How do I know when a VM falls over

Hi Davie,

You can leverage the NetMonitor agent from the legacy OS cartridge to do remote monitoring of physical or virtual host availability.

Check out these threads for details:

How can I do ping monitoring for VMs?

Can we do an alert in FogLight if a ping time exceeds a certain value?

Check if machines are on the network

Netmonitor agant...

Regards,

Brian Wheeldon

Hi Davie,

As part of your vFoglight license, you are entitled to use the Foglight OS agents including the utility agents like ApacheSvr, AppMonitor, LogFilter, NetMonitor, TerminalServer, and WebMonitor on the CPUs you've licensed for vFoglight. You are also entitled to use the new Dependency Mapping cartridge on these licensed CPUs without paying extra.

Regards,

Brian Wheeldon

Hi Brian,

I’ve not checked on these “extras” as yet, however what you say makes me very happy – thanks! I’ll give them a whirl, however from the links it looks like what I need.

Cheers

Davie

Hi Brian,

Thanks for this, however the problem I have here is that we do not have the OS cartridge – we only purchased VFoglight and NMS licenses as this appeared to be the way to go according to our sales discussions.. my understanding is that the OS cartridge will cost extra if we need it?

If I am correct and I do need to pay extra for that cartridge then it won’t wash…are there any other ways of doing this? I am surprised that the VM cartridge does not have an up/down or ping equivelant in there as the server being available would be a pre req for anyone.

Any further help appreciated.

Thanks

Davie

You can select Foglight 5.6.3 - Cartridge for Operating Systems (5.5.4) at the Foglight Download page: https://support.quest.com/Search/SoftwareDownloads.aspx?ProductID=268444554&ProductName=Foglight

Regards,

Brian Wheeldon

Thanks!

Hey Brian,

Where can I download these agents? Below are the cartridges installed already in our environment.

Brian,

I've set up the Netmonitor and it seems to work really well..last question:

Can I (and if so how do I) report on system availability using Netmonitor - i.e. can I now run an ad-hoc report that will confirm system availability/uptime for the last day/week/month?

Thanks - this is really good advice for a newbie

Davie

System availability is already available using the uptimePercent and uptimeSeconds metrics on the VMWVirtualMachine object.