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Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager 7.3.0 - User Guide (for Google environments)

Getting the BigQuery Table ID

To get the BigQuery Table ID from Google Cloud Platform console:
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Go to the Google Cloud Platform console: https://console.cloud.google.com/.
2
Choose Billing on the navigation bar, and then choose Billing export.
3
Click the target Dataset name and drill down to the dataset in the BigQuery page. Click Details and get the Table ID.

 

Service Account Permissions

Foglight uses service account to monitor Google Cloud. Each RESTful API provided by Google cloud requires that the service account has corresponding permissions.

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For Compute Engine monitoring:
The viewer roles are required.
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For Cost monitoring, the following roles are required:
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Billing Account Viewer
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Bigquery user
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Bigquery dataViewer
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For Automatically install stackdriver, the following roles are required:
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compute.osAdminLogin
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iam.serviceAccountUser
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compute.instanceAdmin.v1
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compute.osLogin
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compute.securityAdmin
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NOTE: For a list of the supported operating systems of automatically install stackdriver, refer to https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/agent#supported_operating_systems.
To granting permissions to the service account, do either of the following:
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Grant permissions manually.
Manually grant roles to service account for each project and billing account.
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Grant permissions by script.
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Use the gcloud CLI, which is a part of the Google Cloud SDK, to grant permissions automatically.
a
Install the gcloud CLI from https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/downloads-interactive and run 'gcloud beta auth application-default login' to initialize it.
b
Get the script at directory: {foglight_home}\fglam\agents\GoogleCloudAgent\{google_cloud_version}\script
c
Execute the grantProjectRoleToServiceAccount script to grant a specified project role or all projects role to the service account. The script includes two parameters:
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param 1 is mandatory. -s defined as String type and represents the service account.
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param 2 is optional. -p defined as String Array type and represents the projects you want to monitor. The script will grant all projects role to the service account if this param is not specified.
Refer to the below two examples for different operating systems:
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For Windows (PowerShell):
Example 1: .\grantProjectRoleToServiceAccount.ps1 -s XXXX@foglight.iam.gserviceaccount.com -p @('foglight','db','windows')
Example 2: .\grantProjectRoleToServiceAccount.ps1 -s XXXX@foglight.iam.gserviceaccount.com
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For Linux (Bash):
Example 1: bash grantProjectRoleToServiceAccount.sh -s XXXX@foglight.iam.gserviceaccount.com -p "foglight,db"
Example 2: bash grantProjectRoleToServiceAccount.sh -s XXXX@foglight.iam.gserviceaccount.com
d
Execute the grantBillingAccountRoleToServiceAccount script to grant the specified billing account role or all billing account roles to the service account. The script includes two parameters:
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param 1 is mandatory. -s defined as String type and represents your service account.
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param 2 is optional. -b defined as String Array type and represents the billing account you want to monitor. The script will grant all billing accounts role to the service account if this param is not specified.
Refer to the below two examples for different operating systems:
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For Windows (PowerShell):
Example 1: .\grantBillingAccountRoleToServiceAccount .ps1 -s XXXX@foglight.iam.gserviceaccount.com -b @('015A1D-A50154-232131','015A1D-A50154-232133')
Example 2: .\grantBillingAccountRoleToServiceAccount.ps1 -s XXXX@foglight.iam.gserviceaccount.com
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For Linux (Bash):
Example 1: bash grantBillingAccountRoleToServiceAccount.sh -s XXXX@foglight.iam.gserviceaccount.com -b "015A1D-A50154-232131,0196A2-C4659B-3461DA"
Example 2: bash grantBillingAccountRoleToServiceAccount.sh -s XXXX@foglight.iam.gserviceaccount.com
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If you don't want to install the Google Cloud SDK, execute the Bash script at Google Cloud Shell:
a
Open the Google Cloud shell through the follow link: https://cloud.google.com/shell
b
Get the script at directory: {foglight_home}\fglam\agents\GoogleCloudAgent\{google_cloud_version}\script
c
Upload the grantProjectRoleToServiceAccount.sh file to the console.
d
Execute the Bash script.

Creating a Google Cloud Agent

To create a Google Cloud agent:
1
Log in to the Foglight browser interface.
2
Ensure that the navigation panel is open.
To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow on the left.
3
On the navigation panel, under Homes, click Cloud Manager.
The Cloud Manager dashboard opens.
4
In the Cloud Manager dashboard, click Google Cloud > Administration, and then click Add or Create Google Cloud Agent.
A Google Cloud Setup Wizard dialog box opens.
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In the Select Agent Manager view, select the agent manager on which the new agent is to be deployed, and then click Next.
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In the Agent Info view, specify the following values, and then click Next.
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Agent Name
Specify a name for the agent.
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Configure Proxy (Optional)
Configure the proxy setting when the Agent Host requires a proxy connection to the Internet. For more details, see Configure Proxy (Optional): .
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Configure BigQuery Dataset Table ID to Monitor
Enter the BigQuery Table ID according to the Google Cloud Platform console. To get the BigQuery Table ID from Google Cloud Platform console, see Getting the BigQuery Table ID for more information.
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Automatically Install Stackdriver to VM Instances
This option is selected by default. Install stackdriver agent to collect memory metrics.
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In the Credential Verification view, do either of the following:
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Choose Create a new Google Cloud Credential and click Next. A Create New Credential dialog box appears.
a
Specify a Credential Name.
b
Click Load from file to upload the JSON file generated from Google Cloud Platform console. See Generating Google Cloud Service Account File for more information.
c
Select the lockbox to contain the credential.
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Choose Use an existing Google Cloud credential and click Next. Select an existing credential and click Next.
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A Summary view appears and click Finish.
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A popup message indicates that the new Google Cloud agent is created successfully. The agent list table refreshes to display the newly-created agent.

Dashboard location and UI elements

After installing Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Google Cloud, the Cloud Manager entry appears under Homes.

To access the Cloud Manager dashboard:
1
Log in to the Foglight browser interface.
2
Ensure that the navigation panel is open.
To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow on the left.
3
On the navigation panel, under Homes, click Cloud Manager, and then click Google Cloud.
The Cloud Manager dashboard opens.

The Cloud Manager dashboard consists of the following UI elements:

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Service selector
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Actions bar
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Menu bar
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Quick view
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