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Foglight for Infrastructure 5.9.5 - User Guide

Table of Contents

Using Foglight for Infrastructure

Host availability alerting Virtual hosts and reported metrics Exploring the Infrastructure Environment dashboard

Accessing the Infrastructure dashboard Selecting a service Running a report for the Infrastructure Environment Exploring the Monitoring tab

Tiles Quick View

Exploring monitored hosts Exploring the FAQ Question Viewer

Categories Questions Answers

Exploring the Administration tab

Agents Rule Configuration

Using Foglight for Infrastructure agents

Using the PowerVM HMC agent Using the UnixAgentPlus Monitoring remote hosts

Preventing memory leaks in Windows Server® 2008 R2 and Windows 7

Deploying Foglight for Infrastructure agents Creating agent instances Defining credentials Activating the agent Monitoring the infrastructure Adding a monitored host Adding multiple monitored hosts

About the WindowsAgent

Supported platforms Agent properties

About the UnixAgentPlus

Supported platforms Agent properties

Configuring secure launcher permissions using sudo

About the UnixAgent

Supported platforms Agent properties

About the MultiHostProcessMonitorAgent

Supported platforms Agent properties

Monitoring log files with Foglight Log Monitor

Configuring monitoring agents Investigating log records Configuring agent properties

Configuring File Log Monitor agent properties

Monitored Hosts Log Files File Formats Record Transformations Data Collection Scheduler FileLogMonitor configuration example

Configuring Windows Event Log Monitor agent properties

Monitored Hosts Event Logs Record Transformations Data Collection Scheduler WindowsEventLogMonitor configuration example

Configuring connections to remote Windows platforms

Monitoring IBM PowerVM environments

Before you begin

Introducing the PowerVM infrastructure

Managing PowerVM HMC agents

Configuring HMC user accounts Configuring PowerVM HMC agent credentials Creating PowerVM HMC agents Reviewing and editing PowerVM HMC agent properties

Configuring HMC Settings Configuring Data Collection Scheduler properties

Monitoring your PowerVM environment

Exploring the Infrastructure Environment dashboard

Selecting monitored objects Observing alarms Reviewing FAQts

Investigating the collective use of all HMC resources Viewing HMC details Identifying top consumers of managed server resources Viewing individual managed server details Identifying top consumers of PowerVM partition resources Viewing individual PowerVM partition details Identifying top consumers of PowerVM virtual I/O server resources Viewing individual PowerVM VIOS details Investigating additional managed server, partition, and VIOS details

Exploring PowerVM partition and PowerVM VIOS overviews Exploring managed server profiles Investigating the use of PowerVM partition and VIOS processor resources Investigating the use of PowerVM partition and VIOS memory resources Exploring processor, memory, and storage breakdowns Investigating volume-based storage pools Exploring top resource analyzers Exploring PowerVM VIOS network summaries Drilling down on shared network adapters Drilling down on physical and virtual network adapters Investigating object dependencies

Reviewing frequently asked questions

Monitoring a partition or VIOS with Foglight for Infrastructure

Advanced system configuration and troubleshooting

Advanced system configuration for WinRM

Foglight for Infrastructure views

Purpose How to get here

Purpose How to get here Description of embedded views

Resource Utilizations view

Purpose How to get here Description of embedded views

Host Monitor views

Purpose How to get here Description of embedded views

Processes views

Purpose How to get here Description of embedded views

Foglight Log Monitor views

File Selector view Log Records view Record Details view

AIX metrics HP-UX metrics Linux metrics Solaris metrics Windows metrics AIXHostDetails topology object AIXMemoryDetails topology object AIXPhysicalCPUUsage topology object AIXUsedMemoryDetails topology object CPUCounts topology object Host topology object HostCPUs topology object

HostCPUs — Physical CPU Utilization

HostNetwork topology object HostProcess topology object HostProcessInstance topology object HostService topology object HostTopProcessEntry topology object LPARNetworkInterfaceDetails topology object LPARPhysicalDiskDetails topology object LogicalDisk topology object MSCluster topology object MSClusterNode topology object MSClusterResource topology object MSClusterResourceGroup topology object MSHostedResourceGroup topology object Memory topology object NetworkInterface topology object NetworkInterfaceDetails topology object NixHostProcessInstance topology object OperatingSystem topology object PhysicalDisk topology object PowerVMVIOS topology object PowerVMVIOSCPUs topology object PowerVMVIOSMemory topology object PowerVMVIOSNetwork topology object PowerVMVIOSStorage topology object Processor topology object WinHostProcessInstance topology object

Appendix: Building regular expressions in Foglight

What is a regular expression? Where can I find regular expressions? Regular expression basics

Building a simple pattern Building a pattern that matches a specific character Building a pattern that matches multiple characters Using advanced quantifiers Using special characters and regular expression flags Grouping elements in a pattern Additional information

NixHostProcessInstance topology object

On UNIX®, instances of NixHostProcessInstance are used instead of HostProcessInstance. These topology objects extend HostProcessInstance with a few more details that can be captured on UNIX platforms.

