Foglight for VMware Horizon View 5.8.3 - User Guide

Alarms and status indicators

Foglight for VMware Horizon View uses status indicators to show the alarm states of the objects within the virtual infrastructure. Four status indicators (fatal, critical, warning, and normal), are used throughout the Foglight for VMware Horizon View dashboards. An alarm table, located at the top of the VMware Explorer views, highlights the key alarms as shown in the following illustration.

Mouse-over actions

Many items within the Foglight for VMware Horizon View dashboards display additional information when you hover the cursor over them. For example, when you hover the cursor over a graph you are likely to see a specific value or values that correspond) to the position of the cursor. When you hover the cursor over an individual metric, you are likely to see a small descriptive popup.

Interact with Foglight for VMware Horizon View dashboards

After installing Foglight for VMware Horizon View, you can monitor the components of your virtual desktop environment. These components include user sessions, the VMware View infrastructure, and the supporting vSphere® infrastructure.

For more information, see these topics:

Interact with Foglight for VMware Horizon View

When you install Foglight for VMware Horizon View, a set of predefined dashboards enables you to view the performance of your virtual system at a glance. They allow you to ensure consistent application performance by drilling down for details from higher-level components such as clusters, hosts, and virtual machines, to viewing detailed specifics about each component, such as CPU utilization and network I/O.

Foglight for VMware Horizon View relies on the VMware Horizon View agents to collect data from monitored hosts, using a desired collection method. Prior to creating VMware Horizon View agents, it is critical to configure the servers to be monitored. There are a few settings that must be made before the agents can successfully collect data. For more information, see Prepare your VMware Horizon View environment for monitoring.

The Administration tab of the VMware View Environment dashboard lists the available View Connection Server agents and shows their status, and provides the ability to create agents and modify their properties. For more information, see Explore administrative tasks and Manually add View instances.

Next, familiarize yourself with the VMware View Environment dashboard. This is the dashboard that you see when you click Dashboards > VMware View. For more information about this dashboard and the associated views, see Use the VMware View Environment dashboard.

To see in-depth details about a monitored server, cluster, or virtual machine, use the VMware Explorer dashboard. You can drill down to this dashboard from the Details tab. For further information, see Use the VMware Explorer.

To read about additional features, such as planning for virtual machine migrations or reviewing topology object instances and expired data, see Accessing VMware® actions and tasks.