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This guide provides information about the Remote Access Diagnostics tool, developed to check the connection between the Foglight Agent Manager...
Created: December 12, 2025These Release Notes cover the resolved and known issues, workarounds and other important information about the product.
Created: December 10, 2025None at this time
Foglight Evolve simplifies application performance monitoring and reduces the skills and effort required to manage applications, the user...
Created: December 10, 2025Foglight Evolve simplifies application performance monitoring and reduces the skills and effort required to manage applications, the user...
Created: December 10, 2025None at this time
Does Foglight support SAML 2.0 for SSO?
Revised: December 15, 2025Add a column to display the total disk space in the chart under the Logical Disks tab on the Storage Details page.
Revised: December 12, 2025Is there any out of the box rule available in VMware cartridge that will trigger an alarm for vSphere configissue of an ESX host?
Revised: December 12, 2025We are finding that a newer filesystem type on Linux called Isilon has no limit for number of inodes. Is the newest IC agent able to detect this...
Revised: December 12, 2025The Log Monitor agent creation wizard includes a Regular Expression tester dialog that can be accessed as a dashboard.
Revised: December 12, 2025Monitor ESX Datastore Multipathing details which are currently not available on Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition (FVE).
Revised: December 12, 2025Network I/O spinner and Network Utilization chart shows the unit as Kb/s or Mb/s or Gb/s in VMware Environment dashboard. What does "b" stand for.
Revised: December 12, 2025Snapshots and Abandoned VM Images deleted some days ago will still show in Optimizer dashboards.
Revised: December 12, 2025Is it possible to monitor ESX host advanced properties for audit/security purposes?
Revised: December 12, 2025Does Foglight support configurable grouping of host process information so that the aggregate details for related processes can be seen?
Revised: December 12, 2025Foglight Installer fails to create database schema on encrypted SQL Server (Force Encryption setting is enabled). Installation wizard throws an...
Revised: December 12, 2025CPU usage chart for VM/ESX host looks different in FVE compared to vSphere client vSphere Client chart: FVE chart:
Revised: December 12, 2025What does the all in the Foglight license mean? Which is the database cross platform license?
Revised: December 12, 2025In the HighAvailabilityHostConfig popup the SORT option does not sort the items in a meaningful order. Navigate in Demo environment to...
Revised: December 12, 2025In the HighAvailabilityHostConfig popup hundreds of FglAMs may appear, many that have nothing to do with HA. There is no search box and non-remote...
Revised: December 12, 2025Within the configuration of the Database alarms (and email notifications) in the Database Alarm Administration dashboard, there are variables...
Revised: December 12, 2025Is there a way to remove the database platform type in front of every connection on the heatmap? The database platform type (i.e. SQL Server...
Revised: December 12, 2025Is there a way to programmatically determine if a Foglight Agent Manager is local or remote aside from some kind of naming convention or HA status...
Revised: December 12, 2025Following the instructions for importing certificates for database agents would require hundreds of certificates to be created and imported. Is...
Revised: December 12, 2025Some details of memory usage within the Infrastructure dashboard from Windows Server machines do not report correctly such as Virtual Bytes...
Revised: December 12, 2025The "User Level Access", "Manage Alarm Blackouts", and "Manage Agent Blackouts" areas are not supported for the Azure SQL database agents.
Revised: December 12, 2025Getting email alerts as expected, but one is coming frequently. It is just a blank email with no subject line. Sometimes it has been send up to...
Revised: December 9, 2025How to prevent an event-driven rule from firing when alarm get cleared? An event driven rule was created to forward alarm events from data...
Revised: December 9, 2025Is it possible to force the Federator Foglight management server to reload new topology settings without a restart of the server ?
Revised: December 9, 2025Having time difference warnings in the Foglight Management Server (FMS) logs and discarded sample messages in the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM...
Revised: December 9, 2025The FglAM has been installed on the Windows client, but there is no option to install the FglAM as a service. How to install the Foglight Agent...
Revised: December 9, 2025We have a question on Foglight HA. If we have 2 nodes in Foglight HA environment, and we want to patch the OS on one nodes which will require a...
Revised: December 9, 2025How can the Foglight Management Server be changed, to prevent VERBOSE messages from being written to the Management Server logs?
Revised: December 9, 2025How to change Foglight Management Server (FMS) from a standalone server to run as a high availability (HA) server?
Revised: December 9, 2025On a number of occasions the Foglight Management Server (FMS) or Agent Manager (FglAM) seems to be in a hung state and it is not possible to login...
Revised: December 9, 2025There is no workload metric in the Databases dashboard (Global View) or workload column appears as "n/a".
Revised: December 8, 2025A Foglight Management Server or Agent Manager is located on a virtual machine which (VM) runs out of Java Heap Space even though the VM is...
Revised: December 8, 2025How to setup Foglight connect Microsoft SQL server backend repository using TLS/SSL?
Revised: December 8, 2025The Foglight Management Server (FMS) and Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) provides support for moving agents between FglAM clients (that connect to...
