Reference Guide

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vFoglight Rules
The vFoglight Cartridge for VMware includes a number of predefined rules that capture
the expert knowledge of our virtualization specialists and are used to monitor the health
of your virtual infrastructure. vFoglight allows you to modify these rules or create your
own flexible rules that can be applied to complex, interrelated data from multiple
sources within your distributed system.
In this chapter, rule descriptions are organized into logical groupings. To see a rule
description, select the appropriate grouping from the sections listed below.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Overview of Rules .......................................................................................................................26
Thresholds...................................................................................................................................27
Agent Rules.................................................................................................................................27
Cluster Rules...............................................................................................................................30
Datacenter Rules.........................................................................................................................37
Datastore Rule.............................................................................................................................43
Resource Pool Rules...................................................................................................................44
ESX Server Rules........................................................................................................................51
VirtualCenter Rules .....................................................................................................................63
Virtual Machine Rules..................................................................................................................69