What's new for Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition

When a logicalDisk is 100% used, the agent doesn't submit data for the metric capacityAvailable but it should be 0%. While we can see the data...

The CPU utilization for Solaris hosts has negative or values of over 100% for Oracle agents on the database dashboard.

How to Upgrade Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM)

Foglight REST API calls return a result set truncated at 501 objects. This can happen while querying for Alarms, Agents, Topologies, etc.

Alertas en blanco por correo electrónico estan siendo generados por el FMS.

Como puedo respaldar y restaurar mis reportes

Cómo instalar una nueva versión del servidor de administración con MySQL externa de acceso de base de datos para los usuarios...

Meltdown (CVE-2017-5715) e Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 & CVE-2017-5754) sfruttano una critica  vulnerabilita’ nei moderni processori. Questi difetti...

Meltdown (CVE-2017-5715) y Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 & CVE-2017-5754) aprovechan vulnerabilidades críticas en procesadores modernos. Estos errores...

Colección predeterminada sobre la recaudación y programador de datos de el Exchange Agent.

Después de cambiar el propietario de la cuenta de servicio de "Cuenta de sistema local"  a una cuenta de servicio específica el FMS no se iniciará.

Después de volver a instalar el Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM), todos los agentes entran en un estado "Broken". ¿Es posible para estos agentes...

Diferencia de nombre entre la Máquina virtual y el nombre de DNS

Cuando selecciona una maquina virtual la informacion de red y disco de las ruletas esta en gris, ambas ruletas estan funcionando correctamente a...

Use the VMware Explorer / Hyper-V Explorer dashboards for reviewing data for Virtual Machines.

Es posible reclamar espacio en el disco local de Windows Server 2012 R2 en Optimizer?

Como Inicializar el Administrador de Agentes Externo.

Es la base de datos demasiado lenta?

En caso que se requiera implementar un segundo FGLAM en el mismo host

Foglight permite a los usuarios Limpiar y Reconocer alertas desde el panel de Alarmas.

Tengo un nuevo cartucho que corrige un error en vFoglight Storage . ¿Cómo puedo actualizar el cartucho vFoglight Storage en vFoglight?

Preguntas frecuentes referents en cuanto a  Edición de Reglas: Que se recomienda, vienan a afectar las actualizaciones de los cartuchos las reglas...

Me gustaria  excluir un disco en particular en una VM para detener las alarmas referentes a poco espacio.

FGLAM 5.8.1 Error en el inicio después de la actualización en AIX 6.1  - Actualización realizada desde GUI - fallida  - Falla al intentar la...

Muchas alarmas del vCenter aparecen directamente en Foglight, pero ninguna son parte de las reglas de Foglight. Cómo deshabilitar recollection de...

¿Desea editar el mensaje de la alarma que está siendo recibido por e-mail?

¿Como puedo obtener la version de prueba de Foglight desde la página de soporte de Quest Software?

Al momento de editar una credencial en Foglight, el password aparece encriptado. ¿Existe alguna forma en Foglight en la cual se pueda conocer ese...

Como localizar un script de un Agent Script pre-existente?

¿Es SQL PI y Oracle PI lo mismo que Performance Analysis? ¿Cual versión de los cartuchos de Oracle y SQL Server tienen la opción de PI en ella?

Cómo actualizar Foglight para la virtualización , Enterprise Edition desde una versión anterior

Regla: VMW Virtual Machine CPU Utilization no activa ninguna alarma respecto a CPU Utilization

Ajuste del rendimiento del Agent VMware para grandes entornos de 7.1.x FVE

Falla de recoleccion de datos en el VMware View agente debido a problema de autenticación Kerberos

Si las máquinas virtuales no tienen respuesta del servidor de ESX o si el vCenter no tiene respuesta por parte del servidor de ESX. Para estas...

Cúales son los permisos mínimos requeridos para accesar WMI namespaces? . Cúales permisos de DCOM requiere un usuario remoto? . Qué puede hacer...

Que significan las  Alarmas y  notificaciones acerca del "Catalyst database"? Que es el "Catalyst databese" en Foglight"? Es el "Catalyst database...

¿Cuáles son los pasos para cambiar la autenticación utilizada por el repositorio de FMS de autenticación de SQL Server a autenticación de Windows? 

Para Monitoreo cuentas de agente debe asignarse la sesión como una política de servicio, de lo contrario la recolección de datos se desactiva...

   Cómo crear un paquete de asistencia especial que incluye la base de datos interna SAM , si así lo solicita , para Quest Support...

¿Cómo eliminar objetos de topología viejos de Foglight que no se han actualizado durante un tiempo y ya no requiero? ¿Hay una manera de hacer...

Manejo de Tareas de el Flujo de trabajo no funciona ( Workflow Management )

Hay un grupo LDAP llamado "Foglight Users" pero no se muestra en la página "Importar grupos externos". Otros grupos en la misma unidad organizativa...

El Lockbox < Lockbox ID > no se ha concedido a este host . Credencial de Usuario com.quest.forge.credentials.type.local...

A custom "data driven" rule that is scoped to the ASM_Instance_Usability topology type is not being evaluated so the rule is not raising any...

Custom reports from the DB Expansion pack are listed under the DB2 reports in the Reports popup

Custom Dashboard:  Vmware objects not displaying when using a Nologinuser 

Critical Severity condition of VMW Virtual Machine CPU Utilization rule is referencing an incorrect registry variable. if (registry("VMW...

Exclusion adding a filter should happen from here: Services - Service Builder Go to any specific server then click on "Alarm Filters" If we...

Credential alarms firing for SSAS agents for the same port (either 80 or 443) four times in a row even though OS monitoring works on port 5985 or...

When adding a new SQL server agent and designating that the OS connection use a credential in a lockbox other than the DB Agent lockbox causes...

Credential Management Event alarms fire hourly from both Windows agents (Infrastructure agents) and database agents. Cannot establish connection...

Creating the rule to run the script periodically

How to import the VMware Folder structure into Service Builder, creating a service for a single VMware Folder, creating a service by using VMware...

Creating index and dropping tables messages appearing in Management Server logs - for example: VERBOSE [QuartzScheduler.PersistencePolicy_Worker...

In certain scenarios, users may prefer not to receive alarms from one or more agents for a predefined period of time (for example, during the...

Tried to create custom collection on table in Japanese and got a failure on setting a key - failed on characters.

After adding the host to infrastructure monitoring, it does shows up in infrastructure dashboard. But when user goes to process monitoring...

Create Email Action for "VMW PNICs Network Utilization" rule, and add the esx host which the PNIC belong to email message.

How to create a Database Alarm Blackout (Scheduled Blackout) using the Database dashboard.

CPU Utilization for Azure VMs displayed in the dashboard is different than what is displayed in Azure portal

It was observed peaks of more than 100% on vCenter CPU utilization Ready. This value should not go over 100%.

CPU usage chart for VM/ESX host looks different in FVE compared to vSphere client vSphere Client chart: FVE chart:

Since upgrading FVE to 6.8 CPU ready time graph is flatlining. Before the upgrade it would show a regular pattern of spikes from about 0 to 5% and...

The CPU displays differently between VMware views. For example, within the VMware Explorer Summary tab, the CPU of a Virtual Machine displays a...

A 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...

Could Foglight use Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.7 for its JRE?

How to find Foglight's Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and could the Foglight Management Server (FMS) be patch to the latest version of it's JRE?

Contents of Chargeback Assignment tabs do not fully display.

Container Optimizer& Container Capacity cartridges not getting enabled

Kubernetes agent uses Heapster RESTful API to collect metrics. If the Container node is a VM (VMware or Azure or AWS) then in the Container...

While using Rest API with a third party tool, with a url in this format http://{{serverURL}}:{{serverPort}}/{{apiPath}}/security/login It...

Customer is unable to connect to monitored host SQL Server server in the database discovery process. Received "Database Connection Failed" errors...

Windows Remote Management (WinRM) can be configured quickly on a Windows Server using default settings through the "winrm quickconfig" command.

How to configure the Agent Manager Kerberos Settings for XenDesktop

Can a single FglAM run multiple instances? How to install multiple Fglam's on a single host?

How can a SQL Server agent be configured to use local agent monitoring which is the account that the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) uses?

Configuring Kerberos on a Windows Host Additional registry keys may be required when Agent Manager is deploy on a Windows host. The Agent Manager...

Foglight for vCloud Director uses the vCloud Director Agent to collect information from monitored hosts. Creating a vCloud Director Agent instance...

How to configure Hyper-V Agents for data collection?

The Foglight Management Server installer currently doesn’t support configuring encrypted connections, but by using a manual repository...

Foglight Management Server (FMS) server log is full of below messages: Failed to create a topology object with name EXCUMConnectivity: {identity...

Currently, the SSAS, SPI Repository, Oracle SPI Repository, SSAS SPI Repository, MSSQL SPI Repository agent are NOT included by default in the...

How to create a group in Management server, where the users should be able to see the VMware dashboard under "Homes", but will not be able to edit...

An email notification for snmp integration has been configured through services created with configurationitem but these items go missing from...

In an environment that includes a Foglight Agent Manager concentrator, when upgrading the environment where the concentrator does not contain any...

Compellent:  Monitoring of the Tiered Storage

What are the differences between DCOM (WMI) and WinRM?

The Community-Metrics version 1.0.1 send email notification every 15 minutes even if the cartridge is disabled.

What are some of the most common issues for Performance Investigator (SQL PI) environments?

Following error is thrown when activating the Exchange agent: ECHO     ERROR [Quartz[0]-74] com.quest.agent.exc.ExchangeAgentImpl - Could not...

If there are many columns defined in a report, some properties might get truncated when it is exported as a PDF

After running a report the Column content could get truncated in PDF report. The report can get generated this way: Go to the right hand...

When navigating through "VMWare Environment | Cluster Quick View | Explore | Storage Tab | Performance" tab the "Datastore Performance" window...

 Metric values exceed 100% in their custom cluster utilization report.

This is the situation: 1. Under: Cloud Migration, using VMware and Cloud Model, clicking under "Select VMs", it shows all the Virtual Machines...

When installing a new MySQL agent, the message "CLIENT_PLUGIN_AUTH" is required occurs when connecting to a MySQL 5.1.5.1 instance. ERROR...

Client Access : OWA status is shown Unknown in Exchange Server status dashboard What is the cause of this.

Is there a CLI (Command Line Installer) or batch script available to create multiple Azure SQL database agents in one process?

Which groups/Roles should have a access to AUDIT Log? What level of information will be logged into Audit log? What is the retention policy for...

CISCO Switches credential errors on the VMWare dashboard: --- Missing Credentials. The credentials for the Virtual Switch are invalid and some...

Cisco fabric connects but fails to collect

Many changes are occurring in the FileLogMonitorFileGroup topology type. The output of the find frequent change script contains many...

Chrome browser give following security warning when access FMS console via SSL NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID Subject Alternative Name...

Blocked ports often contribute to product connection issues.  Typically, Support requests to use TELNET or even run a “portable” version of...

The graph at the top of the MySQL statements dashboard indicates "No data to display" however there are SQL statements collected in the bottom...

Can the display name for a SQL Server, Oracle, Azure SQL, or DB2 agent be changed? How can a SQL Server, Oracle, Azure SQL, or DB2 agent be...

How can the Blocking History Collection parameters be changed so that the blocks taking less than specified time will appear in the dashboard.

How can more than 100 alarms be viewed at one time in the Foglight alarms panel?

Is there a way to force Foglight to display the time in a 24-hour time format? For example, alarms and the Foglight time zonar are displayed as 03...

Low disk space on the FMS installation drive. Some of the FglAM support bundle sizes exceed 1GB. There is another drive available which has...

Foglight Net Monitor uses the ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol) service to communicate with network devices. There are two versions of this...

Change history report in any format is blank

How 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.

Is Change Analyzer in Federation Environment a supported configuration?

After upgrading to Foglight Management Server (FMS) 5.7.1 and VMWare 5.6.14, the VMWare agent is now failing to connect to the vCenter with the...

User cannot change the "Connect as" sysdba/normal pulldown menu in the database agent migration dashboard.

Agent successfully establishes connection to the target CA server but below error is logged when running powershell cmdlet: ERROR [Quartz[0...

The following error is encountered during the creation of a SQL Server agent in Foglight  Failed to establish a SQL-Server JDBC connection...

Foglight has an alarm stating that the "Catalyst License" is expiring in 2 days in a production environment.

An error message similar to the following is displayed when adding a new cartridge "The following cartridges you are trying to install and...

Cannot enable to 5.9.3.28 Sybase cartridge ERROR [CARTRIDGE_OPERATION-0] script.system:administration_cartridges_cartridgeinventory...

Cartridge for Storage Management 4.3.5

Dashboards | Administration | Cartridges | Cartridge Inventory Could not complete the requested operation, with the following messages: Failed...

The following changes have been included with the 5.9.4.10.3 release of the Cartridge for MongoDB 5.9.4.10 07/May/19 Set replica set member...

1. Capacity Management doesn't seem to be displaying the correct data. Memory is only showing 4.0GB when it shows, 200 GB in total on the vCenter...

1. Go to Home | Vmware Environment | Capacity Management | Capacity and Bottlenecks. 2. Select a cluster, either there is no information or...

Go to Home | Vmware Environment | Capacity Management | Scenario Modeler: Select Hosts dashboard allows user to assign ESX hosts.         It has...

Capacity Management dashboard displays incomplete data on Federation Master server

What are Capacity Management Reports Available?

Clicking Run Model from Capacity Director dashboard throws the following error: The cloud data cannot be retrieved from the portal. Please...

Users cannot log in with SSO (Single Sign-on). The following error is reported in the management server log during start up: ERROR   [forge...

Unable to add a port below 1024 in the Port (optional) field in the SQL Server PI Repository Connection Details popup when creating a new SQL...

Cannot upload a support file to either Quest FTP or support website due to "Source Path Too Long" Run from Command Prompt dir /s /b | sort /r...

Agents installed on a windows Agent Manager are unable to start. The following errors appear in the FglAM log: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.SSS  ERROR...

When adding operating system (OS) monitoring for SQL Server agent. it fails with error : A connection could not be established. In...

Cannot send Test Mail due to Authentication Error : 530 5.7.1 Client was not authenticated

Unable to save alarm changes in the database agent alarm configuration panels. Clicking the save button gets stuck when choosing multiple agents...

The agent log in Debug Mode has long lines of messages as such, ------------------ 295a8570e581/HostAgents /5.8.5.2/DellUnixAgent/Monitor...

When monitoring a Oracle RAC one node instance, the RAC agent and node agents are created, the user can check on the agent status, but on the...

When trying to test Event Log monitoring on Win2k8 for Event ID 1074,6008 & 41 - after configuring all required event ID in the Host agent...

If a Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) is deployed in an Azure virtual machine, an Azure SQL database cannot be monitored using an AD (Active...

Cannot create Oracle Exadata agents An error similar to the following appears in the installer log file ERROR   [OracleInstaller-1576570147374...

Cannot login to the Foglight Admin Console - getting the following error: Error: Invalid username and/or password. Please try again. OR...

A new Foglight license was obtained with a file name ending in .lic (e.g. XXX.lic). The license can be installed into a new FMS but the FMS...

A .CAR file cannot be generated using the Cartridge Builder.

If any encryption protocol is excluded using "excluded-ssl-protocol" element from fgalm.config.xml the changes are not effective and concentrator...

$ ./fglam-5_6_6-linux-x86_64.bin -bash: ./fglam-5_6_6-linux-x86_64.bin: cannot execute binary file The OS is a RedHat 6 OS: $ cat /proc...

In this example the second line never executes: set arg1=%1 set arg2=%2 set arg3=%3 C:\FogServer\bin\fglcmd -usr foglight -pwd %arg1% -cmd...

Cannot configure SQL PI using SSL on a Windows 2019 or Windows 2016 server where the Foglight Agent Manager is using Windows 2012. Failed to...

Cannot establish connections to Sybase instances with "roman8" charset. Error is JZ00L: Login failed. Examine the SQLWarnings chained to this...

The edit query button is not available for a user to edit a user defined query for DB2.

Cannot create an Oracle database agent using a Foglight Agent Manager is Ubuntu. Failed to establish a Oracle JDBC connection protocol to Host...

A "cannot establish a connection to HOSTNAME" alarm is fired because of the connection failing to the host.  After testing the connection in...

User account gets imported into Foglight from the target OU and it's possible to assign a role to the user, but the user cannot authenticate to...

When running the grant permissions script while creating an Azure SQL agent, the script fails with the error in red Msg 4015, Level 15, State 1...

The DB2 db2diag.log, Oracle alert log, or SQL Server error log cannot be accessed on Windows servers. The following error appears in the database...

Nothing is returned when attempting to retrieve an agent log from the Agent Status page. . Messages like the following are reported in the...

Cannot access the Foglight console using https (8443). The following message is reported in Internet Explorer (IE):   This page can't be...

Users can't log in with SSO (Single Sign-on). The following error is reported in the management server log during start up: 2016-09-13 18:10...

NOTE: On UNIX systems, you may get an error in regards to the .sock file as shown below when trying to connect to MySQL via command line ERROR...

