Would you like to monitor hundreds of connections from a single Spotlight Client? No problem! With the new Federation feature, you can monitor hundreds of connections without additional overhead on your Diagnostic Server. With Spotlight’s ease of deployment…
Hello and welcome to my first blog. If I'm honest, I've been pondering hard on what my first blog should be and I think I found just the topic to get my feet wet.
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One of the common cases that I often see users of Spotlight on SQL Server…
Toad for Oracle 12.9 is now available. The new release focuses on Integration between:
In addition, further enhancements in the areas of Team Coding…
Do you ever wonder why Spotlight throws an Access Denied or WMI error while monitoring a Windows server when your user account has all the permissions needed to access that server? You might encounter these errors on the Home page or even…
Change Auditor leverages Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) for recording SQL events, the SQL startup flag t1906 instructs SQL Server to read the tracing templates stored in the “..\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn\…
Uh oh. Something isn't right with Foglight. There's fatal alarms and emails flying in every direction. Or maybe everything is fine, but you need a hand with some maintenance tasks. Perhaps some clarification on a setting, or a rule? Foglight Support…
Video: Server Manager - Part 1 - What is Server Manager?
The first in a series of videos regarding the Server Manager tab in Desktop Authority. The video will explain what Server Manager is, what information is displayed and what can be configured in the…
We have become aware of an issue with the expiration of a Verisign certificate used by Desktop Authority and Expert Assist 9.0 to 9.3. When using Expert Assist to establish a remote connection, you may encounter…
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…
The content of this was written by my…
Trending upward in IT is the amount of Email data being migrated to the Cloud from On-Premise Exchange.
Specifically, there are increased migrations to Microsoft Office 365 (Exchange Online), which is what we would call a “Cloud Provider” or software…
It has happened to all of us. We love an application like Toad. However, it would be so much more awesome if the app would do some idea that is currently not in the product. Allow me to introduce you to the Toad “Idea Pond.”
The Idea Pond…
Benchmark Factory for Database 7.5 is available for download via the Support Portal.
“Capturing” is the word of action from this new release.
Starting with version 12.10, Toad for Oracle will bring the Knowledgebase dynamically into the product’s window. No more having to leave an application to search and find answers outside of the product.
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No problem.
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Why do we think they’re more important than ever? Good question and the answer to that question will depend on the team members asking it:
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…
You will see that our quest for a fully web-enabled client is full steam ahead! We just released Stat 5.8.1. This is a maintenance release that previews some cool new features and fine tuning of the infrastructure that will be a part of the upcoming Stat…
Let me tell you a story all about the DL…
Have you ever deployed a new software solution and had many sleepless nights over the implementation?
Many times we are told that this new software’s strengths are “ease of use” and will “save time” etc…
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…
I’m sure Oracle DBAs everywhere are keeping their collective ears close to the ground waiting for the official announcement on 12cR2. We still, rightly or wrongly, have a habit of waiting for the 2nd release of Oracle versions, but that’s for another…