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Foglight Demonstration Center

Application Management to Unify IT and the Business


Foglight Video (Duration: 2 minutes) 


Foglight® application management overcomes much of what traditional monitoring cannot. It empowers you with a 360-degree view of application performance—from every perspective.

  • Guarantee the service levels you deliver
  • Gain visibility into the end user experience
  • Quickly detect, diagnose and resolve problems
  • Analyze and improve database performance
  • Manage OS and virtual environments and their impact on applications
  • Rapidly adapt to change

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Foglight Overview

Managing Applications from End User to Database (Duration: 7 minutes)

In this high-level Foglight demonstration, a global medical records application is in use. The application is experiencing problems in a particular geographic location. This demonstration will show how Foglight can provide IT application owner’s situational awareness regarding the health of their application including how Foglight:

  • Manages applications across geographic and organizational boundaries
  • Manages from multiple perspectives: services level, end user and infrastructure management
  • Quickly isolates a problem to the underlying technology platform

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End-User Management

End-User Management Overview Demo (Duration: 5 minutes)

Foglight provides end user management capabilities for measuring application performance and user experience, including usage levels, usage patterns, and session analysis—right down to the individual user level. In this demonstration you will see how Foglight can:

  • Provide visibility into the user experience through session replay
  • Understand the business impact of end-user problems
  • Manage synthetic and real user transactions
  • Prioritize problem resolution by number and type of users affected

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Application Performance Management

Java Application Management Overview Demo (Duration: 6 minutes)

Foglight enables organizations to adaptively manage JEE application service levels through proactive monitoring and real-time diagnostics. Foglight detects, diagnoses and resolves application issues before impact is felt by end users or the business.

  • Manage performance and availability from end user to the database
  • Trace performance and memory issues to the offending code
  • Reduce MTTR with deep coverage across the application stack
  • Diagnose individual user problems in production

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Oracle E-Business Application Management Demo (Duration: 6 minutes)

Many Oracle E-Business application performance issues are really caused by inappropriate user behavior. This demonstration will show you how Foglight can identify users, what they are doing and how to eliminate user issues that are impacting your ability to meet SLAs. Foglight can help you:

  • Save money and reduce the effort and cost of maintaining the performance of your applications
  • Get better, more reliable performance over high processing times such as at month’s end
  • Improve the elements of your business that depend on your Oracle E-Business applications

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SAP Application Management Overview Demo

SAP Application Management Overview Demo (Duration: 6 minutes)

Foglight optimizes the performance and availability of SAP applications from end-to-end and delivers a shared set of performance information that all application stakeholders can use regardless of their SAP skill level. This demonstration will show you how Foglight can:

  • Help you understand and prioritize performance problems based on their impact to the business
  • Enable all SAP stakeholders regardless of whether they are technical, business or other partners to understand the evolving performance of SAP without having to spend a lot of time manually writing reports or cutting and pasting data into excel spreadsheets

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Database Management

Monitoring Database Performance and Availability (Duration: 7 minutes)

Foglight continuously monitors your entire database environment—including Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 LUW and Sybase—so you know right away if problems are developing or occurring. Unlike other systems that are difficult to configure and maintain, Foglight readily adapts to meet your specific needs—now and in the future. See how Foglight:

  • Automatically detects new databases
  • Provides drag-and-drop dashboards
  • Collects and calculates custom metrics
  • Incorporates your existing scripts
  • Supports virtualized environments and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)

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Investigating Database Issues (Duration: 8 minutes)

Foglight helps you manage issues that come up in your database environment and threaten to impact your applications and users. In this demo, you’ll see how Foglight alerts you to and helps you resolve a disk sort problem caused by rows being added to a database. You’ll see how you can:

  • Specify when an alert is raised, who gets notified and what other actions are taken
  • Drill down to uncover the source of the problem
  • Report to management on the problem, its cause and its resolution
  • Manage alerts over time

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Solving "Simple" Database Issues (Duration: 7 minutes)

Foglight is a complete solution to detect, diagnose and resolve performance issues. In this demo, you'll see how Foglight helps you investigate and resolve a relatively common problem that presents some unique challenges. You'll see how Foglight:

  • Monitors response time
  • Analyzes database workload
  • Identifies the specific user who's causing the problem
  • Optimizes problematic SQL

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Solving Complex Database Issues (Duration: 6 minutes)

Foglight is unique in that it provides the depth and expertise to resolve complex or intermittent problems—the kinds of problems that can make or break the database team. In this demo, you’ll see how Foglight provides a complete workflow to troubleshoot and resolve an issue with CBC latch waits caused by hot blocks. You’ll see how Foglight:

  • Alerts you of a problem
  • Identifies the source
  • Isolates the root cause
  • Resolves the problem quickly and without impacting production users

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Taking a Broader View of Database Management (Duration: 9 minutes)

Databases don’t exist in isolation—they exist to serve users, applications and business services. As a complete application and service management solution, Foglight brings this important perspective to database management. In this demo, you’ll see how Foglight allows you to:

  • Assess the impact of database problems on users and applications
  • Align database management with the business
  • Adopt a service-oriented approach to database management

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Infrastructure Management

WebSphere MQ Messaging Management (Duration: 7 minutes)

This brief presentation will demonstrate the WebSphere MQ monitoring and diagnostic capabilities provided by Foglight. The dashboards and workflows that you will see were designed to meet the monitoring and diagnostic needs of MQ administrators, and IT application owners and administrators whose infrastructure relies on one or more MQ components. This demonstration shows:

  • Foglight Application Overview Dashboard
  • MQ Overview Dashboard
  • Alarm views and status
  • Diagnostic workflow example drill-down to solve a problem with a stopped channel

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Virtualization

Addressing the Challenges of VMware Monitoring (Duration: 7 minutes)

Foglight helps you understand the virtual infrastructure by managing the relationships and interaction between all the components in the virtual environment, including data centers, data stores, clusters, resource pools, ESX servers and virtual machines. In this demonstration you will see how Foglight helps you to:

  • Visualize and navigate the virtual environment
  • Understand status of core resources
  • View and investigate alarms
  • Track Virtual Machine movements
  • Review techniques to prevent future incidents and problems

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Identify and Manage a Resource Contention Issue in the Virtual Environment (Duration: 7 minutes)

Foglight helps you to determine the root cause of a resource contention issue in the virtual environment so you can resolve it quickly and effectively. Watch as Foglight allows you to:

  • View and investigate alarms
  • Drill-down to an ESX server alarm
  • Model a VMotion move to ensure ESX server capacity
  • Review techniques to prevent future incidents and problems

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Managing the Impact of VMware on Applications from End User to Database (Duration: 6 minutes)

Foglight helps you effectively manage an application being hosted in a virtual environment. We will discuss how Foglight helps you understand how to determine a problem, triage it and prioritize IT’s response to reduce MTTR. In the demonstration we will:

  • Review a service definition
  • Identify a problem in the virtual environment creating a poor user experience
  • Drill-down to evaluate potential root cause
  • Resolve the issue and restore service

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Foglight Foundation

Gain Visibility with Foglight Dashboards (Duration: 5 minutes)

Foglight is all about visibility. Without it, you are left to guess what may be wrong—and you may not even know there is a problem to guess about. Use Foglight to gain a new level of insight into your critical applications and the end user experience.

  • Prioritize incidents and problems based on business impact
  • Provide role-based control, visibility and workflow
  • Build drag-and-drop custom views and reports
  • Adjusts automatically as technology changes occur

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