We want to prevent access to the Foglight console on port 8080. We would like to modify the Foglight http port value or simply forbid http access...

Is there a way to allow Foglight users that do not have Administrator rights to create and delete blackouts?.  We have read-only users which...

Is it possible to when updating the severities it can be done for multiple traps in the format field instead of individually? Using Integration...

Following is how an existing Python script  is run outside of Foglight with a custom argument (vlan): #python my_python_script.py --vlan 213...

Can the SQL Server cartridge monitor SQL VLF log file counts?

Can a duplicate agent name be used in Foglight?

Can the Foglight Management Server (FMS) use LDAPs (secure LDAP on port 636) instead of basic LDAP (port 389) to integrate with Active Directory?

Is it possible to install the fglcmd utility outside the foglight server?

WindowsAgents attempt to make the following types of connections in the following order.  Is there a way to designate the connection type (WinRM...

Can the AIX errlog be monitored with the Infrastructure FileLogMonitor agent? The legacy AIX_console agent was able to collect errlog data...

Can SCVMM agent account be granted Local Admin privilege on monitored SCVMM server instead of Domain Admin

As the Wizard FglAm installer defaults to HTTPS installations, please reference   Installing the Agent Manager using the Installer Interface  in...

Infrastructure:  Host agent collection may be causing CPU spikes on Solaris Zones Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) process above 15-20%

Dashboard| Infrastructure| add Single Host or Dashboard| Hosts| Hosts| Add Host Infrastructure Wizard: The wizard fails with a "commit result...

What are the requirements for Infrastructure Agent on Windows and Linux and required ports.

1). Under Infrastructure Dashboard "Top Network Utilization" stats are missing for all Virtual Machines, It shows: "There Is No Data To Display...

Windows Event Log alarms are not being raised for the HostAgent agents.

Infrastructure Agent:  Unable to monitor host.  ("/usr/bin/ksh": error=12, Not enough space) <Agent Manager Bundle>| logs| Host Agent| <version...

Infrastructure agent not collecting data Problem 1: A connection could not be established Following can be found in the host agent log files...

While using the Cartridge for Oracle, an instance is backed up once a day using RMAN. The backups are incremental backups This server is using 2...

Sophos Endpoint Protection is a popular Antivirus package that includes File Scanning, Network Threat Protection, Web Control, and Device Control...

The rule " Unprotected VMware VMs " currently contains the following text: "The vCenter "vCenter01" has XXX VMs which don't have backups...

Incorrect wording in alarm message of  rule HPV Server Total Latency . Alarm message of Warning severity has incorrect wording as ESX host...

In AWS (Amazon Web Services), when an instance is launched, it is assigned a host name that is a form of the private, internal IPv4 address...

When upgrading the virtual applliance (vApp) the version number shown in the vSphere client does not change.

When trying to add Host objects to a service in Service Builder , Host objects associated to SNMP are not listed when doing a search...

When trying to add the Dell Compellent I get the following error message, "Vendor information: Method not available [ApiConnection::LoginMethod}"

User cannot update SQL PI components successfully at one time when there are many agent Oracle and SQL Server agents enabled with SQL PI in the...

After the FMS (Foglight Management Server) is restarted e-mail messages are sent from services for alarms that were raised previously.

Mailbox Database Feature State status shows as Stopped in Exchange Environment dashboard even though all Databases are mounted

LSASSPercentCPU(%) chart on Directory Services tab in Active Directory Explorer dashboard shows exceptionally high number like 200% or higher for...

If Processes and/or Sessions collection is enabled in Xen Agent properties then the agent tries to collect this data from all VDI machines using...

I n the Foglight UI Help | Reports |  Customizing the Header or Foote r section, it lists method to edit a Header to a custom report but one...

Customers require %CSTP monitoring for VMWare monitoring

LogMonitor agent fails to start data collection. Error in LogMonitor agent log: ECHO    DEBUG [Quartz[0]-1] com.quest.glue.core...

Only one LDAP user is able to use the Foglight Management Server (FMS) console. The first user is logged in to the FMS and all seems to be...

LogicalDisk space details (Capacity, TotalSpace, AvailableSpace etc.) show as n/a on Storage tab in vmExplorer dashboard

When a logical disk is removed from a VM through vCenter,  The disk can persist in Foglight, even though it does not exist anymore in the vCenter.

Capacity tab in Storage view of vmExplorer dashboard does not show any Logical disk information for RHEL 7 or CentOS 7 virtual machines even though...

What are the effects of  CVE-2019-17571,  CVE-2021-4104, CVE-2022-23307, CVE-2022-23305 and CVE-2022-23302 vulnerabilities and the log4j 1.2.x (1.2...

UI issues in the Foglight Management Server after upgrading cartridges to the 5.9.7.23 or 5.9.7.24 version.

Using the File Log Monitor Agent to monitor a set of logs which rollover each day with a log_name.<Date> naming convention.  After a period of...

An Oracle Data guard agent is encountering errors for the DBO_Locks_History_Tree and DBO_Top_Blocked_Objects collections when monitoring a read...

Where are the log files containing cartridge version incompatibilities placed during Foglight Management Server (FMS) upgrade to 5.9.2 ?

In the Foglight for Database v5.9.7.10 cartridge, the dashboard "Manage SQL PI Repositories" sometimes takes long to load, and FMS console might...

We defined the listener monitoring according to the Foglight For Oracle Guide, but cannot get the listener to be monitored Running lsnrctl status...

What SQL Server replication alarms are available.

Is there a way to list all agents based on agent type and also list of Agent type on one specific Agent Manager?

Is there a way to list all hosts collected by all MultiHostProcessMonitorAgent (group by agent name)?

Our linux FglAM stopped working around April 16, and cannot connect with the management server after restarting.

In Agent Properties, the hostname override field is not set SystemId = Unset; see screenshot

Agent Manager crashes without any erros in the log files. In the Linux log files (/var/logs/messages) the following can be found: Jul 22 16:54:26...

An invalid page will be opened, when users clicking the texts in the Top Wait Event column. In the Activity Highlight tab of the SQL PI page...

The limited user account can access the "Automation" dashboard and can setup 'Workflows" there, but the account should only be able to open the...

When a new license is added into Foglight, a message like the following appears " Could not execute the requested operation, error(s) had...

A user added 1,199 items to the blacklist but there is no decrease in the license count.

Can no longer add users via LDAP. The LDAP server see visible, but the names cannot be queried.

An LDAP group is not in the list of LDAP groups when importing groups.   The LDAP group is located under the path designated in the "scope(s...

After recently adding new groups to Active Directory, the new groups are not available to be enabled for visibility.

The following error is seen in the Foglight Management Server logs when LDAP is configured using port 636: "YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS WARN    [http-0.0...

Large number of open cursors and sessions were detected on an Oracle Instance monitored by SQL PI. These sessions' user account matches the...

Large number of HostProcess and OperatingSystem topology object changes caused by Oracle process

Kuberenets agent fails to monitor Openshift Origin cluster after upgrading the agent to 3.0.0. The agent was working fine on prior (2.x) version...

Kubernetes agents fails to collect Performance metrics due to not able to unable to access heapster name space. Below error is logged in agent log...

All Container cartridges and license are enabled however when trying to create new agent  Kubernetes not listed in the list for the selected FglAM...

Kuberetes agent not collecting data and below error is logged on the agent log: 2020-01-09 13:12:46.287 ERROR   [FglAM:IncomingMessage[5]-13...

In the Execution Plan comparison popup, the date of the selected plan is the insert time to the SQL PI repository and not the execution time...

What would the be the best practice in terms of Foglight Management Server (FMS ) JDBC connection pool? 

Our security dept. sent us a notice for a Java zero day vulnerability. Our Foglight server has been flagged in the past because it uses Java. Can...

The following JAVA SE vulnerabilities were reported for Foglight Management Server 5.9.4. CVE-2019-2602 CVE-2019-2684 CVE-2019-2698 CVE...

The J-interop log file (j-interop0.log) is growing huge in size and filling up the file system very fast.

Under the Hyper-V Administration -> Rule Configuration dashboard, all Rules are showing "Errors Check Logs" in the Severities columns.

AD services link icon under AD Dependencies embedded view in Exchange environment dashboard indicates that there is an alarm however clicking on...

Isilon Agent No IFS capacity and Disk System Throughput

Is there is a way to clear alarms specific to only specific rules?

Is there Documentation/Tutorial Guide(s) which explains how to design/create custom Dashboards, Views and Reports in Foglight?

When a server was hung, Foglight still detects the up status from ping test, so no alarm gets generated.

Is there any out of the box rule available in VMware cartridge that will trigger an alarm for  vSphere configissue of an ESX host?

Current latest  version (6.0.0) of Foglight Management Server (FMS) includes JRE version 1.8.0_265. Is they any plan to upgrade JRE to a higher...

Is there an up to the date, central online location of fully searchable Product Documentation for Foglight/FVE/Foglight Evolve?

Need be able to search Virtual Machines based on the MAC Addresses

Is there an option to rotate the dashboards in the Foglight UI, like a slide show where different dashboards will be displayed?

Is there an option in Foglight to disable a user account

Is there an option to add a custom dashboard to the Foglight "Standard View", same like the "Databases" dashboard?

Within the Container Capacity Management module for each cluster, we need to access only the compute nodes within the cluster to calculate...

Is there an alarm for when a High Availability FglAM failover occurs? In most production environments, operators have master lists of servers and...

Is there an 'out of the box' report for VMWare Datastores and their health? It is a requirement to list all datastores, in a table format, that...

Currently it looks like the agent can only communicate with the server using regular HTTP over port 5054. Due to Security requirements, need to use...

Is there a way to set Password Never expires option for individual User account in Foglight UI

How can a registry variable be scoped to more than one instance of a topology type without iteratively adding a value for each object that needs to...

On the vCenter, under machine "Summary" tab, there is an "Annotations" field, is there a way to run report on vFoglight to list out this information?

Is there a way to restrict or assign Foglight users to only use a specific vCenter VMware agent in Foglight? Example: User 1 can only view...

Is there a way to get the space used in the topology_property_value table from the script console?  A SQL Server repository is being used.

When an Administrator performs a change in the Blackout dashboard is it possible to receive an alert or e-mail specifying the username and the...

I would like to send some alarms on to our 3rd party alarm management system(netcool) and not send other alarm on to this system. Is there a way to...

There are some groups in our organization that have modified the collection settings on the Database agents. Some groups have set the "Working...

Is there a way to change the host brower to other hosts?

The red error message "An error has occurred. Please check your logs" will be shown in the Logs | SQL Agent Error Logs page, when monitoring SQL...

Some details within the Foglight UI console for SQL Server instances using SQL 2008, we are seeing the status unavailable for some collected...

When I look at the Change Analyzer tab in the vmware environment the system becomes non-responsive.  All other dashboards and tabs respond...

When I collect from my Cisco Switches the topology collection never finishes. Generally no error is returned.

When I do a performance collection from my NetApp filers I get an Error message, “Value cannot be null". I am running version 8.1.2 DoT in 7 mode.

ESX Admin Tool Bar: Disable Maintenance mode was automatically set to Enable Maintenance mode When the server was set to Enable Maintenance mode...

When configuring an Openstack agent, what should be input into the project field ?

When collecting from NetApp Filer an error message is generated on topology collection. Performance Collection of x.x.x.x with agent had a...

After clicking the alarm URL or alarm link from an e-mail, it does not open up the alarm dashboard but rather brings it to the Foglight welcome...

Go to  Home | Vmware Environment | Virtual Machines. Open an specific machine and click on "Explorer" button. Go to "Process" tab, you can see...

When adding a new Office365 Agent, the consent return URL fails to connect. The FMS (Management Server) is configured to use HTTPS only.

There are many e-mail addresses in a scoped registry variable.  The "Change Value" button is not visible so the value of the registry variable...

When a database group is assigned to an user on Database | User Level Access dashboard, the filter assigned is not working. When the user login...

When we collect from my Equalogic we receive an error message. The error reads, “The SNMP request timed out.: Increase the SNMPTimeout”

What’s new in Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition 8.2.

What’s new in Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition 8.6

What's new in Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition 8.8?

What's new in Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition 8.7.5 and VROOM 1.3?

What's new in Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition version 8.5

These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 5.9.8 release of Foglight...

What's new in Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition (FVE) 8.8.5?

We are excited to announce a new version of Foglight for Databases 5.9.5.10 is now available for download. Look what's new: Full support for...

What will happen to the agent (in terms of resources and space and impact) when the Foglight Management Server (FMS) goes down? Is it possible to...

What will happen after migrating ESX host and all corresponding objects from one vCenter to another? Will historical data collection stay intact?

I want to generate a custom report on Memory allocated for the virtual machines and on Virtual swap file.

What versions of Hyper-V server can be monitored by FVE (formerly vFoglight)

What versions of OpenJDK and JDK are used with the Foglight Management Server and Foglight Agent Manager as of Foglight 6.0.0?

What user account privileges are required to collect Linux volume utilization metrics from EC2 instances?

Which types of database agents can be migrated between two Foglight Agent Managers (FglAM) using the database agent migration utility?

What type of information does the DB2 OS General Process CPU collect from the DB2 server.

What type of ActiveSync Monitoring is provided by the latest version of Exchange cartridge

What type of address should you use when configuring Foglight agents; Numeric IP address, FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name), or NetBIOS?  Do all...

When experiencing an issue with XenDesktop Netscaler discovery, what is required when opening a Quest Software support case?

What states do the "DBSS - Availability Replica is not online" rule alarm for?

"Catalyst Available Database Connections Check" alarms are triggered every 20 minutes after upgrading to the Foglight 5.9.1. There are not...

How can a user test Data Driven Rules?

Is it  possible to monitor  the processes below using the Openstack Cartridge? Configed process TopN process

In the foglight User Interface(UI), how can the time format in the zoner be changed to be displayed in 24hrs or AM/PM?

Y-axis scale of CPU utilization charts on Monitor tab in vmExplorer dashboard for a VM is out of sync

After created the Netscaler agent, it's not being monitored and appflow collector returns:"Invalid IP address"

For successful monitoring of Storefront server, Xen agent needs to execute Powershell commands to collect data. If Poweshell ExecutionPolicy set to...

XenDesktop desktop does not show performance data on XenDesktop dashboard, CPU, Network, Memory and Data Utilization are all empty.

x Large vAPP fglam give false information on fglam is overloaded when adding new vCenter "This Agent Host is overloaded, we suggest setting up an...

Foglight Management Server is generating alarms related to multiple storage agents which are not scoped to any of the rules. But there is no...

Wrong alarms from rule "Catalyst Memory Usage Check" have been raised again and again. Even after increasing the memory to 24 GB the rule is still...

Messages like the following are spamming the Event Viewer in Windows 2019 servers The server-side authentication level policy does not allow the...

On Microsoft® Windows® 2008 R2, a SQL Server version 2012 instance with a name that contains inverted commas (''; (for example:'X641_ENT1') can...

Any agent using WMI over DCOM for the initial connection setup fails to connect to some  Windows  servers, even after following KB 102431...

HyperV agents would not connect to the HyperV servers and hence no data were collected. Below errors were seen in the agent logs. 2018-09-21 10...

While changing WinRM/Config/Service/AllowUnencrypted setting, error message " There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper...

When monitoring remote systems in SSL mode, certificates for the remote server must be imported into the keystore on the Agent Manager.  

I created a new Windows_System agent and after completion and a period of time elapses, the agent never shows up on the Agents - Agents on All...

The WindowsAgent is not collecting most of the data.  The debug WindowsAgent log shows that many queries are failing with messages like the...

WindowsAgents not created after validating connectivity and selecting to save changes for some SQL Server instances. The following setting...

We are using more and more, Windows Powershell (.ps scripts) in our business' computing environment. We would like to call these Powershell...

When trying to create an IC agent to monitor FMS/FglAM server, but the local connection is failing. 2013-07-25 15:19:11.623 ECHO    HostAgents/5...

Windows metric collections are intermittent with WinRM even when the FglAM (Agent Manager) WinRM prerequisites are met according to the...

On Windows, while checking under Event Viewer (Local) │ Windows Logs │ System The following message could be observed: Source: DNS Client...

Can the SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility) be monitored with the Infrastructure cartridge?

Will the alarms generated by multi-severity rule auto clear, if the condition changes?

What are the pros and cons for using DMV over Xevents, Foglight for SQL Server product wise?

How to disable Datastore inventory and metrics collection in Foglight

Is it possible to change the severity of these alarms, for example from Fatal to Critical?

How to disable collection of  Snapshots in VMware Performance agent

Some monitoring environments rely purely on Dashboards and Reports for keeping track of performance. Even if email alerts are not required...

How can the Operating System (OS) monitoring be turned off and on for all SQL Server agents using a groovy script?

The Remote Agent Managers State per Host (RAMSpH) rule is alerting my UNIX administrators when the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) clients on...

How can a rule be disabled via the command line when the Foglight UI is not accessible?

How to disable a blackout

How to diagnose the issue of no email alerts are received when a Rule triggers an alarm and is visible in Alarms dashboard

Foglight Management Server (FMS) - Performance issues.   What are the steps to investigate?

How to determine version of embedded mySQL database in Foglight/FVE

What is the URL to download the FglAM installer from the FMS?

