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Foglight^® 6.0.0

Release Notes

June 2021

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 6.0.0 release of Foglight. Review all sections before starting the installation.

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What's New

What's New

The 6.0.0 release of the Foglight Management Server contains the following new features and enhancements:

User Experience Enhancements

• Implemented Alarms Templates in the Modern Web Console(FOG-17)
• Added global search in Modern Web Console (FOG-423)
• Added updated left drawer navigation? for the Modern Web Console (FOG-20)
• Implemented the capability to display WCF dashboard in the new Modern Web Console (FOG-843)
• Improved the accuracy of the Run Now Progress bar (FOG-327)

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

Support Subscriptions for MSP

• Implemented support for subscription-based licenses for MSPs (FOG-761)

Security Enhancements

• Enhanced the password hashing function for the default password (FOG-274)
• Configured Tomcat to use a non-zero max-age for the Strict-Transport-Security header (FOG-230)
• Implemented a stronger key size for Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman Keys (FOG-657)
• Added a secure attribute for the DWRSESSIONID cookie in HTTPS connections (FOG-676)
• Updated the compression configurations used by the Foglight webserver to ensure they are applied on upgrade (FOG-1850)
• Updated third party libraries  (FOG-975)

Improvements

• Added support for Gzip encoding in REST API response (FOG-1722)

• Added support for activating a subscription license when a trial license exists (FOG-628)

Foglight Agent Manager

The Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) is upgraded to version 6.0.0. For more information about the Foglight Agent Manager 6.0.0, refer to the Foglight Agent Manager 6.0.0 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 6.0.0. For more information about the Foglight for Infrastructure 6.0.0, refer to the Foglight for Infrastructure 6.0.0 Release Notes.

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