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Foglight for VMware Horizon View 5.6.16 - User and Reference Guide

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Action panel

The action panel is located at the far right of the Foglight browser interface.
Purpose and content
The action panel provides you with easy access to a number of useful actions and tasks. However, it only provides additional related actions when you are viewing the VMware Explorer dashboard.
The actions available in the action panel vary depending on the object displayed in the VMware Explorer dashboard.
The following image shows an example of a typical VMware Explorer dashboard action panel.
Figure 32. VMware Explorer dashboard: action panel
Under Actions, the action panel may provide the following additional related actions:
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Run Migration Modeler
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View Virtual Infrastructure Alarms
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View Object IDs

Administration tab

This tab is available in the VMware Explorer. To find it, open the VMware Explorer and on the Virtual Infrastructure view, that appears on the navigation panel, select an ESX® host or virtual machine instance. In the VMware Explorer, open the Administration tab.
Purpose
The VMware Explorer’s Administration tab provides access to common administrative tasks. It also shows configuration details for a server or a virtual machine (depending on the selected object type), and some high-level information about the object’s resource consumption.
Figure 33. VMware Explorer dashboard: Administration tab
Description of embedded views
This view is made up of the following embedded views:
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Recent Tasks
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ESX Host Configuration
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ESX Host Summary Information
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ESX Host Toolbar
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Snapshots
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Virtual Machine Configuration
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Virtual Machines
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Virtual Machine Summary Information
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Virtual Machine Toolbar
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Workflows
Recent Tasks
This table lists the tasks that are performed for the selected ESX® host or virtual machine. For each task, it shows its description, the date on which the task finished, the task name, the date on which the task is scheduled to run, the task status, and the Foglight user who started the task.
ESX Host Configuration
Shows physical configuration details for the selected ESX® host.
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NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring ESX host details.
ESX Host Summary Information
This view displays additional configuration details for the selected ESX® host. It shows the name of the domain the selected ESX host belongs to, the ESX host's IP address, the total amount of memory, the number of CPUs, the processor type, the length of time the ESX host is running, and the number of virtual machines running on that host.
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NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring ESX host details.
ESX Host Toolbar
This toolbar contains buttons for initiating common administrative tasks, such as rebooting and shutting down the ESX® host, enabling its maintenance, and creating virtual machines.
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NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring ESX host details.
Snapshots
This view contains a hierarchical view of the selected virtual machine’s snapshots. It also contains buttons for initiating common administrative tasks such as creating, deleting, renaming, and reverting to virtual machine snapshots.
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NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring virtual machine details.
Virtual Machine Configuration
This view shows the name of the selected virtual machine and its basic configuration, including its status, machine name, configuration, virtualization application (VMware®), and the guest OS.
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NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring virtual machine details.
Virtual Machines
This view shows a list of virtual machines associated with the selected ESX® host. For each virtual machine, it displays its name, the total amount of memory that is available to that virtual machine, and the current percentage of time the CPU allocated to the virtual machine executes system code and user programs, including both system and user time.
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NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring ESX host details.
Virtual Machine Summary Information
This view shows additional configuration details for the selected virtual machine. For each virtual machine, it displays its IP address, OS name, the number of CPUs and network interface cards used by that virtual machine, the amount of memory and disk storage allocated to the virtual machine, the services associated with the selected virtual machine, and the length of time the virtual machine is running.
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NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring virtual machine details.
Virtual Machine Toolbar
This toolbar contains buttons for initiating common administrative tasks, such as powering off the virtual machine, shutting down its guest OS, rebooting, suspending, switching the guest OS to standby mode, deleting, moving, and editing virtual machine configurations.
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NOTE: This view only appears when you are exploring virtual machine details.
Workflows
This view contains a list of the available workflows along with buttons for creating and editing workflows. A workflow is a collection of tasks that are arranged into a specific order, that you can run multiple times against the same or different set of objects. It provides a way to automate common scenarios and simplify administration in general. For each workflow, this view contains its name and description, the dates on which the workflow was added and updated, and the name of the Foglight user who created the workflow. You can use this view to create, edit, delete, and run workflows, and to import or export them to a file.
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NOTE: Creating or editing workflows takes you to the Workflow Studio dashboard. This dashboard is defined in the Foglight Cartridge for Automation. For complete details about this dashboard, see the Foglight Automation documentation.

Agents view

The Agents view appears on the VMware View Environment dashboard. For more information about this dashboard, see Use the VMware View Environment dashboard.
Purpose and content
The Agents view displays information on the various agent systems that are collecting and sending details to Foglight for VMware Horizon View. This view can be used to verify that agents are properly reporting information at regular intervals to Foglight for VMware Horizon View.
Figure 34. Agents view
Each agent in the Agents view contains an alarm summary that shows you the number of alarms of each severity that are presently outstanding for the agent.

Alarms List view

This view is available from the action panel when you click View Virtual Infrastructure Alarms. The VMware Alarms dashboard provides an Alarms List view, which takes up the majority of the dashboard.
Purpose and content
Each alarm row in the Alarms List contains an object icon that identifies the source of the alarm, an alarm icon that indicates the severity of the alarm, the time that the alarm occurred, and the text of the alarm. The columns are sortable so that alarms can be listed in order by source, severity, time or message. Simply click a column heading to sort the table by that column.
Figure 35. Alarms List view
If you click an alarm’s severity icon, a popup for acknowledging or clearing that alarm is displayed. The popup provides a lot of pertinent information about the alarm, such as the rule of origin for the alarm, the history of the alarm, and all of the notes attached to the alarm. If you click the message or any other column in the row, you are provided with a popup menu. From the popup menu, you can choose to view a VMware Explorer dashboard for the corresponding object.
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