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• To an existing dashboard, how can I go back and discovers the source of data for the items in the dashboard? More precisely to determine why the data not displaying on the dashboard for a host where the agents seem to work fine.

  Here are the servers in the cluster.  The active cluster in the attached image is PrdERx2.  The zeros should have a count associated with them equal to zero.

  Thank you

  Barry

  Hi Barry -.

  If the dashboard in question was created with WCF (our Framework Web component that is included with the product), then using the tab design inspecting dashboard design suggested Bart is a good. WCF dashboard get much of their data by querying the Foglight data model so once you are in the editor of WCF, change views to queries drop-down list and see what queries can exist in this module WCF. Test if you find to make sure they return data. Also change the functions drop-down list and see if you can test as well.

  I hope this helps.

  Robert

• Documentation of Custom Agents in development

  Are there documents specifically on the creation of custom agents and/or by creating the data model to host the data for these agents?  I understand that you can write about any script that collects data, but I don't understand how to set the data model for use with the script or if there are other common considerations that must be made during the development of the custom agents.

  There is a specific data model guide for Foglight, which includes a tutorial for adding new models.

  It is available online here: Guide of Foglight data model, or here on the Support Portal in PDF format: PDF data model Guide.

  For custom script agents, first read the Administration guide: Building Script Agents.

  Hope this helps,

  Shay

  SR. Technical Writer for Foglight

• Current vs. later compared to the period?

  I played with the construction of the tables of data for some dashboards, and I ran across something that I need help. I see that for a given metric, there are sometimes several values: current, later period. In particular, I'm looking for the metrics for data warehouses. What is the difference between them? I guess that the period is a value accumulated during the given period of time? But I find that the values for the current and most recent are different. I want to know the most recent value. Which should I use?
  Thank you!!

  Brian,
  The history of the property has a list of values for all data collected during the period of range
  The current property is the last entry in the history of the current range of time, as long as it has not gone stale.
  The last property is the last value that we have in any given time interval.
  Ownership period is set in the interval of time together.
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  The current value is defined to be the same as the last value at least that the most recent value is not considered cool in this case, its value is null.
  The current property is the last entry in the history of the current range of time, as long as it has not gone stale.
  The last property is the last value that we have in any given time interval.
  If the time range is set on the past, then the current property behaves like the last property for this time period.
  Freshness: the last value of a metric is considered fresh , if it was collected more recently that:
  right now - (3 x the last sampling period)
  More precisely: Foglight data source implementation detects that the last value in the specified time interval and performs a freshness test only if the time of the end of the time range is within a minute of the current time, assuming that the samplePeriod is 20 years. If the freshness test fails, then the current property is disabled. Freshness test will fail if the time of the end of the last value is sampling of currently more than three times.
  HTH!
  -Larry

• vFoglight 6.5 & multiple instances of Virtual Center

  Hi all

  Can someone help me to get rid of a version of Virtual Center vFoglight 6.5?  We have two entries there are several virtual machines, data warehouses, etc...  We recently had to re - build vCenter and I think that's when it started.

  Thank you.

  I think this is covered by this solution, just be careful because you can not revive a deleted object.

  Note that in the most recent versions of Foglight, data management is under management server | Servers | Data instead of Foglight management | Servers | Data management.

  https://support.quest.com/search/SolutionDetail.aspx?ID=SOL55723&category=solutions&SKB=1

  Solution SOL55723

  Title

  We have a few old appearing in the agent Virtual centers VMWare drop-down list. How can I remove them?

  Description of the problem

  Question: We have some old virtual centers listed in the drop-down list VMWare agent. How can I remove them?

  Cause

  Resolution

  Answer: You can delete old objects of Virtual Center since the "VMware model | VirtualCenters"section of the dashboard data management (Foglight |) Servers | Data management) in the console Foglight.

  (1) navigate to the dashboard of data management (Foglight |) Servers | Data management) in the console Foglight.

  (2) expand the "VMware model | Selections of VirtualCenters.

  (3) remove the old unwanted objects Virtual Center by clicking on the Red sign icon next to them less.

  Golan Shem-Tov

  Quest Software

• How to plan to clear all alarms in Foglight on a specific date and time?

  Here's what I want to accomplish informing a group of people that all alarms will be erased and then foglight removes all the weapons on a specific date and time

  ..

  1

  I'd like to be able to plan / create a rule or any other option available to use... to be able to send an email through foglight or notification to a specific group of people telling them that all messages will be deleted.

  2nd

  What I'm looking for must be able to clear all alarms in Foglight to a date and a specific time.

  I just noticed this has not had a response.

  I hope that you could see the information contained in the KB, some items may have been written there so I recommend for anyone who wants to use it to test on a test server or check with the support, if there are recent scripts.

