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• Foglight APM for Real User Experience 5.9.10 - Installation and Setup Guide

Foglight APM for Real User Experience 5.9.10 - Installation and Setup Guide

Table of Contents  

Installation overview

Introducing the monitoring architecture

Software components

Foglight Management Server Archiver Sniffer Browser Instrumentation Relayer Archiver databases

Ports used by Foglight APM

Appliance types Typical monitoring solutions

Monitoring physical networks Monitoring virtual networks Mixing physical and virtual appliances Adding Foglight APM to an existing Foglight installation

Installing physical appliances

Before you begin

Physical appliance components Other network components required Anatomy of an appliance

Planning an installation of physical appliances

Public network switch Private network switch for the capture subnet Network taps

Monitoring individual web servers Monitoring web server farms

Network information required for physical appliances

Installing appliances on a network rack Connecting appliances to the network Connecting Sniffers

Connecting Sniffers to network taps Connecting Sniffers to Archivers

Connecting one Sniffer to one Archiver Connecting Sniffers to Archivers

Starting physical appliances and configuring remote access Launching the Console Program remotely with DRAC

Installing virtual appliances

Monitoring multiple ESXi hosts

Monitoring multiple hosts through a centralized Sniffer Monitoring multiple hosts using local Sniffers Mixing virtual and physical appliances Scaling out a multiple host configuration Installing virtual appliances to monitor multiple hosts

Monitoring a single ESXi host

All-on-one-host variation Scalability Installing virtual appliances to monitor a single host

Before you begin

Software environment Foglight APM OVF templates Required port groups RAID configuration Network information for virtual appliances

Creating port groups on virtual switches

Configuring port groups on a distributed switch

Creating a Monitoring Network port group required by Sniffers Creating the Capture Network port group required by Sniffers and Archivers Creating a virtual adapter for the Capture Network port group

Configuring port groups on a standard switch

Deploying Foglight virtual templates Deploying the Foglight virtual Sniffer template Connecting virtual appliances on different servers Powering on virtual appliances

Setting up appliances

Logging in to the Console Program Enabling SSH and changing the default password Setting the date and time Specifying network settings Exiting the Console Program Launching Foglight Configuring software components

Working with appliance-hosted Management Servers

Configuring Management Server settings Configuring the Management Server to work with SSL keys

Creating a new SSL key for Foglight HTTPS access Using an existing SSL key for Foglight HTTPS access Configuring Foglight for secure remote LDAP access

Restricted file access Transferring support files from a physical appliance

Transferring files to Windows systems Transferring files to Linux systems

Troubleshooting appliance-hosted Management Servers Differences from working with server-hosted Management Servers

Setting up server-hosted Management Servers

Server requirements

Downloading and installing 256-bit encryption files Disabling the NetBIOS over TCP/IP setting

Installing Foglight APM cartridges Communicating with Sniffer and Archiver appliances Configuring Federated Children Enabling High Availability mode

Maintaining appliances

Launching the Console Program

Accessing physical appliances using SSH on Microsoft Windows systems Accessing physical appliances using SSH on UNIX systems

List of tasks available from the main menu Managing user accounts

Adding new user accounts Modifying user accounts and enabling SSH Removing user accounts

Modifying the time zone, time, or date Modifying the list of NTP servers for physical appliances Modifying network settings Shutting down appliances Rebooting appliances Updating software

Upgrading from a PKG file Displaying the upgrade log

Testing network settings Stopping and starting processes Reviewing the appliance system details and health status Reviewing the status of NIC devices Verifying monitored traffic by port Purging and resetting Archiver databases Creating support bundles Creating TCP dump files Accessing the home directory Creating Dell report archives on physical appliances

Backing up and restoring physical appliances

Setting up appliances as NetVault clients

Enabling an appliance's NetVault client Registering an appliance in NetVault

Running and restoring backups

Stopping Foglight and running a backup Restoring backups

Preparing a new appliance Restoring a backup

Appendix: Troubleshooting

Diagnosing Sniffer issues

Overview of the Sniffer test Running the Sniffer test Investigating and resolving issues in monitored traffic

Understanding packet drops with SPAN ports and aggregation network taps Expanding full partitions on virtual appliances

Expanding the size of virtual disks Expanding the size of partitions

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Installation overview

Before installing appliances, you should familiarize yourself with the monitoring architecture and consider how the software components fit into your existing network.

 

NOTE: Unless otherwise specified, appliances refers to both physical appliances (Dell PowerEdge™ series hardware) and virtual appliances (deployed on VMware® vSphere® Server).

For more information, see the following topics:

•	Introducing the monitoring architecture

•	Appliance types

•	Typical monitoring solutions

Introducing the monitoring architecture

A typical monitoring implementation consists of several software components hosted on one or more appliances. For example, the simplest installation on a physical appliance consists of one All-In-One Appliance that contains Foglight Management Server, a Sniffer, and an Archiver as shown in the following diagram.

Figure 1. Monitoring solution using a All-In-One Appliance

For more information, see the following topics:

•	Software components

•	Ports used by Foglight APM

Software components

Foglight APM Appliances may host some or all of the following software components:

•	Foglight Management Server

•

Archiver

•

Sniffer

In addition to the three primary software components, appliances with a Sniffer or Archiver include a Relayer component that handles communication between Sniffers and Archivers. Appliances with Archivers also include integrated Archiver databases. Finally, you may want to add Browser Instrumentation to your solution to capture client-side metrics.

The following sections describe each of the software components.

Foglight Management Server

For real user monitoring, the Foglight Management Server communicates with Sniffers and Archivers, queries the Archiver databases, stores Foglight-generated metrics, and performs some administrative tasks.

The Foglight browser interface contains dashboards for real user monitoring—organized under the APM menu—where you can:

•	configure traffic capture options (such as capture groups and sessionizing policies)

•	configure traffic analysis options (such as applications and analyzers)

•	search for and display details and metrics associated with hits, sequences, and sessions

•	review transactions and explore sequences

•	view geographical data on a map

•	replay end-user sessions

•	create and distribute reports

•	check the health of your appliances

You can use the Foglight Administration dashboards to perform various administrative tasks, such as assigning user roles and groups.

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