A typical XenDesktop® environment consists of many interrelated components. Understanding the dependencies between logical and virtual components in your monitored environment and the levels of resources they consume allows you to better understand resource-related issues, potentially affecting the stability of your system. This can help you predict the impact a potential outage may have on your environment, and to prevent such events, by reallocating resources where they are most needed.
When you open a dependency map, the XenDesktop Desktop tab appears on the navigation panel. This tab displays a a navigation tree representing a simplified map of your monitored objects. On the right of each object or object group, alarm indicators appear. Each indicator represents the alarm of the highest severity that is generated against the object. For an object type container (for example,
All DeliveryGroups), the status indicator represents the alarm of highest severity that is outstanding for all objects belonging to that group.
In a large multi-component environment, dependency maps are likely complex and may not fit your screen. The NAVIGATOR in the top-right corner allows you to easily set the zoom level by dragging the slider into the appropriate position.
Foglight™ for XenDesktop and XenApp offers a collection of frequently asked questions that provide quick insight into resource utilization levels for the applications, desktops, user sessions, and the overall infrastructure in your monitored system. The question mechanism is interactive, guiding you to choose a category and specify additional parameters.
You can find the available questions on the FAQts tab of the XenDesktop Environment dashboard.
On this tab, the Categories pane several question groups. Selecting a category shows the questions belonging to that category in the
Questions pane. From there, clicking a question shows the answer on the right.
Foglight™ for XenDesktop and XenApp includes a report generation ability. This allows you to create reports using a set of predefined templates to report on the various aspects of your virtual environment. Foglight for XenDesktop and XenApp includes a collection of predefined report templates.
The complexity of the information appearing in a dependency map depends on the selected object and the dependencies that object has with other objects within your integrated infrastructure. 