Understanding Foglight for NetVault
Using Foglight for NetVault
Getting Started
Creating a NetVault Agent
Each NetVault Agent monitors the assets inside the selected NetVault Backup environment. To enable the data collection for Foglight for NetVault, create a NetVault user with the “Monitor Presets” privilege, as well as grant this user with the access to the client groups and media groups that you want to monitor.
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The NetVault Environment dashboard opens.
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The NetVault Agent Wizard dialog box opens.
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Select Agent Host: Select the agent manager on which the new agent is to be deployed, and then click Next. |
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NetVault Properties: Specify the following values, and then click Finish. |
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Server Address: The IP address of the NetVault Server that hosts the agent instance. |
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Port: The port number used by the NetVault Server for listening to the connections from the agent instance (default: 8443). |
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Use Https: The option used to enable the agent connection using HTTPS (default: true). |
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Login Username: The name of the user that has the privileges required for connecting to the NetVault Server and retrieving information. |
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Login Password: The password of the user that has the privileges required for connecting to the NetVault Server and retrieving information. |
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Error Event Keywords: Keywords used to classify NetVault error events. Separate multiple keywords by comma. |
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Warning Event Keywords: Keywords used to classify NetVault warning events. Separate multiple keywords by comma. |
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Collected Event Classes: The option used to indicate which event classes will be collected by the agent instance. By default, all event classes available in the NetVault Server are checked. |
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Collect Log Level: The option used to indicate which logs will be collected by the agent instance. Warning and above is set by default. |
The new NetVault Agent is created and its data will be shown on the Monitoring tab after a few minutes.
Managing certificates
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<foglight_home> is a placeholder that represents the path to the Foglight Management Server installation. |
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<foglight_agent_mgr_home> is a placeholder that represents the path to the Foglight Agent Manager installation. This can be the location of the Foglight Agent Manager installation on a monitored host, or the home directory of the Foglight Agent Manager that comes embedded with the Foglight Management Server. For example: |
All the certificate-related command line options require that FglAM be up and running.
bin/fglam --add-certificate "user alias 1"=/path/to/certificate/file
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FglAM requires the Base64 format. To verify if the certificate file is encoded with Base64, open the certificate with a notepad and the certificate should be similar to the following example: -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- XXXXXXXX= -----END CERTIFICATE----- |
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NOTE: If the certificate is not Base64 format, use openssl command to convert the certificate file into a Base64 file. Use either of the following commands depending on the source form: openssl x509 -inform DER -in xxx.cer -out xxx.crt or openssl x509 -inform PEM -in xxx.cer -out xxx.crt |
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The alias is required and is used in the list and delete operations to refer to the certificate. It can be anything. |
Print out a list of certificates and the aliases that refer to them.
Refer to the example output below:
Remove a certificate referred to by an alias.
bin/fglam --delete-certificate "user alias 1"
Configuring data collection interval
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On the Agent Status dashboard, select the NetVault agent that you want to monitor, and then click Edit Properties. |
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NOTE: Quest highly recommends setting the Collector Config (also knowns as Collection interval) to a value that is larger than 10 minutes and is multiples of 10 minutes; otherwise the NetVault agent might not collect metrics from the NetVault Server. |
