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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

VCloud Agent Updates rule

This rule monitors the activity of monitoring vCloud Director Agent instances.

Table 18. Rule Definition
Conditions	State	Action
The monitoring vCloud Director Agent instances are active and collecting data.	Normal	None
A vCloud Director Agent instance has not collected any data for 10 minutes (600 seconds). This time period is set by the VCL:agent.lastUpdated.critical registry variable. The default global value of this variable is 600 (seconds).	Critical	None

VCloud Check Virtual Center Monitoring Status rule

This rule checks if the Virtual Centers associated with the monitored vCloud environment are configured for monitoring.

VMVCloudServerGroup.vCenters

Table 19. Rule Definition
Conditions	State	Action
All Virtual Centers associated with the monitored vCloud environment are configured for monitoring.	Normal	None
A Virtual Center is currently not monitored. A VMware Performance Agent instance should be configured to collect data from this Virtual Center.	Warning	None

VCloud OrganizationVDC CPU Utilization rule

This rule monitors the CPU utilization of organization vDCs, and generates alarms if it determines that the CPU utilization significantly deviates from the baseline values.

VMVCloudOrganizationVDC

Table 20. Rule Definition
Conditions	State	Action
The CPU utilization of all organization vDCs is within the normal baseline range.	Normal	None
The CPU utilization of an organization vDC has reached 97% of the baseline value.	Critical	None
The CPU utilization of an organization vDC has reached 99% of the baseline value.	Fatal	None

VCloud OrganizationVDC Memory Utilization rule

This rule monitors the memory utilization of organization vDCs, and generates alarms if it determines that the memory utilization significantly deviates from the baseline values.

VMVCloudOrganizationVDC

Table 21. Rule Definition
Conditions	State	Action
The memory utilization of all organization vDCs is within the normal baseline range.	Normal	None
The memory utilization of an organization vDC has reached 97% of the baseline value.	Critical	None
The memory utilization of an organization vDC has reached 99% of the baseline value.	Fatal	None

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