Foglight® Hybrid Cloud Manager 1.9.0
Developed for Foglight Management Server 5.9.8/ Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3/ Foglight Evolve 9.3
Release Notes
December 2020
Welcome to Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager
Resolved issues and enhancements
Getting started with Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager
Foglight® Hybrid Cloud Manager is provided to meet the demand for monitoring the hybrid strategy, protecting the business, reducing tasks for users who want to monitor Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) assets. Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager offers the ability to enable IaaS monitoring across Foglight performance agents and to consolidate performance troubleshooting into a single platform, without the manual configuration and hazards of missing elastic or burst workload changes. Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager simplifies the cloud performance monitoring process, allowing users to see VMware, Hyper-V, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud inside of a single platform. By the means of unified workflows, pre-configured rules with notifications, and intelligent analytics, Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager unscrambles complex troubleshooting and delivers the information that helps user cut down costs. Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager supports Federation mode.
These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 1.9.0 release of Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager. Review all sections before starting installation.
This 1.9.0 release of Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 9.3 and Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3. It includes Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Azure and Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS, and introduces Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Google Cloud for the first time. This release includes following new features and improvements:
Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Azure
Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS
Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Google Cloud
Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Google Cloud helps visually monitor and manage Google Cloud platform. (GC-1)
It supports the following features:
Note: to use Policy Management feature for Azure and AWS and Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Google Cloud, Foglight Evolve Cloud and Flex license are required.
This 1.9.0 release of Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager accompanies the release of Foglight Evolve 9.3 and Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3. This release includes the following resolved issues and enhancements:
Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Azure
Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for AWS
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of this release.
Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Azure
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Defect ID |
Known Issue |
| FOG-686 | The resource daily cost sometimes does not match the cost of Azure Portal. |
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AZ-458 |
Currently Azure Agent does not support monitoring Azure classic VMs and the related entities (Storage accounts, Resource groups, and so on). |
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AZ-296 |
If you use scripts to configure the same subscription's cost metrics are monitored by multiple agents, the cost metrics might be collected repeatedly. Workaround: Perform either of the following:
Or
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The following is a list of third party issues known to exist at the time of this release.
Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Azure
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Defect ID |
Known Issue |
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AZ-85 |
Linux Diagnostics Extension is not supported on FreeBSD VMs due to FreeBSD kernel limitations and compatibility issues with the current diagnostics extension. Visit https://github.com/Azure/azure-linux-extensions/tree/master/Diagnostic for details. |
The following Foglight product versions and platforms are compatible with this release.
Note: to use Policy Management feature for Azure and AWS and Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager for Google Cloud, Foglight Evolve Cloud and Flex license are required.
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Product Name |
Product Version |
Platform |
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Foglight Management Server |
5.9.8 |
All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Management Server |
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Foglight Agent Manager Note: All monitoring agents available in this version of Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager support the Agent Manager HA failover mode. For more information about this mode, see the Agent Manager Guide. |
5.9.8 |
All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Agent Manager |
|
Foglight Evolve |
9.3 |
All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Evolve |
|
Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition |
8.9.3 |
All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition |
For information about system requirements for this release, see the corresponding Foglight System Requirements and Platform Support Guide.
Foglight includes a licensing capability that restricts access to those features that are defined in the license. Any Management Server installation requires a license that grants access to server-specific parts of the browser interface and the features associated with them. Foglight cartridges are also license-protected. While some cartridges are covered by the base Foglight license (such as Foglight Agent Manager cartridges and Foglight for Infrastructure), others may require an additional license. Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager is covered by Foglight Evolve Cloud and Flex license.
To activate a trial or a purchased commercial license:
Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager 1.9.0 is a software release, and consists of the .car file required for installation on the Management Server and the necessary documentation.
The Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager release package contains the following products:
1. Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager version 1.9.0
2. Product Documentation, including:
Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager 1.9.0 comes pre-installed on Foglight Evolve 9.3 or Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.9.3.
Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager can be installed on the Foglight Management Server versions listed in the Upgrade and Compatibility section.
To install or upgrade Foglight Hybrid Cloud Manager:
Additional information is available from the following:
This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation.
This release is Unicode-enabled and supports any character set. In this release, all product components should be configured to use the same or compatible character encodings and should be installed to use the same locale and regional options. This release is targeted to support operations in the following regions: North America, Western Europe and Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Far-East Asia, Japan.
This release has the following known capabilities or limitations: This release is only localized for English but does support the Unicode character set.
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