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Author:	Foglight R&D Team	Created:	1/26/2009 2:59 PM
The Dark Corners blog will explore interesting and underused capabilities of Foglight. It will also go into more depth on mainstream topics, providing the under-the-covers viewpoint. My name is Geoff Vona, and I’m the Director of Development for Foglight Core. I’m located in Toronto, Canada.

Scripting Services

By Foglight R&D Team on 12/10/2009 3:14 AM

While the service builder provides a great way for creating individual services, something is missing when it comes to mass creation of services. As usual with Foglight, Groovy scripting fills in the gap. In this blog, we'll see how a simple Groovy script can be used to create smart services.

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How Services and Service Levels Work

By Foglight R&D Team on 10/29/2009 12:03 PM

Foglight allows anything to be grouped into a service. A service level will measure the availability of that group. How does this work, under the covers? And how can you customize it?

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Customizing EventLog

By Foglight R&D Team on 10/27/2009 11:47 AM

The Windows_System agent has a rule called EventLog. This rule is based on data packaged as an observation. This means the rule is a little less transparent than other Foglight rules. This blog covers how this rule works, and how to customize its behaviour.

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Grouping by Agents or Hosts

By Foglight R&D Team on 10/26/2009 9:08 AM

There have been a lot of questions about grouping of behaviours. While we have cool features coming, there are decent grouping mechanisms in Foglight 5 today. At the very least, many of the grouping options you had in Foglight 4 are available. Sadly, not many people realize this, and even fewer take advantage.

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Building Models in Foglight

By Foglight R&D Team on 9/30/2009 9:30 AM

If you're a Foglight or vFoglight customer, chances are you've heard many times that Foglight is model based. But what does that mean, and how can you take advantage of it? Well, start by adjusting your thinking a little. When you bought Foglight, you didn't get just a monitoring server. You got something closer to an application server - and I'm not talking about the JBoss base. I'm talking about something a lot cooler.

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Foglight Dark Corners - Transition from Foglight 4

By Foglight R&D Team on 6/1/2009 9:33 AM

A lot of users are moving from Foglight 4 to Foglight 5. This is great news because it will unlock a lot of fantastic new capabilities. Unfortunately, this transition requires a little bit of reorientation.

In this Dark Corners blog, I'll be talking about how Foglight 4 users can find their familiar workflows.

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Fogllight Dark Corners - Scripting

By Foglight R&D Team on 3/11/2009 6:57 AM

One of the most remarkable things about Foglight 5 is its scripting capabilities. In this Dark Corners entry, we'll explore the degree to which scripting is incorporated in Foglight 5.

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Welcome to the Dark Corners of Foglight - Part One - Performance

By Foglight R&D Team on 1/27/2009 12:57 PM

Foglight is full of great features. Unfortunately, some of those features are easy to miss. We add so many little things that it is hard to get the word out. In this article, I'll be talking about some Foglight "dark corners" related to performance. These features are handy for monitoring the monitor.

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