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Foglight for Infrastructure 5.9.3 - User Guide

Using Foglight for Infrastructure Monitoring log files with Foglight Log Monitor Monitoring IBM PowerVM environments
Before you begin Managing PowerVM HMC agents Monitoring your PowerVM environment
Advanced system configuration and troubleshooting Reference
Foglight for Infrastructure views Foglight Log Monitor views Rules Metrics
Appendix: Building regular expressions in Foglight

Description of embedded views

This dashboard is made up of the following embedded views:

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CPU At A Glance
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CPU Usage by Process
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Memory At A Glance
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Memory Usage by Process
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Monitored Processes
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User Defined Processes (Process Availability Config)
CPU At A Glance
 
Table 18. CPU At A Glance view
Description

This view displays how the CPU resources are being used based on the following:

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The top five processes using the most CPU. These five processes are the “top consumers” of CPU for the host.
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The top five processes that have had the largest recent change in CPU usage.
Data Displayed
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AVG CPU. The average amount of CPU resources spent by the process.
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Change/hr. The change in the usage of CPU resources.
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Process Name. The name of the process.
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Trend. A sparkline indicating the change in the usage of CPU resources.
CPU Usage by Process
 
Table 19. CPU Usage by Process view
Description

This view displays the cumulative CPU usage by processes over time. It shows the total process load on the selected system.

Memory At A Glance
 
Table 20. Memory At A Glance view
Description

This view displays how the memory resources are being used based on the following:

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The top five processes using the most memory. These five processes are the “top consumers” of memory for the host.
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The top five processes that have had the largest recent change in memory usage.
Data Displayed
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AVG Memory. The average amount of memory resources spent by the process.
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Change/hr. The change in the usage of memory resources.
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Process Name. The name of the process.
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Trend. A sparkline indicating the change in the usage of memory resources.
Memory Usage by Process
 
Table 21. Memory Usage by Process view
Description

This view displays the memory usage by processes over time. It shows the load on memory for processes on the selected system.

Monitored Processes
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Table 22. Monitored Processes view
Description

This view lists all running processes on a given host. The list is sortable, filterable, and allows you to do process searches.

Data Displayed
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Process Name. The name of the process.
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Instances. The number of running process instances.
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CPU Usage, Average. The average percentage of CPU resources that the process is using.
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CPU Usage, Time. The average amount of time the process is running.
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Memory, Average. The average percentage of memory resources that the process is using.
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Memory, Swap Size (Avg). The average amount of memory swap space this process has in one or more paging files.
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Memory, Working Set Size. The amount of memory currently allocated to this process.
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Memory, Virtual Size (Avg). The current size of the virtual address space of this process.
User Defined Processes (Process Availability Config)
 
Table 23. User Defined Processes (Process Availability Config) view
Description

This view lists all user-defined processes running on a given host. The list is sortable, filterable, and allows you to do process searches.

NOTE: Make sure to set Report only aggregate process metrics to False, in order to collect all details about process instances.
Data Displayed
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Process Name. The name of the process.
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Command Line. The Command Line works with the Process Name to filter out process instances, as needed.
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Expected Process Count. The number of expected process instances.
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Matched Process Count. The number of running process instances that match the user-defined process name and command line.

Foglight Log Monitor views

Foglight Log Monitor allows you to monitor and configure your virtual environment. For more information about the Log Monitor dashboard, see Investigating log records.

The Log Monitor dashboard contains the following views:

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File Selector view
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Log Records view
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Record Details view

File Selector view

The File Selector view allows you to select a log. You have an option to select a file log monitored by the File Log Monitor Agent, or a Windows Event Log, monitored by the Windows Event Log Monitor Agent.

Selecting a file log

Selecting a Windows Event Log

How to Get Here
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This view appears in the upper part of the Log Monitor dashboard.
Description of the View
Table 24. File Selector view
Data displayed
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Directory. Lists the directories containing monitored log files, and the monitored Windows Event Logs.

Log Records view

The Log Records view lists the records available in the selected log and shows the growth of log records over time. Use this view to review the contents of your logs, and look for signs that indicate potential issues. The layout of this view depends on the selected log type.

File logs

Windows Event Logs

How to Get Here
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On the Log Monitor dashboard, in the File Selector view, select a log whose records you want to display.
Description of Embedded Views

This view is made up of the following embedded views:

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Description of File Size Increase view
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Description of Log Records table view
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Description of New Records Found (file logs only) view
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Description of New Records Found (Windows Event Logs only) view
File Size Increase (file logs only)
 
Table 25. Description of File Size Increase view
Description

Shows the increase in the size of the monitored log file over the selected time range.

Log Records table (file logs and Windows Event Logs)
 
Table 26. Description of Log Records table view
Description

Lists the records that exist in the selected log.

Data displayed
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Log Record. The message contained in the log record.
 
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Severity. The severity of the log message.
 
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Tag. The tag associated with the record, as specified in the agent properties.
 
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TimeStamp. The date and time when the log record is created.
New Records Found (file logs only)
 
 
 
Table 27. Description of New Records Found (file logs only) view
Description

Shows the increase in the number of log records in the selected log file over the selected time range.

New Records Found (Windows Event Logs only)
 
Table 28. Description of New Records Found (Windows Event Logs only) view
Description

Shows the increase in the number of log records in the selected Windows Event Log over the selected time range.

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