Foglight How to

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

How to remove a fglam server from foglight enviroment

connect to foglight as foglight
go to script console
Please the following script in the script box

server.TopologyService.deleteObject(scope)

save the script since you may have to use it few time
select host in the drop down list
click on list instances
you can refine your search on the object you want to remove using the search box
for each occurence do the following

Select one occurence
select the script you created
click on the script name
click on run
null should appear in the result box
repeat this for each occurence

once done, refresh the list by clicking on list instances
now select remoteclient in the drop down list
click list instances
you can refine your search on the object you want to remove using the search box
for each occurence do the following

Select one occurence
select the script you created
click on the script name
click on run
null should appear in the result box
repeat this for each occurence

once done, refresh the list by clicking on list instances

this complete the removal of the the fglam

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Multiple Quest Foglight Agent Managesr on a Linux host

Multiple FGLAM on one Linux host.

It is possible to have multiple FGLAM on one host .

In my company we are using 2 FGLAMs per host.
We are using FGLAM and Oracle Cartridges.
One thing is that you have to make sure that you do not have more that 70 agents (all agents together) per FGLAM.

Here is our host config for 2 FGLAMs that manage Oracle Agents.

Our FGLAM servers are VMs

CPU: 2
Memory: 8Gb
Filesystems: It is better to have one filesystem per FGLAM

In order to have multiple FGLAM per host you just to run the installer and install the FLGAMs on different folder.
Also use a different name for each one. On our side, for each server we have one server for the dev and one server the prod. here is an exemple
FGLAM1 : your_hostname_dev
FGLAM2 : your_hostname_prod

We also have scripts to stop and start them.

Scripts:
Start one FGLAM foglight_start_fglam
Stop one FGLAM foglight_stop_fglam

How to Start/Stop your FMS

How to Start your FMS

Connect to your FMS

cd /foglight/Quest_Software/Foglight/bin
./fms -d

You can do a tail -f on the logs located in /foglight/Quest_Software/Foglight/logs
Once the FMS is started you can start your FGLAM.

How to Stop your FMS

First you should stop all your FGLAM. It is not necessary but it is better to stop them.
Once the FGLAMs are down you can stop your FMS

Connect to your FMS

cd /foglight/Quest_Software/Foglight/bin
./fms -q

Friday, February 7, 2014

How to backup and restore a module in Quest Foglight

Overview

This post is to help you backup and restore a module.
Module being a leaf on the menu on the right.
The exemple I'm using in here is that I have a module or folder if you prefer where I saved all my reports.
If you are planning to do an upgrade it is highly recommended that you backup you own modules in case you lose it.
One thin DO NOT put reports or dashboard on predefined modules. For exemple, do not put reports in the database module. if you move it, you'll lose the access to the database dashboard after the move.
It is better that you create your own module where you can move and create your own objects.

Assuming my reports are in MY Reports modules.
Assuming you are on Linux
Assuming your FMs is installed in the default folder /foglight/Quest_Software/Foglight

How to Backup a module in foglight

On the FMS:

export JAVA_HOME=/foglight/Quest_Software/Foglight/jre/
cd /foglight/Quest_Software/Foglight/bin
./fglcmd.sh -pwd your_password -cmd util:uiexport -m system:your_module_name -f ../your_module_name.zip

How to Restore a module in Foglight