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What ... ? (general) What is Foxhound? What's new in Foxhound? How do I get a copy? What is SQL Anywhere? What are the differences among the different editions of Foxhound: Beta, Evaluation, Basic and Extended? What are the Foxhound system requirements? What is the Foxhound End-User License Agreement (EULA)? What is the upgrade policy for installing new builds of Foxhound? What happens when a copy of Foxhound expires? What's new in Foxhound 1.2.xxxx? What's new in Foxhound 1.1.3832? What was new in Foxhound GA 1.3738? What was new in Foxhound Beta 1.3736? What was new in Foxhound Beta 1.3707? What was new in Foxhound Beta 1.3677? What was new in Foxhound Beta 1.3655? What is the history of Foxhound? What's in the future for Foxhound? What HTTP port should I use for Foxhound? What happened to Foxhound Options - Export Samples?
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How ... ? (general) How do I backup my Foxhound database? How do I backup my Foxhound database on a regular basis? How do I change the Alerts criteria? (threshold settings, etcetera) How do I figure out what went wrong during an installation? How do I find the post_setup_trace.txt file? How do I get a copy of Foxhound? How do I get multiple copies of Foxhound? How do I get something to show up in the Last Statement column? How do I get something to show up in the Total Waits, Waiting Time columns? How do I install a new version of Foxhound? How do I install Foxhound? How do I install the Basic Edition of Foxhound? How do I install the Evaluation Edition of Foxhound? How do I install the Extended Edition of Foxhound? How do I install version 11 of SQL Anywhere on the same machine used to run an earlier version of SQL Anywhere? How do I keep the Foxhound database file from growing so large? How do I keep the Foxhound log file from growing so large? How do I reinstall an earlier build of Foxhound? How do I reinstall Foxhound? How do I remove Foxhound from my system? How do I restore the Foxhound database from a backup? How do I restore the old build of Foxhound after installing a new build? How do I run the Foxhound "unsetup" process? How do I see Foxhound diagnostics, errors and exceptions? How do I shrink the size of the Foxhound database? How do I specify the HTTPS transport-layer security for Foxhound? How do I start 10 copies of Foxhound on a single computer? How do I start Foxhound? How do I start Foxhound in "debug mode"? How do I start Foxhound in "safe mode"? How do I start multiple copies of Foxhound on a single computer? How do I stop and restart Foxhound? How do I stop Foxhound? How do I tell a Beta Foxhound setup file apart from a Generally Available (GA) setup? How do I tell different databases apart in Alert emails? How do I tell Foxhound to use an HTTP port other than 80? How do I uninstall Foxhound? How do I "unsetup" Foxhound? How do I upgrade to a new version of Foxhound without losing any of my data? How many target databases can one copy of Foxhound monitor?
Why ... ? (general) Why are my Alert emails garbled? Why are the values empty in the Last Statement column? Why are the values empty in the Total Waits, Waiting Time columns? Why are the values so large in the Interval and Sample Time columns? Why are there so many "Connection timeout" messages in Foxhound - Options - Display Diagnostics? Why aren't more "Uninteresting Connections" being deleted by the Foxhound purge process? Why did Foxhound start automatically after I stopped it? Why do I get an ALERT #28 - Long transaction when there are no connections running long transactions? Why do I see so many Alert #1 - Database unresponsive messages? Why do I see so many "Timed out" messages on the Monitor display? Why does Foxhound issue Alert #1 - Database unresponsive immediately after Foxhound is started? Why does Foxhound keep sending emails even though "Send Alert emails" is unchecked on the Foxhound Options page? Why does the Foxhound post-upgrade process take so long? Why doesn't the Foxhound backup process create the generation2 subfolder? Why is Alert #1 - Database unresponsive issued and cleared with every sample gathered? Why is Foxhound unresponsive when it starts? Why is it called "unsetup" instead of "uninstall"? Why is the Alert #15 threshold still set at 10 incomplete file I/O operations, instead of the new default value of 256? Why is the "bytes per row" larger than the actual amount of data in each row? Why is the "Choose a DSN:" drop down list empty? Why won't the sample connection strings on the String tab work on Vista or Windows 7? Why won't the target database auto-start when Foxhound tries to connect to it?
