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How do I enumerate all the VMs running on an ESXi host?
Hi all. I am attempting to create a new alert/alert action that sends a webhook notification to MS teams whenever an ESXi host goes down. The contents of the alert should list the VMs that are/were running on that host. The part I am struggling with is how to write the SWQL query to say "select VMs on XYZ host" We do not…
SQL Monitor for Long-Running Backup Jobs
Has anyone created a monitor for SQL Backup jobs, that have taken longer than x number of hours to complete?
Component Alerting Questions - I might be using some outdated SWQL
Greetings - I have created various Applications to monitor our Citrix Environment. The Monitors are up and working just fine. I have some questions about alerting on the components. I was using this to report on a down component which works fine but it sends out an alert for each component that is down.…
Report - thresholds for script monitor components
Greetings all. Working on Component Monitors using Bash scripts on Linux servers. I've got several return variables to Solarwinds configured which I have named. For example: Folder1NumberOfFiles Folder1OldestFile Folder1NumFilesOlderThanOneDay etc... Component names something like... FileCountServer1 FileCountServer2 I'm…
create a critical alert when multiple servers are offline not just one
We use Citrix machine creation services for some machine catalogs. One machine catalog has 20 VDA's in it. I would like to see a critical alert if there is a certain threshold of VDA's offline not just one. Currently we have the environment configured so that we receive a critical when a production machine is offline. That…
Need to monitor file count using ls command
I am using below script to count the files in a directory with name RTLOG_$DATE but this script is not working in SAM Template, Can some help me to modify the script correct so that I can get the output correctly and use in SAM #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $date = `date +\%Y\%m\%d`; chomp($date); my…
SAM Multivalue messages not updating in database
We have a number of SAM monitors running fine until we upgraded to 2023.3.1 Since then the multi value part of the message is not being updated in the DB but the statistic is, so we get alerts generated because of statistic but cant see what error message is. when i run a test directly on the SAM template it returns both…
SQL Server Transaction Log Monitoring and Alerting for Restricted Growth
Just wondering how most people are monitoring and alerting on MS SQL Transaction Logs, with restricted growth being used? My current alert triggers on the main ldf file has reached it limited, but since a second file is now created the SQL still has room with the second file.
SAM Template - SMB Shares - Display in Table View
Anyone have a solution or idea how one would display the output of the following powershell command in a table? get-smbshare | Where-Object { $_.Special -eq 0 } | select Name, Path, ShareState, CurrentUsers
Thwack community is way better (Splunk add on question)
We have the SolarWinds add on in Splunk. Does anyone know if you click the device that you can get it to take you to the node details page in SolarWinds? I am trying to figure how I would set a node ID token that I can put in the SW link to open the proper page.