Foglight for Exchange 5.7.2 - User and Reference Guide

Alarms and state indicators

Foglight for Exchange uses state indicators to show the severity level of alarms that have fired or the status of Exchange objects. The following state indicators and colors are used throughout the interface:

Table 1. Alarms and state indicators
	Fatal (red)	There is a strong indication that the server is experiencing conditions which will degrade performance.
	Critical (orange)	Indicates that the current metric values point strongly towards performance-related problems with the specified component.
	Warning (yellow)	Represents a possible performance problem, based on calculations on current server metrics against best-practices thresholds.
	Normal (green)	Indicates the component is operating within normal thresholds. A normal severity level indicates that there have been no warning, critical or fatal events fired. Foglight does not record events that are successful; it can only determine that there are no events that had problems.

The Foglight alarm types respond to thresholds that are defined within the Foglight for Exchange rules. As metrics change and move through thresholds, alarms are raised. As a metric moves through thresholds, the severity of an alarm changes, which causes the associated state indicators to change.

For detailed information about the Foglight for Exchange rules and metrics, see Foglight for Exchange rules .

Mouse-over actions

Many items within the Foglight for Exchange dashboards display additional information when you hover your cursor over them. For example:

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Hover over a graph title to display a description of the graph


	NOTE: Clicking on a counter or graph displays a metrics popup that describes the counters, provides more detailed data points, and lists current alarms for the selected metric.

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Hover over the data point to display details (actual value and date/time stamp) that corresponds to the data point

Foglight for Exchange roles

Foglight controls user access using the concept of users, groups and roles. Each user can belong to one or more groups. The roles assigned to those groups determine the set of actions that the user can access.

Foglight comes with a set of built-in roles. In addition to these built-in roles, Foglight for Exchange comes with the following additional built-in roles which control access to the dashboards in Foglight for Exchange.

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EX Administrator. Allows access to all dashboards in Foglight for Exchange.

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EX QuickView User. Allows access to the Exchange Environment dashboard in Foglight for Exchange.

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EX Report User. When implemented, this role will allow access to the Report Management dashboard and Exchange reports.


	NOTE: The EX Report User role is available starting with cartridges installed with Foglight Management Server 5.6.2.

The Users & Security dashboard allows you to manage user access. To access this dashboard, on the navigation panel, select Dashboards > Administration > Users & Security Management. For more information on managing users and security, see the Foglight Administration and Configuration Guide or online help.

Exploring the Foglight for Exchange dashboards

Foglight for Exchange includes dashboards which aid in the monitoring, analysis and investigation of an Exchange environment’s health and performance.

These dashboards provide real-time views into the present state and relationships of the major components in your Exchange environment, including:

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Exchange Server Roles. There are five Exchange server roles that allow administrators to split up the functions of an Exchange server and place each role, or a combination of roles, on different servers. The views provided allow you to monitor the health of the servers hosting these Exchange roles.

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Exchange Servers. An Exchange server is any server that has Exchange services installed on it.

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Sites. A site is a logical grouping of computers within Active Directory® that have reliable connectivity. The views provided allow you to monitor the health of the sites that are hosting Exchange servers.

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Clusters. A cluster is composed of individual servers running cluster software which enables these computers to work together as a computer cluster, to provide failover and improve performance and availability over that of a single computer.

This section explains how to access the Exchange dashboards, describes the layout of each dashboard, and explains how to navigate through the embedded views of each dashboard:

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Accessing the Foglight for Exchange dashboards

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Exchange Alarms dashboard

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Exchange Environment dashboard

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Exchange Explorer dashboard

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Exchange Rule Management dashboard

For a description of the metrics captured in each of the embedded views, see Foglight for Exchange views.