  How to purge the alarms? How to program the purge of alarms? (40651)

  Clear the alarms then X days (74729)

  How to clear alarms command line? How to program the clearing of alarms? (51324)

  Is there a way to clean only certain rules specific alarms? (73003)

  How to accuse reception/Clear old messages older then X number of days automatically (72146)

  Regarding the sending of notifications on a schedule, I think the simplest if to set that plan and create a rule with a true value, which is only applicable to this annex (annex rule or rule that is valid on a precise timetable) and has the action to send the notification to users on the alarms about to be cleared/purged.

  Hope this helps

  Golan

• Unable to get the Netflow data in Foglight NMS

  Hello everyone I hope that there are people out there who can give me a helping hand. I recently installed Foglight NMS version 6.8.24371 and I'm trying to do declare my my Adtran Netvanta 3305 netflow traffic information. I have setup the netflows on my router for export. The router indicates he sent successfully to my foglight agent ip address. With wireshark, I checked that he has actually flows from the router with my agent machine (which is the Studio is installed as well). I've also temporarily installed Scrutinizer and I managed to collect netflow data. If I do a check condition of monitoring it shows it has collected any netflow. Any help troubleshooting this would be greatly appreciated.

  Hi Paul,.

  Is a feature of netflow in a policy where the NetFlow monitor is selected? Also, please click on the option settings, to the right of the screen. Make sure all the boxes are ticked.

  Thank you.

  Mario

• Impossible to get data on Foglight 5.6.4 collection alerts

  Hi all

  We can not get any alerts when data collection is stopped in foglight 5.6.4. We see agents is good condition even if the agents are stopped (it shows not all X in agent status icon) and we are unable to get alerts when the server is down or not.

  Could you please help me on the cartridges and what rule is needed for this.

  Kind regards

  Shiva G

  Hey Shiva

  As far as I know, Foglight doesn't have the ability to alert if the data shall be adopted by the agent.  After all, the officer still works, at least according to the system, so no problem.

  Regard to the Foglight Server being down, you can try the Agent Manager customers disconnected rule.  There is an article entitled Using Foglight to monitor itself (http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/performance-monitoring/foglight-administrators/w/admins-wiki/5929.use-foglight-to-monitor-itself) that tells you how to monitor Foglight himself, but I don't know if that's actually what you want.

  Brian

• WebMonitor on Foglight Agent 5.5.8 there is no data/metrics

  Nice day

  "Please help, I have deployed WebMonitor agent on Foglight 5.5.8 there are no data/indicators, please see this excerpt from the.

  " Request and Service script tool.

  agent of	foglight-5:WebMonitorAgent:5243f1c6-118b-4475-9af0-916f9b8645b0:6 datasource = foglight - 5:foglight - 5 (WebMonitor_WebMonitor_on_cdshpsmdvp@cdshpsmdvp)
  Server	http://165.143.181.177:8080/PV/SilverStream/pages/DVLogIn4.html
  PageURL	http://165.143.181.177:8080/PV/SilverStream/Pages/DVLogIn4.htmlhttp://165.143.181.177: 8080/PV/SilverStream/Pages/DVLogIn4.html
  Message	Connect() timed out!
  ConnectTime	ObservedValue: [1327927718161-1327928018161] (300000ms) = 0.0
  ServerStatus	ObservedValue: [1327927718161-1327928018161] (300000ms) = 3.0
  ServerAvailability	ObservedValue: [1327927718161-1327928018161] (300000ms) = 0.0
  PageAvailability	ObservedValue: [1327927718161-1327928018161] (300000ms) = 0.0
  PageFetchTime	ObservedValue: [1327927718161-1327928018161] (300000ms) = 0.0
  TotalResponseTime	ObservedValue: [1327927718161-1327928018161] (300000ms) = 0.0

  Thanks in advance,

  David M

  David,

  When you have deployed WebMonitor, did specify it URL to monitor? You will reach those URLS of the machine where the agent WebMonitor? Are there errors in the log files?

  Also, can you post a snapshot of the file list of agent Web Server Properties screen?

  Thank you

  Golan

  P.S. in the case where you have not worked with before agent, the configuration is specified in this article http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/performance-monitoring/foglight-administrators/w/admins-wiki/5646.monitoring-application-availability-using-foglight-utility-agents

• Foglight v6 - FaultException: impossible to extract the data of inventory of the collector

  After having modernized our virtual center to V4, the foglight fails to report all the details and only has the following alert:
  "FaultException: impossible to extract the data of inventory of the collector: the parameter name cannot be null or an empty string."
  ' Parameter name: key to make sure the collection agent service is running.
  If anyone else has had this problem and how to solve?
  Thank you
  Karim

  Hi Joviyach,
  I logged a call with Vizioncore and the resolution is as follows:
  the problem you have is related to a VMware problem experienced during the upgrade to vSphere 4.0 as detailed in: kb.vmware.com/.../search.do
  Bascially, you must run a SQL command of your Virtual Center via MS SQL Management Studio that will identify one or more VMs who have a missing entry in the VPX_VIRTUAL_SCSICONTROLLER table. Once this information is determined that you would follow the steps 2 to 6 of the reolution... basically remove these virtual machines of the inventory and adding them back.
  When these steps are complete, you will re-start the vFoglight Collector of Vmware and Vmware vFoglight connector services.

