How do I delete large numbers of Monitors? AKA Managing APM not fun and other questions

waxxworx

I am finding managing APM to be a realy challenge in a medium size environment. We only have a few thousand servers but even so, these tools don't scale well when it comes to administration.

I would love to hear how others are coping with these kinds of scenarios:

1) I have a template on over 2000 windows servers. Let's say I would like to delete it from them. The best I can do with the interface is to select them, at best, 25 at a time. Is there a way to do this in the database? I haven't been able to figure out the APM schema and it looks easy to mess up.

2) Have an APM template that we want on all windows servers. It was easy to add to all of them initially using the 'All' next to Group By - Vendor -Windows in the Assign to node dialog. Now the question is when I do a network scan in a month and there are 100 new windows servers, how can I get this template onto those new servers?

3) This is just a general gripe for Product Management. Let's say I have a handful of servers that I need to collect detailed data for over the next month and I have an APM template for that. Having to choose nodes individually by name is absurd. Is the answer that we need to maintain custom fields that we can use to sort by? The tool should at least allow to search by name instead of scrolling through thousands of servers looking for a check box.

qle

1) I have a template on over 2000 windows servers. Let's say I would like to delete it from them. The best I can do with the interface is to select them, at best, 25 at a time. Is there a way to do this in the database? I haven't been able to figure out the APM schema and it looks easy to mess up.

I'm not in the same situation but I understand your frustration. To address your situation, SolarWinds should probably update the Manage Assigned Application Monitors page as they did the Node Management page. To the right of the navigation arrows on the Node Management page, you can define Page size which will display your defined number of nodes on screen at once.

2) Have an APM template that we want on all windows servers. It was easy to add to all of them initially using the 'All' next to Group By - Vendor -Windows in the Assign to node dialog. Now the question is when I do a network scan in a month and there are 100 new windows servers, how can I get this template onto those new servers?

Simply do what you've already done. When assigning an APM template to nodes, APM (or at least my version of APM) provides the option to skip over nodes that already have the template assigned.

Good luck to you.