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…
In recent SharePlex blogs, my colleagues and I have discussed using the Analyze Config command to help gather information to tune SharePlex, and the importance of tuning the target database. In this blog, I’ll attempt to put it all together. This…
Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh My! Ah, the famous lines from The Wizard of Oz. Of course, these are the lines uttered by Dorothy just before she meets the Cowardly Lion. This helps to illustrate her fear of the forest and the creatures that they may…
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…
If you’re like most companies of any substantial size, you probably have an extensive GPO environment. Maybe you have it mostly under control; maybe you need some help getting it under control. Either way, I challenge you to think about the potential…
As we continue our navigation of Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise and we can diagnose an alarm that triggers. Let us see what setting caused an alarm to trigger. The fact is when you start monitoring an Instance it is assigned the preset “Factory Settings…
A large educational Institution recently approached us with a problem. Their Student Information and Financial databases were in Oracle, and a data warehouse containing extracts from both of these used for decision making, including opening more sections…
Just the facts! Part 2
Acknowledging Alarms in Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise
Now that we have establish a view of the facts let’s see what we can do with them. Some on these alarms are set by default to be acknowledged before they will clear for…
When a large customer appreciation company needed to categorize their Oracle auditing data by region, SharePlex came to their rescue. They were already using SharePlex’s Change History feature to track the userid’s, timestamp, before and after data values…
The original “Just the Facts” blog I discussed how to see just the Alarms displayed in “Spotlight Today” within Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise. Now it is time to see what we can do with those Facts or Alarms. Spotlight comes with factory settings…
Have you ever looked at Resource Monitor in Windows and wondered why some of your cpu cores were "parked"? That sure doesn't sound good!
This post does a good job at explaining the details. Needless to say I was intrigued, and I wanted…
In part one of monitoring Raspberry Pi with Foglight, I showed that the Infrastructure agent worked pretty much as expected when collecting from the Raspbian OS.
I was curious though if it exposed any metrics via snmp.
The first step was to check if snmpd…
I once attended an excellent training on giving effective software demonstrations, and the main point was simple: Don’t make your audience wait - show them the good stuff FIRST!
So here it is, in just three steps in Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise…
Having worked in a Data Center, I’m familiar with the challenges IT Admins face on the daily. From security, networking, to data management and everything in between, it seems there just isn’t enough time in the day to get done what needs to.…
The requirements for data protection continue to evolve with the changing IT environment as well as the need to protect an increasing amount of data.
My experience in the area of data protection began in the late 1980’s when the only option for data…
Quest is proud to deliver Client Profile Updating Utility 5.6.4. In this version the following 2 known issues were fixed.
SharePlex peer-to-peer setup
Peer-to-Peer replication (P2P) allows users on multiple databases to make changes concurrently to the same data, while SharePlex replication keeps all of the databases synchronized. Peer-to-Peer replication is not appropriate…
You’re smart, we know it! Our customers are intelligent people, our employees are intelligent people, and together we are one smart organization made up of internal and external minds.
How do we manage that knowledge and what is Knowledge Management…
I'm surprised by the number of people that aren't aware that our Spotlight Performance Monitoring tool provides a tremendous number of reports. I suspect this is because we do not create the Spotlight Statistics Repository during the initial installation…
Coming soon to Capacity Director!
Done, a balanced virtual environment.
On my farm, I have a fairly large irrigation system (7 zones and a pump), all controlled by a Raspberry Pi single-board computer. I also have Raspberry Pi controllers for Amateur Radio activities, including a Weak Signal transmitter that uses only the…
Part one of this blog post may be retrieved here.
Part three of this blog post may be retrieved here.
In the previous post we worked together toward laying the foundation for a simple and scalable PowerShell GUI framework for managing Rapid Recover…
When very large tables are out of sync on the target and Compare is not a suitable sync option, it requires a set of coordinated steps to bring them in sync with the source tables. This is especially true if the downtime on the source table is not acceptable…
I'm very happy to report that a new release of Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise (version 11.7) is now available. This is a relatively minor release, mostly including fixes, although there are two enhancements worth mentioning. One that has been…
Whether it’s hitting sys.dm_io_virtual_file_stats DMV with calculated queries, collecting Perfmon Disk Counter statistics, reviewing Resource Monitor Disk information, or keeping your storage admin close by, I/O issues are all too familiar a concern.…
