Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager 1.9 - User Guide (for AWS environments)

Using Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS

Foglight® Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS is provided to meet the demand for monitoring the hybrid strategy, protecting the business, reducing tasks for users who want to monitor Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) assets.

Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS offers the ability to enable IaaS monitoring across Foglight performance agents and to consolidate performance troubleshooting into a single platform, without the manual configuration and hazards of missing elastic or burst workload changes.

Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS simplifies the cloud performance monitoring process, allowing users to see VMware, Hyper-V, and AWS inside of a single platform. By the means of unified workflows, pre-configured rules with notifications, and intelligent analytics, Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS unscrambles complex troubleshooting and delivers the information that helps user cut down costs.

This section introduces you to the Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS environment, and provides you with essential information.

For more information, see the following topics:

Installation requirements

Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS comes installed on Foglight Evolve and can be installed on a Foglight Management Server.

Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS requires the following cartridges for data collection:

While Foglight Evolve comes with these cartridges pre-installed and enabled, a stand-alone Foglight release requires that these components be installed on the Foglight Management Server. The sequence of cartridge installation is important because of their dependencies. For more information about installing Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS, and for details about system requirements and version compatibility, see the Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager Release Notes.

AWS Agent Configuration

Each AWS Agent monitors the assets inside the selected region. To monitor an AWS environment, AWS Identity and Access (IAM) users need to use an Access Keys to secure REST or HTTP query protocol requests. Create an IAM user with the following privileges to use the Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS:

To collect EC2 Memory metrics and Linux Volume metrics, make sure to assign the following privilege when creating the EC2 instance that will be launched and monitored:

To use Optimizer Reclaim action, it is recommended to create a custom policy to assign the following privileges to the user:

Minimum application privileges

Each AWS Agent monitors the assets inside the selected region. To monitor an AWS environment, AWS Identity and Access (IAM) users need to use an Access Keys to secure REST or HTTP query protocol requests. Create an IAM user with the following privileges to use the Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS:

To collect EC2 Memory metrics and Linux Volume metrics, make sure to assign the following privilege when creating the EC2 instance that will be launched and monitored:

To use Optimizer Reclaim action, it is recommended to create a custom policy to assign the following privileges to the user: