Foglight Admin 101
Welcome to Foglight. This page was built as a beginner’s welcome page to Foglight where people can go and see important links, documents, videos and info about Foglight. This page was built to help people learn about the basic tasks in Foglight. This Page is meant to be work-in-progress, we will add links and videos to it as they are requested and recorded, please feel free to post comments about certain videos/link that you see needed
Let’s start with some very important links that any Foglight user should know:
- Foglight Documentation containing the full documentation for all the Foglight components - http://edocs.quest.com
- Foglight Software Download where you can download Foglight server installers and cartridges - https://support.software.dell.com/foglight/download-new-releases
- Support Knowledge Base for Foglight where you can look for solutions for questions, problems or errors you may encounter - https://support.software.dell.com/foglight/kb
- Foglight Video Catalog at Support where there are links to important Foglight videos from support and edocs - https://support.software.dell.com/foglight/kb/116888
- Performance monitoring communities on Dell community site where you can ask questions, watch videos and read articles and blogs about Foglight - http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/performance-monitoring/
- MySupport where you can open support cases and see your existing support cases - https://support.software.dell.com/my-support
- Foglight Admin 101 Webcast a bi monthly event helping users with Foglight administration skills https://software.dell.com/event/foglight-administrator-skills-101866232
In addition to the support video catalog I have assembled a list of Additional videos that were recorded by Foglight team members that offer a lot of valuable information for a Foglight beginner :
You can run the video in full screen and change the settings to 720HD or 1080HD for clearer view.
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Foglight Architecture – learn about the Architecture of Foglight
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(Please visit the site to view this video)
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Foglight Server Installation – See an example of Foglight Management Server installation
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Installing Cartridges on Foglight – See how we add monitoring capabilities to Foglight by adding cartridge to the Foglight Server
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(Please visit the site to view this video) |
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Foglight Agent Manager Installation – See an example installation of Foglight Agent Manager
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(Please visit the site to view this video)
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Monitoring Host – start monitoring your hosts with Foglight
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Monitoring a web page – See an example of monitoring the response time and availability of a web pages using Foglight.
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Monitoring logs - monitoring logs using Foglight.
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(Please visit the site to view this video) |
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Monitoring Apache Web Server – Start monitoring you Apache Web Server using Foglight
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(Please visit the site to view this video) |
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Monitor DataBase - See an example of monitoring a Database using Foglight
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Oracle - Discover
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Monitor Java – See an example of monitoring a Java application using Foglight
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Tomcat - JBoss - Weblogic - (Please visit the site to view this video) WebSphere - (Please visit the site to view this video)
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JMX Monitoring – JMX Monitoring using Foglight
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Foglight JMX Video Tutorial on the community site
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Monitor .NET – See an example of monitoring a .NET application using Foglight
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(Please visit the site to view this video)
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Monitoring VMWare – See an example of monitoring VMWare using Foglight
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Monitoring Active Directory - See an example of monitoring Active Directory using Foglight
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(Please visit the site to view this video)
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Monitoring Exchange - See an example of monitoring Exchange using Foglight
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(Please visit the site to view this video) |
I hope you find this useful.
Golan Shem-Tov