Series Finale – Automating Foglight Blackouts
Way back in 2020, these posts formed the building blocks of using the command line to automate alarm blackouts in Foglight: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 In Part 3, we looked at adding objects (instances, hos...
Automating Alarm Blackouts – Part 3
Time to wrap up automation of alarm blackouts in Foglight. In this post, we looked at using the command line to implement alarm blackouts. We used topology queries to match a host name or pattern for...
Automating Alarm Blackouts – Part 2
In this intro post, we looked at some basics of setting alarm blackouts via the command line. These commands can then be automated via script to include in a maintenance job, for example. Any object c...
Automating Alarm Blackouts in Foglight
There are two ways to manage blackouts in Foglight - from the UI and from the command line. The options are generally the same. The command line provides us the ability to automate the blackout by usi...
Tips for User-Defined Queries in Foglight – Finale
In the previous post on User-Defined Collections (UDC's), we looked at using a view to hide the underlying objects of the query, and also the tip of setting the datatype to string. In this final post...
Tips for User-Defined Queries in Foglight – Part 3
By now you may have noticed that I focus on parts of Foglight that you can easily customize in order to solve your specific use cases. We'll build on the previous post on User-Defined Collections (UDC...
Tips for User-Defined Queries in Foglight – Part 2
In this post, some tips for working with User-Defined Queries (UDC's) were introduced. We left off with the idea of creating a custom dashboard showing UDC results from multiple instances. The Fogligh...
Tips for User-Defined Queries in Foglight
The ability to enter your own queries into Foglight for SQL Server, Oracle and DB2 opens up a world of additional data that you can use with Foglight. These are called User-Defined Collections, or UDC...
Creating a View that Contains Database and Application Host Details
I've written about the Service Builder before, but I wanted to step back and go through the steps to create a "simple" service definition. This one will simply have some Oracle instances and some host...
Configure Alarms for a Sub-set of Jobs, Databases, etc.
Let's take a closer look at narrowing down the scope of a rule. The use case I normally hear is, we have some important jobs, databases, etc. that we want alarms for, but we don't want alarms for the ...
Adjusting a Foglight Alarm Threshold – Part II
In this post, we looked at a simple way to adjust the global threshold for an alarm. We'll build on that now. What if we have a 1:n relationship between, for example, an instance and databases, jobs, ...
Adjusting a Foglight Alarm Threshold
I usually tell Foglight customers that there are going to be multiple ways to do something to reach an end goal. If you want to adjust the global threshold for an alarm, a very easy way is to click on...