Getting Started with Foglight
Getting Started
This section provides instructions for logging in to Foglight and describes the Welcome page you see when you log in with the Operator or Advanced Operator role. It also introduces you to navigating the Foglight browser interface and discusses best practices for navigation.
Perform these steps before following the instructions in this section:
Logging in to Foglight
This topic describes how to log in to the Foglight browser interface.
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NOTE: The appearance of the Welcome page and the range of dashboards you can access from this page vary depending on your user role. If you have Administrator-level permissions, you can access advanced dashboards and configuration workflows. See the Administration and Configuration Guide. Users with the Operator role (but not the Administrator role) have permission to access a smaller set of dashboards.
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Starting from the Welcome Page
An Operator’s welcome page lists the following commonly-performed tasks:
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View Your Enterprise Health: Choose one of Foglight's pre-defined views to summarize the overall health of your IT infrastructure. |
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View, Acknowledge, and Clear Recent Alarms: View the state of all alarms across the entire Foglight installation in the Alarms dashboard so you can take immediate action on them. The Alarms dashboard shows alarm counts by time, allowing you to identify excessive alarm counts or outage events. This link takes you to the Alarms dashboard. Another way to access this dashboard is by choosing Alarms under Homes on the navigation panel. See Viewing, Acknowledging, and Clearing Alarms . |
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View Enterprise Health Organized by Monitoring Domain: View an end-to-end, top-level summary of all domains in the Domains dashboard and drill down to view their managed instances. This link takes you to the Domains dashboard. Another way to access this dashboard is by choosing Domains under Dashboards on the navigation panel. See Monitoring Your Domains . |
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View the Health of Critical Services: Choose a level of service as a focal point by subscribing to services of interest and viewing their dependencies. This link takes you to the My Services. Another way to access this dashboard is by choosing My Services under Dashboards on the navigation panel. For more information, see Monitoring Your Services . |
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View the Health of the Monitored Hosts in Your Enterprise: View alarms and a high-level summary of performance on your monitored hosts. This link takes you to the Hosts dashboard. For more information, see Monitoring Your Hosts . |
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Configure Alarm Reporting and Blackouts: Configure the mail server and assign email routing for Foglight alarm notifications. Configure blackout period to suspend monitoring activities. |
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Configure Email Settings: Configure the mail server and assign email routing for Foglight alarm notifications. |
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Blackout Configuration: Configure blackout period to suspend monitoring activities. |
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Report on Your Enterprise: View reports that are scheduled, run a report using a report template, create a custom report, schedule a report to run at a specific time, and manage reports. This link takes you to the Reports dashboard. Another way to access this dashboard is by choosing Reports under Homes on the navigation panel. For more information on reports, see Reporting on Your Enterprise . |
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Build a Custom Report: Build a report template from components or specify parameters to produce reports. |
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Run a Report: Generate a one-time report based on a template and schedule a report to run at a specific time. |
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Manage Reports: Manage the schedule reports and generated reports. |
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Do More with Foglight: Create custom services, build new dashboards and access other administrative functions in Foglight. |
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Administer Foglight: Manage users, define data retention policies, install or remove functionality, and manage licensing. |
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Build a Dashboard: Use the Foglight dashboard editor to create your own view onto your enterprise infrastructure. |
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Define Services: Create and edit services to organize your monitoring data along business lines. Create custom SLA policies which track the health of your infrastructure from a service perspective. |
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View Agent Status: View the status of the agents which are monitoring your enterprise, configure existing agents, or create new agents to monitor more of your infrastructure. |
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Contact Supportlink: Get help and technical support through Quest Software's official support website. |
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Explore Foglight Documentation: View the on-line help and detailed documentation to learn more about Foglight. |
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Tap into the Foglight Community: Takes you to the foglight.org Web site, which discusses topics related to Application Management and Foglight. |
The Welcome to Foglight page is your default home page. For instructions on changing your home page to a dashboard of your choice, see Choosing a Home Page.
When you log in to Foglight Evolve for the first time, the Getting Started tab of the Environment Overview page appears in the display area.
This tab displays tiles based on the products that are installed.
From this tab, you can quickly perform a number of activities:
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Explore Hyper-V—access the Hyper-V Environment Overview page. |
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Explore VMware—access the VMware Environment Overview page. |
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Add Monitoring—add Hyper-V or VMware agents to your environment. |
You can also obtain information about the status of your license for Foglight. This status is indicated by messages displayed on the tile of the installed products. For more information on licenses, see the Administration and Configuration Guide.
In addition, the Getting Started provides several video tutorials and the Evaluation Guide which is intended for anyone who wants to perform a quick evaluation of the power and ease-of-use of Foglight.
To access the Perspective views for any of the installed vFoglight cartridges, open the navigation panel, expand the Dashboard module, and click Perspective Selector > Perspective.
Each perspective contains an Explore button. Click Explore to investigate the full details displayed in the VMware Environment dashboard.