Table 54. NixHostProcessInstance topology object
Metric Name	Metric Description¹	Metric Collected for These Platforms
commandLine	The full command line used to launch the executable.	Linux®
creationDate	The time the process instance was created. (date)	Linux
executablePath	The full path to the executable.	Linux
sessionId	The session id of the process.	Linux

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For Linux platforms, these metrics are collected only by the UnixAgentPlus.

OperatingSystem topology object

There is a single instance of the OperatingSystem type attached to a host. The instance is identified by the reference to that Host and provides additional details about the operating system.

Table 55. OperatingSystem topology object
Metric Name	Metric Description¹	Metric Collected for These Platforms
architecture	The architecture (for example, “ia32”).	AIX® HP-UX Linux® Solaris® Windows®
buildNumber	The OS build number. Typically found on Windows machines.	Solaris Windows
name	The operating system name (for example, “Windows XP”).	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
release	The Linux distribution name.	Linux
servicePackMajorVersion	The major version of the service pack. Typically found on Windows machines.	Windows
servicePackMinorVersion	The minor version of the service pack. Typically found on Windows machines.	Windows
type	The general type of operating system. This is typically one of “Windows”, “Linux”, “AIX”, “HPUX”, or “Sun®”.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
version	The OS version.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows

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For Linux platforms, metrics are collected only by the UnixAgentPlus.

PhysicalDisk topology object

The PhysicalDisk represents a disk that is installed in the machine or configured for a virtual machine. It is identified by its name (for example, hda) and a reference to its parent Host.

Table 56. PhysicalDisk topology object
Metric Name	Metric Description	Metric Collected for These Platforms
averageReadTime	The average amount of time (millisecond) for a disk read to complete.	Linux®¹ Solaris®²
averageTransferTime	The average amount of time (millisecond) for a disk transfer, either read or write.	AIX®³ HP-UX⁴ Linux Solaris® Windows®
averageWriteTime	The average amount of time (millisecond) for a disk write to complete.	Linux⁵ Solaris⁶
bytesRead	The volume of data read from the filesystem (kilobyte/second).	AIX Linux Solaris Windows
bytesWritten	The volume of data written to the filesystem (kilobyte/second).	AIX Linux Solaris Windows
capacityAvailable	The amount of space available in the filesystem as a percentage of the total space (percent).	AIX HP-UX Windows⁷
capacityUsed	The amount of space used in the fileystem as a percentage of the total space (percent).	AIX HP-UX Windows⁸
Detail/readable	Indicates whether or not the disk can be read from.	none
Detail/writable	Indicates whether or not the disk can be written to.	none
Detail/writeOnce	Indicates whether or not the disk can be written to only once.	none
name	The name of the disk, such as “C:”, or “hda”, or “sd1”.	AIX HP-UX Linux⁹ Solaris Windows
queueLength	The length of the queue containing I/O requests that have begun processing but have not yet finished.	AIX¹⁰ HP-UX¹¹ Linux Solaris Windows
reads	The rate (count/second) of read operations.	AIX¹² Linux Solaris Windows
spaceAvailable	The amount of space available in the filesystem (megabyte).	AIX¹³
spaceUsed	The amount of space used in the fileystem (megabyte).	AIX¹⁴
totalSpace	The size of the filesystem (megabyte).	AIX HP-UX
utilization	The utilization in terms of available bandwidth.	AIX¹⁵ Linux Solaris Windows
writes	The rate (count/second) of write operations.	AIX¹⁶ Linux Solaris Windows

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Collected for Linux platforms only by the UnixAgentPlus.

2

Collected for Solaris platforms only by the UnixAgentPlus.

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This metric is not available when using command line mode.

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This metric is not available when using command line mode.

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Collected for Linux platforms only by the UnixAgentPlus.

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Collected for Solaris platforms only by the UnixAgentPlus.

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This metric is only available for logical filesystems.

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This metric is only available for logical filesystems.

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Collected for Linux platforms only by the UnixAgentPlus.

This metric is not available when using command line mode.

This metric is not available when using command line mode.

This metric is not available when using command line mode.

This metric is not collected for native.

This metric is not collected for native.

This metric is not available when using command line mode.

This metric is not available when using command line mode.

PowerVMVIOS topology object

As part of PowerVM, the Virtual I/O Server is a software appliance with which you can associate physical resources and that allows you to share these resources among multiple client logical partitions. The Virtual I/O Server can use both virtualized storage and network adapters, making use of the virtual SCSI and virtual Ethernet facilities.

Table 57. PowerVMVIOS topology object
Metric Name	Metric Description	Metric Collected for These Platforms
cores	The count for cores of the VIOS.	none
osVersion	The operating system version for this VIOS.	AIX® HP-UX Linux® Solaris® Windows®
procMode	The current processor mode of this VIOS which is “ded” or “shared”.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
sharingMode	The processing sharing mode of this VIOS which is “cap” or “uncap”.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
state	The state of this VIOS whether is “Running” or “Not Activated”.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
viosID	The unique integer identifier for the VIOS.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
viosName	The user-defined name of the VIOS.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows

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