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Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager 7.3.0 - User Guide (for AWS environments)

Using Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS Monitoring Tab System Info Tab Tags Tab Report Tab Rule Configuration Tab Administration Tab Optimizer Tab Cost Tab Policy Management Tab

Cost - AWS view

The Cost - AWS view includes the following elements:

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Overview of all enabled Accounts cost: Lists the enabled accounts, billing of the current month, and billing of the last month.
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Object tree view: Lists the enabled Accounts and business units.
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Time Range Selector: Lists the time range for billing. The time bar of the Management Server does not take effects on the Cost dashboard.
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All Enabled Accounts Spending History/Top 5 Accounts by cost/Spending Breakdown: These three views will display the relevant cost information if you select All Enabled Accounts or All Business Units from the object tree view.
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Account Spending History/Top 5 Resources by Cost/Cost Breakdown By Service Type/Top 5 VMs by Cost: These four views will display the cost information of the selected account or business unit.
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Alarms: Lists all alarms against the selected account or business unit.
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Select Account displays the cost overview, EC2 Instances in account, and Resource cost overview.

Cost - Admin view

The Cost - Admin view includes the following:

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AWS Accounts tab: Displays the overview of all accounts, including the account name, business unit, spending, monthly budget, last month billing, current month billing, and next month projection.
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Set Monthly Budget: Updates monthly budget for selected account.
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Assign Business Unit: Assigns the select accounts to a Business Unit.
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Remove from Business Units: Exits the selected business units.
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Business Units tab: Lists business units name, location, organization, and accounts.
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Add Business Units: Creates a business unit, specifies Business Unit name, description, location, longitude, latitude, and assigns to a new organization or existing organization.
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Delete Business Units: Deletes selected business units.
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Assign Organization: Select the organization from the list for selected business units.

 

Policy Management Tab

Policy Management enables user to start or stop their resources by schedule. Currently, only the resource type of VM is supported.

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NOTE: To use the Policy Management feature, a Foglight Evolve Cloud or Flex license is required. Contact Quest Support to purchase a license.
Figure 29. Policy Management tab

To access the Policy Management tab:
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Log in to the Foglight browser interface.
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Ensure that the navigation panel is open.
To open the navigation panel, click the right-facing arrow on the left.
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On the navigation panel, under Homes, click Cloud Manager.
The Cloud Manager dashboard opens.
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Click Policy Management. The Policy Management tab opens on the bottom of Cloud Manager dashboard.

Policy view

The Policy view includes the following elements:

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Total Potential Savings: Shows the total potential savings of this month under the policies. The potential savings are calculated by the total hours the VMs has been stopped by the policy multiply the unit price of each VM.
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NOTE: The potential saving would be automatically recalculated every 30 minutes.
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Total resources under policy: Shows the total number of resources managed under the policies. For a detailed resource list, refer to Resource view .
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Alarms: Shows the number of alarms (multiple-severity rules only) generated by the policy. Clicking the numbers, an alarm list will be displayed. The list shows the severity of each alarm, when the alarm was generated, and the detailed alarm message.
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Execute Now: Click Execute Now to execute the selected policy immediately.
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Filters. Including by Schedule, by Resource Action (Start or Stop), and by Policy Status (Enable or Disable).
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Add Policy. Click Add Policy and an Add Policy dialog box appears. It includes the following elements:
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Policy Name: Specify a policy name.
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Description: Add descriptions about the policy.
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Enable: Select the checkbox to enable the policy.
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NOTE: Only the enabled policies will be executed by schedule.
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Action: Select an action for the policy. You can either start a VM or stop a VM.
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Schedule: Select a schedule. You can either assign the policy to a new schedule or assign the policy to an existing schedule.
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Apply Resources: Select the resources you would like to apply the policy. Click Apply Resources and a Select Resources dialog box appears.
Select Resources by types:
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Azure Virtual Machines: A tree table lists VMs by Resource Groups.
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AWS EC2 Instances: A Tree table lists Instances by Auto scaling group.
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Services: Lists the service from Dashboards > Services > Service Builder.
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Email Notification: Enter e-mail addresses to notify the users when the policy is executed.
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Process Service Dependencies: If applying resources by a service and the resources are collected by the same agent, the VMs under the child service will be executed first.
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A policy list table. The table includes the following elements:
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Edit: Click the icon and an Edit Policy dialog box appears. Update the policy and save the changes.
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Enable: Click the icon to enable a policy.
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Policy Name: Lists the name of the policy.
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Resource Action: Shows the action status of the policy, including start and stop.
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Schedule: Shows the schedule of the policy.
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Next Enforcement: Shows the time when the policy will be executed again.
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Last Status: Shows the last status after the policy was executed. Click the status and a Policy Executed History by Agent dialog box will appear.
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Apply Resources: Shows the selected resources by object type. Click the resources and an Apply VMs Detail Table will appear.
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Potential Saving: Shows the total potential savings of this month under the policy. The potential savings are calculated by the total hours the VMs stopped by the policy multiply the unit price of each VM.
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