Foglight 6.0.0 - Administration and Configuration Guide

The Foglight® Management Server can collect usage data about your environment and send it to Quest to improve support response. This data helps with identifying potential bottlenecks, improving the overall Management Server performance and server versions going forward.

The collected usage data contains information about the visited dashboards, unique ID of management server, server version, along with configuration details. It does not identify any users or provide additional information about their actions in the user interface. For additional information about the overall protection of user-related data, see the Security and Compliance Guide.

This feature may be enabled by default. To turn it off, click Disable on the Automatic Communication with Quest dashboard. To access this dashboard, from the Administration dashboard, in the Support column, click Support Notifications.

Setting up Proxy Configuration

The Foglight Management Server often reside behind a firewall in some production environments, therefore some Foglight functionalities, for example License Entitlement, do not work within these environments. Foglight provides a new Proxy Configuration feature, which enables the Foglight Management Server to connect to QorePortal and collect Foglight usage data through the preconfigured proxy server.

This feature may be disabled by default. To turn it on, click Enable on the Proxy Configuration dashboard. To access this dashboard, from the Administration dashboard, in the Administer Server column, click Proxy.

To add or edit proxy settings:

On the navigation panel, click Dashboards > Administration, and then click Proxy in the Administer Server column.


	NOTE: The Administration dashboard has been updated for this release. If you prefer to continue working with the previous version of the dashboard, click Use 5.6 Administration view. This link is located in the lower right corner of the dashboard.

The Proxy Configuration dashboard opens with the proxy settings disabled by default.

To add or edit proxy settings, click Edit Proxy Settings.

In the Proxy Settings Editor dialog box, specify the following fields, as needed:

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Proxy Type: the proxy type can be either HTTP or Socks.

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Proxy Server Address: input the host name or IP address of the proxy server.

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Proxy Port: input the port number of the proxy server.

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Credential Required: indicates whether user authentication is required for the proxy server.

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Username: input the user name. This field is available only when the Credential Required field is selected.

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Password: input the password. This field is available only when the Credential Required field is selected.

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Confirm Password: input the password again to confirm. This field is available only when the Credential Required field is selected.

(Optional) Click Test Connection to check if the proxy server works. For more information, see To check if the proxy server works:.

Click Save. The Foglight Management Server refreshes and changes are saved.

To check if the proxy server works:

On the navigation panel, click Dashboards > Administration, and then click Proxy in the Administer Server column.


	NOTE: The Administration dashboard has been updated for this release. If you prefer to continue working with the previous version of the dashboard, click Use 5.6 Administration view. This link is located in the lower right corner of the dashboard.

The Proxy Configuration dashboard opens with the proxy settings disabled by default.

To test the proxy connection, click Test Proxy Connection.

In the Test Proxy Connection dialog box, input an available URL, as needed.

Click Test. The Foglight Management Server checks the proxy connection in the background and returns the test result accordingly.

Enabling Automatic Communication with Quest

The Foglight® Management Server can communicate with Foglight to check for important updates and to send usage data to Quest. Enabling this setting also allows usage data to be sent to Quest including visited dashboards, unique ID of Management Server, Server version and configuration details. This information is then displayed on the Automatic Communication with Quest dashboard or can be viewed in a popup by hovering over the Update link on the Administration page.

When this setting is enabled, you will receive messages:

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If an update is available for your Foglight Management Server.

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To communicate important messages about Foglight. For example, “We are aware of the Heart Bleed bug”.

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To communicate known issues to the user about a component you already have installed.

Notifications are sent to users with the Administrator role. By default, this feature is turned on. To turn it off, from the Automatic Communication with Quest dashboard, click Disable next to the Communication with Foglight.com to part. To access the Automatic Communication with Quest dashboard, from the Administration dashboard, in the Support column, click Support Notifications.

The Foglight Management Server also integrates with the Quest QorePortal that enables access to your Foglight installation from any Internet enabled device. Integration with the Quest QorePortal is available for users with the Administrator role and is turned off by default. To turn in on, implement either of the following:

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Click Enable under the QorePortal Integration part on the Automatic Communication with Quest dashboard.

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Click Yes in the prompted QorePortal Integration dialog box when starting up the Foglight Management Server after installation.

If you need more information about how to set up the connection with this portal or see the Last Connection Status: Connection failed. message under the QorePortal Integration part, refer to Setting up Proxy Configuration .

Extending Your Monitoring Reach with Foglight Cartridges

Each Foglight® cartridge contains extensions for monitoring a specific environment, such as applications, operating systems, or database management systems. Cartridges are installed on the server. A cartridge can contain one or more agents that are used to collect data from monitored environments.

The Foglight Management Server includes a set of default cartridges that contain models, views and monitoring policies. In addition to these server-specific cartridges, there are other types of cartridges that are distributed separately from the server. They extend the server’s monitoring capabilities, allowing you to monitor specific types of environments, such as operating systems, processes, databases, applications, hosts, and others. These types of cartridges typically include agent packages, agent adapters, monitoring policies, and dashboards.

A cartridge monitoring policy contains settings that help Foglight analyze the data that the agents collect, such as rules, registry variables, schedules, and derived metrics. The items included in the monitoring policy are specific to each cartridge type. The dashboards included with a cartridge allow the information collected by the agents to be displayed in a unified view.

The Management Server includes the Cartridge Inventory dashboard, which contains controls for installing, enabling, disabling, and uninstalling cartridges, and for viewing information about the installed cartridges. To access this dashboard, from the navigation panel, click Dashboards > Administration > Cartridges > Cartridge Inventory.

Some cartridges include additional components, such as agent installers or additional configuration files. After cartridge installation, these components are available for download from the Foglight Management Server using the Components For Download dashboard. To access this dashboard, from the navigation panel, click Dashboards > Administration. On the Administration dashboard, click Component Download in the Cartridges column.

For more information, see the following topics:

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Install Foglight cartridges

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Enable or disable Foglight cartridges

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Remove Foglight cartridges

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