How can the version of Foglight be obtained within Foglight Management Console?

How to determine the appropriate -type argument, when creating an agent via command line interface fglcmd? For example when trying to create a...

Can sudo be used for Log Monitoring so that permissions do not have to be granted to the foglight OS user on the log files themselves?

The 5.6.7 release notes state to only deploy the agent in the global zone and not in each zone. What agent property needs to be properly set as...

How to deploy an agent using command line interface "fglcmd"

It is a requirement to stop data collection for particular VMware objects, for example, ESX hosts and/or VMs. Is it possible to deny list these...

How to delete unwanted/deleted Security Server from VMware View dashboard

How to delete VMWare stale objects? When reviewing "VMWare Environment | Administration | Instance" and checking the "Limits" the instance count...

A Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) bundle cannot be generated because the process times out. The Statistics logs collected by the database agents...

There are reports that are still being mailed to users but when they open the report it says view not found. Those reports were supposedly...

There are a large number of alarms that have been cleared but are still visible in the console and the database, how can these be cleared in the...

References to unused, unwanted or stale objects can sometimes remain as a Foglight Topology Object . These objects can be deleted via the Script...

Host agent keeps reapearing and we need to remove it.

How to delete a Custom Report Template when clicking on "Run a Report"  from "Report template list".

How to decipher an alarm generated by VMW ESX Server Total Latency rule

Without access to the the cmd prompt on the Foglight server.  Is there a way to create FMS thread dump from jmx-console?

The Infrastructure dashboard has a Wizard that allows to easily Add Custom Rules . This is briefly documented on the Foglight for Infrastructure...

When collecting from Cisco Switch, the following error message is generated: CMD 'show wwn switch' returned no data

The following error was reported when user clicks the SQL PI dashboard for the first time. Failed to retrieve data from SQL PI repository . For...

When loading a unisys.mib file, the FMS produces an error. error: INTERNAL ERROR: value identifier ' COMS ' doesn't start with a lowercase...

New Azure SQL DB cartridge 5.9.7.x installation fails due to licensing. Old SQL Azure cartridge is version 5.5.8. Attempts to monitor an Azure...

In the Global View databases dashboard, when clicking on Settings | Manage SQL PI Repository the following error message appears system:dbwc...

Data is being collected, but is not being fed into Foglight, therefore no data is showing within the VMWare dashboards. When reviewing the VMWare...

The V5.9.* FMS (Foglight Management Server) does not start up and the following message is reported in the ManagementServer log: 2018-10-15 16...

Foglight is not starting up. In the log file the following error can be found: ERROR   [main] com.quest.nitro.startup.StartupConfigLoader...

The following is sometime seen in the FMS logs: 2013-01-22 10:09:22.147 ERROR   [Utility-1-thread-1] com.quest.nitro.service.util...

Regarding the Uprocessed objects dashboard for SSAS instances using SSAS Tabular mode, when all the tables in a database are unprocessed list the...

As per the current functionality simple rules do not sent alarms to the alarms dashboard. The ER logged will reivew the process of these types of...

Equalogic appears to be collecting without errors, but does not show any data on the Network tab.  Configured with iSCSI.

The Enterprise SQL Server Performance Summary report does not display SQL Server memory metrics for one instance. The other instances display the...

Add a column to display the total disk space in the chart under the Logical Disks tab on the Storage Details page.

Remove the "Is Cleared" True and False check boxes from the alarm filter in the "Outstanding" alarms popup window under the DB Global View...

Currently the 'Disconnected Agent Manager Clients' rule is only set as a Warning. Can this be changed by default to Fatal? A warning can easily be...

In the popup workload graph under the DB Global View dashboard add something that indicates that the shaded area represents the baseline.  One...

Under the "Enhance Alarms| Customize Rule Name" window under the DB Admin Alarms dashboard add a way to reset the Severity Level values back to...

When there are many cloned lists it is tedious to scroll through the names of all the cloned lists to find the entry of interest.  Add the ability...

When there are drag and drop views/portlets that contain a division between two sections make the division between the components resizable by...

This rule that monitors the capacity available or disk space available for a datastore. Previously belong to the vbundle1 cartridge, but since this...

The services on VM hosts must be monitored.  It will be inconvenient to deploy more than a hundred WindowsAgents and deselect the collections...

Enhancement Request:  Launch URL in browser when transaction link is clicked under the  "Webmonitor | Performance" dashboard. When the...

Add a dashboard to display services monitored by WindowAgents and the status of services, under the Infrastructure dashboard.

Enhancement Request:  Provide a "group by" feature for the Alarms dashboard that can be used with any of the columns.  Allow the user to drag and...

Enhancement Request:  Add the ability to modify the e-mail body for Oracle and SQL Server alarms

Change the units used in "File System" chart under the logical Disk tab of the Storage Details page to match the units reported in the Y axis...

Spotlight allows existing alarms to be "snoozed". When a Spotlight user snoozes an alarm the alarm is not displayed until the snooze period ends...

Unfortunately, the sorting behavior for columns where a metric has been provided as the value is erratic. It would help if there was a new "Sort...

Enhancement Request:  Add audit log entries when blackouts are removed.

Encrypt communication between the Foglight Management Server and the LDAP server

The "Index Fragmentation" report is a report available in SQL Server cartridge. In some cases, the following errors can be seen when running the...

How can a the MSSQL (SQL Server) based PI repository feature be enabled in Foglight?

User can not enable PI when DB Fglam is installed in platform other than Windows, CentOS/Redhat and SuSE Linux In the Simple Mode Wizard, select...

The Enable/Disable Baseline command under the Databases Technical Support dashboard allows enabling or disabling the baseline calculation for...

WinRM can be enabled on Hyper-V Servers and SCVMM Servers by script in either of two ways. Through WinRM GPO automation script on domain...

The following steps can be used to enable the WinRM service to execute processes remotely using Powershell. This command uses PSexec (a part of...

The following alarm “Disabled Diagnostics Settings of Storage Service XXX” has been raised by Foglight for a virtual machine running in Azure.

The following alarm “Disabled Diagnostics Settings of Virtual Machine XXX” has been raised by Foglight for a virtual machine running in Azure.

The following alarm “Volume Write Latency XXX ms/op on Volume XXX is outside the normal operating range.” has been raised by Foglight

Empty CPU, Memory and Network Latency charts for application in XenDekstop  Application Quick View

Foglight generates security and change logs that contain information about the users who are authenticated upon logging in to Foglight, and user...

How to create an agent support bundle for Foglight for Storage Management? For more current information on this topic, please refer to Knowledge...

Create a Rule that will fire an alarm/alert notifying that datastore has reached a certain threshold

How to create a VMware agent under "VMware Environment" or "Agent Status".

We have a group of servers with similar names but the case of their names varies from UPPER case to Lower case. ie.   Varied case in server...

How to create a simple rule in VMware monitoring on Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition/Foglight Evolve

How to create a report with vCPU's per core for each cluster?

How to create a rule to automatically execute a groovy script based on a schedule?

How to create a Python deployable cartridge that includes agent, rules, registryVariables, dashboards

Is it possible to create a multi severity rule without auto clearing? The alarms of the rule should be always cleared manual.

How to create a Hyper-V agent under Hyper-V Environment

How to create a support bundle for a Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM)?

Is it possible to create a Capacity Trend report for a selection of specific virtual machines showing disk usage details?

How to create / activate VMware Performance Agent and start their data collection using the "Agent Status" dashboard?

How to copy an existing customer report that is part of "my definitions" and edit it?

Need to configure the browser interface to control end user access to dashboards

How to control session timeouts or individual dashboard refresh / timeouts?

What configuration is required for Foglight Agent Manager when using a wildcard self signed certificate?

How to configure WinRM for agents to collect data successfully from monitored Windows based server including Hyper-V, AD, EXC, VMwareView, Xen...

How to configure WinRM HTTP access for monitored servers

How to configure TLS security settings in Chrome? 

How to configure the new VMware View agent introduced in Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition version?

How to set Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) to use https to communicate with Foglight Management Server (FMS)? How to set FglAM to use SSL...

How to configure the hostname the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) is using to register to the Foglight Management Server (FMS)? For example: the...

How does one configure a Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) concentrator so only one system requires a communication port opened in a firewall?

How to configure this Static IP on Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise vApp. Constant FMS and Postgresql disconnections or FMS server cannot...

Foglight Management Server supports secure connections via https. Although the server ships preinstalled with an SSL certificate, the certificate...

Steps to configure New ServiceNow Integration feature starting on Foglight 5.9.4.

The Oracle database server where the Foglight database repository will be installed only has Service_Name available for the connection. There is...

How to configure IC agent to monitor Windows Cluster

How to configure Isilon array in Foglight for Storage Management?

We have a SQLServer backend database to be used by the Foglight Management Server. Since the Install Wizard does not provide the ability to...

How to configure Foglight with windows Single Sign-on (SSO)?

Basic things to be aware of when setting up a Federation Environment.

How to configure AWS monitoring at Foglight

How to configure Azure monitoring at Foglight?

How to configure an HDS storage agent.

Foglight allows you to configure rule behavior to ensure it does not fire repeatedly. Defining the behavior of rule alarms and actions can help to...

How to configure an Agent Manager Instance as a Concentrator?

How to configure a Regular Expression (Regex) to match a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) in a Foglight Credential for when there is no...

What are the steps to create a read-only access Foglight user on the VMWare dashboards?

How to config Foglight Integration with SAML 2.0 in Azure AD

Remove all artifacts of Storage Monitoring from an Agent Manager.

How to check which database and version is used by the Foglight Management Server repository?

How to Change/Update VMware Agent and Hyper-V Agent user account/password

How to change time zoner to get Change History over the Change Analyzer Dashboard

Is it possible to change the timezone on the Foglight for Virtualization Virtual Appliance? If this is possible, what is the procedure to change...

Is it possible to change the threshold of rule  "Cluster Database Replay Queue Length"? The warning should fire when there are 20 items in the...

Is a script available to change the SQL authentication for a SQL Server repository to use Windows (Active Directory) authentication? How can the...

How to change the set Logo on the reports?

How to change the root password of the Foglight virtual appliance?

Is there a way to change the root default password in a vApp?

How to change the password for the database user and what changes needs to be done on Foglight end?

I changed the Foglight database user password on the Foglight repository database, how do I update the Foglight Management Server with the new...

How can the Foglight console theme be changed?

How to change password for the foglight user from default in the embedded postgresql database

How to change the default 15 characters username limit in Foglight

An FMS on Linux was running as user foglight but it was upgraded using root. Now all the files belong to root and the system is running as root...

How to change keystore password in Foglight or FVE? Foglight Management Server (FMS): <fms home>/config/tomcat.keystore (default: nitrogen)

After re-install Agent Manager on one Windows 2012 server the Service name created as: Service Name: FglAM C__Program Files_Common Files...

How can a user change the JVM flags used by the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) when starting up?

The backend database password has been changed. Now no one can login to the Foglight UI.

When logging into Foglight Admin Console, the default home page is "Host Monitor" dashboard. How can a user change this to be something else?

Is there a way to change the user/password for many database agents?

The Name Resolution-ESX / ESXi host only shows IP address in Foglight Vmware Environment

Cannot login to the Foglight web console as the foglight account has been locked out and/or the password has been forgotten Error: Invalid...

  How to build Python Custom Agent and Custom Script Agent?

How to blackout all of Foglight

Where can I find explanations/examples of Rule Actions? How to use rule actions to send syslog messages? What Rule Actions are available that...

What rule can be used to monitor SQL Server database log files?

What Roles are required for a user to be able to navigate through all the Dashboards and Views but not have any Administrative access?

Starting with Active Directory cartridge version 5.7.1, a new agent is introduced to monitor Certificate Authoirty (CA) status. What privileges are...

 What privileges are required for the SCVMM agent account to successfully monitor the server?

What privileges are necessary for the user account used by vCloud Director agent

What Powershell scripts are run on the Exchange server when using the Foglight for Exchange cartridge?

We are aware that the FglAM uses 8080 and the Java agent uses 41705 to talk to the FMS, but what ports does the FglAM / Java agent use on the...

The Foglight installation process allows users to configure port assignments. The default ports are displayed during installation

In vFoglight Storage, what permissions need to be given to the Cisco collection account?

The processes in the "Top Memory Consumers" view under "Hosts | Memory Details" dashboard are different than the processes in the "Memory: Top...

What method is a Unix based fglam using to resolve the FMS hostname that it is configured to point to?

What kind of permissions are needed for monitoring Rapid Recovery Core from Foglight Quest vROOM cartridge?

What kind of permission Office 365 Monitoring need?

What kind of metrics are available for SQL Server individual in-memory tables.

What items do we need for a minimum email configuration so Foglight can send email notifications?  How do these email settings match up to what I...

What SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2 JDBC drivers do the Foglight database agents use to connect to the monitored hosts?

A WatchDog process is started along with Foglight Agent Manager. Why is it created and used for?

What is the Zonar and why can sometimes only the past one hour of data be shown?

Network 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.

What does the "Log Flush Wait Time" alarm mean?

There are three variants of Vapp setup for Foglight  Foglight-FVE-FSM-vApp-xLarge: install this version if there are less than 10,000 virtual...

On the Foglight machine there is a qcn_runner.exe and a corresponding Quest Process Runner running. What is it used for?

When looking at the built-in groups on the "User Management" dashboard ,there is the group "Foglight Users". This group has no roles assigned but...

What is the purpose of rule EXC IS Database Log Generation Checkpoint Depth

If there are multiple gateway servers within a Netscaler environment, what is the best procedure to monitor these particular servers in a...

What is the location of Postgre database and the logs in the Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition virtual Appliance?

Would there be any impact if the Foglight Management Server (FMS) Federator IP is changed?

The Installation and Setup Guide section " Logging in to Foglight " doesn't indicate the default login/password for the Web Console. it just...

What is the difference in VMware Black List feature in Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition (FVE) and Foglight Evolve (FE)

What is the different between a memory wait baseline deviation alarm and a memory utilization alarm?

What is the difference between the brighthouse.ini and the infobright.cnf? In some installations there is a brighthouse.ini but no infobright...

What is the difference between "Disk Utilization" and "File System Capacity" rule?

When exporting alarms it was noted that many of the alarms are cleared by the "__service__" user or the "system" user.  What is the difference...

What is the default user and password for logging on to Foglight console?

Is there a DB2 expansion pack dashboard available like the one Oracle and SQL Server?  Is the SQL Server or Oracle expansion pack supported?

What are the commands that the FileLogMonitorAgent agent runs to get the content of the logs? This is sometimes required by sysadmins to grant...

What is the bandwidth used by the DB2, Oracle, and SQL Server agents to the Foglight Management Server via the network?

What is Intelliprofile and Baseline in Foglight? How to set the Intelliprofile thresholds? How the Intelliprofile is calculated? General...

What is best practice for suppressing Alarms when one Exchange DAG member is in maintenance mode

When I configure my HDS Hi-Command I can configure several different types of arrays for it to monitor.   Which of these arrays will Foglight for...

When a Foglight Agent Manager (fglAM) host disconnects unexpectedly from the Foglight Management Server (FMS) due to a network outage - what is...

What external internet addresses does Foglight and Foglight Evolve communicate with? What external internet addresses should be set in the proxy...

What does the value TSCAN in the Sybase Top I/O Active Tables panel Table Scan column represent?

What triggers Undo Size Oracle Advisories? What does it mean and how can the issue be fixed?

What does the Resource breakdown represent?  What does the percentage for each category reflects?

The rule Number of Processes fired with an Abnormal number of processes alarm message. Does this mean the Host is struggling or is under heavy...

What does Catalyst Free Database Space Checking rule do?

"The  values for the registry variable vmLogicalDrive display  1.0 for fatal , 5.0 for Critical and 10.0 for Warning...

Quest Support enables you to create and manage cases, also known as Service Requests. What types of information should be included with Service...

What types of databases can Foglight use for a FMS and SQL PI repository?

What data won't be collected by the DB2 agent if the monitored switches are not turned on?

What combinations of OS types for SQL PI Repositories can be run with Oracle agents running SQL PI?

What should be added to a service so that the LogMonitor alarm (Record Severity) is associated with the service? The objective is to e-mail the...

What are the various JVM tuning parameters in the server.config configuration file?

What are the operating system built-in rules that monitor the health of the operating system environment?

What are the steps required to use an external signed certificate in the Foglight Managment Server (FMS) so user and Foglight Agent Manager (FGLAM...

What are the requirements if there is a firewall between AWS agent and monitored instance

What are the OpenStack supported platforms/components for Foglight for Virtualization OpenStack? Detect...

What are the necessary steps for monitoring VMware/Horizon View Environment

What are the different logs that FMS creates in FMS_Home\logs? At what size does the ManagementServer log roll over at? Is this configurable...

Recommended protocol to monitor a"WORKGROUP" machine out of the domain? Recommended settings? Correct password structure?

What do the Avg Row Counts (Average Row Count) metrics in the MySQL agent dashboard represent?

What are the Additional performance tuning suggestions for Foglight when ran as VMware virtual machine?

What are minimum permission needed for VMware agent account on VMware virtual center server?

