
Introducing vFoglight 27
Key Concepts and Terms
Key Concepts and Terms
How vFoglight Works
Term Definition
Monitored
environment
The hosts, server instances, databases, and other systems in
your environment that are monitored by vFoglight agents.
The data collected from your environment is used in the Foglight
Management Server, where it populates model instances, drives
rules, and can be rendered in views.
Topology
A representation of—and a way of understanding—the logical
and physical relationship between items in your monitored
environment. At run-time, vFoglight dynamically builds
topology model instances based on data about your system that
is collected by vFoglight agents. Topology models provide the
context for the metrics sent by the agents to the vFoglight
Management Server.
Model The organizing principle used by vFoglight for data about your
monitored environment.
At run-time, vFoglight transforms monitoring data into model
instances. A model instance is a set of objects and relationships
designed to represent a monitored resource and its parts. Each
model instance is a representation of that model type. For
example, the HostModel type is a collection of Host objects;
each host object is one representation of the HostModel type.
vFoglight model instances hold collected data and transform it
into nodes, adding configuration data to each node as
properties, and attaching metric data to appropriate nodes as
metrics.
There are different types of models, including collection models
defined in vFoglight cartridges and models that you build, such
as applications and services.
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