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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

VMW Virtual Machine Disk IO

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

VMWVirtualMachineHostStorage

Table 64. 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

VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Estimated Fill Time

This rule determines when the virtual machine logical drive is likely to reach its capacity, based on its present growth rate.

VMWVirtualMachineLogicalDisk

Table 65. Rule Definition
Conditions	State	Action
At the present growth rate, the logical drive will not reach its capacity within 90 days.	Normal	None
At the present growth rate, the logical drive will reach its capacity in 90 days or less.	Warning	None
At the present growth rate, the logical drive will reach its capacity in 30 days or less.	Critical	Send email to VMware administrator
At the present growth rate, the logical drive will reach its capacity in 7 days or less.	Fatal	Send email to VMware administrator

VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Availability

This rule monitors disk utilization and fires when the disk utilization reaches 90 percent or greater.

VMWVirtualMachineLogicalDisk

Table 66. Rule Definition
Conditions	State	Action
The disk utilization is less than 90 percent.	Normal	None
The disk utilization is 90 percent or greater, but less than 95 percent.	Warning	None
The disk utilization is 95 percent or greater, but less than 99 percent.	Critical	Send email to VMware administrator
The disk utilization is 99 percent or greater.	Fatal	Send email to VMware administrator

VMW Virtual Machine Memory Swapping

This rule monitors for the swapping in and out of virtual machine memory.

VMWVirtualMachineMemory

Table 67. Rule Definition
Conditions	State	Action
The virtual machine has not moved any of its memory from its physical pages to the VMware swap file within the ESX Server.	Normal	None
The virtual machine has moved some of its memory from its physical pages to the VMware swap file within the ESX Server. This may adversely affect the virtual machine’s performance.	Critical	None
The virtual machine is actively using memory that it has moved to the VMware swap file. This will adversely affect the virtual machine’s performance.	Fatal	None

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