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Author:	Quest Field Team	Created:	4/2/2008 3:48 PM
Primary Author: Mark Gowdy, Director of Solution Architects, Quest Software Guest Bloggers: Any who has a great technical tip Topics: Technical tips, tricks, and lessons learned for Foglight customers; installation and implementation best practices; expert customization advice, and more...

Making your logging review easy with LogAnalyzer

By Quest Field Team on 12/8/2008 9:31 AM

One new feature that reduces the need to log into your management server to see what is being written to the log files is the LogAnalyzer.

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Foglight cool features and built in functionality

By Quest Field Team on 12/7/2008 6:11 PM

Foglight has a lot of beautiful built in features that are just waiting to be discovered, this article is trying to describe some of these nice features.

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Using Java single trace with Foglight 5

By Quest Field Team on 11/16/2008 10:57 AM

A blog describing the use of Java Single Trace with Foglight 5 to pin point the source of slowness, time-outs and exceptions.

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Foglight Tutorial Videos

By Quest Field Team on 11/14/2008 6:44 PM

Foglight manages many different domains and there's always something new to learn about how Foglight addresses real-world problems in those domains. There's plenty of interesting videos covering applications, databases, virtualization, infrastructure, and more linked from http://www.quest.com/newview.

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Identify Oracle sessions consuming the most I/O and CPU resources ("SQL Hogs") and their SQL statements in Foglight 5.2.3

By Quest Field Team on 10/30/2008 9:09 PM

One of the benefits of the Foglight 5 Oracle instance agent is to identify those Oracle sessions that have performed the most I/O or consumed the most CPU at each collection interval. The text of the session's most recently executing SQL statement (the SQL Hog) can, optionally, be saved by Foglight for future examination and possible tuning. This blog explains how to find that SQL.

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Foglight for Oracle EBusiness Suite - Analyze Workflows with TOAD reports

By Quest Field Team on 10/30/2008 8:50 PM

Is TOAD required for Foglight for Oracle EBusiness Suite?

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Foglight dashboard as a SharePoint WebPart

By Quest Field Team on 10/12/2008 8:42 AM

A Blog explaining how to add a Foglight dashboard as a SharePoint WebPart.

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Quick navigation from VMAlarms dashboard to rules and variables.

By Quest Field Team on 9/29/2008 9:29 AM

Foglight for VMWare VMAlarms dashboard flow is a bit different than the Foglight alarms dashboard but once customers understand the flow, navigation is fast and easy. This is specifically important when fine tuning the rules and alarm to fit your preferred settings as a quick flow from alarms to rules to variables is the one that is repeated frequently.

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Event Driven Rules

By Quest Field Team on 9/28/2008 2:34 PM

My name is Pontus Rydin and I am a Senior Solutions Architect with Quest Software, specialized in Foglight customization, integration and Java Monitoring.

In this article, I am going to discuss Event Driven rules and how they can be used for notification and integration purposes.

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Foglight 5.2.3 New Release: Downloadable resources

By Quest Field Team on 9/19/2008 5:32 PM

With the release of Foglight 5.2.3 comes a rich set of updated resources to help you take advantage of the new product features.

These resource links are available from SupportLink, but you can get them all from one place here, including the new "how-to" videos.

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Under the Hood with the JavaEE Agent - Part 1

By Quest Field Team on 9/18/2008 1:53 AM

Hello all. Statsinger here. I'm one of Quest's pre-sales guys and I spend a fair amount of time working with the Foglight 5 JavaEE agent. I thought I’d introduce myself and start a discussion on how this agent processes application request information and some of the considerations involved in tuning its behavior. A subsequent posting will get into some hands-on examples of working with the configuration settings.

The JavaEE agent is a fairly sophisticated beast. It can leverage Java management protocols such as JMX or IBM’s PMI to provide detailed information on the health and status of JavaEE application server instances, and it also provides performance monitoring and diagnostics for incoming requests made against the applications running on those servers. ... Read More »

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SQL Server Response Time Metrics

By Quest Field Team on 9/10/2008 3:04 PM

This tip will describe how response time gets calculated, and how it can be configured, using the SQL2005 agent for SQL Server 2005.

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Foglight 5 Data Retention: How to configure a "Purge" policy

By Quest Field Team on 9/5/2008 4:39 PM

Retention Policies specify when and how monitored data is sampled, aggregated and purged from the Foglight Database. Configuring basic data Retention Policies in Foglight 5 is easy. Here's how.

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At Your fglcmd

By Quest Field Team on 8/7/2008 10:32 AM

The rich, interactive Foglight UI allows you to monitor your critical business services, applications and technical infrastructure. It also provides a mechanism to manage that infrastructure, and the administration of your Foglight implementation, without using the Foglight UI. The Foglight command-line interface lets you automate your business logic by writing scripts, deploy and create agents, install and activate cartridges, create and manage users, manage licenses and many other tasks.

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Mass Agent Property Editing

By Quest Field Team on 7/11/2008 3:46 PM

In environments with multiple agents of a particular type, one can edit the agent properties individually or for all of the agents of that type at the same time.

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Custom Reports

By Quest Field Team on 7/9/2008 1:19 PM

"I like the new reporting feature within Foglight, and I'm pretty happy with the generated reports. However, I'd like to replace the Quest Software logo with my own corporate logo. How do I do that?"

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Zoom In....Zoom Out....It's Up To You

By Quest Field Team on 5/22/2008 10:02 PM

A little known, but enormously useful, feature within Foglight is the ability to zoom in and out of the graphs. The flexibility of Foglight's UI has proven to be a big hit with customers and prospects and I shall cover some more tips on this subject over the next few weeks.

This particular tip provides one with the ability to drill into a particular time period or a particular data point.

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Thinking Over Gartner ITxpo

By Quest Field Team on 4/16/2008 9:12 AM

Last week, Gartner held their ITxpo Symposium at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Quest was the premier sponsor of this event and we were there to [re]launch Foglight. As the premier sponsor we had prime booth location on the showfloor, as well as a number of sessions. We had taken our latest release of Foglight (v5.2) and we created 4 demo stations in the booth, covering 4 key aspects of Foglight.

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Hey ... want a TIP on how to use Foglight better

By Quest Field Team on 4/3/2008 9:42 AM

Welcome to the Tips and Tricks area of Foglight.org. Members of the Solution Architect teams around the world will be posting product tips and tricks to help you configure, deploy, administer, tailor, and take full advantage of Foglight. My name is Mark Gowdy and I will be the blog host...

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