Revised: December 8, 2025How to configure Foglight with windows Single Sign-On (SSO)?
Revised: December 8, 2025How does one properly configure a Foglight Agent Manager HA (FglAM HA) installation and explain how it functions?
Revised: December 8, 2025This article describes how to completely uninstall the Agent Manager and remove the init.d script used to run the Agent Manager as a daemon or the...
Revised: December 8, 2025When restarting the Foglight Management Server or Foglight Agent Manager multiple alarm emails are sent. Is it possible to prevent the multiple...
Revised: December 8, 2025The Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) is configured for high availability (HA) but the failover is not working.
Revised: December 8, 2025Cannot install the license file via the Manage License dashboard. Error received is "Could not execute the requested operation, errors) had...
Revised: December 8, 2025How to disable HTTP access to Foglight and allow only HTTPS access?
Revised: December 8, 2025How to get a product Walkthrough or Demo
Revised: December 8, 2025If you did not install the Agent Manager as a Windows® service using the installer, you can do so from the command line after installing the Agent...
Revised: December 8, 2025After upgrading to 7.1 or higher, dashboards relying on on-demand queries (e.g. Sessions) have stopped working on the Federator.
Revised: December 8, 2025Is it possible to monitor SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups using the listener address with the Foglight SQL Server agent?
Revised: December 8, 2025Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) fail to establish WinRM connection. Error message: ECHO DEBUG [WinRMWebServiceManagementConnection[20...
Revised: December 8, 2025How to update SAML 2.0 hostname used in the metadata.xml if you need to use a custom DNS entry instead of the physical hostname.
Revised: December 8, 2025How to plan for using GMSA with Foglight
Revised: December 8, 2025Blank Email Alerts being generated from FMS
Revised: December 8, 2025Embedded repositories such as the MySQL and PostgreSQL Foglight Management Server (FMS) databases may encounter performance issues or crash due to...
Revised: December 8, 2025When starting the Agent Manager (FglAM) the following error is encountered: 2014-10-07 13:10:20.000 FATAL [native] Incompatible minimum and...
Revised: December 8, 2025After navigating to the Email Configuration page (Admin Console | Administration | Setup & Support | Email Configuration), and configuring the...
Revised: December 8, 2025Looking in the Administration > Cartridges > Cartridge Inventory dashboard, several of the installed cartridges are in a "Partially Enabled" state...
Revised: December 8, 2025Does Foglight support MS SQL Server Always ON Cluster, with Availability Group and multiSubnet failover, as Database repository?
Revised: December 8, 2025Foglight Management Server (FMS) - Performance issues. What are the steps to investigate?
Revised: December 8, 2025Several database installations are running on one server. Each database installation is having its own virtual host name. On the DB dashboards...
Revised: December 8, 2025Is there a way to change the user/password for many database agents?
Revised: December 8, 2025A history of the alarms previous fired can be very useful to investigate a technical issue. How can a history of the alarms or a specific type of...
Revised: December 8, 2025How to add a Topology Type to manage its instance count in the Stale Objects Dashboard (Investigate Objects for Cleanup dashboard) - Dashboards...
Revised: December 8, 2025Is there an easy way to find out when a supported Foglight version becomes limited as it reached its end of life (EOL) ? The product life cycle...
Revised: December 8, 2025How can a user change the JVM flags used by the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) when starting up?
Revised: December 8, 2025How to config Foglight Integration with SAML 2.0 in Microsoft Entra ID formerly known as Azure AD
Revised: December 8, 2025What are the requirements for Infrastructure Agent on Windows and Linux and required ports.
Revised: December 8, 2025Windows Remote Management (WinRM) can be configured quickly on a Windows Server using default settings through the "winrm quickconfig" command.
Revised: December 8, 2025After a Foglight license expired and a new license was added the Globalview databases dashboard displays only the message "There is no data to...
Revised: December 8, 2025Which ports are needed to be opened on the firewall to allow monitoring of Foglight for Databases (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase)?
Revised: December 8, 2025When monitoring hosts and database instances using a shared Active Directory (AD) service account across multiple agents, a password change in AD...
Revised: December 8, 2025Which Foglight Cartridge for SQL Server Availability/Usability alarms will fire against certain system status?
Revised: December 8, 2025How to generate a new self-signed certificate for HTTPS connections to the Foglight Management Server?
Revised: December 8, 2025The Agent Setup wizard steps you through the process of adding and configuring Active Directory® agent instances on one of more Domain Controllers...
Revised: December 8, 2025What is Support's policy on creating custom dashboards or reports? Are custom Dashboards/Rules/Reports supported by Quest Support?
Revised: December 8, 2025Foglight 7.1 upgrade fails if using integrated authentication to connect to Foglight SQL Server repository in the existing Foglight environment...
Revised: December 8, 2025This article outlines the steps required to migrate the Foglight Management Server (FMS) to a different machine, including scenarios where the FMS...
Revised: December 8, 2025Is it possible to change the severity of these alarms, for example from Fatal to Critical?
