When reporting a Foglight connectivity issue, support people are always asking to test the connection using Telnet or Putty. But what to do if you do not have Telnet or Putty installed? There are some...
This post is short but hopefully useful. When you start the Foglight server and navigate to the home page URL (http://foglight_server:8080 or https://foglight_server:8443), you may see a startup splas...
If you’re like many DBAs, your life is probably getting more complicated by the week. Are you under pressure to manage larger and larger numbers of database instances? Or to adopt new database technol...
Woohoo! Just got word that my boss approved my January vacation and now I’ll get the opportunity to check several items off my bucket list as I hop across country to the Quest Database Fed Forum in D...
I've done a number of posts recently that touch on Foglight administration, customization, or some of the more advanced capabilities of the product. I felt it was a good time to circle back on some o...
My favourite feature in Toad has always been the PL/SQL Profiler. I love the way it can profile your code executions is integrated with the editor. It is such an easy and visual feature to use. So if ...
Foglight has many out of the box rules to evaluate performance and availability conditions for your databases, virtual and physical infrastructure, web pages, network devices, etc. Once it has been ru...
Apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein; but the title fits. In addition to listening to the scores of old musicals, one of my hobbies is watching the weather. I have about 20 years of weather data in ...
Foglight reports can be extremely useful in broadening the reach of whatever monitoring you’ve got set up. Reports can be the mechanism for delivering PDF or Excel summaries of important information...
Recently, I spoke with a customer who's using Foglight for Oracle to monitor their RAC instance. They were able to successfully monitor the instance, but then asked "Why don't I see any data in the AS...
In some cases, you might need to update or add in a new license key for Foglight. It's really easy to do, but you'll need to be a Foglight administrator. Start by navigating to the Administration dash...
Come join Microsoft, Anvil.Works and Quest to learn how to maximize your Foglight platform during the Foglight Dev Camp 2017. Register Now!! What you will learn October 16 Virtualization and Cloud...
