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Best Practice SEM Rules for Monitoring Linux (Apache/MariaDB), Windows Servers, FortiGate Firewalls & Switches
Hi Dears, I’d like to gather your input on best practices for creating rules What are the recommended rules or alerts you suggest for monitoring Linux servers that host web applications (Apache, MariaDB, etc.)? What are the best practice rules to apply for Active Directory and Windows servers? What about the rules to apply…
Best way to monitor VMware (vSphere vs ESXi vs Hosts)
Hi Dears , I’d like to get your advice regarding VMware monitoring in SEM. What is the best approach for monitoring — should we monitor vSphere, Vcenter, the ESXi servers, or the individual hosts? What kind of information or log details can we expect to get from each (vSphere vs ESXi vs hosts)? Is vSphere 5.0 still…
Multiple SEM servers
I am trying to find out if SEM servers can have multiple SEM serveres that share data. Basically we would like to have SEM servers on several different domains that can be viewed at that level and also have the SEM data forwarded to a master SEM server where it can be viewed there. I now know the agents can't forward to 2…
Security Event Manager
I'm stuck here trying to connect to my SEM Web API from my SolarWinds Observability console SEM settings virtual network is same because my SolarWinds platform IP : 192.168.2.95 SEM module IP : 192.168.2.126 Kindly help and suggest ways to troubleshoot I've already tried options.
Need Help: Forwarding Syslogs from Kiwi to SEM – Parsing and Connector Issues
Hi everyone, I'm currently working on integrating Kiwi Syslog Server with SolarWinds SEM, and I've encountered a challenge I hope someone here can help with. Here’s my current setup: All logs from multiple sources are being forwarded to centralized Kiwi Syslog Servers. I successfully configured SEM agents on the Kiwi…
Historical Events Report Question
Hello Everyone, I am attempting to run reports on data collected a few months ago. I get zero results but definitely have data for the time frame and was sure to select the custom range. Will I need to modify the predefined reports? Is this not possible? Thanks
2025.2 Misconfigured Windows Event connector Events
After upgrading to SEM 2025.2 and subsequently upgrading agents, we are seeing more instances of Windows systems sending "Misconfigured Windows Event connector: *, stopping connector.". Can be any of the Application/Security/System connectors, or all three. No apparent pattern of commonalities to the servers. Messages I…
Hosting SEM appliance on Nutanix
Is anyone hosting their SEM on Nutanix? Is it stable? Is it supported?
SEM Monitoring In AWS and On Premises
Hello, I have been asked to help install SEM in AWS. Once SEM is in AWS, can it still monitor on-premises nodes? Kind regards.
Silently uninstall SEM agent
We have around 100 agents install around our environment and we are no longer using SEM. Does anyone know how to silently and non-interactively bulk uninstall agents? I'd like to use PowerShell if possible.