What does the all in the Foglight license mean? Which is the database cross platform license?

Database agents use "Average Active Sessions" to display the workload. What is this?

What Agent Types are FglAM HA Aware

What additional privileges are required for VMware agent account in order to perform Recommendations suggested by Optimizer

Transferring the FglAM installer using wget from a Linux server. wget -O fglam-5_6_0-linux-ia32.bin "http://server1:8080/console/installer...

WebMonitor reports "HTTP 500 (Internal Server Error)" for URL that contains JSON data.

WebMonitor agent is reporting false fatal alarms about the status of service but on the contrary the response time of websites monitored is...

WebMonitor agent reports  "401 - Unauthorized" when attempting to monitor a WebSite. A "Username and Password" credential was created for...

"Error 500" is reported by the WebMonitor agent when attempting to monitor a URL that is used for an application that is not Web based.  The...

WebInspect reports "HTTP Verb Tunneling" (11534) vulnerability , CWE 749, for Foglight 5.9.5

When the same URL is monitored by Web Monitor agents reporting to different Child Foglight Management Servers (FMSs), the information for the URL...

We would like to see the cluster storage info: Vol 1, Vol2 , Vol 3 under Hyper-V dashboards, along with metrics on storage/space, memory on these...

Question: We have some old Virtual Centers listed in the VMWare agent drop down list. How can I remove them?

An upgrade of a virtual appliance is being performed but during the start of the upgrade the following error is seen: WARNING: /tmp does not...

Warning alarms were triggered from the Monitored Host rule instead of Critical alarms when hosts were rebooted.   Ping is enabled so Critical...

What is Support's policy on creating custom dashboards or reports?

A security scan found vulnerability  CVE-2015-4000 on Foglight Management Server SSL ports 8443 and 4444 .

On a VSAN datastore dashboard no performance related metrics can be seen.

VMwarePerformance agent did not fire any alarm notifying VMware services were down on vCenter server

VMwareView agent not collecting data after upgrading to 5.6.16.1 due to error returned by Get-LocalSession command

VMWVirtualMachineHostStorage topology object causing high number of churns for property virtualDisks

User Session count is "0" in VMware View Environment dashboard. Agent DEBUG log shows that it is collecting remote user sessions data from...

Vmware:  Change Events is not processing Agent logs show: <agent manager unique ID>/VMwarePerformance/5.6.15.1/VMwarePerformance/<vmware agent...

Missing information like Logical Disk space utilization is missing. VMware Tools is running on affected Virtual Machines.

VMware View agent support for non matching DNS & NETBIOS names of  AD domain.

If the Display name of VMware/Horizon pool contains a special character like "&"  or the pool is empty then Horizon Pools dashboard in Foglight...

VMware View Connection agent fails to start due to Kerberos Authentication failures caused by too great Clock skew. Below error is logged in Agent...

VMware/Horizon View agent stops collecting data after the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) hosting the agent is upgraded to ver 5.8.5.2 even though...

VMware View Environment dashboard is not showing the state of the Services correctly and showing as not running.

After connect the VMware VIEW Agents, there is an alert with the following message: "Message. DB is not connected! Please check your Event...

For some Virtual Machines the VMWare Summary and Resource Information does not show the complete information or shows wrong information. For...

Why does VMware tools alarm keep firing?

The out-of-the-box role mappings do not allow the VMware Admin tab (in VMware Environment dashboard) to be disabled without limiting access to...

VMware SRM (Site Recovery Manager) offline images count as Foglight Evolve license

The following two messages can be observed from the Agent Manager logs:  Collector.esxHardwareCollection scheduled job ran longer [427,995 ms...

Memory optimizer report, doesn't seem correct. We see lots of machines, has the recommendation "Increase Memory Allocation from 4 GB to 4.7 GB...

Several show significant differences in resource utilization, some are indicating maximum CPU utilization while others are showing acceptable...

A. Go in FVE(Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise) under  Home │ VMware Environment B. Locate the Virtual Machine in question, then click on...

While navigating to VMware │ VMware Environment, clicking on Optimizer tab and then Snapshots tile it becomes really slow.

Starting with VFVE 8.3/VMware cartridge version 5.6.16, VMwarePerormance agent user credentials are stored in a lockbox instead of hard-coding in...

After upgrading Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition or Foglight, links under Homes display VMWare Environment_OLD & VMWare Environment...

When searching for an ESX host in VMware Explorer (topology search), duplicate ESX hosts are returned. As per the search result, it appears there...

After adding/selecting and saving the required ESX hosts within the License Control dashboard (VMware Environment | Administration tab | License...

Vmware Environment| Monitoring:  No valid domains were found for the Domain Viewer; either the list of domains was empty, or the provided domains...

The VMware dashboards drill downs are grayed out and no data is being displayed in the VMware dashboards. Reviewing the agent logs the following...

When accessing the VMWARE enviroment dashboards view the user gets an authorization error, "There Is No Data To Display" Or "Sorry. The view...

Within the VMware | VMware Environment dashboard, the Datastores tab is showing a '0' value. This is incorrect as there are several datastores...

Within the VMware Environment dashboard, the Virtual Switches icon displays as a broken icon.

Within the VMware Environment dashboard, it shows a 'zero' count for Resource Pools, Datastores and Virtual machines. However, when navigating to...

After a new installation of Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition (FVE) v8.0 (using VMware cartridge/agent 5.6.15), the VMware...

After upgrading the Foglight for VMware cartridge, the  component tiles  in the VMware Environment dashboard are blank (display 0 values). The...

Vmware Environment> ESX host > explore > SAN Data Topology not displaying (Exceed Connection Limit)

Vmware Environment| FAQts| All Questions| Which Clusters have the most available CPU?   Clusters Names shortened.  Extending the columns does not...

VMware agent is active and is listed under agent status but there is no data visible on the VMware dashboard. User is not able to collect any...

VMware Disk data is missing in monthly reports. Some data is being collected some are not on the Virtual Machine Disk Addition – Detail report.

Vmware Environment Dashboards:  Data Gaps seen throughout the graphs in Vmware environment. 

VMWare agents stops collecting data frequently and the virtual machines need to be restarted for the agent to start data collection. Below error...

FMS and FGLAM log has these repeated errors. 2015-10-08 11:54:52.979 ERROR [Persistence-2-thread-1604] com.quest.nitro.service.persistence.obs...

Sessions established by VMware Performance agent to monitored vCenter are not getting Closed resulting in multiple Idle sessions

In some cases the upgrade of the VMware cartridge fails with below error: Could not complete the requested operation. An Object with the name...

The VMware agent is being used to monitor a number of Virtual Machines. The values being collected are either "N/A" or 0.0. There are no errors in...

VMware agent stops collecting data due to disassociated lockbox/credentials. An entry similar to below is logged in the logs: INFO    [Quartz[0...

We already have setup some agents that are using a credential of type Domain, User Name and Password. We are trying to add a VMware agent and want...

VMware Agent package deployment fails due to insufficient memory on the Agent Manager (FglAM) server due to insufficient memory. Below message is...

VMWare agent is not collecting any data and failed with an error below: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MIN.088 ECHO    ERROR [Quartz[0]-23] com.quest.agent.esx...

VMW Agent Messages: Agent message. virtualcenter.company.org. The agent has entered an invalid state and is unable to proceed with normal operation...

VMware agent fails to collect Logical Disk metrics due to NPE error caused by the result of empty affinity/anti-affinity rule configured in vSphere.

VMware Agent encounters ClassCastException error if a VM disk is using raw device mapping. Below error is logged in agent log: ERROR   [Quartz[0...

While creating a new VMWare agent, the connection validation to the vCenter failed with host, port, user and/or password are incorrect.

The VMWare agent is not able to connect to the vCenter and the following error appears in the log file: --- 2019-07-31 18:10:03.395 ERROR [FglAM...

VMware 5.8.2.1 Hotfix

Vmware Agent 5.6.11 appears to be collecting twice

Many alarms are being triggered by the rule: VMW Virtual Machine Packet Loss This is the alarm message: Network Packet Loss. Network packet...

Alarm is not being triggered

Value reported by an alarm from VMW Virtual Machine Logical Drive Estimated Fill Time does not match with corresponding value displayed on Stoage...

VMW Phantom snapshots rule does not raise alarms even though the alarm condition is met.

Getting critical alerts quite often from rule: VMW Resource Pool Percent Ready What does the rule indicate? Is the ESX server busy, VM or the...

After reaching thresholds of 90% for warning and 93% for critical no alarm shows up.

What does VMW Stale Data Management Rule do?

Alarms with low values can be seen, as an example below: CPU Utilization. Unusual CPU utilization: 9%. Virtual machine "x" is outside the normal...

How does the  rule:VMW Distributed Virtual Port Group Available Ports work? How to tweak that best suits the environment?

VMware vMotion was recently carried out, which moved several VMs from one ESXi host to another. The VMs are successfully displayed in the ESXi...

VMW Distributed Virtual Switch Available Ports alarm does not have the Agent/Host/Agent type defined

Help understanding the warning condition logic for this rule and confused by the RCRcpu and RCRmem variables and their associated IF clause in the...

VMW Datastore Space Available rule reports incorrect unit (as MB instead of GB) in the alarm email notification Alarm message:  Datastore...

VMs (Virtual Machines) number on Welcome page and Virtual Environment summary page do not match with each other nor with the number in vSphere...

There's a topology object VMWDistributedVirtualSwitchHostMemberPnicSpec which shows status as either ACTIVE, PASSIVE, STANDBY, NOT_CONNECTED. But...

vmExplorer dashboard reports different CPU and Memory utilization than OS Perfmon (performance Monitor)

Does the data representing VM %CPU ready times display a single vCPU's ready time, or a summation of multiple vCPU %CPU ready times?

Is there a dashboard for VM other than vmExplorer, I should say similar to the one like the hosts dashboard? Where a dashboard which is going to...

Foglight for Oracle supports monitoring OS clusters residing on VMware machines only in the configuration of one OS cluster node per data center...

Virtualization:  vApp stuck in FSCK.   Boot loader ends too fast to enable single user mode System message shows: systemd-fsck[344]:  /dev...

Virtual machine is not showing or showing incorrect info for its logical drives.

Virtualization Support Policy - If one is installing standard Foglight on a virtual server, one must reserve resources so that it functions as a...

Virtualization metrics will not be collected in cases where the DNS name entry for the virtual image is not reported correctly to the data center...

Virtual Switch/vSwtich monitoring is a new feature FVE 7.2 introduced.  In some situations, the vSwitch tile may not show up after FVE 7.2 upgrade...

Virtual switches tile in VMware environment tab has '0' value in Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition (FVE) 7.2.

A limited number of Virtual Machines (VMs) within a VMware environment are 'powered off', but are displayed as being 'powered on' within Foglight.

Virtual Machines display only hostname, which might be the same in case of production vs QA environments. e.g.  app1.qa.acme.com vs. appl1.dev...

When looking at Virtual Machine Health ( Environment Overview -> Getting Started TAB ) how does Foglight determine what VMs have low...

Is there a way to have a report for VM Capacity trending. Similar to what the Datastore Capacity Trending report does, but specific for a single...

How to build Virtual Machine OS Uptime Dashboard?

"Virtual Machine (VM) Quick View" dashboard does not sort the VMs alphabetically as was done earlier in the previous versions of Foglight of...

Virtual Machine property osDisplayName marked as obsolete. This results in the OS name not being visible in drag and drop.

Virtual Center Crashed if “Historic Data Resume Collection” is enabled in VMware Performance agent

vFoglight does not populate with any data. When looking at the VMware Infrastructure Agent Connector logs, the following can be seen: YYYY-MM-DD...

Customers with larger collection environments will encounter problems with collections. Typically, symptoms will include sporadic inventory and...

When scheduling reports as excel format, the attachments sent from Foglight are sent as .excel and cannot be opened

Unable to search virtual machines in Automation workflow

It has been noticed that the Foglight server will send data to this URL http://fglusage.quest.com/view?id=457ecd22-f83a-43d8-a978-70245a42c9c9...

Here is a brief tutorial on how to create custom reports.

Moving embedded MySQL Database from its default directory structure.

The vFoglight VMware Agent is installed on the VC, however, no data is populating within vFoglight. From collector log, the following can be seen...

After successfully installing the vFoglight for SQL Server cartridge, an issue appears whereby when the Home button for a Database is clicked, a...

Messages seen in the connector.log of the VMWare agent are as follows: 2011-06-08 13:55:43,947 [5] ERROR VirtualESXAgent.DataEnvelope - Failed to...

Tivoli Storage Manager cannot complete the backup of Foglight backend database (SQL Server).    The following error is displayed: 05/13/2011 10...

Any canned report from vFoglight with 60 days of data cannot be generated from Reports-> Generate a Report  

Trying to create a rule to check on 'Number of total paths on a server' (1024 , as defined for storage maximums) &amp; fire an alarm/alert every...

Veeam agent uses only HTTP protocol to connect to the Veeam Rest API.

Veeam agent cannot connect to the Veeam Enterprise backup manager. Below error is seen in the Veeam agent logs when Foglight trys to get the jobs...

vCloudDirector Dependencies are constantly deleted / recreated causing severe topology churn

vCloud environment shows the following tiles sorted in this way: Provider VDCs Org VDCs vSphere Resources Organizations vApps Virtual...

vCloud Director agent setup fails and below error is logged in the discovery agent log: 2013-10-30 15:08:55.759 ECHO    <VCloudDirectorAgent/5.6...

vCenter Custom attributes not being imported into vFoglight using the new VMware Performance agent

VCenter is not showing data in the VMwarePerformance agent dashboard for vCloud with multiple clusters

Fail to import vApp in a vCenter Cluster Error message: "Cannot deploy OVF descriptor on cluster <Cluster Name> since it contains a vApp and the...

Vapp startup failed. In the Foglight Management Server logs the following errors can be seen: MySQL: --- FATAL   [forge-startup] com.quest...

Upon FVE (Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise) vApp restart eth1 interface times out.

It was observed a peak of 240% on Cluster CPU utilization. This value should not go over 100%. Note: It was noticed that "Total CPU Resources...

Users can use the Database Management view on the Databases Administration dashboard to manage the list of monitored databases and validate their...

How can the SQL Server agent native connection utility be used to test a connection to a remote SQL Server instance?

How can the Oracle agent native connection utility be used to test a connection to a remote Oracle instance?

In the Global Administration | User-defined Collections screen, it is possible to create two collections that bear the same name with a...

How can the DB2 agent native connection utility be used to test a connection to a remote DB2 instance?

One or more of the following alarms have been raised by Foglight:- “Volume ReadOps XXX on EC2 Instance XXX is outside the normal operating...

One or more of the following alarms have been raised by Foglight:- “High Virtual Machine Storage IOPS of XXX”  “High Average E2E Latency of...

The following alarm “High Virtual Machine Memory Utilization of XXX”  has been raised by Foglight.

The following alarm “High Memory utilization XXX% on EC2 Instance XXX.” has been raised by Foglight.

Windows Group Policy Objects can be used to automatically configure HTTP or HTTPS listeners in WinRM. Enable or disable the appropriate default...

Using Existing Host Credentials as OS Credentials for DB2 agents

The following alarm “High CPU utilization XXX% on EC2 Instance XXX.” has been raised by Foglight.

The following alarm “High Virtual Machine CPU Utilization of XXX” has been raised by Foglight for a virtual machine running in Azure.

Normally, before starting a REST API session, the user needs to login with the Auth Token using the security/login call to get an access-token and...

Can Amazon PostgreSQL RDS used as a Foglight Repository?

Users with no home page set see a blank page after logging in to the Foglight console. The following  ERROR message is reported in the...

When navigating to the User Management page the Users tab doesn't load.

There are two symptoms which can cause this problem - 1. The alarms dashboard on the Federator (master) server displays events that have been...

When logged in to the Foglight dashboard, the user session times out after 60 minutes.

User password for the Foglight Console locked due to incorrectly entering the wrong one.

Enable user/role X to view all dashboards but not configure alarms or do any modifications. Currently there is only allow “all or nothing”, either...

There is a custom dashboard which uses views that allow a user to click on a metric and go to the "metric analysis" page. There is 1 known user...

The "User Level Access", "Manage Alarm Blackouts", and "Manage Agent Blackouts" areas are not supported for the Azure SQL database agents.

How many UDC Collections can run simultaneously?

Are user defined collections available for the MySQL agent?

Is it possible to remove/clear the "Messages" on the Usage Feedback dashboard?

URL links from Foglight email alerts does not resolve to the alarm.

How can the Tomcat version in Foglight be upgraded from 7.0.94?

Can the postgres database used for the PI repository be upgraded?

Upgrading the agent makes the historical collection to restart:

Upgrading from unsupported Foglight 5.5.x directly to Foglight 5.7.x Note:   If this KB is not followed some agents may be deleted automatically...

While upgrading FMS, upon the completion, it says upgrade successfully finished with warnings, please check the logs for details. Below error was...

VMware Tools is pre-installed with the Virtual Machines contained within the Foglight for Virtualization (FVE) vApp. However, it is a requirement...

Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition 8.3 may be directly upgraded from Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition versions 8.2 and...

