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Foglight for Databases ^® 6.1.0.1

Release Notes

May 2022

Contents

Contents

Welcome to Foglight

What's New

Resolved issues and enhancements

Known issues

Third party known issues

Upgrade and compatibility

System requirements

Product licensing

Getting started with Foglight

About Us

Welcome to Foglight

Welcome to Foglight

Quest's Foglight^® solution simplifies application performance monitoring and reduces the skills and effort required to manage applications, the user experience, and the supporting infrastructure.

Unlike other solutions, Foglight uses a single code base, and has a model-driven design that couples fast deployment and accelerated time-to-value. It offers the modular flexibility required to deliver a range of capabilities and sophistication to meet the needs of any organization—from those still focused on technology-centric monitoring to those that have completed the transition to application-centric or transactional monitoring.

Foglight performs equally well in physical, virtual, and mixed infrastructure environments, providing visibility into issues affecting the application and end-user experience. Intuitive workflows help you quickly move from the symptom to the root cause in the application, database, infrastructure, or network to resolve issues, reducing mean time to resolution. Predefined and drag-and-drop dashboards provide insight that is tailored to each stakeholder. By offering comprehensive visibility into your monitored environment, Foglight helps ensure that cross-functional teams collaborate on and prioritize issues that matter most to the business.

These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 6.1.0 release of Foglight for Databases. Review all sections before starting the installation.

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New in this release

New in this release

Version 6.1.0 of Foglight contains the following new features and updates:

• Modernize UI for Email notification management integrated with Alarm Templates introduced in version 6.0
• New role "Alarms Management Administrator" to manage "Alarm Template" and "Notifications Management"
• New REST API for export/import alarm templates and notifications
• UI usability enhancements to the navigation and search
  • Added support for managing bookmarks as part of the new left navigation panel.
  • Enhanced the left navigation to save the user preferences pinned/unpinned
  • Enhanced the left navigation to be resizable
  • Enhancements to the masthead area to allow setting of the management server identifier
• New Login Screen
• An Explorer option is available for users to explore data/nodes within the dashboards themselves, replacing the left navigation of the classic Foglight User Interface (UI)
• Support for GMSA
  • Added support for gMSA with Foglight SQL Server repository
  • Added support for gMSA with PI repository
• Enable PI hint added to database global view
• Upgrade log4j 1.2.17 libs to 2.17.1 across all Foglight core and cartridges

Version 6.1 of Foglight for MySQL contains the following new features and updates:

• Added the ability to view Execution Plan in PI dashboard
• Performance Schema prerequisites are checked when PI is enabled (FOG-2684)

Note: Starting with Foglight 6.0.0, the default user interface has been changed to the Modern Web Console.

Foglight Agent Manager

The Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) is upgraded to version 6.1.0.1. For more information about the Foglight Agent Manager 6.1.0, refer to the Foglight Agent Manager 6.1.0 Release Notes.

Note: The 32-bit Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) platforms are no longer supported as of FglAM 6.0.0.

Infrastructure

The Infrastructure cartridge was upgraded to version 6.1.0. For more information about the Foglight for Infrastructure 6.1.0, refer to the Foglight for Infrastructure 6.1.0 Release Notes.

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