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Foglight for VMware 5.8.3 - User Guide (Lite version)

Table of Contents

Using VMware Monitoring in Foglight Evolve Cloud

Introducing the virtual infrastructure

Physical objects Virtual objects

Navigation basics

VMware Monitoring in Foglight Evolve Cloud browser interface elements

Navigation panel Display area Action panel

Breadcrumbs Time Range Sortable lists Alarms and their status indicators Mouse-over actions

Interacting with VMware Monitoring in Foglight Evolve Cloud

Exploring the VMWare Agent Administration Dashboard

Rule Configuration tab Advanced Options tab User Level Access tab Agents view Accessing the VMware Agent Administration Dashboard

Configuring monitoring agents for data collection Managing certificates Investigating performance metrics

Viewing baseline ranges

Setting the alarm sensitivity level Additional features

Creating OS mapping rules Reviewing object instances and limits Configure Metrics Collection Generating reports

VMware Performance Agent configuration

VMware Performance Agent and Agent Manager configuration

Monitoring more than 4000 virtual machines from a single agent host Host system recommendations

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

VMware Explorer views

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

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

VMW Cluster Disk IO

Datacenter Rules

VMW Datacenter Disk IO

Datastore Rules

VMW Datastore Estimated Fill Time VMW Datastore Inactive

Resource Pool Rules

VMW Resource Pool Disk IO

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

VMW VirtualCenter Disk IO

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

Appendix: Alarm Messages Appendix: Metrics

Virtual machine metrics ESXi host metrics Datastore metrics Datastore cluster metrics Resource pool metrics vApp metrics Cluster metrics Datacenter metrics vCenter metrics DvSwitch metrics

Display area

The display area is used to view current dashboards and reports, as well as to create new dashboards and reports. You can increase the size of this area by resizing the navigation panel, or, if the action panel is open, by closing the action panel.

Action panel

The action panel operates like a drawer. Its default state is closed. To open the action panel, click the arrow at the far right of the VMware Monitoring in Foglight Evolve Cloud browser interface. Click that arrow again to close the action panel.

The action panel contains the various actions and tasks you can perform with the current dashboard. It also contains views and data that you can add to a dashboard or report you are creating and provides access to the online help files.

Breadcrumbs

If you drill down into various levels across dashboards within VMware Monitoring in Foglight® Evolve Cloud, a trail of breadcrumbs is left at the top of the current dashboard. This trail provides you with context. It also provides you with the name of the level you are currently viewing and with a simple mechanism for returning to any of its related parent levels.

The following breadcrumb trail was created while drilling down from the Virtual Environment Summary dashboard into the VMware Explorer dashboard. Each item within a breadcrumb trail is a hyper link to a previously viewed parent level.

Figure 4. Breadcrumb trail

For more specific information about the Virtual Environment Summary dashboard or the VMware Explorer dashboard, see Interacting with VMware Monitoring in Foglight Evolve Cloud .

Time Range

The default behavior of VMware Monitoring in Foglight® Evolve Cloud is to display metrics, alerts, and messages that have occurred within the last four hours. This time range, however, is configurable.

To configure the Time Range, use the Time Range popup, which you can access from the upper right corner of the VMware Monitoring in Foglight Evolve Cloud browser interface.

Figure 5. Time Range popup

Using the Time Range popup, you can select from predefined time ranges or you can specify a custom range using either a sliding time bar or calendar precision controls to specify dates and times. When you modify the time range for a dashboard or view, it adjusts the range for all of the views contained within and drill-downs accessed from that dashboard or view. It does not adjust the time range for any parent views.

For more information about modifying the time range, see the Foglight Evolve Cloud User Guide.

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