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Foglight Change Analyzer 5.8 - User Guide

Change Alarms

The Change Alarms dialog allows you to define and manage alarms to be triggered when changes that occur in your environment pose performance or security risks. It also allows you to review the alarms history.

The alarms table presents the following information:

Alarm Name. The name of the alarm.
Monitor Object. The object(s) being monitored, for which the alarm is triggered.
Alarm Description. A short description of the alarm.
1
Click the Change Alarms icon on the Change Analyzer tab > Actions bar.
The Change Alarms dialog box opens.
2
Click Add an Alarm.
The Add Alarm dialog box opens.
3
The Alarm Scope dialog box opens.
a
Select the virtual object type from the Object Type drop-down list, or by typing the name of a virtual object in the Search box.
b
6
Click Apply to create the alarm and close the Add Alarm dialog box.
7
Click Save to save the changes made to alarms and close the Change Alarms dialog box.
1
Click the Change Alarms icon on the Change Analyzer tab > Actions bar.
The Change Alarms dialog box opens.
2
Select an alarm from the Change Alarms table.
The Edit an Alarm icon is enabled.
3
Click Edit an Alarm.
The Edit Alarm dialog box opens, showing the current settings of the alarm.
The Alarm Scope dialog box opens.
a
Select the virtual object type from the Object Type drop-down list, or by typing the name of a virtual object in the Search box.
b
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Click Apply to apply the changes to the selected alarm and close the Edit Alarm dialog box.
8
Click Save to save the changes made to alarms and close the Change Alarms dialog box.
1
Click the Change Alarms icon on the Change Analyzer tab > Actions bar.
The Change Alarms dialog box opens.
2
Select an alarm from the Change Alarms table.
The Delete an Alarm icon is enabled.
3
Click Delete an Alarm.
The Delete the Selected Alarm dialog box opens.
4
Click Yes to confirm the operation.
5
Click Save to save the changes made to alarms and close the Change Alarms dialog box.
1
Click the Change Alarms icon on the Change Analyzer tab > Actions bar.
The Change Alarms dialog box opens.
2
Select an alarm from the Change Alarms table.
3
Click Show History.
The Alarms History dialog box opens.
Event Date. Date and time when the event (that triggered the alarm) took place.
Virtual Object. Virtual object for which the event (that triggered the alarm) took place.
Alarm Name. The alarm name.
Event Description. Description of the event that triggered the alarm.
5
To review the alarm history for a specific virtual object, type the name of the virtual object in the Search box. The table is updated to display only the information for the selected object.
6
Click Close to close the Alarms History dialog box.
7
Click Save to save the changes made to alarms and close the Change Alarms dialog box.

Highest Impact Changes

In Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition systems, the Environment Overview dashboard > Investigate tab > VMware tab provides an overview of changes with the highest impact on your environment.

The Highest Impact Changes pane provides the following information about the objects that have experienced an event that affects the performance of the environment, during a selected timeframe.

Object Name

Shows the object name.

Change Event

Shows the event that impacts the performance of the environment.

Performance Impact

Shows the impact on performance, as a percentage.

Affected Objects

Shows the number of objects in the environment who’s performance is affected by the event.

Change Date

Shows the date and time when the event occurred.

 

Reference

This section contains reference information about views and report templates that are included with Foglight Change Analyzer.

Foglight Change Analyzer includes the following views:

Foglight Change Analyzer comes with a set of pre-defined report templates that can be run from the Reports dashboard (Dashboards > Reports). Using this dashboard, operators can run reports, build custom reports, and view generated reports. Advanced Operators can also schedule and manage reports. For a list of pre-defined report templates provided for Foglight Change Analyzer, see Foglight Change Analyzer reports.

Analyze Changes view

To open the Analyze Changes view, click the Analyze Changes icon on the Change Analyzer tab > Menu bar.

For more details, see the following topics:

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