• Y at - it a script or utility that can be used to merge the data agent FxM in Foglight? (RS 2176806)

  Hi all

  -Environment:

  V5.6.4 FMS

  V5.6.2 FxM cartridge

  V5.6.5 unit of FxM

  Problem/Question:

  My client pointed out that the agent of FxM was not activated, it created a new agent of FxM under another FglAM. There are now data for the associated FxM 2 topology objects in the console Foglight.  He now sees duplicate applications for registrations in the Foglight dashboards.

  Y at - it a utility or a script available which can merge data from an agent of FxM?

  My client is interested in the subject of topology FxMApplicationResult in particular.

  Sincerely,

   

  Karen Smithwa

  Karen,

  Have you tried to get into the management of data and removing the name of FxM applications duplicate?

  David Mendoza

  Foglight Consultant

• Inconsistent data collection in Foglight (FMS) 5.6.4

  Hello

  We use Foglight 5.6.4 for the monitoring of applications, hosts (physical and virtual). In this process, we deploy mulltiple agents using different cartridges to collect level Infrastructure settings.

  The problem we are facing is, we are unable to obtain data from the monitored hosts in a coherent way.

  (i.e.) if we are looking for (say data today ' hui), it shows data for all hosts, but if change us the interval and search data from the night before, we could not get the data for all hosts.

  Thus, customers seeking any specific day data are not able to get the data correctly because they generate reports with these data.

  Kindly ask you to bring a solution.

  Kind regards

  Guenoun

  Guenoun,

  The screenshots you posted show one or more instances of a portlet that displays the key indicators for the host groups in each level.

  The missing parameters are percentage of values associated with the memory, disk, CPU, and network.

  It's a custom portlet, so it is impossible to know what aspect of the metric is shown, but I would hazard a guess that it is the "current" value of the metric. In a daily time slot, this value represents the observation just before midnight, which is not particularly significant.

  If the portlet displays the value of 'the period/average', he would meaningfully represent average during the selected day. I would be more surprised to see the lack of value of 'the period/average '.

  One thing you can do is to open one of these parameters in the data browser with a time interval of several days and inspect the comments in the "history" list These observations represent a continuous value for this measure, or are there gaps?

  Another way you can do is drag and drop one of these settings on a dashboard custom diagram.

  Set the time range to seven days and see if there are gaps in the graph. You can export all comments in CSV or Excel to inspect their individually.

  To summarize:

  1. Your custom portlet is configured to display the "current/average" or the "period/average" of the metric?
  2. Is the history of observation for these ongoing metrics or are there gaps?

  Kind regards

  Brian Wheeldon

• What is the date of GA of Foglight for Enterprise Virtualization v. 7.0 and Storage Manager 3.0

  Hello

  I was wondering what should Foglight for Enterprise Virtualization v. 7.0 and Storage Manager 3.0 available for download

  Thank you

  Eli

  Foglight for virtualization 7.0 is now available on Supportlink here. Storage Management 3.0 is available here.

• PS_Scheduler agent does not collect not data in Foglight 5.6.4

  Hi all

  We are schedular areas of NT surveillance for Peoplesoft applications. For this, we Monitor PS_Sched agent and given necessary properties in it and created PS_Schedular and PS_SchedServer agents to monitor instructions SQL and use resources.

  We are facing some problems in PS_Schedular agent because it collects no data and throwing an error like "there is no way the home of Peoplesoft.

  

  Please suggest some troubleshooting steps to resolve this problem...

  Thank you best regards &,.

  Guenoun

  This error has to do with the database connection setting is the PS_Scheduler agent properties.  Check the settings and make sure that the settings are correct.  Don't know what DB platform this PS environment use, but make sure that the settings are correct by accessing the Agent status-> and change the properties of the agent for DB connection settings.

  The f

• Can monitor foglight setpoint in a directory? The directory name is a date and it changes everyday

  We must control the newspapers written in verse a directory. This directory name changes every day.

  Your help is highly appreciated

  Concerning

  Laetitia

  Hello George,.

  We rely on the LogFilter agent to monitor files that reside in the bearing of the directories.  If you deploy this agent and then change the properties, so that you will see an entry for check Log - 1 way and especially in your case a selection check the Log - 1 subdirectories.  If you do this, Yes, then the search will be for the last file-day although there are in the subdirectories.

  Otherwise said, in your case go back a directory and search for the particular file name and the LogFilter will search for the sub - directories and find the most recent, even if file name your directories to change names every day.