Foglight for Infrastructure 5.9.2 Release Notes

Foglight^® for Infrastructure 5.9.2

Developed for Foglight Management Server 5.9.2

Release Notes

December 2017

Contents

Contents

Welcome to Foglight for Infrastructure

New in this release

Resolved issues and enhancements

Known issues

Third party known issues

Upgrade and compatibility

System requirements

Troubleshooting

Product licensing

Getting started with Foglight for Infrastructure

About Us

Welcome to Foglight for Infrastructure

Welcome to Foglight for Infrastructure

Foglight^® for Infrastructure provides the ability to monitor an infrastructure environment and to analyze performance issues affecting various host systems. It provides system agents for local and remote monitoring of Windows® and UNIX® (including Linux®) hosts. The cartridge can be used - by itself - to monitor physical hosts, or - in combination with other agents - to monitor virtual hosts. The cartridge provides a service-based dashboard for easy monitoring and for quick access to relevant frequently-asked questions.  

These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 5.9.2 release of Foglight for Infrastructure. Review all sections before starting the installation.

For complete product information, see the Foglight for Infrastructure User and Reference Guide.

Foglight Log Monitor

Foglight^® Log Monitor is an Infrastructure utility shipped with Foglight for Infrastructure which monitors log files and identifies activities that can potentially lead to performance issues.

For complete information about Foglight Log Monitor, see the Foglight for Infrastructure User and Reference Guide.

Foglight for PowerVM

Foglight^® for PowerVM allows you to monitor IBM® PowerVM® environments. Foglight alerts you about infrastructure problems as soon as they develop, enabling you to resolve issues proactively before end users are affected. Early intervention ensures consistent application performance at established service levels. Foglight for PowerVM monitors the health of your virtual system by tracking the levels of resource utilization such as CPU, network, and memory consumption of individual objects in your integrated environment.

For complete information about Foglight for PowerVM, see the Foglight for Infrastructure User and Reference Guide.

Back to Top

New in this release

New in this release

This release contains the following new features and updates:

• Foglight for Infrastructure new features
• Foglight Log Monitor new features
• Foglight for PowerVM new features

Foglight for Infrastructure new features

This release contains the following Foglight for Infrastructure new features and improvements:

• Added the support of Unix FileSystem mounting monitoring on Linux and Oracle Solaris. (FREQ-1020)
• Changed to use zpool values for ZFS filesystem on Solaris. (IC-3947)
• Added the Number of Processes rule to alert when the number of running processes goes abnormally high. (IC-3930)
• The Foglight for Infrastructure 5.9.2 supports monitoring hosts through unique local IPv6 Address and link-local IPv6 Address. If you want to use this feature, ensure that the operating system of monitored host is one of the following: (IC-3920)
  • Microsoft® Windows
  • Linux®
  • Oracle Solaris®
• Added a new rule, Run Queue Length Threshold, to alert based on the threshold severity of runqueue metric. (IC-3851)
• Added a new Disk IO by Process link in the Storage area of the Infrastructure Environment > Monitoring > Resource Utilizations dashboard. (IC-3535)
• Added a Physical Disks tab on the Infrastructure Environment dashboard. (IC-625)

Foglight Log Monitor new features

This release of Foglight Log Monitor does not include any new features. It is made to accompany the 5.9.2 release of Foglight for Infrastructure.

Foglight for PowerVM new features

This release of Foglight for PowerVM does not include any new features. It is made to accompany the 5.9.2 release of Foglight for Infrastructure.

Back to Top