Backups, the bridge to the DR plan
In today's business, demand for a complete Disaster Recovery solution is becoming the norm. The days of backup discussions are gone, DR is the focus and backup is the bridge to bigger conversations i...
How many LDAP Clients are connected to your Domain Controller?
Foglight for Active Directory has the answer.... Foglight for Active Directory shows the number of clients that currently have open LDAP sessions on the Domain Controller. the graph provides a comp...
Quest Customer Story: Keeping Trucks on the Road
One of the lesser known features of Foglight the ability to monitor log files. One of our customers has a process that collects and prints documentation required for truck movement. Before a truck...
I don’t need any help with GPOs… Do I?
If you’re like most companies of any substantial size, you probably have an extensive GPO environment. Maybe you have it mostly under control; maybe you need some help getting it under control. Either...
Track vCenter Change Events with Foglight
Change Analyzer has a really awesome feature called Change History. The Change History View displays all of the vCenter change events that occurred to VMs, hosts, clusters, datastores, and resource p...
Report for Duty part 1 – Spotlight Performance Monitoring
I'm surprised by the number of people that aren't aware that our Spotlight Performance Monitoring tool provides a tremendous number of reports. I suspect this is because we do not create the Spotlight...
Prevent Spotlight on SQL Server Shenanigans with User Roles and Security
Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise‘s main purpose in life is to inform you of SQL Server performance problems, and then give you a quick way to diagnose their root causes so you can take action quickl...
Changing Data Access Control Lists Post Domain Account Migration
Moving data between servers can be a painful process because of the security involved over the data. Moving the same data between servers, which are in different domains, is even more troublesome. Try...
Ridiculously Easy Alarm Configuration in Spotlight on SQL Server Enterprise
Configuring alarms in Spotlight on SQL Server Enteprise is quite easy. Configuring alarms across multiple connections, however, wasn’t always so easy. In versions prior to 11.5, you were required to s...
5 Easy Steps to Change Management Support with the K1000 Service Desk
From time to time, I will get the question “Does the KACE Service Desk Support Change Management?” More often than not, most customers just need the ability to track any change that occurs and possibl...
How to Pack for Your Lotus Notes to Exchange Migration
Migration from Lotus Notes to Exchange is not a task to take on lightly. One should adequately pack up their existing Lotus Notes Environment to get ready for the migration to Exchange. What have you...
5 Step Guide to Ensure a Successful IT Imaging Deployment
So you need to improve your imaging and want to figure out where to start. The first thing to realize is that as computer professionals, we like clear answers. Click this box, use this option and it w...