Solarwinds Orion Platform services to monitor?

itengineer

Hi Folks,

I wonder if anyone here can assist of what are the Solarwinds Orion platform services to monitor?

Get-Service -ComputerName 'SW-PPE1-VM','SW-APE2-VM' | Where-Object { ($_.Name -like '*Solarwinds*') } |
Select-Object StartType,
Status,
Name,
DisplayName,
Machinename,
@{ n = 'Service Dependency'; e = { $_.ServicesDependedOn } }

This is that I've got in return:

StartType Status Name DisplayName Service Dependency
--------- ------ ---- ----------- ------------------
Automatic Running SolarWindsAdministration SolarWinds Administration Service
Automatic Running SolarWindsAgent64 SolarWinds Agent
Automatic Running SolarWindsAlertingServiceV2 SolarWinds Alerting Service V2 NetTcpPortSharing
Automatic Running SolarWindsCortex SolarWinds Cortex
Automatic Running SolarWindsHighAvailability SolarWinds HighAvailability
Automatic Running SolarWindsLogPollingService SolarWinds Log Manager for Orion Polling Service EventLog
Automatic Running SolarWindsRecommendations SolarWinds Recommendations
Automatic Running SolarWindsSyslogService SolarWinds Log Manager for Orion Syslog Service EventLog
Automatic Running SolarWindsTrapService SolarWinds Log Manager for Orion Trap Service EventLog

So only these so far that I know of:

SolarWindsAdministration
SolarWindsAgent64
SolarWindsAlertingServiceV2
SolarWindsCortex
SolarWindsHighAvailability
SolarWindsLogPollingService
SolarWindsRecommendations
SolarWindsSyslogService
SolarWindsTrapService

The goal here is to be able to get some alert when the essential service is stopped.

I've got no more SAM-AL license left for the Solarwinds SAM application template, hence the above method is used.

Thank you in advance.

mesverrum

If licenses are tight this template might be helpful
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/SAM-Discussions/Check-All-Services-Which-Set-To-Automatic-Mode-Are-Running/td-p/330187

Instead of 1 license per service it uses 1 license to cover all auto start services. It could be edited to just cover the Orion related services if you like.

Compared to a normal service monitor you lose visibility into cpu and memory type stats, but that could be a fair trade to reduce your license consumption when you are near your limits.