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Need to Monitor our Solarwinds Monitoring System

Over the holidays our Solarwinds system stopped working. When I came in this morning and tried logging into the web page I got a SQL error. I had to restart the SQL server service on our SQL 2005 box and then start the Network Performance Monitoring service on the Solarwinds host. It appears to have been down since Thursday (11/23) at 1:20 AM (3 days).

How do I monitor my solarwinds box to ensure my Solarwinds monitoring system is functional?

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brian.austin

I added a "heartbeat" alert after experiencing an issue with the SMTP portion of the server. Now I get an e-mail once a day that basically says "Hey, I'm still here." after monitoring something briefly.

Depending on the frequency, this should be fairly easy to manage. Just have it check something local for ANY type of status, change the alert's mail contents to say something about the check (ie "Solarwinds Heartbeat: everything is ok.") and set the frequency. My own heartbeat is set to only operate for two minutes during the middle of the day.

rmarshall

I like your idea for the hearbeat, but I am wondering how you reset the alert after it is triggered so it will trigger again the next day.

WINNT

I created one that sent an e-mail if a condition was true, and repeated the alert every five minutes while it was still true. I also have the SolarWinds SysLog service monitoring the other Orion services, and the Advanced Alert engine is monitoring the Orion services including the SysLog service. If a service is stopped, I created an action to start the stopped services. The SysLog monitor will also e-mail me and restart the alerting engine if it gets certain errors in the event log which cause the service to hang. These all running together have kept Orion running. My next step is to somehow detect when Orion starts having gaps in the statistic collection, and then restart one of my remote pollers. This is something I have to manually notice, then restart the NetPerfMon services.

HerrDoktor

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