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Foglight Evolve 6.3.0 - Federation Field Guide

Table of Contents

Federation overview

Use cases Capabilities Known issues Requirements Scalability expectations

Managing federation

Understanding federation communication channels

Topology synchronization

Model union rules

Metric pull on demand Alarm service communication channel

Planning for federation

Communication ports HA considerations

Configuring a federated environment

Setting up a federated environment Federation configuration changes Security settings Query limitations Custom script queries Upgrading cartridges on a federated system Selectively disabling federation services Deploying cartridge components

Troubleshooting Frequently asked questions

Federation Field Guide

Federation is a Foglight feature that addresses the needs of customers who monitor large-scale environments that are naturally partitioned into logical units. Each partition is traditionally served by one Foglight Management Server instance and its distributed clients/agents.

This document presents an overview of the federation feature and provides guidelines for configuring the Federation Master and Federated Children.

The intended audience for this document is the Quest SC/PSO (System Consultant/Professional Services Organization) personnel working in the field.

The Federation Field Guide is organized as follows:

Federation overview. Provides an overview of the federation feature and lists its capabilities, known issues, and requirements.

Managing federation. Outlines how to set up and use the Federation Master and Federated Children, and provides a list of known troubleshooting issues.

Federation Field Guide
March 2023
6.3.0

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