Foglight fires alarms when something being monitored is experiencing a lower- or higher-than-desired level, or “abnormal” behavior. You can help Foglight understand what “reasonable” levels of performance are, and which problems result in email notifications. Learn the finer points of configuring and controlling the volume of alarms in Foglight.
Alarm Management in Foglight 6.x: new facilities help with consistency, speed, and accuracy
This webcast covered:
- Get the most important alarms out to the right people
- Setting email notifications using the new Alarm Notification Configuration tool
- Setting thresholds in the new Alarm Templates
- Sharing alarm settings across the monitored targets in a domain
- Some Foglight alarm navigation tips, 6.x style
Automating Foglight Alarm Blackouts
This webcast covered:
- Use the command line to schedule, list and lift alarm blackouts
- Learn how to find the topology object to apply the blackout to
- See the effects of using different parameters in the blackout command
- Find out one way to apply blackouts to a list of objects using Service Builder and a topology query
- Automate the blackout command so that it is always active using a simple rule and command action
Tips for Rule and Alarm Management
This webcast covered:
- Best practices for altering rules
- Rule conditions
- Rule actions (defining what takes place when an alarm fires)
- Rule behaviors (do you want to see the actual frequency of a triggered alarm, or more of a sampling?)
- Scoping of rules and alert threshold values to finely tune when, and for what, an alarm fires
Gain More Time to Improve and Innovate: Zero in on Your Problems Quickly!
This webcast covered:
- Alarm workflows for common use cases:
- Address a current server resource problem
- Determine if activity on a database is unusual or normal
- Use alarms to aid capacity planning processes
- Use email notifications to alert the right people of problems that need attention
- Manage alarms: locate, acknowledge, clear, and purge alarms when appropriate
Minimize the Noise - Analyze and Adjust Your Database Alarms
This webcast covered:
- How to configure database alarm settings including setting thresholds
- How to perform alarm analysis for tuning of alarms
- How to copy alarm settings between different servers
- How to set up notifications
- How to clear old alarms
A Deeper Dive Into Rule Management & Introduction to The New Infrastructure Rule Editor
This webcast covered:
- Match up Alarms in the Databases Dashboard to rules in the Rule Management dashboard
- Will I break Foglight by modifying a rule?
- How are they related?
- Further customize Database rules, examples include:
- Scope "days since last backup" value to a specific database
- Scope "buffer cache hit ratio" value to a specific instance at a specific time of day
- Scope a rule to apply (or not) to database instances within a Database Group
- An introduction to the New(and Improved!) Infrastructure Rules Editor
- Modify existing rule
- Add a new rule
