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Foglight 6.1.0 - User Guide

Getting Started Viewing, Acknowledging, and Clearing Alarms Viewing, Creating, and Managing Alarm Templates Monitoring Your Domains Monitoring Your Services Monitoring Your Hosts Reporting on Your Enterprise

Duplicating a template

To duplicate a template:
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In the templates panel, hover over the template to be duplicated. The more actions icon will appear. Click to view the available actions.
2
Click Duplicate.
3
Complete the Duplicate Alarm Template dialog, using the below information as a guide:
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Give the new template a unique name and accurate description.
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Click the Domains drop-down to select the domains to which the new template should apply.
When duplicating a template, the list of available domains is restricted to those included in the original template. If you are duplicating the factory template, you can choose from the full list of domains. If you are duplicating a different template, then only the domains included in that template will be available.
4
Click Create.
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[Optional] Set the new template as the default template. Refer to Setting Default Templates.
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NOTE: The duplicated template will not contain any targets. To apply the template to targets, see <targets>.

Setting Default Templates

Any alarm template can be set as the default template for the domains associated with that template. Domains can have only with one default template. Any object in that domain that is not associated with another alarm template will have the default template applied.

To set a template as default:
1
In the templates panel, hover over the template to be used as the new default. The more actions icon will appear. Click to view the available actions.
2
Click Set as Default.
3
Click OK to confirm.

Additionally, you can view the current domain default templates in one dialog, and make changes as required.

To view and set domain defaults:
1
Perform one of the options below:
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Set multiple domain defaults from the template panel:
a
In the templates panel, click to open the Set Defaults dialog.
b
[Optional] Toggle Don't Show empty domains to either view all domains, or only those with targets.
c
View the default template for each domain. Use the drop-down to assign a new default template.
d
Click Set Defaults when finished.
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Set one or more domain defaults from the template:
a
In the templates panel, click a template to view it.
The domains menu list each domain to which the template applies.
b
Next to the desired domain, click the down-arrow and click Set as Default.
c
Click OK.

Viewing template information

Use the Info option to view a summary card containing key data points about a template. The information card displays:

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The template name and descrition
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The time and date the template was last modified
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The number of assigned targets
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The number of enabled rules.
To view template information:
1
In the templates panel, hover over the chosen template. The more actions icon will appear. Click to view the available actions.
2
Click Info.
The template information card will be displayed.

Editing templates

Alarm templates consist of a set of domain-specific rules that trigger alarms when the configured conditions are met. When editing alarm templates, you can either edit the template details (name, description, applied domains) or edit the alarms and alarm parameters.

To edit alarm template details:
1
In the templates panel, hover over the template to be used as the new default. The more actions icon will appear. Click to view the available actions.
2
Click Edit.
3
Make changes in the Alarm Template Name and Description field as required.
4
To change domains to which the template should apply, click the Domains dropdown. Select or clear domains as required.
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Click Save.
To edit alarms and alarm parameters:
1
In the template panel, click on the template you wish to edit. The template will be displayed, with the alarms grouped by domain.
2
Click the tab for the domain you wish to edit.
3
Edit the alarms as needed, using the information below as a guide:
To enable or disable an alarm:
a
Using the search function if necessary, find the alarm in the alarm table.
b
Toggle the On/Off setting.
OR
a
To enable disable multiple alarms, select the alarms using the checkbox. Use the search function if necessary.
You may combine results from multiple searches.
b
A banner will display the number of selected alarms, and offer the options
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Enable All
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Disable All
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Unselect All
Click the desired option.
To edit threshold values:
a
Using the search function if necessary, find the alarm you wish to edit in the alarm table.
b
Hover over the alarm to view the edit icon . Click the icon.
c
The threshold options displayed vary based on the domain and alarm. An example is shown below.
d
For each threshold, you can toggle that value on or off, or change the value that will trigger the alarm.
e
Click Apply to save changes, or the X to cancel.
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