Messages -81: DBSPAWN ERROR: -81 0: dbspawn/dbeng11 set ERRORLEVEL = 0 1: dbspawn/dbeng11 set ERRORLEVEL = 1 1: ERRORLEVEL from dbstop: Unable to stop database server -- Request to start/stop database denied. 1730: You must be an Administrator to remove this application. - Error 1730. 23: I/O error Fatal error: A disk read from file "...\foxhound1.db" failed with error code: (23) -- transaction rolled back -- 255: dbspawn/dbeng11 set ERRORLEVEL = 255 404: Not Found 408: Request Time-Out 503: Service Temporarily Unavailable 9: ERRORLEVEL from dbstop: Unable to stop database server -- Database server not found. A disk read from file "...\foxhound1.db" failed with error code: (23) -- transaction rolled back -- A subdirectory or file backup already exists. Access is denied. ALERT ... Alert #11 - HA failover - ... on ... ALL CLEAR ... Another version of this product is already installed. Authentication failed CANCELLED ... Cannot access ... foxhound1.db ... another process may be using the file Cannot open transaction log file -- Can't use log file "foxhound.log" Can't open Message window log file: foxhound1_debug.txt Can't start HTTP listener on address 127.0.0.1:80 Choose a connection string. Choose an ODBC DSN. Connection timeout for target ... after ... (timeout threshold is ...; see Foxhound Options) Could not bind to address ... Could not execute statement. Item 'rroad_..._properties' already exists Could not load dynamic library ' ... \rroad1.dll' CREATE PROCEDURE rroad_..._properties failed ... Item 'rroad_..._properties' already exists Data cannot be upgraded from ... to ... Data source name not found and no default driver specified Database server not found Database server shutdown due to startup error DBSPAWN ERROR: -81 dbspawn/dbeng11 set ERRORLEVEL = 0 dbspawn/dbeng11 set ERRORLEVEL = 1 dbspawn/dbeng11 set ERRORLEVEL = 255 EMAIL FAILURE - SMTP send email failed with return code ... when sending "..." Error 1730. You must be an Administrator to remove this application. ERRORLEVEL = 0 from dbspawn/dbeng11 ERRORLEVEL = 1 from dbspawn/dbeng11 ERRORLEVEL = 1 from dbstop: Unable to stop database server -- Request to start/stop database denied. ERRORLEVEL = 255 from dbspawn/dbeng11 ERRORLEVEL = 9 from dbstop: Unable to stop database server -- Database server not found. File access denied. file is unavailable Foxhound Extended edition is required for ... Foxhound needs JavaScript to be enabled. Foxhound stopped Foxhound was not available yet, probably because the Foxhound engine had not finished starting up. HA failover - Alert #11 I/O error Fatal error: A disk read from file "...\foxhound1.db" failed with error code: (23) -- transaction rolled back -- Invalid database engine command line Invalid database server command line Invalid user ID or password Item 'rroad_..._properties' already exists No detailed information about ... connections was recorded for... No information about ... connections has been gathered yet. No information about ... connections is available for the sample lost at ... Not Found - 404 Older samples purged at ... Page not found Permission denied: Cannot CREATE PROCEDURE rroad_... Pick a valid ODBC DSN, and specify the user id and password on the Foxhound DSN tab or inside the DSN itself Procedure rroad_... has been upgraded from build number ... to ... on ... Procedure rroad_... not used; build number ... is more recent than Foxhound build number ... Request Time-Out (408) Sampling stopped Service Temporarily Unavailable - 503 SMTP send email failed with return code ... when sending "..." Specified database file already in use Specified database not found SQL Anywhere database server ... not supported SQL Anywhere database version ... not supported SQL Anywhere version ... not supported. SQL Anywhere version ... or later is required to run this application. Statement interrupted by user Stop Foxhound Engine requested at ... Syntax error: syntax error near ... Target SQL Anywhere server version ... not supported The $backup_foxhound1.bat file looked for a path specification in the FOXHOUND1 environment variable and it was empty. The connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost The data upgrade process has begun: to build ... from ... The data upgrade process has failed: to build ... from ...; diagnostics = "..." The data upgrade process has succeeded: to build ... from ... The database engine is stopping. Use an acceptable server and database name. The database engine is stopping. Use the Extended edition when starting multiple copies of Foxhound. The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. The Foxhound database must run on its own SQL Anywhere engine. The Foxhound engine has been shut down. The initial activation was not successful: The registration key did not work. The initial activation was not successful: you cannot activate a BETA copy of Foxhound as FULL. The page cannot be displayed The page cannot be displayed The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. The system cannot find the file specified. The system could not find the environment option that was entered. The table ... has more than one index on columns ( ... ) The table ... has no primary key or unique constraint, but does have a unique index. The table ... has no primary key, unique constraint or unique index. The table or view ... was not found, probably because it has been recently dropped. There are no user tables to display. This monitor session has been stopped and the samples have been deleted. This view has no column definitions in SYSCOLUMN; it may contain a syntax error. To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer. Too many sampling sessions in progress. Stop one and try again. transaction rolled back: I/O error Fatal error: A disk read from file "...\foxhound1.db" failed with error code: (23) Unable to stop database server -- Database server not found. Unable to stop database server -- Request to start/stop database denied. Unacceptable SQL Anywhere server edition: The database engine is stopping. Unexpected operation: "..." User "DBA" dropped event connection 1000...... ("rroad_monitor_sample_loop") Windows cannot find 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe' You must be an Administrator to remove this application. - Error 1730.