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Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager 1.9 - User Guide (for Google environments)

VM Instances

The VM Instances view shows the data collected about a specific VM instance or all VM instances.

Figure 11. VM Instances view

The VM Instances Quick View displays the following features:

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VM Instances tree view: Shows all the VM instances under the selected service. Use the VM Instances tree view to switch between All VM Instances view and a single VM Instance view.
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Summary - All VM Instances view: Shows the VM instances with Top CPU Utilization, Top Memory Utilization, Top Network Consumers, and Top Storage Consumers.
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A single VM Instance view
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Resource Information: Shows the basic information for the selected VM instance, including Instance Group, CPU Platform, Status, Machine Type, Zone, Virtual Network, Internal IP, and External IP.
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Related Items: Shows the relation and hierarchy for the selected VM instance.
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Resource Utilization: Shows the CPU Utilization, Network I/O, Memory Utilization, and Disk I/O for the selected VM instance.
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Alarms: Shows all the alarms related to the selected VM Instance, or all the alarms related to the VM Instances under the selected service.

Click Explore to open the VM Instance Explorer view.

VM Instance Explorer view

The VM Instance Explorer view visually displays the detailed information of the VM instance.

Figure 12. VM Instance Explorer view

Rule Configuration Tab

The Rule Configuration tab of the Cloud Manager dashboard contains links to rules and alarms tasks that you can use to manage Google Cloud rules and alarms.

Figure 13. Rule Configuration dashboard

To access the Rule Configuration dashboard:
1
Log in to the Foglight browser interface.
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Ensure that the navigation panel is open.
To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow on the left.
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On the navigation panel, under Homes, click Cloud Manager.
The Cloud Manager dashboard opens.
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Click Rule Configuration in the actions bar.

For more information, see the following topics:

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Rules view
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Enabling/Disabling rule(s)
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Adding a custom rule
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Removing custom rule(s)

Rules view

By default, the following columns are displayed in the Rules view:

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Enabled: Indicates if the rule is enabled or disabled . You can sort the list of rules by state, by clicking the Enabled column.
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Rule: Contains the rule name. Click the rule name to start the workflow for viewing and editing rule details.
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Fatal , Critical , and Warning thresholds (multiple-severity rules only):
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For expressions that include one registry variable, these columns contain the current value of that variable. Click the value to edit it.
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For expressions that include multiple registry variables, the column contains an icon . Clicking that icon shows the list of referenced registry variables and their values. Click a value to edit it.
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For expressions that do not include any registry variables, this column contains an icon . Clicking that icon navigates to the Edit Rule dashboard.
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For rule states that do not have a conditional expression defined, this column is empty.
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Alarms: Contains the number of alarms (multiple-severity rules only) generated by the rule. Clicking that column shows a list of alarms indicating for each alarm its severity, when the alarm was generated, and the alarm message.
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Applies to: Shows the object name that is applied to this custom rule.
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Description: Contains the rule description.

Enabling/Disabling rule(s)

The Rule Configuration dashboard shows a list of existing rules and a set of rule management commands at the top of the list. Use the Enable Rule and Disable Rule buttons to activate or deactivate one or multiple rules at once.

To enable a rule:
1
Log in to the Foglight browser interface.
2
Ensure that the navigation panel is open.
To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow on the left.
3
On the navigation panel, under Homes, click Cloud Manager.
The Cloud Manager dashboard opens.
4
Click Rule Configuration.
The Rule Configuration dashboard opens.
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On the Rules list, select one or more check boxes in the left-most column, and then click Enable Rule.
The Enable Rules dialog box opens.
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In the Enable Rules dialog box, click Yes.
The Rules list refreshes with the rules’ status updated automatically.
To disable a rule:
1
Log in to the Foglight browser interface.
2
Ensure that the navigation panel is open.
To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow on the left.
3
On the navigation panel, under Homes, click Cloud Manager.
The Cloud Manager dashboard opens.
4
Click Rule Configuration.
The Rule Configuration dashboard opens.
5
On the Rules list, select one or more check boxes in the left-most column, and then click Disable Rule.
The Disable Rules dialog box opens.
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In the Disable Rules dialog box, click Yes.
The Rules list refreshes with the rules’ status updated automatically.
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