Foglight for VMware Horizon View 5.8 - User and Reference Guide

Explore user sessions

When you click the User Session tile, a list of the connected users is shown in the Quick View. Selecting a user from the Quick View displays the session types for the user, and a summary of the session details depending on the session type. Each user will have one or more sessions in a View instance.

An Explore link is located below the icon of the session type. Click the link to view detailed information about the session type.

The All Alarms table at the bottom of the view shows all the alarms triggered for the user session.

Explore desktops

When you click the Desktops tile, a list of Virtual Machines, Terminal Service Hosts, and Unmanaged Desktops on Physical Hosts is displayed in the Quick View.

NOTE: Desktops on physical machines, including desktops of a physical host and desktop of a VM on a physical host are classified as “Unmanaged Desktops”.

Selecting a Virtual Machine from the Quick View list displays the resource utilization values for that VM in the Summary pane. Click the Explorer link in the upper-right corner to drill down to the VMware Explorer view of the object, to see detailed information about the selected object and its components. If the selected object is a monitoring VM, the VMware Explorer page appears. For more information, see Use the VMware Explorer.

The Alarms table at the bottom of the view shows all the alarms triggered for the selected Virtual Machine.

Selecting a Terminal Service Host or an Unmanaged Desktop on Physical Host from the Quick View list displays the CPU, Memory, Network, and Storage utilization charts for the selected host in the Summary pane. Clicking any data series on the charts allows you to drill down into the Metric Analyzer dashboard for the associated metric and view the metrics collected for that topology object. Click the Explorer link in the upper-right corner to drill down to the Host Monitor page for the selected host.

Explore Horizon Pools

When you click the Horizon Pools tile, the Quick View shows a list of pools available in the View Instance. The pools are grouped by type: Automated, Manual, and Terminal Services.

When selecting a pool on the Quick View list, the Summary pane displays the following information for the selected pool:

NOTE: The icon in the Quick View tree indicates a pool that is disabled.

Use the VMware Explorer

The VMware Explorer allows you to monitor a wide range of elements in your virtual infrastructure. It contains a number of informative views through which you can quickly and easily access detailed information about any of the available components (physical or virtual) within the infrastructure. Its hierarchical interface includes drilldown capabilities that display various performance metrics and alarms within the virtual infrastructure.

For reference information about the data appearing on this dashboard, see VMware Explorer Primary view.

The VMware Explorer dashboard contains the following views: the Virtual Infrastructure view and VMware Explorer View.