Please select agent: select the agent which need configure. |
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Collect Metrics For Dashboard Only: Configure the agent just collect the metrics used for dashboard only. |
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Restore The Default Setting: Configure the agent to collect all metrics of VMware by default. |
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Save Edited Configuration: After editing these settings, click the Save Edited Collection Information button to save your configuration. |
Figure 107. VMware Metrics Collection Management view
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Name: The metrics name. |
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Collecting: Agent collect this metric or not, agent collect it when it selected. |
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Description: The description of metric. |