Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager 6.3.0 - User Guide (for Azure environments)

Agents related commands

The Administration dashboard shows a list of existing agent instances and a set of agent management commands at the top of the list. Use it to verify that your agents are collecting data from the monitored environment.

The following commands are available:

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Add: Starts a workflow for creating new agent instances. For more information, see Creating Azure Performance Agent.

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Refresh: Refreshes the list of agent instances and their states.

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Activate: Activates one or more selected agent instances. Activating an agent instance starts the agent process on the machine on which the agent is installed.

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Deactivate: Deactivates one or more selected agent instances. Deactivating an agent stops the agent process on the machine on which the agent is installed.

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Start Data Collection: Starts the data collection for one or more selected agent instances. Starting an agent’s data collection causes the agent to begin monitoring the Azure accounts and to send the collected metrics back to the Management Server.

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Stop Data Collection: Stops the data collection for one or more selected agent instances. Stopping an agent’s data collection causes the agent to stop monitoring the Azure accounts.

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Edit Properties: Starts a workflow for editing the properties of one or more selected agent instances. Each agent comes with a set of properties that it uses to configure its correct running state. Editing agent properties .

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Remove: Deletes the selected agent instance.

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Update Agent: Updates the agent package to the latest version.


	IMPORTANT: Updating the agent package using this command generates the previously existing credentials. However, if you update the agent package by re-deploying its .gar file through the Agent Status page, the credentials need to be re-created. To do that, select an agent instance, click Edit Properties, and configure the required credentials on the Credentials tab of the Edit Tab Manager dialog box.

To perform any of the available commands, select one or more check boxes in the left-most column and click the appropriate button. For example, to start an agent’s data collection, select the check box in the agent row and click Start Data Collection.

Editing agent properties

The Azure Performance Agents collect data from your Azure infrastructure and sends it to the Management Server. The agents keep track of resource utilization metrics and alerts you when certain pre-defined thresholds are reached.

Default versions of these properties are installed with Foglight. However, you can edit the default shareable and agent properties, configure agent properties that apply only to a specific agent instance, and create edited clones of shareable properties that are used by a subset of agents of a certain type.

To edit the Azure Performance Agent properties:

Ensure that the navigation panel is open.

To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow

on the left.

On the navigation panel, under Homes, click Cloud Manager.

The Cloud Manager dashboard opens.

Click Administration.

The Administration dashboard opens.

Select the instance of the Azure Performance Agent which properties that you want to modify, and then click Edit Properties.

In the Edit Properties dialog box, edit the properties as needed, and then click Save.

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Azure Environment*: The value of Azure Environment: Azure.com (default value) or Azure.cn (China).

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Tenant Directory ID *: The value of Tenant ID retrieved in Getting authentication information through Azure portal.

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Tenant Alias Name: The display name that identifies your Tenant.

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Application ID *: The value of Application ID retrieved in Getting authentication information through Azure portal.

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Access Key *: The value of Access Key retrieved in Getting authentication information through Azure portal.

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Select Resource Groups to be monitored: Specify to monitor all resource groups or only monitor specified resource group.

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If Monitor All is selected: By monitoring all Resource Groups or any Resource Group that is running on the monitored cloud which will be monitored 24x7 may consume licenses depending the number of virtual machines in the Resource Group.

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If Monitor All is not selected: The following view appears on the bottom of the Select Resource Groups to be monitored dialog box. Select virtual machines that you want to monitor, and then click >> to move selected Resource Groups to the Resource Groups Monitored by Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager table.

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If the Removed from Monitoring and Virtual Machines Monitored by Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager tables are empty, and Monitor All is not selected, the Azure agent will not collect any Virtual Machine data.

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Select IaaS Virtual Machines to Monitor: Specify to monitor all virtual machines or only monitor specified virtual machine.

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If Monitor All is selected: By monitoring all virtual machines any virtual machine that is running in the monitored cloud will be monitored 24x7 consuming a monitored virtual machine license. Every virtual machine that is monitored will count against the purchased license pool. Any Monitored Virtual Machine that is above the purchased license limit will require an additional Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager per Monitored Virtual Machine license.

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If Monitor All is not selected: The following view appears on the bottom of the Selected IaaS Virtual Machines to Monitor dialog box.

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If Automatically Monitor New Virtual Machines is selected, select virtual machines that you do not want to monitor, and then click >> to move selected virtual machines to the Removed from Monitoring table.

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If Automatically Monitor New Virtual Machines is not selected, select virtual machines that you want to monitor, and then click >> to move selected virtual machines to the Virtual Machines Monitored by Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager table.

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If the Removed from Monitoring and Virtual Machines Monitored by Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager tables are empty, and Automatically Monitor New Virtual Machines is not selected, the Azure agent will not collect any virtual machine data.

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Configure Subscription Cost to Monitor:

Configure cost metrics for subscriptions. Configurations will take effects only after a complete metrics collection cycle is finished.

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Collect Cost Metrics: Select the checkbox to enable and configure the cost metrics collection. Configurations will take effects only after a complete metrics collection cycle is finished.

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Collect Cost Metrics by Enterprise Agreement API: Enterprise Agreement Billing API only applies to Enterprise Agreement subscriptions and collects cost metrics directly from the Azure Enterprise Portal. If not, Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager will use Usage and Rate Card APIs to collect and populate the cost data for subscriptions.

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Enrollment Number: See To get the Enrollment Number and Usage API Access Key: to get this value.

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Usage API Access Key: See To get the Enrollment Number and Usage API Access Key: to get this value.

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If you do not select the option, specify the Billing Cycle Day, and then use Usage and Rate Card APIs to collect and populate the cost data for subscriptions. Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Azure supports two types of subscription: Pay As You Go and Azure In-Open.

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Billing Cycle Day: Calculate the total usage from the specified Billing Cycle Day of the month, and then populate the rate card data. See To get the subscription information: to get this value.

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Subscriptions table: Move the subscriptions that you want to monitor from the left to the right table.

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Configure Proxy (Optional):

Configure the proxy setting when the Agent Host requires a proxy connection to the Internet.

Select the Enable Proxy check box to enable the proxy settings.

Input the host name or IP address for the Proxy Server and input the Proxy Port number.

If the proxy requires an authorization, select the Authorization check box, and input the Username and Password.


	NOTE: In FIPS-compliant mode, if proxy settings are configured, you need to import the proxy server application root certificate into FMS KeyStore and FgLAM. For more information, see Managing certificates.

Click Save. The Edit Properties dialog box closes and the list of agent instances automatically refreshes in the display area.

Managing certificates

Syntax Conventions

In order to successfully make use of the Foglight commands in your monitoring environment, review the syntax conventions before getting started. The syntax conventions are as follows:

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Generic examples follow the UNIX path structure that uses forward slashes '/' to separate directories.

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Platform-specific examples follow standard platform conventions. For example, UNIX-specific examples use forward slashes ‘/’ as directory delimiters, while Windows examples use backslashes ‘\’.

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<foglight_home> is a placeholder that represents the path to the Foglight Management Server installation.

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<foglight_agent_mgr_home> is a placeholder that represents the path to the Foglight Agent Manager installation. This can be the location of the Foglight Agent Manager installation on a monitored host, or the home directory of the Foglight Agent Manager that comes embedded with the Foglight Management Server. For example:

Path to the Foglight Agent Manager installation on a monitored host (Windows):

C:\Quest\Foglight_Agent_Manager

Path to the embedded Foglight Agent Manager installation (Windows):

C:\Quest\Foglight\fglam

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Unless otherwise specified, Foglight commands are case-sensitive.