We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Foglight Cloud, a transformative solution reshaping how organizations manage and monitor their IT environment. Foglight Cloud…
We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Foglight Cloud, a transformative solution reshaping how organizations manage and monitor their IT environment. Foglight Cloud…
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In my previous blog posts of Foglight Integration, I wrote how to integrate Foglight and Opsgenie in three parts. Please follow the links below
Foglight for IT OPS - OpsGenie Email-integration
Foglight for IT OPS - OpsGenie RestAPI Integrat…
In Part 2 – I have covered how to forward Foglight alarms to OpsGenie using RestAPI. (please see the link below)
https://www.quest.com/community/blogs/b/performance-monitoring/posts/foglight-for-it-ops-a-genie-approach-for-foglight-alarm-integration…
We often get asked by customers how can they integrate Foglight with other products they own to streamline their daily operations. Based on my recent conversation with one of my customers and their IT Ops team, I had the opportunity to explore IT Ops tool…
A customer asked how to implement and email that indicates an alarm has been cleared. In Foglight, there are typically several ways to do that.
In this post, we'll look at creating a new rule that fires when an alarm event occurs. The event we'll focus…
Time to wrap up automation of alarm blackouts in Foglight.
In this post, we looked at using the command line to implement alarm blackouts. We used topology queries to match a host name or pattern for an instance (eg. dbss_instance.name like '%YOW%').…
In this intro post, we looked at some basics of setting alarm blackouts via the command line. These commands can then be automated via script to include in a maintenance job, for example.
Any object can be referenced in the topology query - in this example…
There are two ways to manage blackouts in Foglight - from the UI and from the command line. The options are generally the same. The command line provides us the ability to automate the blackout by using the command line utility in our maintenance scripts…
A few years ago, I wrote this blog detailing how to get host services created on the Hosts dashboard to show up in the Service Operations Console.
Creating a service via the Hosts dashboard is quick and easy.. but the service definition is simply the…
A UI Query can be used to add either static or dynamic components to a service definition via the Service Builder dashboard. This in turn offers a
great range of additional things Foglight can do. This post will introduce creating a service definition…
A UI Query can be used as a shortcut to building a custom dashboard or report. This can save time and frustration by publishing either frequently accessed or hard to find data in an easy to use spot.
In my Introduction to UI Queries post, the building of…
A UI Query can be used as an input to a report. This can simplify and offer a broader range of inputs when running or scheduling a report.
For a refresher on creating UI Queries, this post covers the basics.
WCF reports have inputs in order to properly…
In my Introduction to UI Queries post, the building of a simple query to return all SQL Server Agent Jobs was shown.
Let's back up a step, and take a look at where UI Queries can be used in Foglight. This post will be updated with links as the topics…
As you migrate to the cloud, would you go all in with a pair of nines?
If you did, you probably wouldn’t let your boss know, would you?
More companies are making plans to migrate to the cloud and going all in on it. That means, first, that they…
Foglight has a robust rules engine for alerting and notification. It's often the case that you can get to the same end zone in Foglight by many different plays.
Using the Service Builder is an easy way to group "things" together. "Things" can be higher…
Cost Director allows you to view the cost of running your datacenter like it’s Public Cloud.
Cost Director is included in Foglight for Virtualization 8.8 and no additional license required.
In 3 steps you will setup an organization structure, create…
How much is Azure costing me? How much do my VMs cost me in my datacenter? Should I migrate to the Cloud?
Understand the cost of my datacenter you ask?! You heard that correctly, FVE 8.8 is almost, almost, exclusively about managing the cost of running…
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…
Wow! What a year and what a way to wrap it up. Foglight for Virtualization 8.7.5 is out and with it brings a brand new SaaS offering from Quest that enables connectivity from any Foglight for Virtualization installation in the world to the cloud. Try…
Just a quick update, in FVE 8.6 we have introduced a simple rule editor. With this you can create new alarms in 5 clicks and easily add email recipients. Check out the video below.
Creating rules in Foglight made easy.
Foglight has many out of the box rules to evaluate performance and availability conditions for your databases, virtual and physical infrastructure, web pages, network devices, etc. Once it has been running for some time, it's a good idea to evaluate which…
In some cases, you might need to update or add in a new license key for Foglight. It's really easy to do, but you'll need to be a Foglight administrator.
Start by navigating to the Administration dashboard, and select Licenses.
Next select "Install…
Cloud hosted infrastructure, or IaaS, is growing and businesses globally are now challenged by multi-hypervisor, hybrid cloud environments. This new and unique combination not only further complicates cost management, it creates a whole new set of demands…
Foglight for Active Directory has the answer....
Foglight for Active Directory shows
