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Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition 8.9.3 - Upgrade Guide

Upgrading the VMware Performance agent

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On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click Administration > Agents > Agent Status.
NOTE: Alternatively, you can deploy the updated agent package (VMware-Performance-64bit-<version>.gar) using the browser interface; for details, see Appendix: Deploying an agent package using the browser interface.
NOTE: If the VMware agent was modified to use custom memory settings as described in the Note for installations monitoring large VMware environments section, reapply those settings by editing the baseline.jvmargs.config file before activating the upgraded agent.

Upgrading the VMware Horizon View agent

Foglight for VMware Horizon View uses VMware Horizon View Agent instances to collect information from monitored hosts.

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On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click VMware Horizon View to open VMware View Environment dashboard.
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Click the Administration tab.
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Click Update Agent once for each Foglight Agent Manager instance on which outdated VMware Horizon View agents are running.
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Click the Details tab, then the Desktops tile.
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On the navigation panel, click Administration > Agents > Agent Status, to open the Agent Status dashboard.
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Click Modify the private properties for this agent.
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In the Properties area, set to True the following options: Collect CPU metrics, Collect disk metrics, Collect memory metrics, and Collect network metrics.
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Click Save.

Upgrading the Hyper-V agent

Foglight for Hyper-V uses Hyper-V Agent instances to collect information from monitored hosts. Upgrading Foglight for Hyper-V on the Management Server makes an upgraded Hyper‑V Agent package available for deployment.

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On the navigation panel, under Dashboards, click Administration > Agents > Agent Status.
NOTE: Alternatively, you can deploy the updated agent package (HypervAgent.gar) using the browser interface; for details, see Appendix: Deploying an agent package using the browser interface. In this case, you need to create the corresponding credentials any existing Hyper-V agents manually, after deploying the agent package.

Upgrading cartridges in a Federated Server environment

Cartridge upgrades in a Federated Management Server environment need to be handled differently than typical cartridge upgrades. To maintain the Federated topology, you must disconnect and reconnect the queries as part of the upgrade procedure.

You must also ensure that the required cartridges are being upgraded in a Federated environment. For example, you may determine the following:

In this example, after upgrading the two Federated Children, you need to upgrade Foglight for Infrastructure, Foglight for Oracle, and Foglight for SQL Server on the Federation Master.

The procedure outlined below describes the required sequence of steps. For more information about the cartridge upgrade in the Federation environment, refer to the Upgrade the cartridges in a federated or High Availability (HA) environment section in the Foglight Upgrade Guide.

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