Early use of MAPI
Historically, Quest Migration Manager for Exchange had relied upon the use of MAPI connections to MS Exchange to extract and migrate mail content. This agent architecture built using MAPI as its connection to Exchange (known as the legacy…
Foglight can now monitor the MS SQLServer BI stack – SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS.
Foglight supports monitoring SSIS for MS SQLServer 2012 and above. For this SSIS monitoring, Foglight needs to access the SSISDB catalog. This should be automatically created…
SQL Performance Investigator (SQL-PI) is an extension to the standard Foglight for SQL Server Cartridge, and adds Real-time and historical data.
If you have used Performance Analysis for SQL Server, then SQL Performance Investigator should look very familiar…
The Application User Interface is simply Role Based Access control to the Function and Features of the Change Auditor when using client, it restricts access to the client interface based on permission, it is also known as User Interface Authorization.
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This video blog explains the process of building a docker image for an Apache Web Server so it can be monitored using server-info and server-status. We then show how to use Foglight Apache agent to monitor those Apache Web Server instances.
This video blog explains the process of building a docker image for an application server with JMX enabled. Since we can't map multiple running containers to the same port, we pass the JMX port as an environment variable so we can set the JMX port…
Change Auditor now supports Client Certificate Authentication. This is a welcome feature for administrator who prefer a more secure method of Authenticating users connecting with the web client. Introducing Client Certificate Authentication in the client…
Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise’s console does a wonderful job of providing insights into problems occurring in your environment. What I find interesting is that many users of this solution do not know that you have the ability to add automation. Automation…
When working with new and existing Foglight customers as they are planning to upgrade from vCenter 5.x to vCenter 6.x Infrastructure, the question is usually always asked, "Does Foglight support monitoring vSAN?" YES, Foglight supports monitoring…
As you may know, migration of Microsoft platforms (Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, Office 365) can be risky, disruptive, costly and time-consuming.
Migrations and consolidations can be complex and can put a strain on your internal IT team. So…
This is one of those special Enterprise Monitoring use cases that I mentioned in my last blog post; The Not So Obvious Enterprise System Monitoring Essentials. While this is not the only way to do Foglight alert integration, it is what we felt…
One of the nicest features in Foglight is the flexibility in creating beautiful drag and drop dashboards, here is a short video blog showing how you can create a fun and functional dashboard for Halloween.
Are you ready to learn?! Sir, YES SIR!
Howdy, y’all! Ron Colson here from the KACE training team.
I’ve been running the KACE Backyard Boot Kamps (also known as BBK) for a few years now with my awesome colleague Andrew Lubchansky and let…
Once in awhile, I find myself getting asked why Spotlight isn't firing off an email alert. If you find yourself in that situation and you have set up an alarm action, here are some quick pointers to help you check the issue.
Run the email test from…
Need to monitor Java or .NET application End to End performance?
Foglight can help!
In a previous blog we showed how easy it is to send Docker Counters to Foglight, the next natural step is to alert when something goes wrong.
A reminder our script was called DockerMonitor.sh and the lines sending data to Foglight were
echo "TABLE DockerData…
Scripts agents are an easy way to add to Foglight out of the box monitoring capabilities and can be easily used to send counters from a Docker host to Foglight:
Step 1 - Find the commands that get the data.
The internet is full of examples for using…
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Foglight has a lot of nice nice UI features that users love and enjoy, here are my top 3:
1. When you have multiple Foglight installations (QA, Prod etc.) how do you tell them apart?
There is an easy way to do so in Foglight by setting the Management…
When managing a robust complicated backup environment, problems often come up in droves and it is hard to manage all of the issues. One of the hardest and most frustrating issues with backups is poor performance. Poor performance is often the cause of…
As you might suspect, I had difficulty coming up with a witty title for this blog. However, I rather enjoy people rolling their eyes when I make bad jokes. Given the topic is about memory settings for Foglight’s Management Server (FMS) and Foglight’s…
For business leaders and IT professionals, speed is the primary appeal of the cloud. They both describe Cloud Computing like this, he was like a kid in a candy store when told it would take only a few weeks to get a cloud application up and running.
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