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Foglight for Infrastructure 5.9.2 - User Guide

Using Foglight for Infrastructure Monitoring log files with Foglight Log Monitor Monitoring IBM PowerVM environments
Before you begin Managing PowerVM HMC agents Monitoring your PowerVM environment
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Categories

This view lists the categories for which questions can be answered by Foglight for Infrastructure.

Click a category in the list to select it.

Questions

This view lists the questions, for the category selected in the Categories, that can be answered by Foglight for Infrastructure. A set of default questions are included with Foglight for Infrastructure.

Click a question in the list to select it.

To mark a question as your favorite:
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Select the question that you want to mark as your favorite in the Questions view, and click Mark as Favorite .
 
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NOTE: To see all of your favorites, click Favorites in the Categories view.
To run a report based on selected questions:
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Click Create Report .
The Create Report wizard appears.
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Select the check boxes for the questions you want to add to your report and click Finish.
The report is displayed in the My Report dashboard.
 
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NOTE: You can run or schedule a report. For more information, see the “Generating a Report” and “Scheduling a Report” topics in the Foglight User Guide.
To search for a question:
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If the list of questions is long and you want to narrow it down, search for a particular text string using the Search Questions field.

Answers

This view provides an answer to the question selected in the Questions view. The answer appears on the right side of the dashboard, and it corresponds to the time interval specified in the Time Range (top right corner of the dashboard).

When no objects in your environment match the selected question and the selected time range, no data is displayed in the Answers table. Extend the time interval by selecting a different option from the Time Range, or select a different question.

To view detailed information about one of the monitored hosts, click the hosts’s name in the table. This allows you to drill down to the Infrastructure Environment > Host_Name dashboard.

Exploring the Administration tab

The Administration tab shows all the hosts monitored by infrastructure agents from the administered service, and any monitored hosts from the administered service. The service being administered is stated at the top of the tab, and is chosen from the service selector at the top of the Infrastructure Environment dashboard. The table refreshes when a different service is selected in the Infrastructure Environment dashboard.

 
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NOTE: The following figure illustrates the information displayed in the Administration tab, for All Hosts. This information is just an example; it will vary depending on the selected service and the monitored hosts.
Figure 8. Infrastructure Environment - Administration tab

The table includes the following columns:

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State: icon indicating the state of the host
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Name: host name
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Agent Type: the type of the monitoring agent

The Administration tab’s toolbar includes the following buttons:

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Type Defaults: allows you to edit the default agent type properties.
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Shared Properties: allows you to edit the shared agent type properties.
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Edit Agent: allows you to edit the agent properties for the selected host or hosts.
To edit the default agent type properties:
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Click Type Defaults.
The Agent Type Defaults dialog box appears.
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From the Agent Type list, select whether you want to change the default properties for a Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, or UNIX® agent type.
The dialog box refreshes to display the properties specific to the selected agent type. The following illustration shows the default properties for a Windows agent.
The following illustration shows the default properties for a Linux agent.
The following illustration shows the default properties for a Solaris agent.
The following illustration shows the default properties for a Unix (HP-UX, AIX) agent.
For detailed information about Foglight for Infrastructure agents and their properties, see About the WindowsAgent, About the UnixAgentPlus, About the UnixAgent, and About the MultiHostProcessMonitorAgent.
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NOTE: UnixAgentPlus only supports the Linux and Solaris platforms.
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NOTE: MultiHostProcessMonitorAgent includes both the Windows and Linux® platforms.
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Update the agent’s properties, by selecting other properties from the drop-down lists, by creating new shared property lists, or by editing the default existing ones.
Clicking the View button on the right side of a default property opens the Agent Property List dialog box, which lists the property rows. From here, you can click:
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Edit: allows you to edit the currently selected property list, by adding and removing rows.
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Copy: allows you to edit the displayed properties and save the copy as a new shared property list. When saved, the copy becomes the selected item in the drop-down list.
 
