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Foglight for NetVault 1.3 - User Guide

Understanding Foglight® for NetVault®

Understanding Foglight® for NetVault®
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About Foglight for NetVault
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Key benefits
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Architecture
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Getting Started

About Foglight for NetVault

Foglight® for NetVault®, by the means of NetVault Restful APIs, integrates Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition (hereafter referred to as FVE) with the NetVault Server, and provides the following capabilities to effectively monitor large-scale NetVault deployments, including:

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Monitor NetVault infrastructure, including the NetVault Server and its affiliated clients.
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Provide and display a subset of status to FVE on demand, including Job status, Client status, Device/Storage status and statistics, and status of data being protected.
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Show NetVault reports and alarm notifications.

Key benefits

Foglight for NetVault offers these benefits for the customer environment:

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Better status visibility and monitoring for the complete NetVault environment.
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Single place to view the status and monitor multiple NetVault Servers and associated NetVault clients.
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Consolidated views of what is protected in a NetVault environment.
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Environment/equipment status and monitoring to help diagnose problems that can affect NetVault functionality and performance, especially where the cause of a problem is outside of NetVault control or visibility.
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Collection and display of historical status, events, performance, logs, and so on.
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More data and longer retention of data than what is stored by NetVault Servers.
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Better analysis of issues that require some history of data, for example:
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Problems that were not noticed or reported until sometime after the occurrence.
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Problems that are developed over time.
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Problems that are sporadic or periodic.

Architecture

Figure 1. Components of Foglight for NetVault

Foglight for NetVault consists of three main components:

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Foglight Management Server and Foglight Database Repository — Responsible for managing, alerting, and viewing the collected data. Both components can be set to run on the same machine or reside on separate machines.
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Agent Manager — Hosts the monitoring NetVault agents.
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NetVault Backup Server — Provides the core services for protecting your data and administers backup and restore jobs for all assigned clients. Various types of physical and virtual storage devices can be locally attached to the server.
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