Revised: December 5, 2025For Foglight Database Agents to collect operating system (OS) metrics from monitored Windows hosts, either Windows Remote Management (WinRM) or...
Revised: December 5, 2025Where can I find step by step guides for upgrading my Foglight
Revised: December 5, 2025The self-signed TLS certificate used by the FMS for the Tomcat webserver is due to expire very soon on the 13th March 2025. After the certificate...
Revised: December 5, 2025Support bundles generated from the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) may be empty or fail to create. This is often caused by large SQL PI statistics...
Revised: December 5, 2025The Infrastructure dashboard has a Wizard that allows to easily Add Custom Rules . This is briefly documented on the Foglight for Infrastructure...
Revised: December 4, 2025Is it possible to install the fglcmd utility outside the Foglight server?
Revised: December 4, 2025How to exclude Ciphers from Foglight the Management Server and Foglight Agent Manager?
Revised: December 4, 2025Processes tab in Infrastructure Host Monitor dashboard does not show Swap Size for individual process instances. The monitored host is...
Revised: December 4, 2025The rule Number of Processes fired with an Abnormal number of processes alarm message. Does this mean the Host is struggling or is under heavy...
Revised: December 4, 2025When will the FMS (Foglight Management Server) external repository be supported on Oracle 23c?
Revised: December 4, 2025Monitored host performance metrics in Child FMS doesn't match with performance metrics in Federator FMS . Host object shows multiple aliases...
Revised: December 4, 2025How to set Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) to use https to communicate with Foglight Management Server (FMS)? How to set FglAM to use SSL...
Revised: December 4, 2025After experiencing local UDP problems, how can one force Foglight to use TCP in High Availability (HA) mode?
Revised: December 4, 2025After applying blackout to an agent via script using the AgentBlackoutService interface with the applyAgentBlackout(String agentId, String...
Revised: December 4, 2025A monitored host requires a 2-step / factor verification logon system which accepts a password for the first part and a token based pin for the...
Revised: December 4, 2025How to modify e-mails subject and messages adding rule severity variables.
Revised: December 4, 2025How are credentials secured in Foglight (Management Server Login, Backend Database and Agent credentials) and what encryption is used for passwords?
Revised: December 4, 2025After starting the Agent Manager process (fglam) via command line, the Agent Manager appears as connected in the Foglight console. Agents start...
Revised: December 4, 2025VMwarePerformance agent did not fire any alarm notifying VMware services were down on vCenter server
Revised: December 4, 2025Infrastructure Agents not gathering metrics properly: UnixAgent does not collect metrics from Linux or Oracle Solaris host UnixAgentPlus...
Revised: December 4, 2025Does VMware Performance agent support Foglight Agent Manager High Availability (FglAM HA) mode?
Revised: December 4, 2025Is there Documentation/Tutorial Guide(s) which explains how to design/create custom Dashboards, Views and Reports in Foglight?
Revised: December 4, 2025Is it possible to leave the recipient email address blank/null for alarm email notifications? It is a requirement to leave the email recipient...
Revised: December 4, 2025Customer would like query the data in Foglight DB through an external application either via ODBC or any other possible means to build report on...
Revised: December 4, 2025Where to find information about troubleshooting FMS Performance issues
Revised: December 4, 2025This article outlines recommended anti-virus exclusion settings to prevent performance issues or interference with the Foglight Management Server...
Revised: December 4, 2025If we monitor the database in SSL mode, we must import the certificate of the database server into the keystore, What are the steps required to...
Revised: December 4, 2025Learn how the Hosts dashboard enables you to review a high-level summary of host performance in your environment.
Revised: December 4, 2025How to Upgrade Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM)
Revised: December 4, 2025How to install a Foglight license from the Foglight Management Server console?
Revised: December 4, 2025This article explains how to remove a host from the Foglight Management Server (FMS) when it has been decommissioned or no longer requires...
Revised: December 4, 2025How to use the Global Search in Foglight 6.0 and higher
Revised: December 4, 2025Beginning with the 5.9.7.10 database cartridges, users will be introduced to a Quick Tutorial of the Global View Databases Dashboard using Foglight...
Revised: December 4, 2025Non-administrator roles have been added to give users access to Administer database agent alarms. This role filters out all of the other...
Revised: December 4, 2025You can override the alarm rules for the selected agents by assigning an alarm template. You can use the template to enable or disable alarms for...
Revised: December 4, 2025How to download and install a Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM)
Revised: December 4, 2025What are the steps to install a cartridge in Foglight by Adding it to a Cartridge Inventory of an Existing Foglight Management Server?
Revised: December 4, 2025Example steps to generate an RSA key for a Linux host for a Foglight RSA credential.
Revised: December 3, 2025Where can instructional material which explains usage of the Rest API be found?
Revised: December 3, 2025How to determine the version of Tomcat in use by Foglight?
Revised: December 3, 2025What versions of OpenJDK and JDK are used with the Foglight Management Server and Foglight Agent Manager?
Revised: December 3, 2025How to monitor user specific process using the Infrastructure Cartridge (IC)?
Revised: December 3, 2025None at this time
