• 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…