How to disable an embedded Foglight Agent Manager in Foglight Evolve

Hello, and welcome to this video tutorial on how to disable the Foglight Agent Manager fglam embedded on the Foglight management server. Whenever you install an FMS, you auto install an embedded agent manager on the FMS. Once you've installed an external fglam. On its own server, there is no need for an embedded fglam. We can see all of the agent managers associated with a given FMS by going to Foglight's expert view, expanding Dashboards, expanding Administration, expanding Agents, and clicking on Agent Managers. Here, we can see the embedded agent manager on the FMS-win2016 server that's running the FMS. And then, the external agent manager running on the fglam-win2016 server. We want to disable the embedded fglam running on the FMS Embedded fglam is limited to monitoring approximately 1,000 hosts across all of the agents running on it, and uses FMS resources. So unless you are doing a small proof of concept, it's typically best practice to disable it. There are three steps performed on the FMS to disable an embedded agent manager. Step one will be go into the config folder on the FMS server, and going to server.config. It's a text file. I'll open it with Notepad++ plus or similar. And we'll show you why it's best not to use Windows Notepad. And from there, at the bottom of the file, there's a server.fglam.embedded that's equal true. We will change that to false and save the file. And then, we restart the Foglight service. That's all there is to it. The rest of the video will be showing those steps on the FMS server. And we're going to go find that server.config file. Installed it on the Quest folder. Let's see. There's a config folder. And server.config. Now, if you right click that and open it with Notepad, not very readable. So Notepad is not a great choice. Instead, if you download a free product like Notepad++, right click that. Much nicer. And at the bottom-- at the bottom of the file, change server.fglam.embedded from true to false. Do a file save. We can exit that. And the last thing to do is to restart the Foglight service. Go to services.msc. Open that. Locate the Foglight lights service. And off to the left, you can restart it. I, with Microsoft services, prefer-- that's just personal preference-- to stop and manually started again rather than just restarting. Tend to get more consistent results. So I'm going to stop the service. Then we'll start the service. You see that Foglight service is running. The Foglight service has restarted. And we'll log in. And let's take a look at the agent managers. Expand Administration under Dashboards. Expand Agents. Click on Agent Managers. We can see that the embedded agent manager no longer appears. We only see the external agent manager. So that concludes this video. Thank you for watching.