Foglight for VMware Horizon View 5.8.3 - User Guide

Tasks area

The Tasks area contains links to administrative tasks that you can initiate from this tab:

Agents view

The Agents view shows a list of existing agent instances and a set of agent management buttons at the top of the list. The following buttons are available:

NOTE: When a newer Foglight for VMware Horizon View version is installed on your system, the Agent Version column in the Agents table is updated to read Update Agent. To apply the new features, you need to update the agents to the latest version. You can upgrade the agents one by one, by selecting each from the table and clicking the corresponding Update Agent link in the Agent version column; you can upgrade all agents at once by selecting all of them in the list and clicking the Update Agent button at the top of the list.

The table in the Agents area lists the existing View Connection Server Agent instances. For more details about the data appearing in this table, see Agents view.

The Download Log button offers a convenient way to get the current log file of the corresponding agent, for review and diagnostics.

NOTE: To verify whether the user has proper view privileges, see Connection server PowerShell configuration.

NOTE: Foglight for VMware Horizon View uses two different methods for collecting data from remote hosts: Windows® Remote Management (WinRM) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). For more information, see Host configuration (WinRM) and Host configuration (DCOM).

NOTE: When SSL is enabled, the WS-Man CommunicationPort is automatically set to 5986. When SSL is disabled, the WS-Man CommunicationPort is automatically set to 5985.

NOTE: The event database configuration, including the access password, is defined by the Event Database administrator during the event database installation and setup. For more information about this topic, refer to VMware® documentation.

Manually add View instances

Foglight for VMware Horizon View uses View Connection Server Agents to collect information from monitored environments. Creating a View Connection Server Agent instance creates the agent process on the Agent Manager host. Activating the View Connection Server Agent starts that agent process, while starting an agent instance’s data collection enables the agent to start collecting data from the monitored View Connection Server and send it to Foglight for Hyper-V.

When the View Connection Server Agent package is successfully deployed, create one or more agent instances, activate them, and start their data collection. To perform these steps in a single operation for one or more monitored hosts, follow the procedure outlined below.

NOTE: This workflow is the same as clicking the Add button in the Agents area.

NOTE: To verify whether the user has proper view privileges, see Connection server PowerShell configuration.

NOTE: Foglight for VMware Horizon View uses two different methods for collecting data from remote hosts: Windows® Remote Management (WinRM) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). For more information, see Host configuration (WinRM) and Host configuration (DCOM).

NOTE: When SSL is enabled, the WS-Man CommunicationPort is automatically set to 5986. When SSL is disabled, the WS-Man CommunicationPort is automatically set to 5985.

NOTE: The event database configuration, including the access password, is defined by the Event Database administrator during the event database installation and setup. For more information about this topic, refer to VMware® documentation.

NOTE: To quickly edit the properties for all View Connection Server agents at once, use the Agent Status dashboard (Administration > Agents > Agent Status). For more information on this dashboard, see the Foglight Administration and Configuration Guide.

Discover View instances

This workflow discovers the server information that is available in your View environment and automatically enters it into the Wizard screens. After running the Wizard, a Discovery Agent is created.

NOTE: The Discovery Agent is not listed in the Agents table. Instead, it is listed in the Agent Status dashboard (Administration > Agents > Agent Status). The agent name is VMView-ConnServer-Discovery. You can edit and modify its properties as you would any other View Connection Server agent. For more information on working with the Agent Status dashboard, see the Foglight Administration and Configuration Guide.

NOTE: To verify whether the user has proper view privileges, see Connection server PowerShell configuration.

NOTE: In FIPS-compliant mode, you need to import the CA certificate or the self-signed certificate to the KeyStore of FglAM to use this option. For more information, see Managing certificates for FglAM .

NOTE: The Connection Servers, user name and password, and domain are already pre-populated based on the information you entered in Step 4.

NOTE: Foglight for VMware Horizon View uses two different methods for collecting data from remote hosts: Windows® Remote Management (WinRM) and Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM). For more information, see Host configuration (WinRM) and Host configuration (DCOM).

NOTE: When SSL is enabled, the WS-Man CommunicationPort is automatically set to 5986. When SSL is disabled, the WS-Man CommunicationPort is automatically set to 5985.

NOTE: The event database configuration, including the access password, is defined by the Event Database administrator during the event database installation and setup. For more information about this topic, refer to VMware® documentation.

NOTE: To verify whether the user has proper view privileges, see Connection server PowerShell configuration.

NOTE: It is recommended that you create an IC agent to monitor your VMware Horizon View environment. An IC agent collects data such as CPU, disk, memory, services, and other network metrics for the VMware Horizon View components in your environment. This data appears on the Details tab of the VMware View Environment dashboard. For more information, see the Managing Infrastructure User and Reference Guide.