DirectLink functionality in 8.5 broken?

Hey everyone. I searched around some on this but didn't see anything.

Did the DirectLink account functionality stop working in the recent 8.5 version or Orion? We upgrade from 8.1 to 8.5 and all of the external custom web pages we had built can no longer access graphs via direct URL links. They require that the user log into Solarwinds first. Which is really painful for us.

We have several custom php pages that snag graphs out of Orion via direct URL's and DirectLink made that really awesome.

Thanks for any help.

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chulbert

We have the same issue.. and haven't found a way around it yet...

here is some sample html we use on one of many dashboards that don't work any longer...

<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>Dashboard</title>
</head>

<table border="0" id="table1" cellpadding="2" width="1214">
 <tr>
 <td>
 
 <img border="0" src="HCR.bmp" width="300" height="40">LAN
 / WAN Performance Dashboard</td>
 <td width="191">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <a href="http://orion/NetPerfMon/SummaryView.aspx?NetObject=?&AccountID=pe&Password=pe">
 ORION</a></li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://whatsup/">WHAT'S UP</a></li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://customercenter.verizonbusiness.com">Verizon
 Customer Center</a></li>
 </ul>
 </td>
 <td width="200" valign="top">
 <ul>
 <li>
 <a href="http://pmagapp01">Magic</a></li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://ingrmon1.hcr-manorcare.com/NetPerfMon/View.asp?NetObject=&accountid=hcr&password=hcr">
 Server Monitoring</a></li>
 <li>
 <a href="https://par.hcr-manorcare.com/par">Password
 Repository</a></li>
 </ul>
 </td>
 <td width="141" valign="top">
 <ul>
 <li>
 
 <a href="https://portal.mss.verisign.com/portal/login.do">
 Verisign Portal</a></li>
 <li>
 <a href="https://bigip1.hcr-manorcare.com">F5 BIG IP Login</a></li>
 <li>
 <a href="http://whatsup/tools.asp">Web Based IP Tools</a></li>
 </ul>
 </td>
 <td width="19">
 </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td width="855">

<img border="0" src="http://orion/NetPerfMon/Chart.asp?AccountID=pe&Password=pe&Chart=MMAVGBPS&NetObject=I:3725&Width=600&Period=Last 24 Hours&SampleSize=15M&Style=Default" width="600" height="372"></a></td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td width="1200" colspan="5">
 <table border="0" id="table2" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="3" width="1209">
 <tr>
 <td> </td>
 <td>Ping time to Raintree 
 <img border="0" src="http://orion/NetPerfMon/Gauge.asp?AccountID=pe&Password=pe&Style=Radial&NetObject=N:380&Property=AvgResponseTime&Scale=>" align="top">

</td>
 <td align="left" valign="top">
<ul>
<li>

<a href="http://orion/NetPerfMon/View.asp?AccountID=pe&password=pe&ViewName=Current Top 10 Lists">TOP 10 List (Orion)</a></li>
<li>
<a href="RaintreeSites.htm">Raintree Dashboard</a></li>
<li>
<a href="PSFS.htm">PeopleSoft
Dashboard</a> 
</li>
<li>

<a target="_blank" href="../../LAN_WAN_Team">LAN/WAN Folder</a></li>
<li>

<a target="_blank" href="../../1%20Circuit%20Orders">Master U List</a> 
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://audit02">Device Authority</a></li>
<li>

<a href="http://prowatch.netsolve.com/">Prowatch Portal</a></li>
</ul>
 </td>
 <td align="left" valign="top">
Craig's Desk

Who is visiting Craig

</td>
</tr>
</table>

</td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 </div>

</body>

</html>

willhepptemp

hmmm... I have a similar issue whereby, after upgrading to 8.5, passing login information via URL no longer works. Do others with auto login issues have a separate web server? There are still issues in 8.5 with getting data onto the web server (reports schema still has to be copied manually, for example) and the separate web server has always seemed to be the red-headed step child of the system...

Will

smac8213

We aren't using a seperate web server yet (its on the list) but this is VERY frustrating as we have a large number of reports that are completely messed up. We use our PHP servers to custom build reports that can't be done in Orion. We are even finding that trying to use curl to poll detached node information is returning a OBJECT MOVED TO HERE that provides a broken link back to the login page, rather then the web page we are asking for. This all worked prior to version 8.5

SW, PLEASE respond to this issue and acknowledge if this is a bug, or a change of direction by Solarwinds developers. Hopefully its not the later.

FormerMember

The change is not intentional. We'll try to hotfix this as soon as possible.