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How vFoglight Works
Observation An observation taken over time, for example, a Metric,
StringObservation, or TopNList.
In vFoglight, every observation is linked to a specific part of the
topology model, for example, CPU utilization on a particular
monitored host.
Metric A simple value observation measured over time, for example, a
count, rate, or percentage.
Service In vFoglight, a service is defined as any grouping of meaningful
or interesting things in your monitored environment, for
example, a business process or an application. A service is often
governed by a Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Foglight allows you to define a new service and edit existing
services. See “Services” on page 32 for more information.
Service Levels In vFoglight, service levels are availability measurements on
services. See “Service Levels, Alarms, and State” on page 33
for more information.
Service Level
Agreement
(SLA)
An agreement between information technology managers and
end-users on the availability of system and application
resources.
Application A set of tiers in which each tier contains a set of monitored
elements, for example, hosts and servers. A tier has a defined
flow that represents data moving from the user to back-end
systems.
Foglight allows you to build models that represent your
monitored applications in a way that makes sense to you. A new
service is automatically created for each new application. See
“Applications” on page 34 for more information.
vFoglight
Management
Server
The central component of vFoglight. The Management Server
receives information from agents, stores and processes data, and
makes it available in the browser interface. See “vFoglight
Management Server” on page 35 for more information.
Term Definition
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