Foglight for VMware 5.7.7 - User and Reference Guide

Reference

This contains reference information about views, rules, and data tables that are included with VMware Monitoring in Foglight® for Storage Management. Read this to find out details about these components.

Views

VMware Monitoring in Foglight® for Storage Management ships with predefined views to help you monitor your application server environment. This provides quick reference information about each view.

VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management displays monitoring data in views that group, format, and display data. The main types are described below.

Dashboards are top-level views that do not receive data from other views. Dashboards usually contain a number of lower-level views. The dashboards supplied with VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management, as well as those created by users, are available in the navigation panel.

Lower-level views in VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management can be added to dashboards or can be accessed by drilling down from a dashboard. They receive and display data directly from the VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management Management Server or from other views. Some views filter or select data that appears in other views in the same dashboard. Some are tree views with expandable nodes for selecting servers, applications, or data.

VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management ships with several dashboards that allow you to monitor and configure your virtual environment. Each of these dashboards contains a number of views. This section describes these views in more detail. For more information about the VMware dashboards, see Interacting with VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management.

VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management includes the following groups of views:

VMware Explorer views

The VMware Explorer dashboard contains the following views:

NOTE: The Administration tab is only available in Foglight Pro, when the Virtual-VMware-Admin and Virtual-HyperV cartridges are installed. It is not included with Foglight SE. In Foglight Pro, this tab is accessible if your Foglight user account includes the VMware Automation User role.

FAQts tab

Through three embedded views (the Categories, Question, and Answer views), the FAQts tab enables you to ask VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management questions and provides the answers to those questions.

The FAQts view appears on both the Virtual Environment Summary and VMware Explorer dashboards as a navigation tab.

The FAQts view is made up of the following embedded views:

This view provides an answer to the question selected in the Questions view. The answer appears in the following form:

Top x <objects of category>…

where x is the number of objects of the category you provided in the Categories view.

Specify x by entering a number. The answer is relative to the subset of the infrastructure you are viewing in the dashboard. For example, the top 5 datastores are different for each individual cluster in the infrastructure.

This view lists the categories for which questions can be answered for you by VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management.

Click a category in the list to select it.

This view lists the questions, for the category selected in the Categories, that can be answered for you by VMware Monitoring in Foglight for Storage Management.

Click a question in the list to select it.

If the list of questions is long and you want to narrow it down, search for a particular text string using the Search box.