Foglight for VMware 5.6.15.1 - User and Reference Guide

The VMware Environment dashboard contains the FAQts tab that you can use to ask questions about your monitored systems and review the answers. In the Categories pane, the FAQts view shows several question categories. Clicking a category shows the questions belonging to that category in the Questions pane. From there, clicking a question shows the answer on the right.

For reference information about this view, see FAQts tab .

To access this dashboard, from the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click VMware > VMware Explorer. For complete reference about the data appearing on this dashboard, see VMware Explorer Views .

The VMware Explorer dashboard contains the following views: the Virtual Infrastructure view and VMware Explorer Primary view.

The Virtual Infrastructure view contains a navigation tree on the Topology tab that represents the various virtual infrastructure objects: Virtual Centers, Datacenters, Clusters, ESX Hosts, Resource Pools, and Virtual Machines. For each individual object or group of objects, a status indicator appears, showing the alarm of highest severity that is outstanding for the that object or objects. For example, there are 25 virtual machines configured for a VirtualCenter. Twenty of the virtual machines have a normal status, three have a warning status, and two have a critical status. In the Topology view, the virtual machines container for that VirtualCenter displays a critical status indicator to show that at least one of the virtual machines associated with the VirtualCenter has an outstanding critical alarm.

Hovering over an object in the Virtual Infrastructure view, you see a popup that provides a summary of the present state of that object.

Selecting an object or group of objects on either tab of the Virtual Infrastructure view displays performance details about your selection in the VMware Explorer Primary view. The VMware Explorer Primary view takes up the entire display area of the Foglight for VMware browser interface. This view provides significant value to administrators who leverage Foglight for VMware to monitor their virtual infrastructure.

Selecting an object or group of objects on either tab of the Virtual Infrastructure view displays performance details about your selection in the VMware Explorer Primary view. The VMware Explorer Primary view takes up the entire display area of the Foglight for VMware browser interface. This view provides significant value to administrators who leverage Foglight for VMware to monitor their virtual infrastructure.

The metrics and the amount of detail displayed in the display area vary depending on the type of the selected object. For example, in the image below, the tiles indicate that the selected object is the STL DEV datacenter, and that it is connected to one VirtualCenter, one cluster, four ESX® Hosts, and so on.

The Utilizations view, typically located across the center of the display area tab, provides numerical and graphical representations of utilization metrics associated with the selected object or group of objects. For example, selecting a single resource pool from the Virtual Infrastructure view and opening the Performance tab in the display area, displays four graphs in the Utilizations view, showing CPU, memory, disk, and network resource utilizations for the selected resource pool.

If you open the VMs tab for that same resource pool, the Utilizations view displays one graph illustrating the percent-used and percent-ready CPU utilization for the virtual machines of the resource pool.

If, however, you select a collection of ESX Hosts from the Virtual Infrastructure view and you open the Summary tab, an informative graph appears in place of a Utilizations view. Selecting a collection of objects in the Virtual Infrastructure view always shows a composite view displaying information about all object instances contained in that collection.

In addition to the Utilizations view, one or more Related Objects views may appear at the bottom of the display area. These views take the form of tables and list either the parent or child objects or both (whichever are applicable) of the object being viewed, and provide pertinent details about each one. Their appearance depends on the type and range of objects selected in the Virtual Infrastructure view.

However, when you select a cluster container, the Summary tab shows a Related Objects view that lists all of the clusters in that container and provides pertinent details about each one.

For more information on the Migration Modeler, including specific instructions on how to run the Migration Modeler, see Planning for Virtual Machine Migrations .

Under the Actions heading, the View Virtual Infrastructure Alarms link takes you to the vmAlarms dashboard. For specific information on the vmAlarms dashboard, see Exploring VMware Alarms .

To narrow down the list of objects, type a relevant text string in the search field provided and click Search. You can type things like a portion of the object type name (for example, server), a portion of the object name (for example, part of the IP address), or a portion of the object ID. To clear the Search box, click Clear.

For more advanced search options, click Advanced. To narrow down the list to objects of a particular type, type the object type name in the Type box. To find the object by name, type the object name in the Name box. To find the object by ID, type the object ID in the Object ID field.

Start creating a custom dashboard by clicking Create dashboard on the action panel. From there, create a view and add one or more of the data elements listed above. For complete information about custom dashboards and how to get started, refer to the Foglight User Help and the Creating Custom Dashboards learning video.

Before finishing, edit the view properties and enable the appearance of the baseline minimum and maximum values by selecting one or more of the Show baseline min/max as check boxes.