Foglight Tips and Tricks

Making your logging review easy with LogAnalyzer

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:31:00 GMT

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 cool features and built in functionality

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:11:00 GMT

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.

Using Java single trace with Foglight 5

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:57:00 GMT

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

Foglight Tutorial Videos

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:44:00 GMT

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.

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

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:09:00 GMT

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.

Foglight for Oracle EBusiness Suite - Analyze Workflows with TOAD reports

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:50:00 GMT

Is TOAD required for Foglight for Oracle EBusiness Suite?

Foglight dashboard as a SharePoint WebPart

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:42:00 GMT

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

Quick navigation from VMAlarms dashboard to rules and variables.

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:29:00 GMT

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.

Event Driven Rules

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:34:00 GMT

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.

Foglight 5.2.3 New Release: Downloadable resources

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:32:00 GMT

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.