Organizations are as varied as the people working within them. Some organizations have groups that are focused on specific applications. Some organizations have people responsible for specific database platforms supporting the business. How ever the organization…
Moving data between servers can be a painful process because of the security involved over the data. Moving the same data between servers, which are in different domains, is even more troublesome. Trying to move data between forests/domains which are…
Configuring alarms in Spotlight on SQL Server Enteprise is quite easy. Configuring alarms across multiple connections, however, wasn’t always so easy. In versions prior to 11.5, you were required to select a connection and then apply your configuration…
From time to time, I will get the question “Does the KACE Service Desk Support Change Management?” More often than not, most customers just need the ability to track any change that occurs and possibly get an approval before they commit the change…
Foglight can now monitor the MS SQLServer BI stack – SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS.
Foglight supports monitoring SSIS for MS SQLServer 2012 and above. For this SSIS monitoring, Foglight needs to access the SSISDB catalog. This should be automatically created…
Can Foglight run on a Raspberry Pi running Linux? This blog answers the question.
Interestingly, I've been asked more than once recently if the Foglight Agent Manager can be installed on a Raspberry Pi (version 3) running Raspbian. One of the main use…
As the old saying goes, “the one constant in life is change”, and this is especially true in database environments. There are many reasons why database environments experience change whether it be through typical maintenance efforts such…
The Application User Interface is simply Role Based Access control to the Function and Features of the Change Auditor when using client, it restricts access to the client interface based on permission, it is also known as User Interface Authorization.
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By now we’ve all heard the refrain that Windows 10 will be the last version of Windows that Midelcrosoft will ever release. We’ll continue to see monthly (or so) security patch releases delivered in what are now called…
To understand why Change Auditor for Exchange requires the Exchange Scripting Agent, it is important to understand the function of the Exchange Scripting Agent.
The Scripting Agent is called (if enabled) when a cmdlet runs on an Exchange server. This…
One of the more common areas of inquiry from organizations planning their Office 365 migration strategy relates to large mailboxes and how they should be converted. These concerns typically arise in the form of two questions:
1) What can we do during the…
As we continue our navigation of Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise and we can diagnose an alarm that triggers. Let us see what setting caused an alarm to trigger. The fact is when you start monitoring an Instance it is assigned the preset “Factory Settings…
A large educational Institution recently approached us with a problem. Their Student Information and Financial databases were in Oracle, and a data warehouse containing extracts from both of these used for decision making, including opening more sections…
Just the facts! Part 2
Acknowledging Alarms in Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise
Now that we have establish a view of the facts let’s see what we can do with them. Some on these alarms are set by default to be acknowledged before they will clear for…
When a large customer appreciation company needed to categorize their Oracle auditing data by region, SharePlex came to their rescue. They were already using SharePlex’s Change History feature to track the userid’s, timestamp, before and after data values…
The original “Just the Facts” blog I discussed how to see just the Alarms displayed in “Spotlight Today” within Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise. Now it is time to see what we can do with those Facts or Alarms. Spotlight comes with factory settings…
Have you ever looked at Resource Monitor in Windows and wondered why some of your cpu cores were "parked"? That sure doesn't sound good!
This post does a good job at explaining the details. Needless to say I was intrigued, and I wanted…
In part one of monitoring Raspberry Pi with Foglight, I showed that the Infrastructure agent worked pretty much as expected when collecting from the Raspbian OS.
I was curious though if it exposed any metrics via snmp.
The first step was to check if snmpd…
I once attended an excellent training on giving effective software demonstrations, and the main point was simple: Don’t make your audience wait - show them the good stuff FIRST!
So here it is, in just three steps in Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise…
Having worked in a Data Center, I’m familiar with the challenges IT Admins face on the daily. From security, networking, to data management and everything in between, it seems there just isn’t enough time in the day to get done what needs to.…
The requirements for data protection continue to evolve with the changing IT environment as well as the need to protect an increasing amount of data.
My experience in the area of data protection began in the late 1980’s when the only option for data…
Quest is proud to deliver Client Profile Updating Utility 5.6.4. In this version the following 2 known issues were fixed.
SharePlex peer-to-peer setup
Peer-to-Peer replication (P2P) allows users on multiple databases to make changes concurrently to the same data, while SharePlex replication keeps all of the databases synchronized. Peer-to-Peer replication is not appropriate…
You’re smart, we know it! Our customers are intelligent people, our employees are intelligent people, and together we are one smart organization made up of internal and external minds.
How do we manage that knowledge and what is Knowledge Management…
Coming soon to Capacity Director!
Done, a balanced virtual environment.
