Foglight® for Integration 5.9.4
Developed for Foglight Management Server 5.9.4
Release Notes
November 2018
Welcome to Foglight for Integration
Resolved issues and enhancements
Getting started with Foglight for Integration
Quest Software'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.
Foglight Cartridge for Integration provides the ability to receive alarms from third-party technology monitoring systems into Foglight. It also provides the ability to forward alarms from Foglight to third-party systems. For example, alarms can be forwarded to an event console. In addition, The Cartridge for Integration provides the ability to feed ticket information into Foglight and it allows external systems to feed XML into Foglight to clear and acknowledge alarms.
These Release Notes cover the resolved issues, known issues, workarounds, and other important information about the 5.9.4 release of the Cartridge for Integration. Review all sections before starting the installation.
This 5.9.4 release of Foglight for Integration contains the following new features:
This 5.9.4 release of Foglight for Integration accompanies the release of Foglight 5.9.4. It does not include any resolved issues.
The following is a list of issues known to exist at the time of this release:
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FGL-10167 |
Merging Topology Types The Cartridge for Integration provides the
capability to replace a property. This replaces the whole list in the
topology with the list that was fed in. When using Federation and
Cartridge for Integration, child topologies are merged, not replaced,
with the topology on the federation master. This may cause the
topologies to be out of synchronization between the federated server and
the federation server. |
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Compatibility Problem Workaround: Upgrade the Cartridge to Integration to version 5.6.2 or 5.6.3. |
The latest version of the Cartridge for Integration is version 5.9.4.
The Cartridge for Integration 5.9.4 requires Foglight Management Server 5.9.4.
To upgrade the Cartridge for Integration, install version 5.9.4 of the cartridge as you would a new Cartridge for Integration. Do not delete the older version of the .car file. Install version 5.9.4 over the older version. Refer to "Managing Cartridges" in the Administration and Configuration Guide for cartridge installation instructions.
Once you have upgraded the cartridge, deploy the agent package. For a procedure describing how to deploy an agent package using the browser interface, see the "Deploying an Agent Package Through the Browser Interface" topic in our Upgrade Guide.
The following is a list of product versions and platforms compatible with this Foglight for Integration release.
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Product Name |
Product Version |
Platform |
Foglight Management Server |
5.9.4 |
All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Management Server |
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Foglight Agent Manager |
5.9.4 |
All platforms supported by this version of the Foglight Agent Manager |
Before installing the Cartridge for Integration, ensure your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements:
| Platform | For a list of supported platforms, refer to the Supported Platforms section in the System Requirements and Platforms Support Guide. |
| Memory | Varies depending on environment. Suggested value: Minimum 1GB
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| Hard Disk Space | Approximately 600 MB of additional hard drive disk space is required to install the cartridge file |
| Additional Software | Before installing the Cartridge for Integration version 5.9.4
install the following software: • Foglight Management Server version 5.9.4 • Foglight Agent Manager version 5.9.4 |
Foglight includes a licensing capability that restricts access to those features that are defined in the license. Any Management Server installation requires a license that grants access to server-specific parts of the browser interface and the features associated with them.
Foglight for Infrastructure is covered by the base Foglight license.
To activate a trial or a purchased commercial license:
The Cartridge for Integration release package contains the following products:
For detailed information about installing the Cartridge for Integration, see the Administration and Configuration Guide for installation instructions.
Additional information is available from the following:
This section contains information about installing and operating this product in non-English configurations, such as those needed by customers outside of North America. This section does not replace the materials about supported platforms and configurations found elsewhere in the product documentation. This release supports any single-byte character set. Double-byte or multi-byte character sets are not supported. In this release, all product components should be configured to use the same or compatible character encodings and should be installed to use the same locale and regional options. This release is targeted to support operations in the following regions: North America, Western Europe and Latin America. This release has the following known capabilities or limitations: The XML used to feed to and from Foglight is in English. There has not been extensive testing outside of the UI.
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