• 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…

  • Why do i have to manage VMware? a new blog from Quest

     

    "Why do I have to manage virtualization?”you ask yourself. “After all, I put all that effort into virtualizing our environment so that I could manage less: less hardware, less storage and less physical infrastructure. I want all my virtualization…

  • How can we Collect Trace for Every Exceptional Exit in .net application

    Dear All, 

    We have currently configured  .NET Applications for Monitoring, We could see the request details but i want to collect the trace automatically for All exceptional Exit alone.

    I went through the rule "Request Response time Threshold" …

  • Creating a report from Service Builder

    How do I create a Report from a Newly created Service under Service builder for two VMs and report on their CPU, Memory and Drive size for the past month ?

    I seem to have the Service completed but when I choose report  at the Top right and change the date…

  • Report to display uptime for VM's

    how to pull a report that shows time each VM has been online for the month i.e. uptime for all the VMs 

  • Dynamic Managed Component question

    I would like to create a dynamic managed component query to create a service. I would like the service to contain Net Monitor Devices but only those that also have an Oracle agent on the host that the Net Monitor is checking. I was hoping to use a query…

  • Script to count no of files

     Dear All, 

     

     I would to know if anyone have created any script which can be used to count no of Lines in a File.

    Ex : Exception Logs Unhandled

    New File created Everyday to get the List of Unhandled Exceptions

    We need to count the List of Exceptions based…

  • 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…

  • January Foglight Best Practices Thursday, January 5 - Register Now!

    If you haven't already registered for the January Foglight Best Practices Webcast: Managing Data Retention Policies, register today!

    Join Quest Technical Product Specialist, Rick Stoner as he shares information and demonstrates strategies for effectively…

  • Fraud Support with FxV

    The Foglight Experience Viewer captures all user interactions, even if it's not really a user interacting with your site. Many hackers are (right now) attempting to execute code via script injection into your public-facing site. They are trying this…

  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Really Simple (Foglight) Syndication

    Lee Farrar and I work on the Foglight field team in the UK. Today I'd like to tell you about a little known feature of Foglight that I think could be very useful for a lot of you; RSS feeds. Foglight's WCF technology makes it nice and simple for users…

  • Foglight Quickstart Services Offering

    Quest Professional Services APM team just launched a new services offering aimed at providing a simpler, more flexible way for customers to get professional services assistance. Foglight Quickstart Services offering is a generic accelerated services bundle…
  • 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…

  • Different Thresholds for Different Tablespaces

    Hi,

    This is Darren Mallette. I'm a Foglight Solutions Architect specializing in database and virtualization technologies at Quest Software. I often get asked by customers how to specify different thresholds on the rules for different "things" that Foglight…

  • Different Thresholds for Different Tablespaces - Part 2

    Hi,

    This is Darren Mallette. I'm a Foglight Solutions Architect specializing in database and virtualization technologies at Quest Software. In Part 1 of this series, we started to investigate how to set different thresholds on the rule that monitors…

  • Foglight Training Packages with Free Healthcheck Services - Limited Time Offer

    Update for the 2012 holiday season! We are running this offer again for those who purchase either the Standard or Enterprise Foglight Training Package on or before December 31, 2012. Get the details here!

    Do you want to implement a Foglight Training…

  • eDocs: Search Upgraded, and We Won an Award

    As of the latest update, we've made some enhancements to the Foglight eDocs site to help provide you with a better experience when you search for information. We also have some news on an award recently won by the eDocs site.

    Search Engine Upgrad…