Foglight administrators and other Foglight performance monitoring users who are asked to configure alarms to send email notifications sometimes struggle if they miss a step or two in the process. Th...
Microsoft has evolved their marketing over the past several years to focus on the fact that SQL Server is more than just a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). You may have noticed, that Mi...
I'm frequently asked by Foglight administrators how they can configure their FMS to send text message alerts to their phone. The process is rather straight forward, and this blog post will outline the...
The first lesson in my first computer class in school taught this: “garbage in, garbage out”. The point, of course, was that an information system can only act according to what it’s been told. I...
In a recent blog post, my colleague Corey Rivers explained how to integrate Foglight into your LDAP/AD environment. Many Foglight implementations, both small and large, leverage LDAP/AD for authentica...
In a previous post, we learned how to disable specific Foglight alarm severities. For example, maybe you don't want a warning alert when cpu utilization is only at 70% - if so, you can disable that, w...
A previous post showed how to modify a registry variable to apply a value to a specific host. It would be good if the actual value that is going to be used when the rule fires could be validated. The ...
In a previous post, the Rules dashboard was used to show how to modify the global value of an alarm threshold. For this particular rule, that value would then apply to all hosts that are being monitor...
The bigger the application, and the more composite it is, understanding its Topology becomes a lot more important. What is connected to what? How are the flows for the transactions? Where are the bott...
I recently showed a customer how to modify the thresholds and severity levels of Database alarms by using the Foglight for Databases administration dashboard. A follow-up question was about how to do ...
In a number of different areas, you will notice a reference to ‘services’. What are these and why should I care? Services could change the way you interact with Foglight. Services are nothing more t...
It’s been amazing how much creativity and innovation is out there. Customers have been teaching me a lot over the last 20 plus years. Two identical applications behave differently for two different cl...