The upgrade checker tool is showing that there are still cartridges which needs to be upgraded, but all cartridges have been upgraded and the old...

The following error is observed within the Foglight web console every time a Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) instance is upgraded: Upgrade agent...

WebMonitor supports text search of webpages, this is not documented and should be added to the manuals.

Update/Remove unwanted Application Permissions in O365 agent setup wizard and Consent page

Server Services Inspect rules from VMware View cartridge contain the old services name in severity condition and need to be updated to include new...

The following database cartridges use the Log4j 1.2.17 version SQL Server (5.9.7.20 through 5.9.7.22) Oracle (5.9.7.20 through 5.9.7.22) Azure...

The customer has Exchange 2010 and 2013 servers in their organization. They have installed Foglight for Exchange and configured the agents for...

If a blackout object is missing (for example when it has been deleted with topologyservice.deleteObject using the Script Console), the...

Infrastructure Agents not gathering metrics properly:  UnixAgent does not collect metrics from Linux or Oracle Solaris host UnixAgentPlus...

The following messages can be seeing from Linux monitored host; commands executed by the user configured for data collection within Foglight...

Updated to IC 5.9.4.1 but still the process monitoring fails to see a process called OSWatcher.sh running on Linux.  The process is clearly...

Dashboards showing "n/a" for some of the metrics on a linux host.

Although steps for configuring the "/etc/sudoers" file has been done, the Unix agents are not collecting Top IO Process metrics for a Linux host...

Review and add detail to the alarm messages of the SQL Server cartridge rules. Particularly the units for the metrics being reported.

Even though agent account has been granted required permissions, below error is logged in the agent manager log when trying to monitor Office365...

Unable to use Send SNMP Trap Action from File System Capacity rule. Following error in FMS log is observed: WARN [Action-4-thread-14] com...

Unable to use Microsoft SQL Server Cluster as a database backend for Foglight Management System.  Foglight is able to connect OK to a single...

Navigation Panel| Dashboards| Administration| Agents| Agent Managers Unable to upgrade to Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) 5.8.1 through the...

Most of the FglAMs have "No" listed under the "Upgradable | Host" column so they cannot be upgraded. The output of the following command lists...

Unable to unlock the DB2 agent using the "Unlock Agents" panel in the Database Technical Support Dashboard. The message " Failed to unlock agent...

Unable to stop an Agent Manager (Fglam) to delete it

After installing an operating system patch on a Linux machine, the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) or Foglight Management Server (FMS) does not...

Getting "Unable to send test email. Please check the application log and Email configuration" when trying to send a test email. Foglight...

Unable to see the Optimization/Optimizer tab in the Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition web console.

Unable to see the right panel where I can administer agents.

Unable to see performance metric for one ESX server but all other ESX work fine on Foglight

When creating a new dashboard "Databases" is not shown in the Action Panel

Rule editor does not save changes when enabling a previously disabled severity (and viceversa) in a Multiple Severity Rule

Unable to run root cause analyzer when the selected ESX host is large.

Unable to resize the storage by using the optimizer tab in VMWare Environment dashboard. The "Reclaim Now" button in the storage dashboard does not...

A user cannot recreate an Azure SQL, Oracle, SQL Server, or DB2 database agent that was previously deleted and does not appear listed in the Agent...

Unable to connect to Foglight UI. The browser is showing: "This page can't be displayed"

Does Foglight Synthetic Monitor require license as a separate product or is it included with the Foglight Management Server license?

Is there a script to pull information about database space from Foglight DB repository?

Is there a script that returns agent information like cartridge name and cartridge version?

Is there a rule to monitor free Inodes?

Is there a rule to alert if a Forest Trust breaks?

Is there documentation, for example a Reference Guide, that outlines the metrics that are collected by the Foglight for VMware agent?

I'd like to be able to get a view on which FglAM's are connecting to a concentrator vs. directly to the FMS.  Or from the concentrator point of...

Is there a command I can use to backup the embedded Foglight MySQL database while Foglight is running?

Is the virtual appliance for 'Foglight for Virtualization 7.2 Enterprise Edition vulnerable to GHOST (CVE-2015-0235)?

Monitoring inodes metrics is important in our environment because production outages have occurred due to inode exhaustion.  Can the UnixAgent and...

Is support for monitoring Windows clusters planned?

Does Foglight monitor availability groups and alert on failed groups or group listeners or anything that is new with SQL Server alwaysOn...

Is there any self maintenance in the SQL PI components to rebuild indexes similar to what Performance Analysis has?

 Is Oracle RAC Scan Databases supported to be used as the backend database for the Foglight Management server at all please? Is Oracle RAC Scan...

The SQL Server agent includes an option to "Use NTLMv2" authentication which can be set to true or false for the SQL Server and OS connections.  

There are lot of agent package files (.gar) with incremental number (xxx-0.gar, xxx-1.gar, xxx-2.gar) in <FglAM_install>\deploy\deployed folder. In...

Foglight encrypts the user passwords with MD5 algorithm. Is it possible to modify Foglight to use SHA-256 instead of MD5?

Is it possible to use a single service integration key instead of a full access API key to connect to the PagerDuty service?

Is it possible to upgrade the vApp OpenSuse Operating System?

Is it possible to trigger a Foglight HA failover via the Foglight UI?

Is it possible to setup an email notification when new user logs onto Foglight console

Is there a way to curb the alerting to one email to notify for all the databases moving, instead of multiple emails for each database that is...

Is it possible to monitor vCenter appliance Linux OS photon services when the services go down?

The Windows OS Process Agent reads the "Anzeigenamen" (Displayname). However, due to Operating System (OS) language differences, the display names...

Is it possible to monitor and alert on the number of Paths to LUNs provided to an ESX host? For example, if the current Total Paths is 4, and it...

Is it possible to monitor dynamic memory allocation of a virtual machine with the Infrastructure agent?

Is it possible to modify the subject and body of the e-mail sent that contains the scheduled reports? Our report names use Chinese characters and...

Is it possible to manage database login credentials via Credential dashboard?

Is it possible to leave the recipient email address blank/null for alarm email notifications? It is a requirement to leave the email recipient...

Is it possible to include multiple email addresses in a REG variable

Is it possible to generate a report that will present data only for business hours of the week ? e.g.  M-F 8a-5p for the last week OR M-F 8a-5p for...

Is it possible to filter Optimizer recommendations for all the VMs in a specific Cluster instead of entire vCenter

Monitored host performance metrics in Child FMS doesn't match with performance metrics in Federator FMS . Host object shows multiple aliases...

When deleting a snapshot the “last Modified date” in the  "VMware Optimizer| Snapshots" dashboard is incorrect.

After applying latest cartridge upgrade, Vmware Environment is not updating information regarding recollection.

Use an local account without hostname prefix to setup MSSQL based PI Repository The local account can connect to the instance but will fail when...

I follow the KB232945 and find incompatible Cart-Builder-Complete on my FMS, where can I find the compatible version?

Clicking on the Oracle and SQL Server " Inactive Sessions " in Databases Overview, Sessions panel pops an incorrect chart. The chart displays a...

In vFoglight when I go to the VMware explorer | Monitor tab the Commands graph does not seem to be correct.   It is not showing a count when it...

In vFoglight the read and write latencies do not add up to the total latency.

In vFoglight when I upgraded many of my agents are having problems.   I have a large environment and have upgraded the resources my FglAM uses...

Configuring the Collection times for specific agents. There are two fields, would like to know more about “Fast-Mode Collection Interval” and...

In vFoglight Storage, the security permissions for the Filers are incorrect in the manual.

In vFoglight Storage, when I go to the Storage Environment | FAQt’s tab, the menu times out or is very slow.  

The storage mapping back to NFS on a Netapp is not working as expected. No maps or dependancies are being created

In vFoglight Storage, in the Resource Utilization section under the Storage Capacity Summary, the metrics for the Dell Compellent does not match...

In vFoglight Storage, the LUN Total ops rate is zero.  I have a Read and Write rate being displayed that are non-zero, but the total is reading zero.

In vFoglight Storage, the Latency number numbers for my Compellent are wrong

In vFoglight Storage, the mapping between my NetApps and VMs is not being displayed.

In vFoglight Storage, the latency for the Compellent is incorrect.   It should be reporting milliseconds, but it is reporting in seconds.

In vFoglight storage, my MasterAgent is not working. How can I remove it manually? I cannot remove it from the console. Sometimes an error is...

In vFoglight Storage, my VNXs are not displaying all their LUNS.   The VNX Arrays have a RAID10 architecture.

In vFoglight Storage, my Dell Compellent is getting a error on the dashboard. In the Resource Utilization section under the Storage Capacity...

In vFoglight Storage, my NetApp aggregate is reporting more disks than it has.   Many are in an ‘unknown’ physical state.   The numbers of disk...

In vFoglight Storage, my Cisco’s show no metrics.   They were working before I upgraded to 3.0

In vFoglight Storage, my Brocade is not showing all its ports.   I have 2 virtual switches and only one is being displayed.   The Chassis Role...

In vFoglight Storage, when I try to install the SAM (Storage Agent Master) it says I do not have .net 3.5. sp1 installed even though I do.

In vFoglight Storage, I have multiple arrays in my SMIS provider and it is only pulling in one.   There is at least one array in the SMIS...

In vFoglight Storage, after upgrading to 3.x the Compellent is not collecting.  It was collecting without problems in version 2.5.x

In vFoglight Storage 2.0, My NetApps are not mapping to my Datastores.

In vFoglight Storage 2.5 with the EMC SMIS collection, not all my LUNS are displayed.

In vFoglight Storage 2.0 the error message, “Metric not provided by vendor” when I view some of my graphs.

In vFoglight Storage 2.5 I am having trouble connecting to my EMC VNX.

In vFoglight Storage 2.0 my agents are not collecting.   I upgraded the FMS which included an upgrade to the FglAM.   Not I am having problems...

In vFoglight Storage 2.0 I receive the error message, “A previously unidentified error occurred communicating with SMI-S server: Contact Support...

In vFoglight Storage 2.0 my brocade SMIS collector will not collect from my brocade.   My Brocades are running FOC 7.0 or higher

The Full Text in the blocking history tree and in Overview tab after clicking on the SQL Text link isn't similar.

SQL text in SQL Server 2014 instances may be truncated.

In order for the OS collections to work in the Database Agents with Windows, Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) or Windows Remote Management...

When Navigating to Optimizer | Storage | Scheduled Actions | Show History   It shows an error: “An error has ocurred. Please check your...

In my Storage Environment dashboard, there are tabs missing.

In Foglight when you create scripts in the script console, you would like them to be usable by other users. Currently only the user that creates...

In Foglight, the VMWare View servers are not correct.  It is displaying more servers than are in my infrastructure.

In vFoglight Storage, the Storage Agent is failing its installation on the Server Requirement page it is unable to detect either operating system...

In Foglight Storage Manager we did not get an alert when we had a failure on one of our NetApp filers; a shelf lost a path to the controller...

In Foglight Storage Manager my VMAX will not collect.  I get timeouts and error messages.

When attempting to download components using a URL in Foglight 5.9.5 one of the following errors is reported: 404 page not found    or...

Unable to download agent manager (FglAM) log file from a non-FIPS child FMS server. A Retrieve Log File popup with the message Cannot invoke...

Snapshots and Abandoned VM Images deleted some days ago will still show in Optimizer dashboards.

FgLAM is unable to connect to Foglight error  "Could not send upstream request"

The version FVE (Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise) that is currently running needs to be upgraded. Please can it be confirmed that the...

Foglight uses traces to monitor SQL Server databases. The database agent runs a trace (TRACEWRITE) on the Master database when collecting metrics...

"Disk Free Space" rule fires alarms for Optical drives.  

During Resource negotiation, Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) adds queue disk size settings from agent configuration to what is set in state/default...

Not expected behavior: When set up the right credential to monitor OS, if  'Evaluate This Condition' is marked, application cannot monitor the...

Receive a browser message error stating: “A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to Run slowly. If it continues to run, your...

Foglight UI is not working once you log in using Internet Explorer locally in the Foglight server.

The EventLog rule is a simple rule and does not send alarms to the Alarms console but cannot be found in new installed of the Foglight Management...

I would like to receive an alert on Filer Volume Capacity.

I upgraded my storage to 4.0 and it is no longer working. This can happen in a couple of circumstances. 1) Upgrading from versions of Foglight...

I upgraded to 4.0 and my Switch collections are broken.  They are not collecting either topology or Performance.

Followed upgrade instructions in FSM 3.2 release notes and received the following message after activating agents. The version of the HDCCS or...

I installed the vFoglight storage cartridge and the UI does not show the Storage environment dashboard.   There is a storage dashboard, but it...

I do not know how to monitor a Web Page in vFoglight. How do I configure it?

I have data in my storage dashboards that is old and should not be there.   I have either removed devices (due to failures) and replaced them or...

I get an error message when I validate my NetApp.  The error is “An unidentified error occurred.: Contact Support. Extended information: General...

HyperV agents are failing to run the "FilesCollection" with error :  ERROR   [FilesCollector] com.quest.agent.hyperv.command.resource...

Does Hyper-V has  supports Capacity Manager and Capacity Director?

The Hyper-V rule "Memory Utilization Trend" is raising a FATAL alarm when there is an increase in Memory on the monitored Hyper-V server.

The Hyper-V Optimizer dashboard is not displaying data within any of its tabs (CPU / Memory / Abandoned VM Images / Powered Off VMs / Checkpoints...

When attempting to make changes to a Hyper-V virtual machine through Foglight, it failed to complete any of these changes. DCOM/WMI...

After Hyper-V Virtual Machine was renamed to match the name of another VM recently deleted, it no longer shows any metrics on Hyper-V dashboard.

Applied memory recommendations suggested by Hyper-V Optimizer on target Hyper-V VM that was configured to use Dynamic Memory. Also changer the...

Navigate to  Hyper-V Environment │Optimizer  Click on Checkpoints Below error is logged in Management server log: Line 66,240: Error...

Memory Utilization cannot be observed for any Hyper-V (HV) based Virtual Machines (VMs). The HV servers themselves are able to display this data...

Hyper-V agents do not submit any metrics to their respective dashboards.

Hyper-V Agents configured to use WinRM randomly stop collecting data. Logs indicate that Agent Manager server unable to communicate with KDC server.

When monitoring a large Hyper-V environment using WinRM connection, excessive number of logons are seen on the authenticating Domain Controller...

When monitoring large Hyper-V environment, the UI times out after navigating to Hyper-V Environment | Administration | Hyepr-V Agents

In Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition 7.1 (Foglight Management Server 5.6.10.1) running Hyper-V cartridge/agent version 5.6.11, Hyper-V...

In Hyper-V Environment -> Optimizer -> Abandoned VM tab, instead of data it displays "An error has occurred. Please check your logs." In the logs...

Hype-V Capacity Management dashboard throws an error after selecting a cluster. Agent log shows errors from script "system:analytics_hyperv...

Hyepr-V agent repeatedly logs WMI query error about vSwitch collection in agent log. If agent is collecting data using WMI then below error is...

When visiting the url "https://server:port", it would be redirected to "https://server:port/console". We can see the HSTS header for the console...

Foglight VMware agent is designed for collecting infromation from vCenter to provide VMware virtual environment performance data for Foglight and...

Is there a way to display or list the MAC address(es) of a host when using the Foglight UI? 

How can users determine the build number of a cartridge installed in Foglight?

How to verify if a rule is functioning properly.

How to use wildcard certificates in Foglight?

How to use upgrade pre-checker (Pre-upgrade analysis utility) for Foglight 5.9.1, Foglight 5.9.2 and Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise...

How to use timerange in custom alarm report.

How to use the Foglight for VMware vCenter ActionPack. 

Where can instructional material which explains usage of the Rest API be found?

To reduce license count for ESXI hosts and Virtual Machines which can be excluded from monitoring. This will help user to control the license...

After enabling the Forward Alarms as SNMP Traps  rule, we noticed that the trap was actually sent twice, once when the alarm was cleared and once...

How to access an FTP server (secure)  via command line? How to use FTP via command line?

 How to use Foglight for VMware vCenter ActionPack?

How can one Export/Import Services and Its child objects such as found in the Service Builder? How can one copy rules from one FMS to another?

How to use AuthToken for sharing Foglight dashboard v.s NoLogin user

How to use a different user to log into Foglight Web Console with the same permissions of the default user?

The 5.7.5.4 FMS release provides the ability to upload FMS / FglAM support bundles directly from the Foglight UI to the FTP site. How does one...

How to upgrade vAPP ( Virtual Appliance )? Any recommendations in regards to backup prior to upgrade? From which version of vAPP can we upgrade to...

Need to upgrade the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) within the Foglight Management Server (FMS) or Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) installation.

How to upgrade from Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition (FVE) to Foglight Evolve (FE)

The upgrade has the install path of <INSTALL_DIR/Foglight. The appliance build that we has /home/Foglight. If I change the path to /home/Foglight...

How to upgrade Active Directory and/or Exchange Agents?

Getting the following error: com.quest.qsi.fason.framework.connections.common.exceptions.FrameworkUserLockedException: For security reasons, the...

How to uninstall Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition (FVE) or Foglight for Storage Management (FSM) vAPP appliance?

