• Shared dashboard and UTC time zone

    Hello all,

    Wondering if anyone has run into this before. I have a couple of custom VMware performance dashboards that I share via URL to other teams. When I build the dashboards in Fog light they display the correct time set to our time zone. However…

  • Create monitors for Palo Alto firewalls

    good morning
    I ask for your support to know if it exists or how to create monitors for Palo Alto firewalls
  • Discrepancy on the hardware requirements for Foglight Management Server

    Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm trying to calculate our hardware requirements for the FMS.

    I've got to think the second example in the walk-through may not be for the Foglight Management Server alone.

    From https://support.quest.com/technical…

  • Error trying to get SQL Server BI to connect to a server

    I'm trying to get SQL Server BI to connect up to one of our analysis services server an although I can see it an "connect" to it, I'm getting the following error:

    "WinRM does not support com.quest.glue.core.credentials.types.LocalUserCredential…

  • DBSS - Long Running Job exception duration for single job

    Hello All,

    This alarm "DBSS - Long Running Job"  have a global fire threshold for all the jobs.

    I can see that there is an exception in order to exclude specific jobs.

    Does there is a way to make an exception for a single job duration that will…

  • Webcast Tuesday, June 27 for existing Foglight admins and end users - learn more about how to use Foglight Registry Variables for more nimble performance monitoring

    Hello all,

    This is Tim Fritz from the Foglight sales engineering team at Quest.   We have an ongoing monthly (last Tuesday of each month) webcast series for existing Foglight customers to learn more about various aspects of the product that will bring even…

  • Customized Workloads Dashboard for Foglight SQL Server PI

    Hello All,

    Attached a quick guide (in .pptx) of how to build quickly customized dashboard that preview all the workloads of your Instances in one dashboard.

    In this Dashboard:

    You can see the Baseline and the Breakdown of all your Instances

    You can see the…

  • Memory Utilization for all processes over X months

    Foglight is collecting host information related to processes and the amount of memory it is using. This can be found in Configuration --> Data --> Hosts --> <pick a host> --> Memory --> Top Memory Processes

    As this only shows the top…

  • Disable Log Monitor and Infrastructure under Dashboards

    We're just coming on board and I'm hoping to get a lot of my questions answered here initially before I get with my TAM.

    We're going to have a number of end users that I want to have VIEW only rights on virtually EVERYTHING under their dashboard…

  • Flexible, Cost-effective Remote Administration Services

    If you're looking for a simple, cost-effective way to manage, maintain and enhance your Foglight solution on a daily basis without hiring additional resources or assigning to existing personnel, Quest offers several options to suit your needs. Our …

  • FxM: IP Multicasting and Sessionizing

    In the field, I'm always asked, "why can't we just use the IP address to sessionize?" Well, this is a bad idea for several reasons. To first understand why, it's important to realize what you sessionizing means. In the state-less HTTP protocol, we have…

  • Services Section of Quest.com Gets a Facelift

    The Professional Services team has revamped the Services section of the Quest Website so that customers looking for Foglight services or training options can easily navigate to the information they're looking for.

    The Services section currently maps…

  • Compatibility for Navigation Timing API

    Foglight recently added support for browser based instrumentation. It implements the W3C Navigation Timing interface, described in http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-navigation-timing-20121217/, to collect performance data for browsers that support this interface…

  • New UEM Sizing Guide

    Hot off the presses is the new FxM and FxV sizing guide (attached) which covers each of our appliance models from the 2950, r300, r310, r610, and the new r710. When reviewing this document, it's clear to see that there are MANY factors needed for a proper…

  • Migrating your Foglight Management Server

    Hello Foglight Folks,

    Robert Statsinger here. On occasion you may run into a situation where you need to migrate your Foglight Management Server to a different host. Some circumstances that might necessitate this are:

    1. You are upgrading your iron…

  • New Sizing Guide for FxM and FxV

    Hot off the presses is the new FxM and FxV sizing guide (attached) which covers each of our appliance models from the 2950s, R300, R310, R610, and the new R710. When reviewing this document, it's clear to see that there are MANY factors that go into a…

  • Using the ConfigService API to setup agent properties (ASPs)

    Intro

    This is a topic that has been discussed many times but most of the scripts in the foglight community use an older version of the forge API which makes it pretty hard to access ASP information and looks complicated.

    In this Document I'd like to…

  • How are your Java components processing?

    When looking at a Java application’s performance, it is sometime useful to be able to group the processing time of your custom libraries or “components” (or even 3rd party libraries) so that you may see their processing time.

    The Foglight…

  • Using telnet or wget to check connectivity

    Sometimes it is useful to be able to check the connection to the FMS when the connection goes through a firewall.

    The common approach usually involves using the “ping” command is generally not satisfactory to verify connectivity as it uses port 7 rather…

  • Dashboard speed-up

    Sometimes dashboards can be slow to load and to manipulate. Don't we all wish there were an easy way to speed them up? Maybe a dashboard speeder-upper one could get from Acme Holdings Direct?

    While not all dashboards can be sped up, some can. Specifically…

  • Foglight 5 - Topology Localization

    Motivation

    Topology type- and property-names have to adhere to Java naming standards (no whitespace, Umlauts, etc.). This means that names deployed through topology-type.xml as well as those generated dynamically from script agents often don't look as…

  • Building a geo drag and drop Foglight dashboard for a service

    Golan Shem-Tov here with the Foglight Solutions Architects team at Quest.

    Visiting customer sites, a very common request is creating a view that incorporates geographical locations, services information and other views for NOC, helpdesk or application…

  • Building Complex Schedules with Foglight

    Golan Shem-Tov here with the solutions architect team at Quest.

    From time to time we are asked interesting questions that are worth writing a blog about. In this blog I will talk about building a complex schedules with Foglight.
    The reason for this blog…
  • Utilizing MS Exchange distribution lists to help with user attribute maintenance

    Based on a recent conversation with a few customers, we think you might find this valuable, too.

    When users, roles or responsibilities change – consider performing the maintenance through Active Directory or your Outlook client, if you have the rights…

  • Deploying Two FglAMs to the Same Windows Host and running each as a Windows Service

    Hello all -

    Recently I worked on a deployment where I installed FglAM on a Windows host and configured it as a Windows Service. It then became necessary for me to deploy a second FglAM to the same host. I also wanted to run it as a Windows Service…