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Foglight for vCloud Director 7.3.0 - User Guide

Table of Contents

Getting Started

Before you Begin Introducing the vCloud Directory Infrastructure

Setting Up Monitoring Agents

Getting Started to Set Up and Administer Monitoring Agents

Exploring the Available Tasks Exploring the Agents table

Exploring the toolbar

Discovering Server Groups Configuring Monitoring Agents for Data Collection Configuring Agent Properties

Setting the Configuration Properties Setting the Data Collection Scheduler Properties

Managing certificates

Syntax Conventions Managing certificates for FglAM

Prerequisite Add a certificate List installed certificates Delete a certificate A full example for managing certificate for FglAM

Investigating Resource Consumption Levels

Exploring your vCloud Director Environment

Selecting Monitored Objects Managing Alarms Reviewing FAQts on the Monitoring Tab Reviewing Related Items

Monitoring Organizations, Organization vDCs, and Provider vDCs

Exploring the Collective Use of All Organization, Organization vDC, or Provider vDC Resources

Usage tab Allocation tab Overhead tab

Exploring the Use of Individual Organization, Organization vDC, or Provider vDC Resources

Configuration Properties views CPU, Memory, and Storage Usage views

Monitoring vSphere Resources

Exploring the Use of Virtual Center, Resource Pool, or ESX Host Resources

Resource Utilizations view

Exploring the Use of Datastore or Datastore Cluster Resources

Resource Utilizations view

Monitoring Virtual Machines

Exploring the Collective Use of All Virtual Machine Resources

Top CPU, Memory, Network, and Datastore Consumers views

Exploring the Use of Individual Virtual Machine Resources

Resource Utilizations view

Reviewing Frequently Asked Questions Generating Reports

Investigating Object Dependencies

Getting Started with the Dependency Map

Navigating the Object Hierarchy

vCD Dependency tab vSphere Dependency tab

Identifying Dependency Map Elements

Organization tile Organization vDC tile Provider vDC tiles vApp, Cluster, and Datastore tiles

Setting the Zoom Level

Starting your Investigation

vCloud Director Dependencies Rule

vCloudDependenciesRefresher rule

vCloud Director Rules

VCloud Agent Updates rule VCloud Check Virtual Center Monitoring Status rule VCloud OrganizationVDC CPU Utilization rule VCloud OrganizationVDC Memory Utilization rule VCloud OrganizationVDC Storage Utilization rule VCloud ProviderVDC CPU Utilization rule VCloud ProviderVDC Memory Utilization rule VCloud ProviderVDC Storage Utilization rule

Metric Collections

Identifying Dependency Map Elements

In a dependency map, some objects are represented with container tiles, others with single-object tiles or just icons. Dependencies between the objects in a map are illustrated with single-directional arrows.

Figure 41. Dependency map elements

The complexity of the information representing an object depends on its type and any dependencies it has with other objects in a monitored environment. Object dependencies are represented with arrow lines.

Every object is represented with an icon, representing its type. This allows you quickly recognize main elements in a dependency map.

Table 14. Object type icons
Cluster
Datastore
Datastore Cluster
ESX Host
Organization
Organization vDC
Provider vDC
Resource Pool
vApp
vCloud
Virtual Machine

Organization tile

The organization tile displays the levels of resource utilization (CPU, memory, and disk storage) for an entire organization. It also shows the organization’s alarm severity state. These tiles also contain one or more tiles representing organization vDCs associated with that organization.

Figure 42. Organization tile

Foglight™ for vCloud Director populates the organization tile using the values stored as metrics collected from monitored organizations.

Table 15. Organization tile
Data	Description	Metric
CPU	The amount of the organization’s CPU resources spent on executing system code and user programs.	VMVCloudOrganization cpuUsed
Memory	The amount of the organization’s memory resources that are currently in use.	VMVCloudOrganization memoryUsed
Storage	The amount of the organization’s disk resources that are currently in use.	VMVCloudOrganization storageUsed

Organization vDC tile

The organization vDC tile displays the levels of CPU, memory, and disk storage usage, and the amounts of allocated resources. It also shows the alarm severity state of the organization vDC.

Figure 43. Organization vDC tile

Foglight for VMware populates these tiles using the values stored as metrics collected from monitored organization vDCs.

Table 16. Organization vDC tile
Data		Description	Metric
CPU		The percentage of the organization vDC’s CPU resources spent on executing system code and user programs during the selected time period.	VMVCloudOrganizationVDC cpuUtilization
	Used	The amount of CPU resources spent on executing system code and user programs.	VMVCloudOrganizationVDC cpuUsed
	Allocated	The total amount of CPU resources allocated to the organization vDC.	VMVCloudOrganizationVDC cpuAllocated
Memory		The percentage of the organization vDC’s memory resources that are currently in use.	VMVCloudOrganizationVDC memoryUtilization
	Used	The amount of the organization vDC’s memory resources that are currently in use.	VMVCloudOrganizationVDC memoryUsed
	Allocated	The total amount of memory resources that are allocated to the organization vDC.	VMVCloudOrganizationVDC memoryAllocated
Storage		The percentage of the organization vDC’s disk resources that are currently in use.	VMVCloudOrganizationVDC storageUtilization
	Used	The amount of the organization vDC’s disk resources that are currently in use.	VMVCloudOrganizationVDC storageUsed
	Allocated	The total amount of disk resources that are allocated to the organization vDC.	VMVCloudOrganizationVDC storageAllocated

Provider vDC tiles

The provider vDC tile displays the percentages of resource utilization (CPU, memory, and disk storage) for a provider vDC, and its severity state. It also shows the current resource usage and the total amount of resources available to the provider vDC.

Figure 44. Provider vDC tile

Foglight for VMware populates these tiles using the values stored as metrics collected from monitored provider vDCs.

Table 17. Provider vDC tile
Data		Description	Metric
CPU		The percentage of the provider vDC’s CPU resources spent on executing system code and user programs during the selected time period.	VMVCloudProviderVDC cpuUtilization
	Allocated	The total amount of CPU resources available to the provider vDC.	VMVCloudProviderVDCcpuAllocated
	Used	The amount of CPU resources spent on executing system code and user programs.	VMVCloudProviderVDC cpuUsed
Memory		The percentage of the provider vDC’s memory resources that are currently in use.	VMVCloudProviderVDC memoryUtilization
	Allocated	The total amount of memory resources that are available to the provider vDC.	VMVCloudProviderVDC memoryAllocated
	Used	The amount of the provider vDC’s memory resources that are currently in use.	VMVCloudProviderVDC memoryUsed
Storage		The percentage of the provider vDC’s disk resources that are currently in use.	VMVCloudProviderVDC storageUtilization
	Allocated	The total amount of disk resources that are available to the provider vDC.	VMVCloudProviderVDC storageAllocated
	Used	The amount of the provider vDC’s disk resources that are currently in use.	VMVCloudProviderVDC storageUsed

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