Foglight Tips and Tricks

At Your fglcmd

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:32:00 GMT

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.

Mass Agent Property Editing

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:46:00 GMT

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.

Custom Reports

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:19:00 GMT

"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?"

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

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:02:00 GMT

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.

Thinking Over Gartner ITxpo

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:12:00 GMT

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.

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

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:42:00 GMT

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...