Foglight Tips and Tricks

Creating a Rule to Evaluate 2 or More Metrics

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:20:00 GMT

Hi, this is Darren Mallette from Quest Software. In this post I'm going to show how to create a custom rule using 2 different topology types in Foglight. Specifically, I'm going to use the user defined metric capability as of the 5.5.2 version of the Foglight SQL Server cartridge and combine that with a native metric from the agent.

Building Complex Schedules with Foglight

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:40:00 GMT

This blog talks about building complex schedules with Foglight.

An introduction to derived metrics

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:14:00 GMT

Solutions Architect Pontus Rydin discusses the use and implementation of derived metrics and how then can help in refining and analyzing raw data in Foglight.

Custom SQL Server Metrics

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:15:00 GMT

Hi, this is Darren Mallette from Quest Software. In this post I'm going to show how to create custom SQL Server metrics in Foglight 5.5.2(+). Specifically, I'm going to use the user defined metric capability in the Foglight 5.5.2 cartridge.

Configuring Foglight Experience Viewer Analysis Repository

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:03:00 GMT

The Analysis Repository (AR) feature of Foglight Experience Viewer (FxV) opens up a rich set of options to analyze the web site data captured by the Foglight End User technology. This blog will walk through the high level design considerations and steps to configure the Analysis Repository.

Foglight Network Device Management - NDM: Forwarding Exceptions to Foglight

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:01:00 GMT

I'm Pat Adee with Quest Software and I’ve been asked several times how to forward Foglight Network Device Management (NDM) Exception Alerts to Foglight 5.

Creating A Restricted User

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:09:00 GMT

This article walks you through the process of creating a Foglight user who can only access a single dashboard

Fun with Foglight 5.5.4 – much easier now

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:42:00 GMT

Foglight 5.5.4 has many UI improvement that make building a customer dashboard much easier than before. You can create a dashboard, use a background image for it and drag text, metrics and alarm indicators with quick and easy steps.

Host-Specific Rules

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:55:00 GMT

This article shows you how to create a rule that applies to a specific host or set of hosts with related hostnames.

Investigating a VMWare Guest Memory Swapping Alarm

mark.gowdy@quest.com — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:36:00 GMT

Hi, this is Darren Mallette, a Solutions Architect with Quest Software. Today I have a Q&A session with Scott Herold, Lead Architect of the Virtualization business unit within Quest Software and a VMWare vExpert for 2009.