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…
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…
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In my last blog I explained the steps which needs to be done to get the Foglight Management Server running as a daemon on Unix machines. The same can be done for the Foglight Agent Manager too and it is much easier than for the Foglight Server.
The needed…
Please join me tomorrow: Tuesday, September 26, 2017, for the next in our Foglight Skills 101 webcast series where we will be discussing Alarm Management with Foglight for Databases. Below you can see the agenda that I will be covering, along with a list…
Once you installed Foglight on a Unix machine, you might want the Foglight processes to start/stop automatically when you reboot the machine. This is not difficult to do and the Foglight installation includes already init.d-styled scripts which can be…
We've all been there, the dreaded ticket that comes across our inbox. Always light on detail, just a single sentence: "The database server is slow." No five words bring as much fear, uncertainty and doubt to a DBA than those (well, maybe…
In April 2017, we started this webcast series directed specifically at existing Foglight administrators and users within your organization. We call the series, “Foglight Skills 101.” We present topics that have a broad interest among administrators…
Merriam-Webster defines ‘Custom’ as made or performed according to personal order. Tailored, fitted, personalized…or ‘pimped out’, slang meaning something is modified to extreme performance. There was a television series called …
Wondering where to find the Webmonitor metrics for use on a custom dashboard?
You will find them on the Data tab, but there is no pre-defined category for them. Start by checking the "show all" box, and then expand Services and All Model Roots. This is…
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…
The Foglight team is pleased to announce that Foglight Management Server 5.7.5.8 is now available for download.
Over the past year, we have been delivering quarterly releases focused on improving the reliability, performance and manageability of Foglight…
The purpose of this post is to familiarize Foglight stake-holders and developers with the new Foglight API. I will go from showing something very basic in the first 10 minute video, to a more advanced coding use case in the second video. Before we start…
A Brief Walk-Through of SQL Performance Investigator
In a previous Foglight for Databases/SQL Server blog post, I provided a guide for navigating your database servers’ performance metrics in real-time. That post showed you how to identify your…
If you use Foglight and are responsible for ensuring that performance monitoring alarms are helping your organization focus on important performance bottlenecks and resource constraint problems, you'll benefit from learning important aspects of handling…
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Help! I can’t afford Diagnostics and Tuning packs for performance monitoring with Oracle® Enterprise Manager.
Really? You mean you’re not currently…
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…
The query of topology objects is one of the functionalities provided by Foglight REST APIs. The following samples demonstrate how to query topology objects and customize the query criteria using request parameters…
Foglight 5.7 introduces a REST API, which allows developers programmatic access to easily create profressional services and better integrate with third-party systems.
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In Foglight 5.7.5.7 release, we introduced two new authentication features: support for multiple LDAP/AD domains, and Auth-Token support.
In addition to single domain LDAP/AD…
This post will show how to integrate Foglight alarms into a #slack channel. It is a very easy and quick process. The longest step will likely be to request email app access from your slack admin.
Once you have received approval to use the slack email integration…
Throughout my career I have conversed with many IT leaders that have adopted the practice of measuring the performance of their technology assets by monitoring key performance indicators (or KPIs). Most of them will tell you that there needs to be some…
Foglight for Active Directory has the answer....
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I was working with a new customer and showing him some of the features of Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition. I was going through the Capacity Manager section and showing him how he can use it to help manage the growth of his virtualized…
Foglight administrators and other Foglight performance monitoring users who are asked to configure alarms to send email notifications sometimes struggle if they miss a step or two in the process. This post is meant to take you through the basics, and…
