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Foglight for Infrastructure 5.9.3 - 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
Advanced system configuration and troubleshooting Reference
Foglight for Infrastructure views Foglight Log Monitor views Rules Metrics
Appendix: Building regular expressions in Foglight

Record Details view

The Record Details view displays the contents of a selected record. The layout of this view depends on the selected log type. Windows Event Log records appear in a table, while file log records appear in text form.

File log record contents

Windows Event Log record contents

How to Get Here
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On the Log Monitor dashboard, in the File Selector view, select a log whose records you want to display.
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In the Log Records view, select a log record.
The Record Details view refreshes, showing the contents of the selected log record.
Description of the View (log file records)
Table 29. Record Details view (log file records)
Description

Displays the contents of the selected record.

Description of the View (Windows Event Log records)
 
Table 30. Record Details view (Windows Event Log records)
Data displayed
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Message. The message contained in the Windows Event Log record.
 
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Severity. The severity of the Windows Event Log record.
 
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TimeStamp. The date and time when the Windows Event Log record is created.
 
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Computer. The name of the computer on which the Windows Event Log record is created.
 
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ID. The ID of the Windows Event Log record.
 
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Source. The application that generated the Windows Event Log record.
 
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User. The Foglight severity of the Windows Event Log record.

Rules

Foglight for Infrastructure includes some built-in rules that monitor the health of your infrastructure environment. You can and should modify rules to better suit your environment.

To review the list of Foglight for Infrastructure rules, use the Administration > Rules dashboard. From here, you can copy, edit, and remove Foglight rules.

 
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NOTE: Predefined rules may be modified during regular software updates. To avoid losing changes to these rules, we recommend copying a rule and making edits to the copy. Enable the copy and disable the original rule. You may want to identify your custom rules with a unique prefix to make them easy to find.
To review and edit rules:
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In the navigation panel, under Homes, click Administration > Rules & Notifications > Rules.
The Rules dashboard opens.
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From the Cartridge list, select Infrastructure.
The dashboard refreshes to display only the Foglight for Infrastructure rules.
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From here, you can perform the following tasks:
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Review a short description of the rule.
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Review and edit threshold values.
 
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TIP: For rules that reference registry variables for threshold values, modify the threshold in the registry variable, rather than modifying the rule. For help finding and editing registry variables, search for “Registry Variable” in the online help.
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Copy rules.
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Edit rule conditions.
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Associate actions with rules.
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Create user-defined rules.
For help with these tasks, open the online help from the Rules dashboard.

Metrics

Foglight for Infrastructure agents collect metrics and store them in the Foglight topology model as topology objects:

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AIX metrics
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HP-UX metrics
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Linux metrics
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Solaris metrics
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Windows metrics

AIX metrics

The following topology objects are collected by the UnixAgent when monitoring AIX® systems:

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AIXHostDetails topology object
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AIXMemoryDetails topology object
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AIXPhysicalCPUUsage topology object
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AIXUsedMemoryDetails topology object
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CPUCounts topology object
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Host topology object
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HostCPUs topology object
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HostNetwork topology object
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HostProcess topology object
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HostProcessInstance topology object
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HostTopProcessEntry topology object
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LPARNetworkInterfaceDetails topology object
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LPARPhysicalDiskDetails topology object
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LogicalDisk topology object
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Memory topology object
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NetworkInterface topology object
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NetworkInterfaceDetails topology object
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OperatingSystem topology object
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PhysicalDisk topology object
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Processor topology object
 
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NOTE: Some of these metrics can only be collected if the native agent has been deployed to the monitored host.

The following topology objects may be collected by the UnixAgent when monitoring AIX® systems, when users set the property “Collect Hypervisor metrics” for VIOS host monitoring:

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PowerVMVIOS topology object
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PowerVMVIOSCPUs topology object
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PowerVMVIOSMemory topology object
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PowerVMVIOSNetwork topology object
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PowerVMVIOSStorage topology object
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