Put to use some of the built-in facilities of Foglight to make your monitoring even more effective and valuable:  registry variables, schedules, services, and the security model.

 

 

Find More Time for Innovation and Helping Your Business:  Invoke Variables for More Nimble Monitoring

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This webcast covered:

  • Important but often overlooked variables for core Foglight functions
  • Describe the difference between registry variables, rule variables and severity-level variables
  • Uses of variables for email notifications
  • Scoping registry variable values for common use cases

 

Gaining a Different Perspective on IT Assets Using the Service Builder

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This webcast covered:

  • Gain a different perspective on IT assets such as SLA’s, alarms on the service, components affected
  • Setup emails to alert on issues impacting the overall Service 
  • Utilize the Service in the Databases/Virtualization environment (grouping)
  • Use the Service in a simple custom dashboard to show its status

 

Calendar Driven Monitoring Using Schedules

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This webcast covered:

  • Locate useful existing schedules
  • Create new schedules
  • Confirm that schedules function as expected
  • Apply schedules to common Foglight monitoring use cases


Valuable Information I Learned about Foglight Services and Service Builder in 2018

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This webcast covered:

  • Putting MySQL, Postgres, etc. agents into a dynamic managed service
  • Defining email actions via Service Builder for MySQL and other agents
  • Adding a selection of SQL Server agent jobs to a service
  • Introduction to UI Queries
  • Adding UI query result to a service
  • Creating a simple "Status" Dashboard with those services and UI query results

Exploring the Foglight Security Model

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This webcast covered:

  • Walkthrough the role-based security model
  • How users can be grouped together for simple administration
  • Providing users visibility to a subset of the Foglight deployment
  • Granting users access to a small subset of custom dashboards
  • Providing public access to dashboards
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