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Foglight 5.9.2 - Upgrade Guide

Understand product versions Best practices Upgrade the Foglight Management Server Upgrade the Foglight Agent Manager Upgrade the Application Monitoring cartridges Upgrade the Database cartridges Upgrade the End User Management cartridges Upgrading the Infrastructure Management cartridges Upgrade the Integration cartridges Upgrade the cartridges in a federated or High Availability (HA) environment Appendix: Deploying an agent package using the browser interface

Upgrade Foglight for VMware Horizon View

The latest version of Foglight for VMware Horizon View is 5.7.5.

Foglight for VMware Horizon View 5.7.5 requires Management Server version 5.9.x, or Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.7.5. It also requires Foglight for VMware 5.7.5 (or later) to be installed and enabled on the same Foglight Management Server.

1
On the Cartridge Inventory dashboard, install the following cartridge files. Do not remove the older version of these cartridges. Install the new versions over the older versions. The sequence of cartridge installation is important because of their dependencies.
For cartridge installation instructions, see “Installing Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition cartridges” in the Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition Administration and Configuration Help.
2
On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click VMware View to open the VMware View Environment dashboard.
3
Click the Administration tab.
4
Click Update Agent once for each Foglight Agent Manager instance on which outdated VMware Horizon View agents are running.
5
Click the Details tab, then the Desktops tile.
a
On the navigation panel, click Administration > Agents > Agent Status, to open the Agent Status dashboard.
c
Click Modify the private properties for this agent.
d
In the Properties area, set to True the following options: Collect CPU metrics, Collect disk metrics, Collect memory metrics, and Collect network metrics.
e
Click Save.

Upgrade Foglight for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp

The latest version of Foglight for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp is 5.7.5.

Foglight for Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp 5.7.5 requires Management Server version 5.9.x, or Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.7.5.

Foglight for VMware version 5.7.5 (which includes the DRP-5_7_5.car, Virtual-VMware-5_7_5.car and Virtual-VMware-Admin-5_7_5.car cartridge files)
NOTE: After installing the Virtual-VMware-5_7_5.car cartridge, existing vCenter agents (VC agents) must be updated using the Update Agent button in the VMware Environment > Administration tab.

 

Upgrade the Integration cartridges

Follow the procedure in this section to upgrade an earlier version of an integration cartridge to the latest version. For details, refer to the following topics:

Upgrade Foglight for Integration

The latest version of Foglight for Integration is version 5.9.0.

Foglight for Integration 5.9.0 requires Management Server 5.7.5.8 or later.

For cartridge installation instructions, see “Installing Foglight cartridges” in the Foglight Administration and Configuration Help.

Once you have upgraded the cartridge, deploy the agent package. For a procedure describing how to deploy an agent package using the browser interface, see Appendix: Deploying an agent package using the browser interface.

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