• Foglight for sql server ports

    Hello all,

    I want to monitor with Foglight SQL Server with PI.

    Which port i should open from the FGLAM server to my SQL Server?
    I want to monitor the SQL Server and also the OS (Windows server 2012)

    Can you please advise?

     

    Many thanks! 

  • 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…

  • Simple tool to replace your Foglight Management Server (FMS) certificate

    Replacing FMS out of box certificate is first thing people will do if they want hardening their environment. However it does involved lots of command typing and sometime you may forgot something.

    I create this simple tool to help Foglight administrator…

  • How to fix FGLAM/FMS unable to start after Linux operating system upgrade (CVE-2017-1000364)

    Some of our customer are experiencing FMS/FGLAM down and unable to start after Linux operating system upgrade (CVE-2017-1000364) and I want share how to fix it.

    Background: In June 19, 2017,  Redhat released a new fix which addressing the- CVE-2017-100…

  • Is there a way to export/import Foglight Settings

    Is there a way to export, and inevitably, import Foglight Settings?  This way when I set up another Foglight silo (as I call it), I can simply import the settings from another silo (changing some server names of course).  This would be a very, very good…

  • 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…

  • Busting Frame Busters in Foglight Experience Viewer (FxV)

    Jason here from the Foglight team. Anyone heard of a frame buster? These are AKA "frame breakers" and basically are little snippets of javascript that when your browser stumbles upon them, and you have javascript turned on (who doesn't), they can forcibly…

  • Foglight Reporting using Metric Queries or Groovy

    Metric Queries

    Foglight has a built in metric query language for extracting data from Foglight models.
    Metric queries can be run in the Script Editor in Administration/Tooling.
    Metric queries can also be run from the command line using 'fglcmd'.…

  • 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…

  • Foglight dashboard as a SharePoint WebPart

    This is Golan Shem-Tov, I am a Solution Architect on the Foglight Pre-Sales team, I've decided to write this blog after assisting a customer with adding a Foglight dashboard as a SharePoint web part.

    Foglight Remote Web Part is a compatible Microsoft…

  • 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…

  • Predicting the Impact of Moving a Guest to Another Host

    Hi, this is Darren Mallette, a Solutions Architect with Quest Software. In our last entry, we looked at a couple common VMWare Infrastructure alarms and Thomas Bryant III provided direction for the VMWare Administrator to respond to those. We are now…

  • Anonymizing the Foglight End User Monitoring Solution

    Jason again from the Foglight field team. I fell upon an interesting requirement for Foglight Experience Viewer (FxV) recently and wanted to share with the community how we tackled it.

    General labor agreements for workers in Germany under the Works …

  • A New Foglight Service Status Widget - Text with Colored Background

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    Hello Foglight Folks,

    Robert Statsinger here. Today I’d like to share a simple WCF component with you that provides another Foglight widget for showing the status of a Service. It’s a view called …

  • 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…

  • Monitoring .NET Request Memory Usage with Foglight

    Greetings Foglighter's,

    Today I have an add-on to the Foglight 5 .NET cartridge for you that will help you monitor the memory usage of your .NET applications.

    Your .NET code runs in Microsoft's Common Language Runtime (or CLR). This engine can…

  • Foglight Experience Viewer (FxV) URL Search Shortcuts

    Jason here with the Quest Field Team. Ever need to have a direct link to replay a session in FxV or get right to a list of search results? This helpful template below will get you there! There is a great YouTube video showcasing this technology in action…

  • Foglight Best Practices Monthly Webcast – Sign Up for Session 1!

    In an effort to ensure that your investment in Foglight pays off with maximum benefits and the ability to realize the full value of the solution, Quest is launching a new monthly Webcast series on Foglight Best Practices to address the topics that customers…

  • SNMP trap variables in Foglight Alarms

    I recently started a discussion on how to Monitor hardware using SNMPTraps in Foglight by using the SNMP TrapAgent.

    Then someone asked me how to reuse the trap variables in Foglight Alarm Messages

    FYI, the SNMPTrap Agent is part of the Foglight Integration…

  • Adventures in Agent Creation - Part 1

    By David Falkenstein, Solutions Architect, Quest Software

    Over the last few months one of my more challenging projects has been to make the manner of gathering Windows counters for Foglight more efficient; in my case, to create a new version of an IIS…

  • Adventures in Agent Creation - Part 2

    This blog is a continuation of Adventures in Agent Creation - Part 1.

    When last I wrote, I introduced an interesting exercise in high-performance counter monitoring for Windows systems using Foglight. I structured the problem and outlined my approach…

  • Converting Foglight 4 Script Agents to Foglight 5

    Hello Foglight Folks,
    Robert Statsinger here. Here’s a brief note for folks who are migrating from Foglight 4 to Foglight 5 and who have script agents coming along for the ride.
    Geoff Vona has written some excellent blog articles on Foglight 5…

  • Foglight End User Management: Using Network TAPs versus a Switch SPAN Port

    Greetings, my name is Pat Adee with Quest Software. There have been discussions over the use of the SPAN (also referred to as Mirrored) port of network switches for monitoring network data to the FxM Appliance. Although TAPS have been around since the…

  • Foglight Dashboard Rotation

    Hello. My name is Chris Lee, and I'm a Quest PSO bloke based in Sydney, Australia. Welcome to my first ever document here within the Foglight community.

     

    Introducing version 2 Dashboard Rotator! In response to some enhancement requests, the cartridge…