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IMPORTANT: When you click Save in the Agent Property List dialog box, nothing is persisted on the server. Changes (new copy or edits) are saved after Step 4.
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Click Save to save the changes made to the default properties.
 
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IMPORTANT: Changes (new copy or edits) are now saved to the server, provided that the copy or edited version is the one selected in the drop-down to be used by the currently-selected agent. Changes that involve default properties that are not used by this agent are discarded.
To edit the shared agent type properties:
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Click Shared Properties.
The Shared Properties dialog box appears.
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From the Agent Type list, select whether you want to change the properties shared by Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, or UNIX® agents.
The dialog box refreshes to display the properties specific to the selected agent type. The following illustration shows the shared properties for Windows agents.
The following illustration shows the shared properties for Linux agents.
The following illustration shows the shared properties for Solaris agents.
The following illustration shows the shared properties for Unix (HP-UX, AIX) agents.
For detailed information about Foglight for Infrastructure agents and their properties, see About the WindowsAgent, About the UnixAgentPlus, About the UnixAgent, and About the MultiHostProcessMonitorAgent.
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Update the agent’s properties, by selecting other properties from the drop-down lists, by creating new lists, or by editing the existing ones.
Clicking the View button on the right side of a shared property opens the Agent Property List dialog box, which lists the property rows. From here, you can click:
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Edit: allows you to edit the currently selected property list, by adding and removing rows.
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Copy: allows you to edit the displayed properties and save the copy as a new property list. When saved, the copy becomes the selected item in the drop-down list.
 
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IMPORTANT: When you click Save in the Agent Property List dialog box, nothing is persisted on the server. Changes (new copy or edits) are saved after Step 4.
Clicking the Delete button on the right side of a shared property deletes the property list currently selected in the drop-down. Default property lists cannot be deleted from the system.
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Click Save to save the changes made to the shared properties.
 
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IMPORTANT: Changes (new copy or edits) are now saved to the server, provided that the copy or edited version is the one selected in the drop-down to be used by the currently-selected agent. Changes that involve shared properties that are not used by this agent are discarded.
To edit the agent properties for a single host:
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Select the check box for that host on the Administration table.
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Click Edit Agent.
The Edit Agent dialog box (for the agent monitoring that host) appears.
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Update the agent’s properties, then click Save.
The list of properties may vary depending on the agent type. The following illustration shows the properties for a WindowsAgent.
The following illustration shows the properties for a UnixAgentPlus.
The following illustration shows the properties for a UnixAgent.
For detailed information about Foglight for Infrastructure agents and their properties, see About the WindowsAgent, About the UnixAgentPlus, About the UnixAgent, and About the MultiHostProcessMonitorAgent.
To edit the agent properties for multiple hosts:
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Select the check boxes for these hosts on the Administration table.
 
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NOTE: The selected hosts must be monitored by the same Foglight for Infrastructure agent type.
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Click Edit Agent.
 
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NOTE: If the hosts selected are monitored by a mix of Windows® and UNIX® agents, a warning message is displayed.
The Edit Agent Properties dialog box appears. The list of properties may vary depending on the agent type. The following illustration shows the properties for a WindowsAgent.
The following illustration shows the properties for a UnixAgentPlus.
The following illustration shows the properties for a UnixAgent.
For detailed information about Foglight for Infrastructure agents and their properties, see About the WindowsAgent, About the UnixAgentPlus, About the UnixAgent, and About the MultiHostProcessMonitorAgent.
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Select the monitoring agent that should be used as a starting point for editing the properties for this agent type. From the drop-down list, select Use Agent Type Defaults or one of the available host names.
The Edit Agent Properties dialog box refreshes to show the properties for the selected agent.
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Update the agent’s properties, as needed. Select the check boxes for the fields that need to be edited, then select the options you want from the drop-down lists.
Clicking the View button on the right side of a property opens a pop-up which lists the property rows.
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Click Save to save the changes made to the agent properties.
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