How to Uninstall Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition (FVE) related cartridges?

How to uninstall Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition (FVE) or Foglight for Storage Management (FSM)?

What are the steps required to completely remove FglAM from a server?

How to undeploy a deployed lockbox? 

How can SQL PI advisories be turned off in Foglight?

Is there a way to switch of alarms for specific hosts (test environment), while other hosts (production environment) are still receiving alarms?

How to turn off alarms for certain severity condition in a Rule?

*** retired due to  1. DELL - Quest Rebranding 2. Based on older version WinRM connections are failing

After checking permissions on the vCenter, also that credentials are properly set and that there is connectivity to the designated port working but...

How to troubleshooting NINJA integration no data on Foglight ?

Use case 1 Occasionally, there will be some volatile objects that cannot be easily traced. The topology change logger has been added as a...

Host objects monitored with Infrastructure agents don't have an uptime percentage or availability percentage for custom reports or dashboards.

How to the minimum CPU recommendations in Optimizer to 2 instead of 1 CPUs?

If Foglight requires more space and/or performance improvements, an external database can be used.

Is there a way to turn off the SQL Server trace?  

How to start or stop the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM)?

How to start the Management Server from the command line and lists additional commands for use when starting or running the Management Server.

How to start monitoring a vCloud Director server

How to start FVE vApp in run level 1

How to confirm SQL Server Authentication Mode used for SQL Server Agent connectivity

How can an Infobright based SQL PI repository database be shut down (stopped) and removed from the server?

How to copy a user's dashboard so others can view?

How to setup the Pagerduty cartridge for Foglight?

How to setup Foglight connect Microsoft SQL server backend repository using TLS/SSL?

How to setup Foglight connect PostgreSQL backend repository via TLS with client certificate Authentication

How to setup an encrypted LDAP connection with SSL

How to set up Foglight Management server (FMS) listen to port 80/443 with non-root user on Linux server.

How to set up an email notification for a rule ?

How to set Refresh Interval of web pages in Foglight?

Foglight Administrator wishes to reset exisitng custom policies applied to Oracle and SQL Server database agents. Foglight Administrator wishes...

Once the default "foglight" account password has been changed, it follows the currently configured password policy, and can expire. As per the...

How to set the default collection frequencies for new database (DB) agents

We have user(s) that are only allowed to see specifc areas of Foglight's monitored information. I have created the dashboard which shows only...

WMI runs as part of a shared service host with ports assigned through DCOM by default. However, users can set up the WMI service to run as the...

Need to set the following custom retention policy with specific data roll-up periods as following: Store 15 minutes for 3 days .  Then roll-up...

How to scope a set of VMs to a rule so that the rule fires alerts only for those VMs.

We are trying to scope out VM's from the rule VMW Virtual Machine VMware Tools

Is it possible to get Foglight to save a PDF or Excel report to a folder (like a UNC), instead of mailing it to a SMTP address?

How to run the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) as a daemon on UNIX?

What is the procedure to run OpenStack agents with non-SU/SUDO access levels for monitoring purposes?

Where can scoping queries / topology type or database agent collections associated with rules be found?

What files are commonly reviewed in a FglAM support bundle?

After defining a homepage for a user, there is no option to clear the value. The homepage for a user can only be a defined page and not 'unset'.

How to get latest SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 database agent grant permissions scripts and Sybase first_run script?

A new user has been created in the Foglight Management Server. Is it possible to restrict the user so it can only see certain hosts when logging in?

The Foglight remote database user password has been changed and the Foglight server can't log in to the database repository. An error similar to...

How can we configure Foglight to repeat an email notification for an alarm which has not been acknowledged?

How can a Scheduled Report be modified once it has been created?

How to remove vCenter and corresponding VMware agent objects in Foglight Management Server (FMS) console?

How can we remove stale objects on either weekly or monthly basis, to improve server performance?

Within the top level VMware Environment Dashboard, there is a drop down list which enables the user to navigate to various VMware elements...

Copy of a rule is not listed under "Rule Management"

How to reduce the amount of Intelliprofile threads

We accidentally deleted a Exchange rule and need some assistance in recovering the conditions. Is it possible to recover the rule?

How to receive a trial license key when you are a Quest Partner?

How can the horizontal bar metrics in the database reports be read?

What do the columns in the blocking (current) panel in the SQL Server agent pages represent?

What do the columns in the blocking history panel in SQL PI for Oracle and SQL Server represent?

Hello, I have a request to customize the name of a report, adding the date, Is this possible? 1) Change the subject of the email to the following...

Hovering over CPU/memory usage on VM's under hosts dashboards shows either 'There is no data to display' or 'Some data is not available' on the...

The Agent Status page in the Foglight Management Server (FMS) console has poor performance when tags are enabled for hundreds of agents. 

AWS RDS Oracle Instance monitoring was added with the 5.7.5.30 and higher releases of the Oracle cartridge. What are the available user...

A DB2 agent was installed using a DB2 user with SYSADM permissions, but it is not the instance owner. The permission check verified that user is...

The Foglight monitoring user consumes a lot of resources on the monitoring Oracle instance causing performance issues. Collection SQL queries...

Best practice documents for tuning the Java virtual machine, that is hosting Foglight Management Server (FMS).

Baseline data is not calculated on some Foglight Management Servers. Graphs do not display baselines and rules that depend on them do not fire...

The warning banner "Storage agent had a problem of validation. Please click here to see more detail." does not disappear. The Storage agent has...

What is the bandwidth used for DB2 database monitoring including database agents and OS rates?

What is the bandwidth used for SQL Server database monitoring including database agents, SQL PI, and OS rates?

Backing up FMS to re-image host operating system.

Need to upgrade Windows from 2003 to 2008 without losing the deployed agents. Agent Manager is installed and active on this server. FMS and...

AzureTag topology object instances limit reached when monitoring large Azure environment. Below entries logged in FMS log: 2019-06-18 00:12:46...

azureObjectDeletion throws an exception due to object name null Below error is logged in FMS log: 2019-06-18 10:05:52.840 WARN    [Azure...

n/a or - values are sometimes displayed in the Global View databases dashboard for the Up Since and Availability metrics for the SQL Server or...

The SQL_AZURE - Blockers Connections Baseline Deviation and SQL_AZURE - All Active Connections Baseline Deviation alarms fire often by default for...

Azure agent fails to collect data due to incorrect Access Key in agent properties. Below error is logged in agent log: 501 ERROR   [Quartz[0...

The Azure agent stops working and the follow debug message appear when running in debug mode 1: --- 2020-05-01 15:45:06.161 DEBUG   [Quartz[0...

One or more of the following alarms have been raised by Foglight: “High Average Server Latency of XXX”  “High Average E2E Latency of XXX”

Custom reports that contain an average for a percentage metric shows an inaccurate value when there are gaps in the collection of this metric. E...

Since installing Avast antivirus the errpor page cannot be found" appears when connecting to the FMS console page. When disabling the Web Shield...

What does the Average SQL Response time metric in SQL PI (Performance Investigator) represent?

The Availability data is missing under the Overview dashboard for an SSAS instance.  "N/A" is reported where the Availability should be. There...

Execution of any workflows that have VM (Resource) as a parameter require the user to select virtual machine. This problem affects custom workflows...

Attempting to send logs to Support via an email reply fails or results in an error message about size.  Size is often capped for attachments...

How to raise an alarm if the VMWare agent stops collecting data?

Question1: How to completely remove Alarms from Foglight? Question2:  Is it possible to schedule the purging of Alarms?

Is there a way to pull all Agent Managers default dashboard information using Rest API?

Created a dashboard that is required for others to have access and bookmark the dashboard. How can this be accomplished?

How to properly Upgrade Hyper-V agents after upgrade FMS/FVE to version 5.6.10/7.0

Is 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...

Need to be able to see datastore clusters information in foglight. Is that possible?

An FTP account is required to upload support bundles directly to Quest Support. How to get such an account?

How can a SQL Server PI repository be migrated from to another (different) MS SQL Server machine?

How to monitor XenDesktop and XenApp environment using Foglight?

How to monitor VMware cloud on AWS

Is there a rule for the SQL Server cartridge which will monitor the space used by the transaction log?

How to monitor partially VMware environment I had from FVE (Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition)?

How to monitor for server restart (reboots)

In vFoglight, how to monitor and trigger an alarm if a Windows service stops running? When monitoring a server that runs a specific service (ie...

How to monitor a service state of a Windows service using the WindowsAgent (hostagent) to notify users when the remote service has been started or...

How to monitor Brocade switches?

How do you monitor a host in another domain with the Infrastructure Cartridge?   

How to modify, delete or copy schedules?

What are the requirements to monitor a Linux host using the Infrastructure agent hosted on a Windows Agent Manager (FglAM).

Move custom agent from existing Foglight Management Server (FMS) to a new installed instance.

Alarms constitute one of the biggest factors that impact the performance of Foglight. It is therefore very important to make sure that the...

How to manage Foglight via command line?  Is there a listing with all available commands?

Is there a way to list the names of all the Host objects that exist in Child FMS (Foglight Management Server) but not in the Fed Master FMS?

How to know if one of the monitored VMWares is down/not responding? How to create a report of up-/downtime of these VMWares?

EXC POP3 Connections Rule : How to know what Registry Variables affects this rule and how the internal calculation takes place.   Foglight 5.6.5...

How to investigate cause of duplicate emails

The 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...

How to install the init.d script for the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) to get it running as a daemon?

How to Install Foglight with manually create database option

How to install and Enable  and deploying a Hyper-V Agent

Attempting to run the downloaded installer file (Ex: fglam-5_9_4-linux-x86_64.bin) results in a GUI install

1. Go to Navigation Panel │ Administration │ Users & Security Management │ User Management 2. Click on Groups tab, then click on LDAP groups...

Foglight Management Server (FMS) log has entries complaining of topology limit reached: The configured limit of 20000 instances of type...

Some scope queries cause the Rule editor to take too long to load. How can these scope queries be optimized?

How can topology types be imported into the FMS?

If 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...

  How to identify Virtual Machines with duplicate vmID

How to identify Virtual Machines with duplicate UUID

The DiagnosticSnapShot file contains a table which lists topology objects and the counts they have hit.     | Topology Type | Num Instance...

How to have Agent Managers reporting to Foglight Management Server High Availability Primary and Secondary?

How can VMWare CPU and memory reservations be found using VMWare tool commands from the Operating System (OS) command line? What VMWare tools...

User is trying to generate CPU Optimize report but it's giving the same report all the time, does not matter if the time range is change from 1...

When analyzing the alarms forwarded via REST API, the information about monitored host or database is missing. How to get those details via REST...

The Log Monitor agent creation wizard includes a Regular Expression tester dialog that can be accessed as a dashboard.

How do you generate a report for the virtual machines utilization?

How to generate FoglightManagement Server (FMS) jvm heap histogram from command line

Example steps to generate an RSA key for a Linux host for a Foglight RSA credential.

There is a multiple Severity rule that has promoted to Fatal. The rule will not send any additional alerts as per the design of Foglight.  Is...

How to generate a report of Thin Provisioned VMs in Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition (FVE).

After experiencing local UDP problems, how can one force Foglight to use TCP in High Availability (HA) mode?

Found the following vulnerability in security scan:  "jQuery End of Life (EOL) Detection (Windows)" Is there a hotfix/workaround available to...

How to find the License number for Foglight,  Foglight for Virtualization, Enterprise Edition (FVE) and Foglight for Storage Management (FSM) ?

How can a user determine what version of the Foglight components are running?

How to find out how many FMS licenses are active?

Is there a way to find out credentials and authentication type (Windows or SQL server) used by all MS-SQL Server DB agents

How to find OpenStack version?

How to find a retention policy for a specific topology type?

If an agent has a tag, can that tag be used in the scope query? Using a scope query like this does not work: Host where monitoringAgent.tags...

How might one export the scripts saved in the Script Console for a particular user so they can be imported into another FMS?

Foglight historical metrics can be exported using a groovy script

How can a topology type be exported from the FMS?

A 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...

How to exclude VM/Host/DataStore/DB Groups objects from Rule scope by making use of a Service.

A virtual machine at the vCenter level can be removed, but it still appears in Foglight and the logical drives might still generate alarms. This...

How to exclude Ciphers from Foglight the Management Server and Foglight Agent Manager?

How can TLS 1.2 protocol be enabled on the Foglight Agent Manager (client) server running Windows?

How can the Infobright debug log be enabled for SQL PI (Performance Investigator)?

How to enable rule debug mode?

How to enable passwordless login to access Foglight Dashboards? (NoLoginUser)

How to enable or disable any of the database collections available for the agents of MySQL? For SQL Server, Oracle or DB2 there is an option to...

How can the Database Administration panel be used to disable or enable an Oracle, SQL Server, or DB2 database agent collection?

How can Kerberos debug be enabled in the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM)?

During the course of investigating or troubleshooting issues with Foglight, there are a variety of artifacts that can be gathered to assist. These...

How to download a Quest product from the support webpage?

Disabling the VMware Tags collection can improve collection times and reduce the demand for JVM heap memory in some VMware Environments.

Orange notification banners appear in the FMS UI that state messages such as "There were X Agent managers that had timed out for several times...

How to disable SSL v3 and enforce TLS 1.2 for HTTPS connections on the Foglight Management Server

How to disable HTTP access to Foglight and allow only HTTPS access?

How to disable HostProfileCollection in VMware Performance agent

Is it possible to decrypt the password used for the Foglight repository database?

Is it possible to configure historical data period default value of past three months to a longer duration in Datastores Capacity Trending report

Foglight reports typically contain a single font style and text. Is it possible to change the font size and style that is used when creating/using...

Is it possible to add the "Maximize" button to the secondary agent properties lists to enlarge the popup window?

Is it possible for the HostAgent agents to auto adjust the memory they require, from the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) instance they are running...

Is it possible for Foglight to automatically discover and monitor Windows/Unix hosts?

Is it ok for the external Oracle database SID naming be something other than the default Foglight name? Will it impact late FMS installation if...

Does Foglight VMWare cartridge compatible with vCenter 7?

Is Foglight effected by Tomcat ghostcat CVE-2020-1938 vulnerability ?

How is Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise (FVE) possibly affected by the Bash ShellShock Vulnerability?

Is Foglight affected by Postgres vulnerabilty CVE-2017-7546? It was found that authenticating to a PostgreSQL database account with an empty...

Is channel encryption supported between Foglight Management Server and SQL Server repository?

Is AWS RDS certified for use as a SQL Server PI repository?

Is an Azure SQL database supported as a FMS or PI repository?

Is it supported to install the Peformance Investigator repository on Windows 2016? The following errors appear in the log files when installing...

Is  Red Hat Enterprise Linux  RHEL 7.1 supported?

The IP Address on the FMS is changing, or the hostname of the FMS may change in the future. What needs to be modified  in the FMS configuration...

Where can we find the IOPS metrics for a SQL Server host?

Generic steps to troubleshoot and investigate database agent rule and alarm issues. Database agent rules and alarms not firing. Alarms are fired...

Investigating OS connection issues can be challenging when there are numerous credentials present in the FMS. This knowledgebase article describes...

When generating a FMS Support Bundle from the Foglight Console the Manage Support Bundle dashboard times-out due to an audit log size of over...

The Folight Management Server (FMS) silent installer failed with the following error: Install Action:    FoglightSilentInstallSettingsAction...

A FMS takes a long time to start up or the nightly topology rollup runs for a long time (e.g. 12 hours) because there is a large number of expired...

FMS server running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x crashes unexpectedly. Crash dumps in main FMS directory hs_err_pidNNN.log shows a SIGSEGV fault...

FMS server crashes with no error in normal FMS log and only " Segmentation Fault" in debug log

FMS database is growing beyond the estimate provided by the deployment guide.

Every weekend after patching the Foglight environment, the FMS or FglAM service does not come back up in a HA environment.

A FMS would not start due to connection issue to with SQL Server repository database. We confirmed that the database could be pinged and telnet...

Clickjacking is a vulnerability that causes an end user to unintentionally click invisible content on a web page, typically placed on top of the...

Getting email notifications when the FMS is down

Since updating to 5.7.1 FMS, I see a log message upon startup stating one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. 2015-05-07 12:00:36.348...

The Foglight Management Server (FMS) startup fails on a new initial install using Microsoft SQLServer. Reviewing the FMS log we see some of the...

The FMS will install cartridges even if the .car file was corrupted. There should be a cartridge integrity check when installing a cartridge into...

Foglight Management Server (FMS) is crashing every few minutes after implementing custom rule which execute the command action. hs_error_pidxxxx...

No output when running $FGLHOME/bin/fms --status Foglight 5.9.4 help shows the following:     Copyright (c) 2018 Quest Software Inc...

The FMS HA node keeps restarting. . The FMS host has 3 IP addresses.  The FMS was bound to one of the IP addresses using the steps...

Foglight web console is not accessible when Foglight Management Server (FMS) database account is locked. ManagementServer log:  FATAL   [main...

When trying to startup a Foglight Management Server (FMS) using an root or administrator account, the FMS startup fails with errors indicating that...

hs_err_pid log files that appear to be recent contain a variety of errors (stack overflow, access violation, and and OOM errors). The swap space...

