Given the depth of metrics collected, implementation of models is easier with Foglight than in most products we've seen. Development of models centers around a standard tree navigator. Metrics are grouped in several ways to expedite locating them. Choosing a plus or minus either adds or removes the metric from a model definition.
The Great Agent Debate
For deep application performance monitoring, there's no getting around it: Agents are critical. We've found that products with agents provide more detailed and in-depth statistics on application-level processes and data, all crucial in troubleshooting and diagnosing application problems.
Quest's Foglight Cartridges are deployable application-specific units that include monitoring agents, metrics, database modification scripts and rules-all the components with the necessary intelligence for monitoringvital applications or databases. A wide variety of Cartridges are loaded by default, and Foglight support most leading business apps, including Java, .NET, SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2, Sybase and IBM WebSphere MQ. Note that some Foglight 4.x Cartridges, including those for IIS and ASP/.NET, have not been ported to the new version 5 architecture. The ASP/.NET Cartridge is scheduled for release by year's end, and the IIS Cartridge is currently due in Q1 2008.
Configuration of agents, such as a watched-process list, can be assigned via templates, so it's fairly easy to manage a collection of agents. It would be nice to see more grouping and group functions, rather than an agent-by-agent approach to configuration. However, much of the configuration can be done via a command-line utility, useful for performing repetitive tasks.
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