Foglight for Exchange 5.8.2 - User and Reference Guide

Exchange Environment > Monitoring tab

The Monitoring tab provides a summary of the Exchange servers in your environment, the Exchange roles performed by these servers, and the sites where these servers reside. This tab consists of the following views:

The Exchange Environment Overview is located across the top of the Exchange Environment dashboard. It provides you with an overview of your Exchange environment.

The overview contains a tile for the following object types in your Exchange infrastructure: clusters, roles, servers, and sites. Each tile shows the number of corresponding objects of that type in your Exchange infrastructure as well as a count of objects of that type in each of the alarm states (fatal, critical, warning, and normal).

Clicking a tile displays summary information for that object type in the Quick View. Clicking an alarm state (for example, warning) on a tile displays summary information in the Quick View for the objects of that type that are in the selected alarm state.

The Quick View is located across the middle of the Exchange Environment dashboard. The following illustration is an example of the Server Quick View, displayed when the Servers tile is selected in the Exchange Environment Overview.

The Quick View displays summary information pertaining to the component selected from the Exchange Environment Overview and Object Tree view. For example,

The Quick View consists of the following embedded views:

The Object Tree view is located at the left of the Quick View and displays objects based on the tile selected in the Exchange Environment Overview. Use the Object Tree view to select a single object or a group of objects of a particular type for display in the Object Summary view.

The Object Summary view is located to the right of the Object Tree view and displays summary information for a single object or a group of objects, depending on what is selected in the Object Tree view.

The Object Summary view displays a number of embedded views which is determined by the item selected in the Exchange Environment Overview and Object Tree view. It provides a quick and easy view into the items that make up the selected Exchange object and the alarm states of these items.

In addition, at the top right of the Object Summary view there is an Explorer link. This enables you to quickly navigate to the Exchange Explorer dashboard for more detailed metrics about the selected object or group of objects.

The following table lists the information displayed when the different object tiles are selected.

The Alarms view that appears at the bottom of the Quick View in the Exchange Environment dashboard displays a sortable list of all the outstanding alarms for the item selected in the Object Tree view.

NOTE: An Alarms view also appears at the bottom of the Exchange Explorer dashboard when you are viewing an object in the Exchange Explorer Primary view. It displays the outstanding alarms for the item selected in the Exchange Infrastructure view.

Exchange Environment > Administration tab

The Administration tab includes the following components, and allows you to perform administrative tasks, as follows:

NOTE: In a federated environment, the administrative tasks and Agents view are available only on the Federated Children and not on the Foglight Federation Master.

Exchange Environment > Reports tab

The Reports tab allows you to manage custom Exchange reports. It consists of the following components:

From the Tasks list, you can create a report, copy an existing report, or edit an existing report for your Exchange environment:

The Recent Report History view provides information about the most recent report instances run in your environment.

The About Reports view enables you to get answers to common questions about Exchange reports.

Clicking a question from the list displays a dialog box that provides information about the selected topic.

The Reports view displays all of the report instances configured in your Exchange environment.

The view contains the following information for each configured report instance.

To delete one or several reports from the list, select the report(s) and click the Delete button at the top left corner of the view.

To search for a particular report, type the report name on the Search box at the top right corner of the view, then click Enter.

Exchange Environment > FAQts tab

The FAQts view appears as a navigation tab at the top of the Exchange Environment dashboard. It provides a list of all the questions available for all Exchange object types.

NOTE: The FAQts navigation tab is also available in the Exchange Explorer dashboard when you are viewing an object in the Exchange Explorer Primary view.

The FAQts view enables you to get answers to common questions about your Exchange environment.

The FAQts navigation tab is made up of the following embedded views:

The Categories view lists the categories (that is, servers, sites, Mailbox role, Client Access role, Unified Messaging role, Hub Transport role and Edge Transport role) for which questions can be answered by Foglight. It also contains a Favorites and My Questions category which allows you to customize the list of questions displayed.

By default, All Questions is selected. Click a category to view a list of questions relating to a type of Exchange object or click Favorites or My Questions to view your customized list of questions.

The Questions view lists the questions available for the category selected in the Categories view.

Click a question from the list to have Foglight gather and report an answer.

Use the buttons at the top of the Questions view as follows.

Table 7. Questions view

	Mark the selected question as a ‘favorite’. Questions marked as a ‘favorite’ will be displayed when the Favorites category is selected. NOTE: The star icon will appear yellow when you select a question that is already marked as a favorite.
	Create a report based on selected questions.
	If the list of questions is long, you can narrow it down by entering a text string in the Search field. Enter a word or text string and select the search button to display only those questions that contain the word or string entered. To clear the filter and return to the original list of questions, click .

The Answer view provides an answer to the question selected in the Questions view. The answer is provided in the following form:

Top x <objects of category> ...

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

It also lists related questions from which you can select. Selecting a related question will refresh the Answer view displaying the answer to the selected question.