Quest Foglight CommandLineService Use of Hard-coded Credentials Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.

FMS becomes unresponsive and/or agents on Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) stop collecting data. Logs below error: "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError...

FMS service does not start and management server log shows below error:  WARN [main] org.jboss.system.ServiceController - Problem starting...

The Foglight Oracle database was moved to a new host by exporting it and then importing it on the new database host.  After moving the FMS...

The Foglight Management Server (FMS) and Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) has numerous settings that can be configured to specify the information...

This hotfix addresses the issues listed in Resolved Issues.  This hotfix may receive additional testing. If you are not severely affected by the...

Looking for a rule/way to fire an alarm when ESX host gets disconnected. Currently "VMW ESX Server Disconnected" alarms fires only if atleast one...

Unable to add Foglight SQL Server agent to monitor SQL Server instance. It failed with exception "Login has timed out". It also failed with same...

Unable to add Foglight SQL Server agent to monitor SQL Server instance. It failed with exception "Server returned: Connection reset". It also...

How to find all HostAgents based on the Hostname  from Script Console?

Within the VMware Environment Alarms view the end user is unable to filter the alarms (as can be seen within the main Alarms dashboard). It is a...

Getting alarm: File System Unmount. Some file systems, which should be mounted on hostname.fqdn.local, are not mounted properly. It might cause...

The DBSS –File Group Utilization alarm does not fire when the Primary filegroup is full.  The customer modified the database file to 3MB and...

The fglcmd.sh utility accepts the user & password information using the -usr & -pwd command line options; The arguments can be submitted...

Our blackout script fails as follows: #/home/foglight>cat /home/foglight/fglBlackout.sh export HOSTNAME=$1 export DBNAME=$2 export JAVA_HOME...

Three problems occour randomly: Fglams disconnecting DB Cartridges will not enable Admin Console timeouts The following message may also...

FglAMs are connected to the FMS but not listed in Agent Manager dashboard. This manifests as a UI issue only. Agents collect successfully. FMS...

Foglight Agent Managers (FglAM) that have been decommissioned and are no longer installed, are listed in the "Disconnected Agent Managers...

FglAM:  SSLHandshakeExceptionServer chose SSLv3, but that protocol version is not enabled or not supported by the client

Script file is empty but foglight not cleaning up in /tmp directory leaving lots of files every 1 to 4 minutes. -rw------- 1 opc opc 0 Feb 4 10...

Foglight Agent Manager support bundle generation has wrong name and messages are written to the screen in the dialog box with the name format...

A new install of the FglAM completes, and the process starts up but never connects to the FMS.

An Agent Manager that is installed on a Windows fail-over cluster as a service that runs on the active node cannot monitor databases that are...

FglAM selection page of Hyepr-V Agent setup wizard does not scroll or display all FglAM hosts

Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise vApps Embedded FGLAM not connecting to a Linux OS agents  

FglAM installation on Linux fails.   There is sufficient RAM (13GB) available on the FglAM host. There is ample space available under...

Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) hosts appear duplicate in Data Management | Agent Manager | instances.

A newly installed FglAM fails to connect to the FMS with the message below: ERROR [Upstream Polling-0] com.quest.glue.core.comms.transport.http...

Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) fail to establish WinRM connection. Error message: ECHO    DEBUG [WinRMWebServiceManagementConnection[20...

Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) keeps crashing after running for a while and the logs show the following: Caused by: java.lang.Exception: java...

FglAm is unable to communicate to FMS. ERROR [Upstream Polling-0] com.quest.glue.core.comms.transport.http.Client - Could not send upstream...

We have FMS HA set up on one child, and both are in federation.config file on the federation parent server ; the first 2 (02a and 02b) are 2 HA...

Federation:  Topology volatility detected when inspecting the Diagnostic Snapshot in the Foglight Management Server (FMS) support bundle. 

Federation: What is the maximum limit of child servers?

Many "ScriptingException: Persistent script  [addVMServiceToIgnoreRegVal]  not found" ERROR messages are reported in Federation Master...

When monitoring Compellent arrays the FAQt “Which pools have the least available usable capacity” returns no results.

A false alarm or no alarm is triggered when an Oracle tablespace runs out of space. The rule "DBO Tablespace Usage Pct" may not fire...

When we try to upgrade FVE 7.x ( Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition ) to FVE 8.0.1, we see the below message: Failed to shut down...

Failed to start FglAM ICMP service that may cause IC agents getting deactivated issue. Below warning message is logged in Agent Manager log: 2020...

The FglAm log has these messages: 2016-05-17 10:27:48.449 ERROR [FglAM:IncomingMessage[5]-8] com.quest.common.util15.SystemID - An unexpected...

The Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) failed to generate krb5.config file Error found in the log YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.SSS VERBOSE [Startup Thread...

Whenever the DBSS_DTC_Information collection runs it gets the following error (there can similar errors to the below but the solution is...

Cannot install SQL PI repository on Windows: SQL PI repository installation failure with Infobright After upgrading to the 5.7.5.30 or higher...

Check Foglight Management Server Logs and find this message: WARN [TimeDriven_Worker-2] com.quest.nitro.service.rule.rule.Rule - Failed to...

When trying to enable SQL PI in  Global Administration | SQL Performance Investigator, configuring SQL PI settings for the selected agents (ie...

Failed to created dervied metrics for Vmware with an error: "No interpretation available while creating derived metrices" Error in the FMS...

When using a Foglight Agent Manager at the 5.9.8 level which uses a jre 1.8.0.265, an Azure SQL database agent cannot be created. An error...

After importing new SSL certificate into keystore tomcat.keystore, the Foglight Management Server (FMS) is not accessible through HTTPS any more...

Within Foglight Storage Management | Storage Explorer | Storage Array: EVA screen , all disks are displayed as "Green ticks" (in the 'status...

VMWare datastore latency averages are affected by extremely high incorrect samples. These incorrect values affect latency averages e.g. total...

Is there is a way to export a single rule from  MonitoringPolicies.xml file located on the Foglight Management Server SupportBundle and...

The FGLAM is not upgrading from 5.6.7 to 5.6.10 Seen in the FglAM log file at debug level 1: 2013-10-23 10:26:03.998 DEBUG   [IncomingMessage[3...

For External Private certificates, you need to import the Certificate Authority (CA) to the JRE cacerts file used by the Foglight Agent Managers...

Is the maintenance mode available for ESX hosts under a specific dashboard ? There is a property called inMaintenanceMode for ESX to show if a...

Can the database groups be exported from the Global View UI or queried from the FMS repository?

Database groups are lost under the Database dashboard when database cartridges are disabled and enabled. Is a utility available that can export...

How to export and import Foglight services (FMS Category, FMS ChildService ect)?

Under SQL PI | SQL Statements | Top SQL Statements, the button "Export to CSV" did not export 'Average SQL Response time' and ' Active Time...

How to E xport and Import Dashboards/Reports and Rules using Cartridge Builder to create a deployable cartridge

Explanation for for % Disk space used value in Server Health view of a Domain Controller

Numerous permissions errors in SQL Server 2012 agent Several metrics were are limited by the execute permission message: ERROR [MYAGENT...

Exclude /boot from File System Capacity rule directly in its rule condition.

How to modify a rule scope to exclude specific host?

How to modify a rule scope to exclude specific host?

We need to run report on Exchange User experience metrics (MAPI, OWA, SMTP, ActiveSync...)

Exchange Remote Connections Alarms not getting cleared

Exchange environment -> Rule Management dashboard does not populate any Rules Below WARN message is logged in FMS log: 2016-04-11 15:43:20.391...

Exchange Cluster Summary dashboard does not fully display all cluster tiles when there are more than two clusters

An environment has several datacenters with numerous databases. Some of the DAGs have activation preferences enabled and set to a seven day delay...

Exchange agent unable to start data collection due to SMB Connectivity failure. Below error is logged in agent log: 2017-10-24 14:29:17.790 ERROR...

Exchange stops data collection due to query Credentails time out. Beloow error is logged in the agent log: java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException...

Exchange agent unable to collect data because SMB connection times out and agent log shows error that SMB Connectivity test failure due to timeout.

Exchange Agent Manager wizard does not discover Exchange 2013 servers that are member of AD Domain but does not have same domain name in FQDN of...

Exchange agent fails to coellct data from target Exchange server. Below ERROR is logged in agent log: ERROR [Quartz[0]-396] com.quest.agent...

Exchange agent is unable to monitor target Exchange server due to invalid certificate for Domain Controller. Below error message is logged in...

Exchange agent fails to collect data if Active Directory is configured to support only secure LDAP (ldaps and port 636)

In an environment where only NTLMv2 authentication is enforced, the user account specified in Exchange agent properties to communicate with...

Exchange Agent crashes with ERROR code 0x800703FA in agent log

 Excessive topology churn for Exchange topology object EXCADAccessProcessInstance

While trying to generate the Execution Plan for SQL Statements using Foglight for Oracle Database cartridge version 5.9.4.10 , below exception...

Generating reports to export to Excel does not show anymore symbols like % and disk units (MB and GB), it only shows the numerical values now.

EXC IS Database Cache Percent Hit rule fires alarm for paasive cluster node in spite of no Database activity

EXC Mailbox Store Mounted Rule does not trigger an alarm if a database is dismounted

EXC Agent Remote Service Status Rule, What does this rule do?

EXC ADAccess Process LDAP Read Time rule fires excessive alarms showing incorrect value

EXC Availability Service Average Time to Process a Free Busy Request Rule fires excessive alarms. The same Performance counter does not show...

Foglight has been configured to send events to another REST web listener using the BSM All Event rule. However, there is limited information...

Exchange Web Services (EWS) provides the functionality to enable client applications to communicate with the Exchange server. EWS provides access...

Everything seems to be collecting from the EMC SMIs provider, but not all my arrays are being shown in vFoglight Storage 2.0.

How to monitor every time a user logs in to a server using Event Log Agent and firing alarms.  

After setting up WindowsEventLogMonitor agent, the Event Log rule does not fire. The agents are collecting successfully and information can be...

We like to generate report of ESXi hosts that are up for more than 100 days. Is there an option to set it up?

esxcli command are not working if Foglight Agent Manager installation path have space in it For example:  Foglight Agent Manger installed on...

This error appears from the logs: {noformat}2015-11-09 09:12:05.536 ERROR   [CommonAnalytics-DataCache-Query-1] com.quest.optimizer.impl...

After creating a 'Diagnostic Test' within Active Directory | Advanced Troubleshooting | Diagnostics Test the following is populated within the...

After a fresh installation of VMWare agent, it does not show any data in vFoglight. The Connector log show the error: "Unable to connect to...

When trying to enable a cartridge the following error appears: --- The table does not comply with the requirements by an external plugin...

The Performance of Foglight server is bad and the logs show the following message below. The error can also appear, when trying to access the...

When monitoring a memSQL MySQL database in Foglight using the MySQL cartridge 5.9.3.20, many database collections are failing with a common error...

When attempting to install Foglight, installer produces the following error: "Please select another location to extract the installer to"

When attempting to monitor a VMware Virtual Center (VC), the agent goes into the broken state and no data is collected. Within the VMware agent...

No operating system (OS) data is available and in the Foglight Management Server log file the following error can be found: [...] Caused by...

When trying to enable any cartridge following error appears in Foglgiht Management Server (FMS) logs: Java.sql.SQLException: Statement violates...

Foglight server fails to start after upgrading the FMS , the following error can be seen in management logs: ERROR   [main] org.apache.coyote...

a) Foglight Management Server (FMS) server crashes with an exception : java.io.IOException: Too many open files at sun.nio.ch...

After configuring the Foglight Management Server to use AD/LDAP to authenticate a user, the AD/LDAP user cannot log in to the Foglight Console...

The following error appears in the agent log file: --- ECHO ERROR [MyAgent-lowPriorityPool-2-[DBSS_DTC_Information][2016/03/01 14:47:38]] com...

The agent manager crashes in a period of time, and the following errors can be seen in the log of the agent manager:  WARN    [Quartz[0]-3407...

It is not possible to monitor one of two EMC vPLEX environments. The Storage Administration dashboard displays both Topology and Performance as n...

In vFoglight Storage my EMC SMIS collections have an error message, “Connection refused by server”.   It was working and then the collections...

The following alarm message can be seeing for EMC and Netapp under Storage Environment | Administration tab: Performance Collection of 192.168...

After changing the corporate domain during the weekend, Foglight is not restarting. FMS debug log: ObjectName: com.quest.nitro:service...

Ignore this KB, reference 148151 Embedded FGLAM not starting with FMS

After configured email notifications or reconfigured it and doing a test by going to Administration > Support  > Email > Test Configuration and...

Email notification cannot be sent due to error: 'javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?' Error Message...

Process vSphere alarms rule creates an alarm and since email notification has been configured at the service level, it sends the email...

When a user configures a customized email setting for the "SQL_AZURE - Database Unresponsive" alarm an email is not sent using the 5.9.5.10 and 5.9...

What are the Database Notifications and Oracle Database Notification groups used for in the Foglight Email Configuration page?

Need to either include or exclude servers, monitoring agent type, or disk drives at the rule level.

When the Infrastructure cartridge Event Log rule is evaluated as true no alarm is listed under the Alarms dashboard.  An e-mail message is sent...

DWRSESSIONID cookie is not protected by secure when Foglight Management Server (FMS) is set to only accept HTTPS.

When upgrading Foglight with an embedded Agent Manager the configuration files of the embedded Agent Manager will be overwritten.

Increase the FMS Memory Heap Incremental

Configuring Windows for Remote Monitoring with WMI In order for the agent to have access to query WMI to collect OS and database metrics, the...

It has been observed in some scenarios that under Infrastructure │Host or just the Infrastructure dashboard duplicate host are displayed.

After moving AIX partitions (virtual machines) from one PowerVM server to another through Live Partition Mobility . It generates a duplicate...

A customer was receiving two or three emails for all database agents alarms configured to send emails from a specific type of agent (i.e. DB2...

Duplicate alarms are hourly for the following rules if there is an uncleared rule. File System Capacity Disk Space Capacity rule DBSS - Days...

There are some drawbacks of setting up HA over WAN 

Downstream Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) name should be entered to the agent concentrator in GA as it appears in topology: All agents | <Agent...

When using the Exchange agent wizard on the agent properties step the Domain Controller field will not allow manually adding an FQDN with more than...

Does VMware Performance agent provide an option to use regular expression to Blacklist specific VMs

Does VMware Performance agent support Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) HA feature

Does VMware Performance account need any additional role/privileges to collect ESX/ESXi Host Power Management policy information

Does VMware Performance agent support Foglight Agent Manager High Availability (FglAM HA) mode?

Does VMware Performance agent collect VM's Network Adapter Type information (eg. E1000 or VMXNET3)?

Does VMware Performance agent collect vCenter version information

Does VMware agent collect ESX host Hardware sensors information

Does VMware cartrdige Support VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) configuration

Does VMware cartridge provide any out of box report providing information about each DataStore and connected VMs

Does VMware agent collect Tags information for objects in vSphere Inventory as these would be useful to group objects in custom Reports or dashboards.

Does VMware cartridge provide any out of the box Rule that will trigger an alarm to notify whenever a new snapshot is created with information like...

Does VMware cartridge provide any out of the box rule that will trigger an alarm notifying deletion of a Snapshot with information such as Deleted...

Does VMware cartridge provide any rule that will trigger an alert to notify when a VM is disconnected

Does VMware cartridge provide any Rule to notify about ESX host HA status

The VMWDistributedVirtualPortGroup topology has a property for numPorts, but it doesn't have one for numAvailable to show how many of the ports are...

Foglight for VMware User & Reference guide provideds information about this rule however the actual rule looks to be missing in the UI.

VMware folders have been created within the VMware vSphere client. Does vFoglight collect VMware folder data?

Does upgrading from vfog 6.6.x/6.7.x to Foglight for Virtualiaztion, Ent (FVE) require new lic file

Does the VMware cartridge offer a report for the Alarms (the Alarms tab within the VMware vSphere Client) for a given ESX host?

Does the SQL Server Reporting Server agent have to be co-located with a database instance?

Does the service account used for ldap integration need to have either Domain Admin or Local Administrator Privileges?

Does foglight support monitoring an Oracle XML database?

In an Oracle RAC environment can the Oracle agent monitor Cluster Ready Services (CRS)?

Does the native ServiceNow integration uses the REST API (from ServiceNow) or does it actually login to the SNOW instance?

How to backup and restore the Foglight installation?

How to associate email addresses with a service?

How to modify e-mails subject and messages adding rule severity variables.

I would like to apply a Schedule (Blackout) to the alerts for a specific Instance of an agent, but not to any other alerts.  How to apply and or...

How to analyze alarms triggered by rule VMW Distributed Virtual Switch Packet Loss?

How to generate alert only if a specific percentage of servers of a group are down?

In vFoglight, is there a way to alert on individual network interface if an ESX host has multiple NICS?

How to get an alarm in Foglight notifying when a new VM or Host is created?

How to adjust collection time for VMWFile under agent properties which is in cron format?

How to add Webmonitor transaction name to an alarm and/or email notification?

How to add a Topology Type to manage its instance count in the Stale Objects Dashboard (Investigate Objects for Cleanup dashboard)  - Dashboards...

