The recent system glitch at Toyota offers a compelling lesson in the intricate dance between technology and business. When routine database maintenance went awry, the fallout was massive, halting 28 assembly lines across 14 plants. Over a span of 36 hours…
The container world is developing very fast. Now container technology is making its way into the enterprise data environment and it can be deployed onto both production and support infrastructure. Thus it might be the architecture for the next generation…
When reporting a Foglight connectivity issue, support people are always asking to test the connection using Telnet or Putty. But what to do if you do not have Telnet or Putty installed?
There are some other options, for example using an Internet browser…
Woohoo! Just got word that my boss approved my January vacation and now I’ll get the opportunity to check several items off my bucket list as I hop across country to the Quest Database Fed Forum in DC on February 20th.
On my First stop I will…
In a previous post, we learned how to disable specific Foglight alarm severities. For example, maybe you don't want a warning alert when cpu utilization is only at 70% - if so, you can disable that, while keeping the rule active to alert when the condition…
A previous post showed how to modify a registry variable to apply a value to a specific host.
It would be good if the actual value that is going to be used when the rule fires could be validated.
The "Run Condition Query" feature in the Rules…
In a previous post, the Rules dashboard was used to show how to modify the global value of an alarm threshold. For this particular rule, that value would then apply to all hosts that are being monitored.
What if we only want a subset of hosts to take…
I recently showed a customer how to modify the thresholds and severity levels of Database alarms by using the Foglight for Databases administration dashboard. A follow-up question was about how to do the same thing for alarms that were appearing for page…
Often times, we will have a situation where we don't want a Rule to alert on a specific host or set of hosts which are brought down for a reason, but we still want the rule to alert for the rest of the servers.
This can be achieved in multiple ways…
“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change “- Heraclitus.
Development, new applications, upgrades, patches, maintenance, schema updates…the list goes on and on around ways that changes are introduced into your environment. Sometimes these…
Investigating a rogue OS process is a pain; digging through the multitude of metrics, different times of days have different outcomes, alarms that come and go and customer complaints to accompany it all. This is just one example of problem troubleshooting…
This post will cover one way to make it easy easier to get the user-defined collection data onto a dashboard or report.
For a quick refresher, please see User Defined Collections in Foglight for SQL Server: A Quick Walk-Through
With a "simple" UDC that…
You say “No” - well - I say “Yes”. All database rules are sensitive and have a sensitivity level.
What does that mean? What is a sensitivity level? Where can I find it and can it be modified?
Ok - a lot of questions, so let's start…
In every SQL Server instance the TempDB database is the common global resource for all the operations taking place and DBA's are particularly cautious about the use of it. Given the nature of applications and ad-hoc queries by users, one must keep…
This post is short but hopefully useful. When you start the Foglight server and navigate to the home page URL (http://foglight_server:8080 or https://foglight_server:8443), you may see a startup splash page (below). If you see a login page, then the Foglight…
If you’re like many DBAs, your life is probably getting more complicated by the week. Are you under pressure to manage larger and larger numbers of database instances? Or to adopt new database technologies like open source or NoSQL? With those changes…
You can generate on-demand or scheduled reports in Foglight to a number of formats. These can be setup to be emailed at the time of generation, or they can be reviewed later via the Foglight UI (Reports -> Manage Reports).
This post will show how to…
One of the nice features in Foglight is the possibility to extend the existing monitoring capabilities by custom script agents. Unfortunately it is not possible to directly call PowerShell scripts within Foglight.
In the following, I would like to describe…
I had a customer create a service definition for the result set of a search that was done in the Hosts dashboard. But we weren't able to view it in the Service Operations Console nor add it to an existing service definition in the Service Builder.
…
In part one of Performance Analysis to Performance Investigator, I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance Investigator, as well as the architectural differences between the platforms. In part two, we will…
In part one of this blog series (here: https://www.quest.com/community/b/en/posts/performance-analysis-to-performance-investigator-part-1-introduction-and-architecture) I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance…
In part one of this blog series, I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance Investigator, as well as the architectural differences between the platforms. In part two, we will discuss the new and enhanced features…
In part one of this blog series (here: https://www.quest.com/community/b/en/posts/performance-analysis-to-performance-investigator-part-1-introduction-and-architecture) I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance…
In part one of this blog series (here: https://www.quest.com/community/b/en/posts/performance-analysis-to-performance-investigator-part-1-introduction-and-architecture/) I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance…
When it comes to choosing a virtualization platform there are many questions to ask, and often it's not just the technical requirements; financial pressures will impact the decision as well. With the release of Windows Server 2016, Hyper-V and SCVMM,…
