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Foglight for Infrastructure 6.0.0 - 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

Configuring Multiple Instances for Monitoring using Silent Installation 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 Configuring default local user credentials for Infrastructure Agents

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

HostCPUs topology object

There is a single HostCPUs instance attached to a Host that provides host level summary metrics for the processors on a host. The HostCPUs instance is identified by the reference to the associated Host object and has its name set with the constant string CPUs.

Table 37. HostCPUs topology object
Metric Name	Metric Description	Metric Collected for These Platforms
percentIOWaitTime	The average percentage of time that processors on the host were idle while there was at least one I/O in progress.	AIX® HP-UX Linux® Solaris®
percentIdleTime	The average percentage of time that processors on the host are idle.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows®
percentSystemTime	The average percentage of time that processors on the host spend executing system code in user mode.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
percentUserTime	The average percentage of time that processors on the host spend executing user code.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
totalHz	The total speed (measured in Hertz) of all physical processors installed on a host, or the total number of cycles allocated to a virtual machine.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
usedHz	The total amount of clock cycles (measured in Hertz) being used by processors on the host.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
utilization	The average percentage of time that processors on the host are utilized (that is, not idle). NOTE: IntelliProfile thresholds are defined for this metric. For details, review the thresholds list in the Manage Thresholds dashboard.	AIX Linux¹ Windows

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Collected for Linux platforms only by the UnixAgentPlus.

HostCPUs — Physical CPU Utilization

The CPU usage of AIX® LPAR (Logical Partition) is not easily or consistently measurable via a percentage. Depending on the LPAR configuration, the numbers can vary widely (often exceeding 100%, as in prior releases).

The current formula for calculating the Physical CPU Utilization provides a more meaningful value for this metric, which is reflective of physical CPU allocation (regardless of virtualization setup) and does not exceed 100%.

Customers who prefer using the old formula from the legacy agent (delivered with the Cartridge for Operating Systems) can revert to the old calculation by using the following formulas:

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For capped lpar:

CPU Utilization (oldMetric) = Physical CPU Utilization (newMetric)/entitlement

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For uncapped lpar:

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if virtualCPUs >= physicalCPUs

oldMetric = (newMetric*physicalCPUs)/entitlement

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if virtualCPUs < physicalCPUs

oldMetric = (newMetric*virtualCPUs)/entitlement

HostNetwork topology object

There is a single HostNetwork instance attached to a host that provides host level summary metrics for the network interfaces on the host. The HostNetwork instance is identified by the reference to the associated Host object and has its name set with the constant string Network.

Table 38. HostNetwork topology object
Metric Name	Metric Description	Metric Collected for These Platforms
packetsReceived	The total number of packets received on all interfaces (count/second). NOTE: IntelliProfile thresholds are defined for this metric. For details, review the thresholds list in the Manage Thresholds dashboard.	AIX® HP-UX Linux® Solaris® Windows®
packetsSent	The total number of packets sent on all interfaces (count/second). NOTE: IntelliProfile thresholds are defined for this metric. For details, review the thresholds list in the Manage Thresholds dashboard.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
receiveRate	The combined receive rate on all network interfaces (bit/second). NOTE: IntelliProfile thresholds are defined for this metric. For details, review the thresholds list in the Manage Thresholds dashboard.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
sendRate	The combined send rate on all network interfaces (bit/second). NOTE: IntelliProfile thresholds are defined for this metric. For details, review the thresholds list in the Manage Thresholds dashboard.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
tcpConnectionsActive	The number of open and active TCP connections.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
tcpConnectionsEstablished	The number of TCP connections last observed to be in the ESTABLISHED or CLOSE-WAIT state.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
tcpConnectionsFailures	The number of TCP connections that have failed since the service was started. TCP considers a connection as failed when it goes directly from sending (SYN-SENT) or receiving (SYN-RCVD) to closed (CLOSED) state, or from receiving (SYN-RCVD) to listening (LISTEN).	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
tcpConnectionsPassive	The number of open and passive TCP connections.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
tcpConnectionsReset	The number of connections that have been reset since the service was started (regardless of when the System Monitor was started). TCP considers a connection as reset when it goes directly from ESTABLISHED or CLOSE-WAIT to CLOSED state. In Linux, this number represents the count of receiving resets.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
transferRate	The total rate on all transfers on all network interfaces (bit/second).	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
utilization	The average utilization of network interfaces on the host. NOTE: IntelliProfile thresholds are defined for this metric. For details, review the thresholds list in the Manage Thresholds dashboard.	AIX HP-UX Linux¹ Solaris Windows

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This metric is unavailable when the network card’s maximum bandwidth is not reported by the kernel.

HostProcess topology object

The HostProcess type captures aggregate metrics for all processes of a given type on the host. Processes are aggregated according to executables.

Table 39. HostProcess topology object
Metric Name	Metric Description	Metric Collected for These Platforms
dataOther	The rate (byte/second) at which instances of the process transfer bytes in I/O operations that are neither read nor write operations (for example, control operations).	AIX® HP-UX Solaris® Windows®
dataRead	The rate (byte/second) at which instances of the process read data in I/O operations to file, network, etc.	AIX HP-UX Linux® Solaris Windows
dataWritten	The rate (byte/second) at which instances of the process write data in I/O operations to file, network, etc.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
name	The name of the HostProcess group.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
operationsOther	The rate (count/second) of I/O operations (other than read/write operations) performed by instances of this process.	AIX HP-UX Solaris Windows
operationsRead	The rate (count/second) of read I/O operations performed by instances of the process.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
operationsWritten	The rate (count/second) of write I/O operations performed by instances of the process.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
pageFaults	The total number of page faults for this process (count/second).	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
percentAvailability	The percentage of processes found divided by the number of processes expected. (percent)	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
percentMemory	The percentage of real memory that has been consumed by instances of the process.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
percentProcessorTime	The percentage of the total processor time that has been consumed by instances of the process.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
swapSize	The total size (kilobyte) of swap or paging space used by instances of the process.	AIX HP-UX Solaris Windows
totalProcessorTime	The total processor time (seconds) that has been consumed by instances of the process.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
virtualSize	The total virtual size (kilobyte) of instances of the process.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows
workingSetSize	The total amount of real memory (kilobyte) consumed by instances of the process.	AIX HP-UX Linux Solaris Windows

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