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Foglight for Application Operations 5.9.8 - Dependency Mapping User Guide

View service-based dependencies

To start the Service Operations Console for evaluating the dependencies in the context of a service, in the Dependency Browser dashboard, click View Service-Based Dependencies. Alternatively, you can access this dashboard by clicking Services > Service Operations Console in the navigation panel.
Use the Service Operations Console dashboard to monitor a selected set of services that are meaningful or interesting to your organization. Use it to tailor the way Foglight presents information about monitored components so that it suits your specific needs. For detailed information about this dashboard, see the topic Viewing More Details About Your Services in the Foglight User Guide.
When installing Foglight for Dependency Mapping, the Tab Manager at the bottom of the Service Operations Console dashboard contains the following default tabs:
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Alarms
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Service Level Agreement(s)
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Service(s) Impacted
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Service Contents
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Service Dependencies
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Advanced Service Visualization
After you install the Foglight for Application Operations cartridge (.car) file on a Foglight Management Server, the Service Operations Console dashboard is updated as follows:
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The Alarms, Service Level Agreement(s), and Service Contents tabs remain unchanged.
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The Service(s) Impacted tab is removed and its functionality (that is, display the parent services for a selected service) becomes unavailable.
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The Service Dependencies and Advanced Service Visualization tabs are removed. The new Dependencies tab replaces their functionality (that is, display the static dependency relationship between services).
 
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IMPORTANT: By installing Foglight for Application Operations, all configurations made in the Service Dependencies tab are removed. All configurations made in the Advanced Service Visualization tab are preserved. Advanced tier visualization objects previously created in Foglight are retained by the cartridge and can be converted into manual dependencies, to be rolled into the new dependency monitoring. This conversion is done one time only, when enabling the Foglight for Application Operations cartridge file. In the case of a federated environment, the one-way conversion must be applied to the Federation Master and the Federated Children. If the cartridge is installed only on the Federation Master, and users continue to update the advanced tier visualization objects on the Federated Children, these changes are synchronized.
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A new Dependencies tab is added. Use the tab to monitor the dependencies of objects inside or outside a selected service, for different rollup levels. See Dependencies tab.
 
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IMPORTANT: To benefit from the enhanced capabilities provided in the new Dependencies tab, you must first configure the dependency agents to collect dependency information about your system, or define manual dependencies. If you need to restore these three default tabs, contact Dell Support.
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A new Transactions tab is added. It displays a set of tiles representing transactional performance data collected from end user monitoring domains, for example: Foglight APM for Real User Experience, Foglight Experience Monitor (FxM), Foglight Experience Viewer (FxV), and Foglight Transaction Recorder (FTR), Foglight for Java EE Technologies, and Foglight for Microsoft .NET. For more information, see the Foglight for Application Operations User Guide.
The following diagram illustrates the Service Operations Console dashboard after installing Foglight for Application Operations and configuring it to monitor the services dependencies.
Figure 16. Service Operations Console dashboard monitoring services dependencies
When installing Foglight 5.6.4 or later, the following links are provided for the Service Operations Console, on the action panel: Edit Service, Update Service from Dependency Data, and Edit Service Dependencies. The last two links provide additional dependency functionality only after installing Foglight for Application Operations, as follows:
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Update Service from Dependency Data — navigate to the Update Service from Dependency Data dashboard.
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Edit Service Dependencies — navigate to the Edit Service Dependencies dashboard.

