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Foglight Change Analyzer 7.1.0 - User Guide

Change History

The Change History view lists all changes that occurred to VMs, resource pools, hosts, clusters, disks, datastores, and data centers within a selected environment over a selected timeframe.

Figure 8. Change History view

To view the change history for your environment:
1
Click the Change History icon on the Change Analyzer tab > Menu bar.
The Change History view opens.
2
Select the timeframe for the analysis from the Time Range located at the top right corner of the VMware Environment dashboard.
3
On the Selectors bar, select the object for which you want to see the change history:
a
Select the event types from the Event Source Type drop-down list.
b
Select the environment and the virtual objects from the drop-down lists, or by typing the name of a virtual object in the Search box.
The Quick view is updated to display the list of VMs that match the selection.
4
In the Quick view, review the history of changes made for the selected VMs, during the selected timeframe. The view provides various details (including the type of change and who made the changes) and allows you to revert select changes, if the change was incorrectly applied or resulted in poor performance. For more information about reverting a change, see To revert a change:.
To revert a change:
1
On the Change History—Quick view, identify the change that you want to revert, and click the Revert Change link.
The Implement Change dialog box opens.
2
On the Implement tab, review the name of the virtual object and the change details. Choose whether the change should be made immediately (select the Now check box) or at a later date (select the Later check box and a date and time from the Date and Time drop-down lists).
3
Optionally, on the Notifications tab, select the users to be notified about this change.
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In the Report Name field, type a short description of the change being made.
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Use the Add and Delete buttons to define the list of users (email addresses) to be notified about this change.
4
To implement the change, click Save.

For additional information about this view, see Change History view.

Users and Permissions

The Users and Permissions view displays the user/group, role, and the privileges the role has, for a selected virtual object. It also identifies where the permissions are defined.

All these user groups and associated privileges are set up in Foglight for VMware. This view only allows you to review these settings. For information about configuring user groups and privileges, see the Foglight for VMware documentation.

Figure 9. Users and Permissions view

To view user groups and privileges for a selected environment:
1
Click the Users and Permissions icon on the Change Analyzer tab > Menu bar.
The Users and Permissions view opens.
2
On the Selectors bar, select the object for which you want to review the users groups:
a
Click Browse to open the Select an Object dialog box.
b
Select the virtual object type from the Select Object Type drop-down list, or by typing the name of a virtual object in the Search box.
The Object’s table is updated to show the objects that match the selection.
c
Select an object from the Object’s table and click Select to close the Select an Object dialog box.
The Quick view is updated to display the user groups defined for the selected virtual object. The upper table provides details about roles and where each user group is defined.
3
In the Quick view, select a user group from the upper table.
The lower table is updated to display detailed information about the privileges defined for the selected group.

For additional information about this view, see Users and Permissions view.

Settings

The Settings dialog allows you to configure the settings to be taken into calculation when analyzing the impact that various changes have on your environment.

To configure the analysis settings:
1
Click the Settings icon on the Change Analyzer tab > Actions bar.
The Settings dialog box opens.
2
Define the following settings, by typing the appropriate value in their corresponding text box:
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Impact on Performance. Minimum value (as percentage) to be taken into consideration when calculating the performance impact.
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Time before Event. Timeframe before the event (minutes, hours, or days) to be taken into consideration when calculating the performance impact.
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Time after Event. Timeframe after the event (minutes, hours, or days) to be taken into consideration when calculating the performance impact.
3
Click Save to save the analysis settings and close the Settings dialog box.

Scheduled Actions

Modeled changes can be implemented automatically, or scheduled for implementation at a particular time in the future (for example, within a maintenance window).

 
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IMPORTANT: Foglight users must have the “Remediation role” to be able to run and automate recommendations. This role can be assigned to a user using the User Management dashboard. For more information about this dashboard, see the “Controlling user access to dashboards” topic in the Foglight Online Help.

The Scheduled Actions dialog shows the list of operations scheduled to be run at a particular time in the future, and allows you to edit or remove any scheduled actions. To view only the actions specific to Foglight Change Analyzer, select the “show only Change Analyzer actions” checkbox. When the checkbox is not selected, the dialog shows all actions scheduled for your virtual environment.

Figure 10. Scheduled Actions dialog box

To edit a scheduled action:
1
In the Scheduled Actions dialog, click the Edit icon at the right end of the action you want to modify.
The Edit Scheduled Action dialog box appears.
2
Modify the report name, add or remove email addresses, and updated the date and time when the action will be executed, as necessary.
3
Click Apply.
The scheduled action is updated in the list.
4
To save the changes, click Save.
The settings are saved and the Scheduled Actions dialog box closes.
To delete a scheduled action:
1
In the Scheduled Actions dialog, select the check box for the action you want to delete, and click Remove.
2
To save the changes, click Save.
The settings are saved and the Scheduled Actions dialog box closes.
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