Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp have certainly saved your company’s bacon, haven’t they?
Users can log in to their desktop or run specific apps from anywhere on almost any device. Management is satisfied because productivity is up and you’re…
Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp have certainly saved your company’s bacon, haven’t they?
Users can log in to their desktop or run specific apps from anywhere on almost any device. Management is satisfied because productivity is up and you’re…
Foglight for Virtualization 8.5 with Capacity Director is out now, go give it try.
Predict growth, optimize performance and know the impact of changes on your computer capacity - Never again will you need to make an unplanned request for hardware purchases…
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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…
One of the nicest features in Foglight is the flexibility in creating beautiful drag and drop dashboards, here is a short video blog showing how you can create a fun and functional dashboard for Halloween.
The content of this was written by my…
SCVMM is a solution for configuring and managing virtualization host(s), storage, networking, virtual machines and services to private clouds.
Foglight provides a SCVMM Server Summary Dashboard that allows you to view the health of the related items …
Foglight can now monitor the MS SQLServer BI stack – SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS.
Foglight supports monitoring SSIS for MS SQLServer 2012 and above. For this SSIS monitoring, Foglight needs to access the SSISDB catalog. This should be automatically created…
The Spotlight Cloud services allow the users the capability to monitor their servers both on the web and on a mobile device. It also analyzes the server’s performance metrics and provides a ‘health’ check on the server.
Additionally…
In this third and final installment, I’ll show specifically how Foglight can help monitor the network…
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:
The MOD Squad Column: It’s Groovy Man.
“If you meet these kids in an alley some night, don't fight ’em. They’re cops.”
They’re “The MOD Squad…”
There’s Linc, Julie and Pete:
The Mod Squad…
As the old saying goes, “the one constant in life is change”, and this is especially true in database environments. There are many reasons why database environments experience change whether it be through typical maintenance efforts such…
The latest release of the Foglight for Oracle cartridge brings a new dashboard, customer enhancements and various fixes.
There is a new overview dashboard:
It is easier to read with an improved layout. I like the way the various areas are summarized…
Had a question from a customer today about backing up the Foglight for SQL PI database. The customer wants to automate this using command line and the reference guide asks you to deactivate the agent first, via the UI.
No problem, I said, there is always…
System Monitoring is the function of notifying and informing application stake-holders about the effectiveness of a company’s IT investment. The stake-holders range from business people that own or depend on Software applications, to the administrators…
In my last post, I covered the four stages of capacity management, and talked about some of the reasons why managing your virtual capacity is equally as important as physical capacity management. Now it’s time to talk specifically about how we can help…
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…
Need to monitor Java or .NET application End to End performance?
Foglight can help!
The need for virtual capacity management is on the rise. In Gartner’s ‘Market Guide for Capacity Management Tools’ report, published on January 30, 2015, it states “Through 2018, more than 30 percent of enterprises will use IT infrastructure capacity…
Office 365 has three types of identity models for sign-in: cloud, synchronized, and federated. Cloud is the simplest, where users sign on directly. With synchronized sign-in, users are passed through a directory syncing tool and validated. Active Directory…
User-Defined Collections enable you to tell Foglight for SQL Server to go beyond the data points it collects out-of-the-box to also collect the results of queries that you define. So in addition to the vast amount of commonly-needed metrics that Foglight…
VMworld Barcelona is just around the corner and as always we will be present at the most important virtualization event of the year.
This year we will have an exclusive booth (S517) in which we will be…
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…