Using VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management
Introducing the virtual infrastructure
Navigation basics
Reference
VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management browser interface elements
Breadcrumbs
Time Range
Sortable lists
Alarms and their status indicators
Mouse-over actions
Interacting with VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management
About VMware roles
Exploring the VMWare Agent Administration Dashboard
VMware Performance Agent configuration
Rule Configuration tab
Tasks tab
User Level Access tab
Black List Tab
Agents view
Accessing the VMware Agent Administration Dashboard
Configuring monitoring agents for data collection
Investigating performance metrics
Setting the alarm sensitivity level
Additional features
VMware Performance Agent and Agent Manager configuration
Configuring agent properties
Setting the Configuration properties
Setting the FileCollector properties
Setting the vSwitchCollector properties
Setting the Duplicate VM List properties
Setting the Black List properties
Setting the Data Collection Scheduler properties
Views
Appendix: Alarm Messages
Appendix: Metrics
VMware Explorer views
Rules
FAQts tab
Resource Pools Relationship Tree view
Storage tab (Cluster)
Storage tab (Datacenter)
Storage tab (ESX Host)
Storage tab (Virtual Machine)
Summary tab
Summary (All Clusters) tab
Summary (All Datacenters) tab
Summary (All Resource Pools) tab
Summary (All Servers) tab
Summary (All Virtual Machines) tab
Virtual Infrastructure view
VMware Agent Administration views
Cluster Rules
Datacenter Rules
Datastore Rules
Resource Pool Rules
ESX Server Rules
VMW ESX Server Disk IO
VMW ESX Server Queue Latency
VMW ESX Server Queue Latency Deviation
VMW ESX Server Total Latency
VMW ESX Server Total Latency Deviation
VirtualCenter Rules
Virtual Machine Rules
VMW Virtual Machine Disk Command Aborts
VMW Virtual Machine Disk IO
VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Estimated Fill Time
VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Utilization
VMW Virtual Machine Memory Swapping
Virtual Switch Rules
VMW Distributed Virtual Switch Available Ports
VMW Distributed Virtual Switch Network Utilization
VMW Distributed Virtual Switch Packet Loss
VMW Standard Virtual Switch Available Ports
VMW Standard Virtual Switch Network Packet Loss
VMW Standard Virtual Switch Network Utilization
VMW Virtual Switch Credentials Invalid
About VMware roles
About VMware roles
The Management Server relies on roles to control user access. Each user can have one or more roles. The roles granted to a user determine the set of actions that the user can perform. The Management Server includes a set of built-in roles that control access to dashboards and reports included with the Management Server. The following roles are included with VMware Monitoring in Foglight® for Storage Management to control access to the dashboards and reports:
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VMware Administrator: This role provides full access to all product components, views and reports. |
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VMware Automation User: Users with this role can access the VMware Explorer Administration tab. This tab provides quick access to common administrative tasks that include server shutdown, virtual machine creation, resource allocation, and others. |
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IMPORTANT: Executing VMware administration tasks, such as rebooting an ESX® host or a VM, require specific VMware® permissions. |
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VMware Operator User: This role restricts the user to the VMware Environment and VMware Explorer dashboards only, except the Administration tab, and NetFlow Setting and Cisco Setting dialog boxes. Attempts to navigate to these elements result in the following message: Sorry. The view is not authorized. |
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VMware QuickView User: This role restricts the user to the VMware Environment dashboard only. Attempts to navigate to the VMware Explorer result in the following message: You are not authorized to access view “VMware Explorer”. |
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VMware Report User: This role grants access to the VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management reports only. None of the VMware views are accessible if this is the user’s only role. To work with reports, the user additionally requires the Reports Manager role. |
For more information about roles, users, and security, see the Administration and Configuration Help.
Exploring the VMWare Agent Administration Dashboard
Exploring the VMWare Agent Administration Dashboard
The VMWare Agent Administration dashboard allows you to deploy remote agents, configure rules and set advanced platform options.
This dashboard consists of the Tasks tab, Rule Configuration tab, User Level Access tab, Black List Tab and the Agents view.
Figure 8. VMware Agent Administration dashboard
Rule Configuration tab
The Rule Configuration tab contains links to administrative tasks that you can initiate from this tab:
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Set Alarm Sensitivity Level: Sets the level of alarms that the system generates, stores, and displays. For more information, see Setting the alarm sensitivity level. |
Figure 9. VMware Agent Administration dashboard
Tasks tab
The Tasks tab contains links to administrative tasks that you can initiate from this tab:
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Configure OS Mapping: Associates different versions of an operating system with a common OS name. For more information, see Creating OS mapping rules. |
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Review Instances and Limits: View existing VMware object instances. For more information, see Reviewing object instances and limits. |
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Metrics Collection Management: Configure the metrics collect by agent. For more information, see Configure Metrics Collection. |