In vFoglight 6.6, it is difficult to add a registry value to monitor a specific logical drive on a host. On the left hand pane, click...

How to add multiple metrics after creating custom report

How to add a search field to the secondary agent properties lists?

How to get a Open Manage Essentials Server monitored with Foglight?

How to add a background image to a portal or its text component in a custom dashboard?

Trying to reference a Severity Level Variable with the preceding @ sign but it does not appear to be referenced when used in a Conditional...

How can users access a Foglight Management Server log file to look for errors?

How can users access the log file for a Foglight agent?

How can users access a Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) log file to look for errors?

What do the different metrics for the Host Operating System represent on the SQL Server agent homepage with a VMware agent configured?

What are the collection sampling frequencies in Foglight?

How can be Foglight be installed to monitor SQL Server database instances on hosts in a DMZ?

How many agents are recommended for Foglight for Database environments?

How long is performance data saved before it is averaged and/or expired ?

How is the availability metric collected by the NetMonitor agent calculated?

How is performance score calculated in the new Change Analyzer cartridge introduced in FVE 8.0

How is the Max Architecture Size in TB for DB2 tablespaces calculated?

How CPU, RAM and Storage is calculate with Cost Director?

How does the rule  EXC IS Database Cache Percent Hit work

After replacing the existing OS agents with the new IC agent on Linux, it does not collect any metrics for the NFS mounted filesystems. There are...

How are new members and partitions detected by the DB2 agent for purescale environments?

How does the "Catalyst Database Query Execution Time Check" rule work? There is no threshold that can be set on that rule..

What is the criterion used behind Rule definition condition #DSDirectoryReadsPersec# > 8 for Active Directory rule LDAP DS Directory Reads/sec

When looking at Optimizer in Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition, how are CPU peak calculated under the column "Peak Utilization".  This...

How does Optimizer calculate Average and Combined Utilization

How does one properly configure a FglAm HA installation and explain how it functions?

How does EXC Protocol Health Check Rule work?

How does the data flow from the SQL PI and Oracle PI Engine into the PI repository?

How do you get the reports attached to an email to show the correct name and file extension? Currently, the default attachement name is report.pdf.

We created a deep copy of the Java EE | JBoss | JVM -> Java Virtual Machine [Grid Layout] to a users definition. Then after making some changes...

How do we connect an OpenStack installation into Foglight Virtualization Enterprise? Is this keystone.conf file something in foglight or...

Foglight Storage Manager to monitor my Brocade switches but we do not know how to configure Brocade Network Analyzer (BNA) to talk to Foglight...

How do the Database Cartridges (SQL Server), VMWare, and Infrastructure (IC) Cartridges work in tandem for collecting OS metrics?

Some alarms are cleared by the system while others must be cleared by the user. How do multi-severity & simple alarms get cleared?

How to upgrade from vFoglight 6.6 to 6.6.1?

A dashboard has been created which others require access.  How can this be shared with other users?

Does the LogFilter agent has a FAQ?

Does the LogFilter agent support wildcards in the filename field? RegEx's?

Does latest version of VMware cartridge support vCenter 6.7?

The Infrastructure cartridge release notes up through version 5.9.2 don't list Windows 2016 as supported. Does the Infrastructure cartridge...

Does the Foglight Infrastructure cartridge support VMware’s   Site Recovery Manager (SRM) environment monitoring

Does the Foglight Integration cartridge supports SCOM 2012?

Does the Foglight Integration cartridge 5.9.x supports SCOM 2016 + 2019?

Does the Foglight for VMware cartridge report the 'uptime' of an ESX host?

Does the FMS and fglam adapter have a way to authenticate and authorize fglam clients?

Is LDAPS (LDAP over SSL) supported when using the AD & Exchange cartridge/agent?

Does Storage cartridge support monitoring EMC-isilon OneFS version 8.2.1.0

Does Office365 monitoring agent account need E3 license

Does Kubernetes Agent support API server monitoring features like API Availability, API certificate expiration

Does Kubernetes agent monitor Persistent Volumes in order to alert on its usage

Does Kubernetes Agent monitor Quotas at namespace level in order to alert based upon usage.

Does Kubernetes agent allow Excluding components from monitoring based upon Namespaces?

Does Kubernetes agent allow excluding components from monitoring based upon Labels since labels is a best practice to organize resources in...

We 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...

Does Hyper-V cartridge provide any OOTB rule to notify about VM replication failure

Does Hyper-V Agent collect CPU Ready Time equivalent metric for VMs

Does Hybrid Cloud Manager cartridge provide any report or dashboard with information about VM creation and deletion by user in Azure cloud

The vCenter needs to be upgraded to version 5.5.3b. Is this version supported by Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise (FVE) 8.3?

Does Foglight for Storage Management (FSM) supports HP P4000 version storage device?

Does the Foglight/FVE support vCenter server appliances

Does Foglight/vFoglight provide multi-tenancy support to enable easier management of multiple customers within a Managed Service Provider (MSP...

Does Foglight use Struts framework?

Does Foglight/FVE report on CPU contention for the VMs

Is flash player being used with Foglight?

Does Foglight utilize Microsoft Powershell to gather database or operating system metrics?

Does Foglight support multi-factor authentication (PKI logins) when logging in to the Foglight console and authenticating using the LDAP...

Does Foglight support monitoring SQL Server 2019? Is it supported to install the Performance Investigator (PI) repository on SQL Server 2019?

Does Foglight support PostgreSQL 11 or 12 as backend database?

Does Foglight support MS SQL Server Always ON Cluster, with Availability Group and multiSubnet failover, as Database repository?

Does Foglight support integration with an external directory to access user account information? 

Does Foglight support monitoring VMWare vSphere/vCenter 6.7 U2

Is Microsoft SQL Express supported as the back-end database for Foglight Management Server?

Does Foglight support Hyper-V replica feature

Does Foglight Storage Manager support the UCS fabric interconnect switches?

Does Foglight use literal or bind variables for Insert statements?

Does Foglight Storage Manager allow the manual naming of switch fabrics?

Does Foglight Storage Manager support NetApp Cluster mode?

Does Foglight provide a report for information about how many VMs are hosted on each ESX host

Does Foglight Storage Management Cartridge (FSM ) support HP 3par StoreServ 72XX, 74XX, 82XX, 84XX?

Does Foglight REST API support retrieve scoped registry value?

Is there a cartridge for MySQL in Foglight?

Does Foglight have the capability to monitor the space utilized by the files in a directory and the number of files available in the directory?

Does Foglight for Virtualization support Oracle Virtual Manager monitoring?

Was wondering if Foglight has any dependency alerting. If a server goes down say not pingable, is there a way Foglight will not alert on...

Does Foglight for VMWare Horizon View support monitoring VMware Horizon View 7.3?

The BigIP F5 is a very significant part of 3 tier, web application.  The device orchestrates requests at both the web and application tiers.  We...

Does Foglight for Virtualization supports VMware vSphere 6.7 U3?

Does Foglight for Storage Management (FSM) support for EMC VPLEX? 

Does Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise support the monitoring of RHEV v3.5 (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization)? Detect...

Does Foglight for Storage Management supports collection from NetApp 9.1 ?

Does Foglight for Virtualization Enterprise Edition (FVE) supports Virtual Volumes (vVols) monitoring? The summary information of the vVol...

Does Foglight for SQL Server license enables Foglight Core capabilities?

Does Foglight for Exchange still support Exchange 2007

Does Foglight collect a metric similar to the AIX PgspOut metric?   Following are the definitions of the AIX/topas PgspOut and PageOut metrics...

Does Foglight  have the capability to monitor application services on Linux/Unix hosts?

Does Exchange cartridge support Exchange 2007 Single Copy  Cluster (SCC)

Does Exchange cartridge provide Mailbox count for each Mail Database on the monitored server

Does current version of VMware cartridge fully support monitoring vCenter version 6.5?

Does Cost Director cartridge need a separate license

Does Container Optimizer cartridge provide resources optimization recommendations for Kubernetes PODs

Does Container Management cartridge provide Roles to control user access to Container Management dashboards

Does Container Management cartridge provide any Rule that will trigger an alarm if a container terminates with invalid state and restarts frequently?

For the Capacity Director functionality, it is a requirement to have hosts (ESX hosts and Hyper-V servers) located within Clusters. However, this...

Does Azure agent support collecting information about Classic type objects (VMs, StorageAccounts etc)

Does ADFS allow secure LDAP connection to ADFS servers

Does Active Directory cartridge support monitoring a Domain Controller that is a Azure VM

Does Active Directory cartridge support monitoring Windows 2019 Domain Controllers

Does Active Directory cartridge support monitoring Windows 2016 Domain Controllers

Does Active Directory cartridge provide Time Skew monitoring on Domain Controllers

Within the configuration of the Database alarms (and email notifications) in the Database Alarm Administration dashboard, there are variables...

Do the following vulnerabilities CVE-2018-1259 and CVE-2018-1260 have any impact on Foglight or SQL Cartridge?

Do Rules provided by Container Management (Kubernetes/DockerSwarm) cartridge have an email action associated with severity levels

DNS and Networking connectivity check in order to monitor either Linux or Windows machines using Foglight, or if it is needed to have connectivity...

For SQL Server databases, what does the Last Backup date in agent's Database drilldown page represent, and is there a way to see the last backup...

Disk Utilization chart in adExplorer dashboard shows gray spinners if monitored Domain Controller is a VM hosted on NFS datastore and HostCollector...

Disk used percentage inaccurate when compared to df -k and the disk space rule is not firing when a disk is filled up. Foglight reports disk used...

Disk metrics such as Disk Utilization work in the Infrastructure and Host dashboards, but the same disk information cannot be seen in the disk...

Slowest disk metrics were missing from the global DB dashboard for all the sql servers which are running on the VM's. For the physical sql servers...

Disk I/O chart is grayed out for Hyper-V Virtual Machine if a snapshot is created without shutting down the VM

SQL Server agents are missing disk metrics in the databases dashboard. Errors like the following are found in the FMS log VERBOSE [http-0.0.0.0...

Receiving email alerts from a rule after copying and disabling it

I have 3 domains setup in a Parent/Child/Child Active Directory configuration. I would like to be able to login to Foglight with accounts from...

There is a difference in CPU utilization between Azure portal and Foglight console.

What is the main difference between UnixAgent and DellUnixAgent

What is the difference between the following two SQL Server alarms DBSS - OS Cluster - Node is Offline DBSS  - Node Unavailable

When creating a new test or copying an existing test, there is no option for Custom schedule to specify how often the test will run

When creating a new test or copying an existing test, there is no option for Custom schedule to specify how often the test will run

One or more of the following alarms have been raised by Foglight:- “Volume Read Latency XXX ms/op on Volume XXX is outside the normal...

The following alarm “High Average E2E Latency of XXX” has been raised by Foglight.

Where can the activities causing IO waits be found in the SQL Server database agent?

Attempting to deploy the Rapid Recovery Agent to Windows FglAM fails

Deploying Foglight and/or Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) on Hyper-V

How can a User Defined Collection be deployed across multiple FMS installations?

Customer has been attempting to enable the "Virtual-VMware" Cartridge in his Foglight Environment and receiving a failure stating that the...

When trying to add a DellUnixaAgent for a Linux server , it shows verification failed: Could not start the native ICMP application, and at agent...

A UnixAgentPlus and DellUnixAgent was deployed to monitor an AIX host from the Agent Managers "Create Agent" utility.  The DellUnixAgent or...

If Delivery Group in monitored Xen environment has id '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000' and name property is empty (due ot dirty/invalid...

Sorting of the Virtual Machine Health (Performance) score is incorrect. For example, if listed in descending order, a Virtual Machine with a...

Some database cartridge reports are not visible unless the Administrator role has been granted to the Foglight user. Reports include: ASM...

Some of the fglam with multiple ip address are showing 0.0.0.0 as IP Address in Foglight Agent Manager dashboard (see image).

Monitored Linux server is not displaying some disk metrics in the Infrastructure dashboards. Some physical disks are listed as Logical disks...

Some data is missing/not populated correctly in VMware View dashboards

Starting with Foglight Management Server 5.9.5, embedded JDK has been switched to OpenJDK which does not ship with default *.ttf font files. User...

When creating the Excel report "Virtual Machines Network Performance - Service", the columns "Send Rate", "Recieve Rate" and "Transfer Rate" do...

Devices cannot be discovered by the SNMP GenericDiscoveryAgent. The GenericDiscoveryAgent can ping the devices. The hostnames are set for...

When viewing the Recent Changes within the Snapshot tab of the VMware Optimizer cartridge, a snapshot is referred to as a Checkpoint. For example...

Snapshots are not appearing within the Optimizer dashboard. However, Foglight states that there are snapshots available for a particular Virtual...

The snapshots are not displayed under the Optimizer dashboard although all conditions for the snapshots to appear on the dashboards are fulfilled.

After configuring the SMTP server settings, test email fails with the following message VERBOSE [http-0.0.0.0-8080-1] STDOUT - DEBUG SMTP...

SMI-S agent fails on retrieving SCSIProtocolControllers and getStorageStatisticsData with an illegal state exception error

Under Storage Environment | Storage Explorer, The controllers-ports tab for EMC Array only seems to be listing the status of the SP and ports...

Foglight Management Server (FMS) performance is very slow or support bundles takes a long time (24 hours) to generate.

After upgrading a FMS or database cartridges agents are missing after deploying the cartridge to the FglAM using the Agent Status or Agent...

The following scenario is present: After upgrading the databases cartridges to 5.9.3.10, the UI became unresponsive. It is noted that the main...

Foglight is getting slow and the performance is very bad. While reviewing the Performance Report of the Foglight Management Server (FMS) the...

The following path was designated in the vsj.properties file for the idm.keytab:     idm.keytab = C:\Quest_Software\Foglight\config\foglight...

Single Sign-on (SSO) stopped working after the ktpass command was issued again. The new keytab file was placed on the FMS host but a blank page...

Single Sign-on (SSO) login stopped working for five Foglight Management Servers (FMSs).  SSO stopped working for two FMSs in the morning and...

Unable to monitor VMware vCenter and get following error in VMware agent log 2017-01-16 13:11:07.781 INFO    [vm-historicTask-0] com.quest.agent...

Unable to monitor Rapid Recovery core server (6.3) and get http 500 error when using vROOM agent 1.3 2019-11-05 13:04:01.945 ERROR   [Quartz...

The environment was very large and there were 32 Storage Centers (SC)  monitored by a single Enterprise Manager (EM) host. For this reason,  there...

When an Oracle agent is migrated to a different FglAM (Foglight Agent Manager) the ASM and Data Guard agents should also be migrated along with the...

Unable to logon to web console using foglight user after performing an upgrade to Foglight for virtualization enterprise edition or Foglight...

After upgrading the FMS (Foglight Management Server) users are unable to login with LDAPS authentication. With debug logging enabled, the error...

Unable to login to Foglight(Stuck at login)

While adding either a Vmware View host or vCenter the following message comes up:  "Unable to locate host using the provided host name"

Received the following error when installing fglam 5.7.3 on Windows Server 2008 (64bits) Unable to load Java VM shared library to start JVM...

When attempting to upload a MIB file from Administration | Integration | SNMP Trap Administration | Configuration | Upload MIB, errors similar to...

When navigation to VMware Environment | Optimizer | Storage, the pane states "This resource doesn't support reclaiming".  Furthermore, the Reclaim...

These errors are in the FMS log YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.SSS WARN    [Data-3-thread-16] com.quest.nitro.service.derivation.DerivationService - Unable...

 Unable to evaluate derivation: DerivationCalculation for "packetsSent" or "packetsReceived" These errors are in the FMS log 2013-04-14 02:05...

When trying to download log files from the Agent Status dashboard the following error message is reported: Could not execute the requested...

Unable to download Foglight Management Server support bundle from UI and gett following error message. Could not execute the requested operation...

Unable to deploy agent package to the Foglight Agent manager (FglAM). Sample Error: Management server logs (FglAM logs makes no mention of...

In the service Builder dashboard  when trying to delete a FSMChildService that is included in more than one parent service the child service is...

A Foglight installation cannot be deleted from Windows because the source path is too long. A Windows popup with the following message appears...

Unable to create Storage Collector agent because Add button is grayed out in Storage Environment | Administration dashboard

Connection to Veeam failed with: --- ERROR   [Quartz[0]-1086680] com.quest.veeam.agent.VeeamAgentImpl - Cannot find a valid credential. com...

I am unable to connect OpenStack HostAgent, getting “Cannot get an embedded agent version from host” error from the UI. Seeing following error in...

A newly created VMwarePerformance agent is unable to collect VMware data. The following messages can be found wtihin the Foglight Agent Manager...

When trying to clone DB2 alarm configuration from one agent to another it does not work. The wizard ends without any error message, but when...

While generating the NetMonitor "Single Device Report" , the device  is listed as " Null ". Devices are not listed on the drop-down menu.

The SQL Performance Dashboard could not be opened. From the database agent drilldown page nothing happens when clicking on SQL Performance and...

Unable to authenticate Active Directory user after enable windows 2008 LDAP signing and getting following error in FMS debug log com.quest.agent...