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September 2018

Take Your Monitoring Insights to another Level Using New Analytic Views

Foglight 5.9.3 (core Foglight release) includes among its features new components for building dashboards called “analytic views”. The new view types are: Scatter Plot Chart, Bubble Chart and Tree Map Chart. Specifically, I’ll cover here how to use these in the Foglight “Drag and Drop” interface to easily create new views that can show your monitoring data in new, powerful ways.

Groovy, groovier, grooviest: Getting metrics collected by Foglight

What if you could get a list of all metrics and observations collected by Foglight, and have the ability to filter/sort by cartridge and topology type? That would be groovy. My colleague Mark.Bai developed the script below. To run it, navigate to Administration -> Tooling -> Script Console. Select the Scripts tab and click the Add button.

Top 3 workstation logs to monitor: Improve endpoint security with Sysmon, PowerShell and security logs

Most cyberattacks today begin on user workstations. Why? Well, in part it's because workstations, unlike servers, are typically the province of non-technical users, who are easier prey for attackers. It's easy to lay all the blame on users, but attacks are getting more sophisticated all the time. The other side of the coin is that users' workstations are also particularly vulnerable, for several reasons.

FVE8.8 What is New! - Support of VMware Cloud on AWS

In short, VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) provides an identical user experience with local vSphere environments while running all infrastructures on AWS. In this August, FVE8.8 has been launched with the new support of VMware Cloud on AWS. This blog will walk you through the procedure of monitoring VMware Cloud on AWS with FVE 8.8.

Quest Enhances KACE Systems Management Appliance to Meet Demands of Fast-Growing Endpoint Environments

ALISO VIEJO, CALIF. – September 17, 2018 – Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection and security software provider, today announced the general availability of KACE Systems Management Appliance (SMA) 9.0. A comprehensive, multi-platform endpoint and asset management solution that helps businesses proactively provision, manage, secure and service their growing endpoint environments.

Integrated change auditing and event log management for strong security

Complete, reliable user activity tracking is essential to both security and compliance. But using native tools means struggling with an avalanche of uncorrelated, cryptic event activity from individual DCs, servers and more, and most third-party tools are cumbersome to implement and don't provide the depth of auditing required.