| Requirement | Quest Capabilities |
| Automated Business Service and IT Asset Discovery | Foglight eliminates the need for manual setup work and ongoing maintenance. Automatically discover, map and model the business and IT assets and transactions within your organization. This eliminates manual setup work and ongoing maintenance. |
| Real Time Dependency Modeling | Prioritize IT application incidents according to business impact by leveraging real time dependency modeling. Capture changes across the IT environment as they happen. Tracks dependencies between IT components and services, the business services they support and the users that rely on them. |
| Service Level Policy (SLP) Management | Create complete Service Level Policies leveraging data on performance, availability and change from across the IT environment. SLAs can be composed of data from Foglight agents as well as other external sources such as system monitors, scripts, XML feeds and service desk. The calculation of SLA compliance can be as simple or complex as needed: augment real time SLAs with historical trending information, moving averages, standard deviations, time-of-day or seasonal changes, or other custom logic and calculations. Finally, Quest allows you to create role-based SLAs that react differently for senior and junior team members, or can be customized to the needs of different business units – control the way the SLA is bubbled-up in the user interface or how notifications are sent out, even control the set of actions that can be automatically triggered by an SLA violation. |
| Dynamic User Transaction Tracing | Gather data on the exact transactions of each end user with low overhead. Granular response time objectives can be set for a specific user group or even a single transaction. Should an individual user experience poor response time their path through the system can be tracked down to the method-level for instant root-cause diagnosis. |
| SQL Bind Variable Information | Track the exact SQL bind variables that are passed from dynamic or statically called SQL statements originating in Java. This is a unique feature in the market and key to problem identification and resolution in systems that leverage dynamic SQL statement creation, as provided by popular Java libraries like Hibernate. |
| Unified Management Dashboard | Dynamic, thin client, portal-based, role-based user interface. Accessible through a standard Web browser without the need for potentially unsafe plug-ins like Flash, ActiveX or Java Applets, the Foglight operations and administrations console can be used to view key metrics and SLAs from any source, even those outside Foglight itself. The completely customizable interface is accessible through a security layer that controls the degree of customization as well as the data that is viewable by a particular user or role. |
| Integrated Diagnostic Workflows | Selective drill-down technology to gather deep, diagnostic-oriented data directly from the production environment without adversely affecting the very low overhead requirements of current management solutions. By focusing deep data gathering on only those elements which are experiencing problems you get the best of both worlds: lightweight real time data on all elements of the system; deep diagnostic data designed for immediately problem resolution on only those elements that require it. |
| Secure User Management | Control access to all of its capabilities based on user or role definitions. Leverage already-in-place Active Directory or LDAP systems for seamless user management and automatically audit each user's actions - including login/logout and changes to administrative or operational settings within Foglight itself. Even set up alerts to instantly notify an administrator of suspicious activity. |
| Product Extensibility | Create custom data collectors to gather data from any element in the IT environment. Flexible internal data models then allow you to either integrate the new data into existing environment models or create new models specifically tailored to the new data. Once all the relevant data is included customized views, reports, alerts, SLAs and actions can be set up to leverage the complete set of information and context within Foglight. |