Foglight 5.2.4 added direct installer download access. Combine this capability with silent command line installs, and you have a mechanism run a script that automatically downloads, installs and starts Foglight clients on Unix in less than 30 seconds per monitored host! Here's some examples...

This blog is talking about the importance of monitoring virtual infrastructure when monitoring an application

You have probably heard people from Quest mention Custom Agents as means of solving various data integration issues. While this all sounds really great in theory, how does it work in a real-life situation?

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.

No, there is not a typo in the title of this post.  I use Foglight to monitor my cousin’s newborn baby.  Yes…that’s kind of weird.  I admit it.  But, I love my job and my family…so it was kind of cool to see how they could come together in a useful way. 

Foglight has a good selection of icons that are used to show state (normal/warning/critical/fatal) but in some cases you want to use your own icons or maybe larger icons. After reading this blog you will be able to add your own state image to the dashboard you built in Fun with Foglight part 2.

Many customers have asked us about using a project or an application diagram in Foglight and adding alerts to that image, in this blog entry we will learn how to add alerts with drill down to an image or a diagram for a dashboard that is meaningful to your applications monitoring.

This is Darren Mallette from Quest. I'm a Solutions Architect on the Foglight team. This blog entry will show how to setup Foglight Agent Manager (Fglam) on one host as a connection concentrator for other monitored hosts.

Your customer-facing online applications require optimal, consistent response times to keep customers happy and coming back. If a slowdown is being caused by a database problem, the DBA staff needs to address it as quickly as possible. In this post, learn how Foglight and its diagnostic counterpart, Spotlight, can help you tune your DB2 LUW buffer pool strategy - often a painfully time consuming effort or, worse, a neglected opportunity. The built-in metric collections and the Foglight/Spotlight workflows lead the DBA to the correct action to eliminate the bottleneck.

This is the first in a series of blogs talking about custom work with the foglight user interface, in this blog we will learn how to add and use our own images in foglight. This posting will take you through the process, step by step and is meant to be used as a 15 to 20 minutes mini tutorial.

Quest's philospohy for monitoring Java applications is different from that of some other companies. Here, the Foglight PM for Java explains why. Part 2 of 2.

Quest's philospohy for monitoring Java applications is different from what some other companies do. Here, the Foglight PM for application performance explains why. Part 1 of 2.

Here are some of the traits I have seen in well run Foglight environments.  Are you doing these things?

This blog teaches you one way to get reports automatically sent to a file system destination.  There are different ways to accomplish this, this one is done through an event driven rule.

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.

The soon to be released 5.3.2 version of FxM allows for better configuration and setup options and out-of-the-box protocol support.

Out of the box, reports sent via email all have the same filename (report.pdf).  How can I change that?  Let me show you.

This blog entry will help you troubleshoot a common problem when you can't connect to the Foglight server via your web browser. The steps are written for an FMS on Windows.

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.

New features in Foglight 5.2.4.5 Java cartridge make it easier to find root cause of problems.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Is TOAD required for Foglight for Oracle EBusiness Suite? 

2.0  SERVICE LEVEL MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE

A layered Service Level Management (SLM) architecture recognizes the many management functionality requirements, goals and policies of every customer and presents them in a single management view. It then performs the many and varied management functions through cooperative management entities, working together in a collaborative manner to achieve consistent, high availability, service level management objectives.

With the addition of a single point of view management interface technology issues (I.e. alerts and performance exceptions) as well as Service Level Management policies will be presented to technical operations personnel and business leaders in terms that they can understand and apply to their objectives. They will have an opportunity to take control of the IT linkage to their business by adding Service Level Management capabilities to its offerings.

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

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.