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Foglight for VMware 5.7.7 - User and Reference Guide

Using VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management Reference Appendix: Alarm Messages Appendix: Metrics

VMware Agent Administration views

VMware Agent Administration views

The VMware Environment dashboard contains the following views:

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Agents view
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Instances and Limits view
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OS Mapping view
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Metrics Collection Management View
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Agents view

Purpose

This view displays a list of the existing VMware Performance Agent instances and shows their status. Use it to verify that your agents are collecting data from the monitored environment.

Figure 68. Agents view

How to Get Here
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On the VMware Environment dashboard, open the Administration tab.
The Agents view appears at the bottom of the Administration tab.
 
Description of the View
Data displayed
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Active. Indicates if the VMware Performance Agent process is running.
 
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Agent Name. The name of the VMware Performance Agent instance.
 
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Agent Version. Indicates if the agent is running the latest version of the agent package (), or it needs to be updated ().
 
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Alarms. The total numbers of Warning, Critical, and Fatal alarms.
 
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Data Collection. Indicates if the VMware Performance Agent is collecting data from the monitored environment.
 
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Download Log. Allows you to download the agent log file.
 
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Edit Properties. Allows you to edit the agent’s properties.
 
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Foglight Agent Manager Host. The name of the machine on which the Agent Manager and the VMware Performance Agent process are running.
 
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Metric History. The progress of the import of historical data. Each VMware Performance Agent monitors a single Virtual Center. When you create a VMware Performance Agent instance and the Agent Setup wizard determines that the Virtual Center was not previously monitored by this Foglight for Storage Management instance, it starts importing historical data into Foglight for Storage Management. This data is not immediately available as it takes some time to collect it. This process can import data collected over 30 days or less, depending on the amount of data available in the Virtual Center. This allows you to explore VMware metrics as soon as the data is imported, instead for waiting for the agent to collect some data from the Virtual Center. Historical data is intended for charting, trending, and general presentation purposes. It does not cause any alarms to fire.

Click this column to start a metric history import, or to see its progress. When the import is in progress, you have an option to cancel it, if needed.

Click Cancel in the dwell to cancel the import. You can resume it at a later time.

When the metric history import is completed, this is indicated in the dwell.

Instances and Limits view

Purpose

This view displays the list of the existing VMware object types. This information can give you insight into the size of your database and whether additional adjustments are required to improve your system performance.

Figure 69. Instances and Limits view

How to Get Here
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On the VMware Environment dashboard, on the Administration tab, click Review Instances and Limits.
The Instances and Limits view appears in the display area.
 
Table 49. Description of the View
Data displayed
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Instance Count. The current number of object instances of this type.
 
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Instance Limit. The maximum number of object instances of this type that can be instantiated.
 
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Object Type. The type of the topology object.
 
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Status. The current status representing the highest severity level associated with an instance of that type.
 
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Utilized. The percentage of the object limit instance that is currently utilized.

OS Mapping view

Purpose

You configure OS mapping rules using the OS Mapping view. OS mapping is the mapping of the various versions and editions of a particular operating system to a common OS name. This helps VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management manage the variety of versions and editions of each OS.

Figure 70. OS Mapping view

How to Get Here
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On the VMware Environment dashboard, on the Administration tab, click Configure OS Mapping.
The OS Mapping view appears in the display area.
 
Table 50. Description of the View
Data displayed
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Common OS Name. The OS name.
 
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Matching String. The OS name to be matched against existing OS names.
 
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Priority. The matching priority. Selecting a mapping and clicking or allows you to edit the priority sequence.
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