Dependencies tab

The Dependencies tab focuses on observed (or manually asserted) relationships between elements (or elements contained within a service). On this tab, monitor service dependencies with the following rollup levels:
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Application Infrastructure: shows dependencies (manually created or observed) between hosts. This option is useful to system administrators whose primary focus is to monitor the services from a host perspective (for example, “which hosts have recently reported dependencies?”, “what processes run on a host?”).
Figure 17. Application Infrastructure view
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Services: shows dependencies (manually created or observed) between services. This option is useful to system administrators whose primary focus is to monitor the services and their nested child services.
Figure 18. Services view
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Virtual Environment: shows hosts and applications components grouped by physical host, and arranged by tier. It takes the Application Infrastructure rollup and puts it in perspective of the ESX or Hyper-V servers.
Figure 19. Virtual Environment view
To display the content of the Dependencies tab in full-size view:
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Click Full screen on the right side of the Show drop-down list.
The Dependencies for <service_name> view opens to show the service selected in the SOC and the rollup level selected in the Dependencies tab.
In this view, you can do the following actions:
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Select a service from the list of services already defined in your system (use the Select a service drop-down list).
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Select the rollup level to show for the selected service (use the Show drop-down list).
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Display any objects that are outside the selected service (use the Show dependencies outside of <service_name> check box).
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Drill down and view more dependency details about a host or service on the map by clicking an element on the map.
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Return to the Service Operations Console dashboard by clicking Service Operations Console in the breadcrumb trail.
In the Dependencies tab, you can also display any objects that are outside a selected service but have observed dependencies with other objects inside that service.
To show all dependencies (inside and outside a selected service):
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Select the Show dependencies outside of <service_name> check box in the upper-right corner of the tab.
The view is updated to show all observed dependencies between objects inside and outside the selected service.
In the upper-right corner, the Dependencies tab provides a NAVIGATOR slider. Use the slider to set the zoom level between 50% and 150%.
From the Dependencies tab, you can drill down and view more details about any component on the map (host or service). For host components, you can also view detailed information about any application components running on these hosts.
To display dependency details for a component:
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Click the component of interest on the map.
The <component_name> Details dialog box includes several tabs (Summary tab, Dependency Details tab, and Close-up Graph tab) and provides information about how sub-components are connected. It may also include other context-sensitive tabs for different types of objects.
Related topics:
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View service-based dependencies

Summary tab

The information presented in this tab varies depending on the selected component. See Dependencies tab.
The following illustration shows an example of information provided for a host that has one application component. The banner (upper part of the tab) displays the CPU, Storage, Memory, and Network allocations for this host. The lower part of the tab displays a tile associated with the application component related to the host. The content of this tile is specific to the application component type. For detailed information about tiles and their content, see the Foglight for Application Operations User Guide.
Figure 20. Summary tab — a host with one application
From this tab you can navigate to the Host Monitor dashboard by clicking More Details. Use the Host Monitor dashboard to further investigate the performance of the host.
The following illustration shows an example of information provided for a host that includes several application components. The banner (upper part of the tab) displays the host name, and the Service Level Compliance status. The lower part of the tab displays a tile for each application component related to the host. The content of these tiles is specific to the application component type. For detailed information about tiles and their content, see the Foglight for Application Operations User Guide.
Figure 21. Summary tab — host with several application components
From this tab you can navigate to the Service Details dashboard by clicking More Details. Use this dashboard to further investigate the performance of the selected service.
Related topics:
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Dependencies tab
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Dependency Details tab
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Close-up Graph tab

Dependency Details tab

This tab presents detailed information about the dependencies observed for the selected host, and the number of incoming and outgoing dependencies. For more information, see Dependencies tab.
Figure 22. Dependency Details tab
 
Table 21. Dependency Details tab data
Column Name
Column Description
From
The host or object which is directly dependent on the item in the To column (that is, the dependency client).
To
The host or object which is directly depended upon by the item in the From column (that is, the dependency server).
Detail
Short text summary of the dependency (for example, httpd.exe->mysql.exe), or the comment of the creator of the manual dependency.
Click the details link to open the Dependency Detail dialog box. For more information, see Dependency detail.
Dependency Source
Pointer to the agent which created the dependency. If the dependency was manually created, this column displays “Manual Dependency”.
Related topics:
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Dependencies tab
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Summary tab
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Close-up Graph tab
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