Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition 8.9.3

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Running the Server in High Availability Mode

About the Command-Line Interface

This Command-Line Reference Guide provides information about the Foglight® command-line interface. You can use Foglight commands to interface with different components of your monitoring environment instead of the browser interface.

This guide is intended for Foglight System Administrators who are new to Foglight can find information about syntax conventions along with an overview of all Foglight commands in the first chapter of this guide. The following chapters contain reference information about specific commands, such as the Foglight Management Server and Foglight Agent Manager commands. Advanced users can find information about the fglcmd interface in the last chapter. The last chapter contains information about the commands that provide administrative-level commands. Read this chapter to find out how to deploy and create agents, install and activate cartridges, manage licenses, and do many other administrative tasks from the command line.

This manual describes the commands that come with your Foglight installation and allow you to access different components in your monitoring environment without having to use the standard graphical interface such as the Administration dashboards. This can be useful in situations when you need to either automate your business logic by writing scripts, or use regular expressions to select multiple entities where applicable.

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Looking at Foglight Commands

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Getting Started with Foglight Commands

Syntax Conventions

This manual employs a set of conventions that are used in the command syntax. You should review them before getting started with the manual in order to successfully make use of Foglight commands in your monitoring environment. The syntax conventions are as follows:

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Generic examples follow the UNIX path structure that uses forward slashes '/' to separate directories.

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Platform-specific examples follow standard platform conventions. For example, UNIX-specific examples use forward slashes ‘/’ as directory delimiters, while Windows examples use backslashes ‘\’.

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<foglight_home> is a placeholder that represents the path to the Foglight Management Server installation.

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<foglight_agent_mgr_home> is a placeholder that represents the path to the Foglight Agent Manager installation. This can be the location of the Foglight Agent Manager installation on a monitored host, or the home directory of the Foglight Agent Manager that comes embedded with the Foglight Management Server. For example:

Path to the Foglight Agent Manager installation on a monitored host (Windows):

C:\Quest\Foglight_Agent_Manager

Path to the embedded Foglight Agent Manager installation (Windows):

C:\Quest\Foglight\fglam

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Unless otherwise specified, Foglight commands are case-sensitive.

Looking at Foglight Commands

Foglight provides a number of commands that you can use to manage different components in your monitoring environment. The commands reside in the following directories of your Foglight Agent Manager or Foglight Management Server installation.

Foglight Management Server

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<foglight_home>/bin: Contains commands that manage the Foglight Management Server and administer agents, cartridges, metrics, and other entities. For more information about these commands, see Managing the Foglight Management Server and Managing Agents, Cartridges, and Metrics .

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<foglight_home>/tools: Contains the Remote Monitor utility as well as the administrative commands in ZIP files. For more information about the Remote Monitor, see the Foglight Installation and Setup Guide; for information on the Remote Monitor command syntax, see remotemonitor .

If required, you can extract these commands to a remote computer in your network and issue them from there. For more information, see Managing the Foglight Management Server and Getting Started with Administrative Commands .

Foglight Agent Manager

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<foglight_agent_mgr_home>/bin: Contains commands that manage the Foglight Agent Manager. For more information, see Managing the Foglight Agent Manager .

For more information about the <foglight_home> and <foglight_agent_mgr_home> placeholders, see Syntax Conventions .

The following table lists Foglight commands.

