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Foglight 5.9.5 - User Guide

Online-Only Topics

Preserving Context Input and the Time Range for Bookmarked Dashboards

This topic describes how to create a bookmark for the dashboard that you are currently viewing and preserve the context input and time range of the bookmarked dashboard.

To bookmark a dashboard:
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In the Bookmark dialog box, type a unique name in the Name box.
2
Select one of the Keep for options to indicate whether you want to keep the bookmark indefinitely or for a specified number of days. If you choose the latter, type the number of days in the box provided.
3
Select Send an email with a link to this bookmark if you want to email someone a link to the new bookmark.
4
Select Preserve state if you want to preserve the context input of the dashboard. For example, you bookmark a dashboard, and HostX is selected in a menu of that dashboard. When you view the bookmarked dashboard later, HostX is still selected.
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If you select Preserve state, the Preserve time range check box is available. Select this check box if you want to keep the bookmarked dashboard’s current start and end times. Otherwise, if the time range is relative (for example, Last 24 Hours), the bookmarked dashboard displays metrics for the default time period whenever you access it.
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Optional — Type a description for the bookmark.
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Click OK.
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If you selected the email option in Step 3 above, an email window opens, containing a link to the new bookmark. Provide the required information and click Send.
The new bookmark is now listed under Bookmarks at the top of the navigation panel.
 

Online-Only Topics

Seeing a visual summary of your active hosts

The Active Hosts Summary dashboard displays information about each active host in a separate view. A host becomes active when its memory usage is greater than 0%.

This dashboard is useful when you have a small number of hosts and want to see a visual summary of them.

Figure 61. The Active Hosts Summary dashboard.

If you have a large number of hosts, you can use the Hosts dashboard, or use the Active Hosts Summary dashboard as a portlet in a custom dashboard and configure custom dashboards for each set of hosts. For information about creating custom dashboards using a selected dashboard, see Creating a Custom Dashboard Based on the Current Dashboard on page 87.

To choose how many hosts to display in the summary:
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In the Number of Hosts to Display box, type the number and click Apply.

If you have a large number of active hosts in your environment, you can filter your list of services by specifying a domain of interest. For example, you may want to focus on only the Windows services in your environment.

To filter your list of active hosts:
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On the Action panel, open the General tab, click Service Selector.
2
Click the Filter Hosts By Service check box.
3
Select a Service domain.
The list of active hosts is refreshed to display the specified domain.
For more information, see Getting Started with Foglight on page 6.
 

Online-Only Topics

Viewing the Performance of a Single Host

The Host Resource dashboard provides a detailed full-page view of the performance of a single host. It contains charts and tables that provide details about CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network utilization.

Figure 62. The Host Resource dashboard.

The name of the current host is at the top-left of the dashboard. To see data for another physical host, click Physical Host Selector in the action panel to open the Physical Host Selector dialog box, where you can choose another host.

 

Online-Only Topics

Viewing Details about a Single Host

The Host Browser dashboard is similar to the Agents browser, except that it shows the agents for only one host at a time. It contains two views: Agents Running on <host> and Outstanding Alarm(s) for <host>.

Figure 63. The Agents Running on <host> view,

The name of the current host is at the top-left of the dashboard. To see data for another physical host, click Physical Host Selector in the action panel to open the Physical Host Selector dialog, where you can choose another host.

The Outstanding Alarms view displayed at the bottom half of the dashboard is a common view in Quest Foglight. For information about working with alarms, see Viewing, Acknowledging, and Clearing Alarms.

 

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