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Foglight for VMware 6.1.0 - User Guide (Lite version)

Table of Contents

Using Foglight for VMware

Introducing the virtual infrastructure

Physical objects Virtual objects

Navigation basics

Foglight for VMware browser interface elements

Navigation panel Display area Action panel

Breadcrumbs Time Range Sortable lists Alarms and their status indicators Mouse-over actions

Interacting with Foglight for VMware

Exploring the VMWare Agent Administration Dashboard

Rule Configuration tab Advanced Options tab User Level Access tab Agents view Accessing the VMware Agent Administration Dashboard

Configuring monitoring agents for data collection Managing certificates Investigating performance metrics

Viewing baseline ranges

Setting the alarm sensitivity level Additional features

Creating OS mapping rules Reviewing object instances and limits Configure Metrics Collection Generating reports

VMware Performance Agent configuration

VMware Performance Agent and Agent Manager configuration

Monitoring more than 4000 virtual machines from a single agent host Host system recommendations

Configuring agent properties Setting the Configuration properties Setting the FileCollector properties Setting the vSwitchCollector properties Setting the Duplicate VM List properties Setting the Black List properties Setting the Data Collection Scheduler properties

VMware Explorer views

FAQts tab Resource Pools Relationship Tree view Storage tab (Cluster) Storage tab (Datacenter) Storage tab (ESX Host) Storage tab (Virtual Machine) Summary tab Summary (All Clusters) tab Summary (All Datacenters) tab Summary (All Resource Pools) tab Summary (All Servers) tab Summary (All Virtual Machines) tab Virtual Infrastructure view

VMware Agent Administration views

Agents view Instances and Limits view OS Mapping view Metrics Collection Management View

VMW Cluster Disk IO

Datacenter Rules

VMW Datacenter Disk IO

Datastore Rules

VMW Datastore Estimated Fill Time VMW Datastore Inactive

Resource Pool Rules

VMW Resource Pool Disk IO

ESX Server Rules

VMW ESX Server Disk IO VMW ESX Server Queue Latency VMW ESX Server Queue Latency Deviation VMW ESX Server Total Latency VMW ESX Server Total Latency Deviation

VirtualCenter Rules

VMW VirtualCenter Disk IO

Virtual Machine Rules

VMW Virtual Machine Disk Command Aborts VMW Virtual Machine Disk IO VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Estimated Fill Time VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Availability VMW Virtual Machine Memory Swapping

Virtual Switch Rules

VMW Distributed Virtual Switch Available Ports VMW Distributed Virtual Switch Network Utilization VMW Distributed Virtual Switch Packet Loss VMW Standard Virtual Switch Available Ports VMW Standard Virtual Switch Network Packet Loss VMW Standard Virtual Switch Network Utilization VMW Virtual Switch Credentials Invalid

Appendix: Alarm Messages Appendix: Metrics

Virtual machine metrics ESXi host metrics Datastore metrics Datastore cluster metrics Resource pool metrics vApp metrics Cluster metrics Datacenter metrics vCenter metrics DvSwitch metrics

VirtualCenter Rules

This section describes the VirtualCenter rule. This rule is disabled by default, and can be enabled as required:

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VMW VirtualCenter Disk IO

VMW VirtualCenter Disk IO

This rule monitors for spikes and dramatic drops in disk IO for a VirtualCenter.

VMWVirtualCenter

Table 62. Rule Definition
Conditions	State	Action
The disk usage is no more than 2.2 standard deviations (NumSTDevs) from the mean disk usage.	Normal	None
The disk usage is more than 2.2 but no more than 2.8 standard deviations from the mean disk usage.	Warning	None
The disk usage is more than 2.8 standard deviations from the mean disk usage.	Critical	None

Views Displaying Alarms Based on this Rule

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Virtual Infrastructure view

Virtual Machine Rules

This section lists and describes the virtual machine rules.

Rules in this section:

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VMW Virtual Machine Disk Command Aborts

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VMW Virtual Machine Disk IO

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VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Estimated Fill Time

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VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Availability

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VMW Virtual Machine Memory Swapping

VMW Virtual Machine Disk Command Aborts

This rule monitors for situations in which a disk command has been aborted because these may be an indication of hardware problems.

VMWVirtualMachineHostStorage

Table 63. Rule Definition
Conditions	State	Action
There are no disk command aborts to report.	Normal	None
A disk command abort has occurred.	Critical	Send email to VMware administrator

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