Table 1. Foglight commands
Component	Domain	Command	Description
Foglight Management Server	Server	fms	Provides command-line interface to the Foglight Management Server process
		fmsha	Provides command-line interface to the Foglight Management Server process running in High Availability (HA) mode
		remotemonitor	Provides command-line interface to the Remote Monitor application
	Database	foglight_db_upgrade	Verifies the database version and upgrades it to a higher version if necessary
		runDB	Starts the embedded database
		shutdownDB	Stops the embedded database
	Authentication	keyman	Provides an interface that lets you change, add, or delete encryption keys, or generate application tokens
Foglight Agent Manager	Agent Manager	fglam	Provides command-line interface to the Foglight Agent Manager
Foglight Agent Manager	Agent Manager	support-bundle	Generates Agent Manager support bundles
Administrative Interface	Agents	activate	Activates one or more Foglight agent instances
		clients	Shows a list of Foglight Agent Manager instances
		clientupgrade	Upgrades one or more remote instances of the Foglight Agent Manager
		create	Creates one or more Foglight agent instances
		deactivate	Deactivates one or more Foglight agents
		delete	Deletes one or more Foglight agent instances
		deploy	Deploys one or more Foglight agent packages
		getlog	Retrieves a copy of an agent log file
		list	Shows a list of Foglight agent instances
		logs	Shows a list of agent log files
		packages	Shows a list of available agent packages
		setschedule	Assigns a blackout schedule to one or more Foglight agent instances
		showschedule	Shows the blackout schedule assigned to one or more Foglight agent instances.
		start	Starts the data collection for one or more Foglight agent instances
		stop	Stops the data collection for one or more Foglight agent instances
		types	Shows a list of Foglight agent types sorted by agent manager ID
	Cartridges	disable	Deactivates a Foglight cartridge
		enable	Activates an installed Foglight cartridge
		install	Installs a cartridge on the Foglight Management Server
		list	Lists all installed Foglight cartridges
		uninstall	Uninstalls a Foglight cartridge
	Security	assigngroup	Adds or removes a user from a group
		assignrole	Adds or removes a role from a group
		creategroup	Creates a group
		createuser	Creates a user
		deletegroup	Deletes a group
		deleteuser	Deletes a user
		exportldapcfg	Exports the LDAP settings to an XML file
		importldapcfg	Imports the LDAP settings from an XML file
		list	Lists users, groups, and roles
	Licenses	import	Installs a Foglight license
		list	Shows a list of installed Foglight licenses
		remove	Removes a Foglight license using the license serial number
	Utility	blackoutobject	Assigns a blackout schedule to topology objects
		blackouts	Lists the blackout schedules assigned to topology objects
		bundle	Generates a support bundle file
		configexport	Exports the monitoring policy to an XML file
		configimport	Imports the monitoring policy
		env	Outputs the values of server configuration parameters
		metricexport	Exports metric observations to a file using a metric query
		list	Shows a list of all Foglight schedules
		run	Runs a script
		topologyexport	Exports the value of one or more properties of a topology object to an XML file
		uiexport	Exports a UI module into a ZIP file
		uiimport	Imports a UI module from a ZIP file
		uilist	Shows a list of deployed UI modules

Getting Started with Foglight Commands

To get started with Foglight commands:


	NOTE: These instructions describe a simple configuration in which the Foglight™ Management Server and the Foglight Agent Manager are installed on the same platform.

Ensure that you have all of the following components installed in your monitoring environment.

A typical setup includes the following components:

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Foglight Management Server

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Foglight Agent Manager

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Infrastructure Cartridge

For complete information on installing the above components, see the Installation and Setup Guide.

Obtain your Foglight user name and password from the Foglight Administrator.

Ensure that your JAVA_HOME system variable points to the location of JRE that comes with Foglight. For more information about the JRE version, see the appropriate Installation and Setup Guide.

Start the Foglight Management Server and the Foglight Agent Manager.

For example, on Windows® platforms, you can start the Foglight Management Server by choosing Start > Programs > Quest > Foglight 5.9.x > Start Foglight.

To start the Foglight Agent Manager, issue the fglam command. The fglam command can found in the <foglight_agent_mgr_home>/bin directory. For complete information about the fglam command, see fglam .

If you experience problems starting either the Foglight Management Server or the Foglight Agent Manager, complete the following steps:

Check the log files. Foglight stores the log file in the following locations:

Foglight Management Server

<foglight_home>/logs/ManagementServer_date_time_file_ID.log

Foglight Agent Manager

<foglight_agent_mgr_home>/state/default/logs/FglAM_date_time_file_ID.log

Where

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date and time are the date and time the Foglight Management Server or Foglight Agent Manager were started

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file_ID identifies the log file

For information about foglight_home and foglight_agent_mgr_home, see Syntax Conventions .

If you do not find any indicators as to why the agent is not collecting data, refer to the Release Notes and Administration and Configuration Help for more information.

If you do not find any relevant information in the documentation, contact Quest Support.

From here, you can proceed to any of the following , as required:

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Managing the Foglight Management Server

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Managing the Foglight Agent Manager

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Managing Agents, Cartridges, and Metrics

Managing the Foglight Management Server

Foglight offers a set of commands that allow you to perform server-related operations through the command-line interface. You can use these commands to perform a variety of tasks, such as start or stop the Foglight Management Server, run or upgrade the database, or manage encryption keys.

The majority of server-specific commands access the server directly. As such, you can only issue them on the computer that is running an instance of the Foglight Management Server. One exception is the Remote Monitor utility that you can use to communicates with multiple instances of the Foglight Management Server running in High Availability (HA) mode. For more information about running the Foglight Management Server running in HA mode, see fmsha .

Your Foglight installation includes a compressed file, <foglight_home>/tools/remotemonitor.zip, that contains the Remote Monitor utility. If required, you can extract the contents of that file to a remote computer in your Foglight network and run the Remote Monitor utility from that computer, as described in To get started with Foglight Management Server commands: . For information about the location of foglight_home, see Syntax Conventions .

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Getting Started

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Running the Server in Stand-Alone Mode

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Running the Server in High Availability Mode

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Starting the Embedded Database

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Stopping the Embedded Database

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Upgrading the Database