Application Dependency Polling Enabled Setting Missing

PatrickRG

Hi Thwack!

     I'm noticed something unusual a while back and I am stumped.  I made a nice map of our SolarWinds platform including the MPE, 3 APE and our SW SQL Server.  The simple map was only the five nodes and the SAM templates for MPE and APE.  When I first created it I enabled Application Dependency Polling and all my map elements were connected with throughput and latency metrics.  I was happy.  Fast forward several months and now only two of the elements are connected.  When I check the node settings to see if the Application Dependency Polling is enabled I find that the setting is missing on all the nodes but one.  Does anyone know why they are missing and how to bring them back?

Present and enabled:

Missing:

Interestingly the Main Polling Engine is one where the setting is missing.  As you can see the plugin(s) are installed and working.

Lofstrand

ADM is disabled be default on all SolarWinds servers, as it's not recommended to have it on there:

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/sam/content/sam-adm-requirements.htm

When it's disabled, the "enable adm" option under edit node is not visible.

You can though enable it again by following the instructions in above link, but it's not recommended.