Microsoft has evolved their marketing over the past several years to focus on the fact that SQL Server is more than just a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). You may have noticed, that Microsoft commonly now refers to SQL Server as the SQL…
I'm frequently asked by Foglight administrators how they can configure their FMS to send text message alerts to their phone. The process is rather straight forward, and this blog post will outline the steps you'll need to take in order to:
The first lesson in my first computer class in school taught this: “garbage in, garbage out”. The point, of course, was that an information system can only act according to what it’s been told. It can’t read minds and assume what you…
In a recent blog post, my colleague Corey Rivers explained how to integrate Foglight into your LDAP/AD environment. Many Foglight implementations, both small and large, leverage LDAP/AD for authentication to Foglight's web-based user interface. Doing…
The bigger the application, and the more composite it is, understanding its Topology becomes a lot more important. What is connected to what? How are the flows for the transactions? Where are the bottlenecks and the slowdowns?
I have seen some really…
It’s been amazing how much creativity and innovation is out there. Customers have been teaching me a lot over the last 20 plus years. Two identical applications behave differently for two different clients and their different customers and in their different…
Best part of my job over the last 20+ years is working with more than 200 companies and working very closely with a few dozens. The variety that I have been exposed to has…
Java Workload Characterization – Part 2. My 3, 5, 7, 10 Rule
I hope you had a chance to look at do you know where your java transactions are, my Java Workload Characterization – Part 1 blog. And I love to hear what else you can add or suggest to…
Over the years, I have met, worked and learned from a number of experts in Performance Management field. These are professionals that are dedicating most or all of their times supporting…
While working with a large Silicon Valley electronic Payment company we ran into a special use case that was not covered by Foglight’s regular reporting. The requirement came from a business unit that was sharing a VMWare Cluster…
In a number of different areas, you will notice a reference to ‘services’. What are these and why should I care?
Services could change the way you interact with Foglight. Services are nothing more than a group of objects. You can create static…
I was working with a customer the other day that hosted equipment for a number of companies. He was not an ISP, but more a small cloud provider. He had about 25 clients that used his services. He liked what Foglight had to offer for performance monitoring…
This large organization was using 6 different monitoring products. SCOM for windows, BMC for Linux, Riverbed Steel Central for APM, Oracle OEM for Oracle Databases, SCOM for SQL Server databases, VMWare for VM monitoring, and Empirix for web transaction…
One of the lesser known features of Foglight the ability to monitor log files. One of our customers has a process that collects and prints documentation required for truck movement. Before a truck can leave the loading dock, the dispatcher requests a…
One of the nice features in Foglight is the possibility to extend the existing monitoring capabilities by custom script agents. Unfortunately it is not possible to directly call PowerShell scripts within Foglight.
In the following, I would like to describe…
During periods of scheduled maintenance, you may wish to prevent Foglight from sending alarms about the systems involved in the maintenance task. The use case is quite obvious. You know the system's down for maintenance and there's no need for you to…
Wanted to share a quick tip for those that may be wondering "How is my Foglight Management Server's startup progressing?" When the Foglight service starts, perhaps after installation, or a server reboot, you may be greeted with the following…
I previously shared a challenge I had with finding the services that were created in the Hosts dashboard. Ideally we want to be able to use them in the Hosts and Infrastructure dashboards, but also add them to the Service Operations Console or attach…
I had a customer create a service definition for the result set of a search that was done in the Hosts dashboard. But we weren't able to view it in the Service Operations Console nor add it to an existing service definition in the Service Builder.
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In part one of Performance Analysis to Performance Investigator, I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance Investigator, as well as the architectural differences between the platforms. In part two, we will…
In part one of this blog series (here: https://www.quest.com/community/b/en/posts/performance-analysis-to-performance-investigator-part-1-introduction-and-architecture) I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance…
In part one of this blog series, I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance Investigator, as well as the architectural differences between the platforms. In part two, we will discuss the new and enhanced features…
In part one of this blog series (here: https://www.quest.com/community/b/en/posts/performance-analysis-to-performance-investigator-part-1-introduction-and-architecture) I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance…
In part one of this blog series (here: https://www.quest.com/community/b/en/posts/performance-analysis-to-performance-investigator-part-1-introduction-and-architecture/) I discussed the history of Performance Analysis and its transformation into Performance…
When it comes to choosing a virtualization platform there are many questions to ask, and often it's not just the technical requirements; financial pressures will impact the decision as well. With the release of Windows Server 2016, Hyper-V and SCVMM,…
