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SAM / VMAN does "basic" polling of the majority (~40) of our ESXi hosts connected to vCenter but is missing 3. The SolarWinds server can ping those, resolve their hostnames. It does not show them in "Virtualization Summary". The hosts are in vCenter (7.03.01500), with configuration not any different from all the other…
I joined SolarWinds a few weeks ago as a Product Marketing Manager. Though I had worked as a PMM earlier at AOL for Winamp, I still found that I have a lot to learn about the Network Management space (as well as how SolarWinds has remained so successful in it). In my usual fashion, I began gathering a list of sources to…
Hello, I am brand new to monitoring software such as SolarWinds. Can anyone recommend a most basic, baseline class on SolarWinds?
In part one this series, I described installing the Visual Basic IDE. In part two, we created the foundation of the bandwidth calculator with all the necessary objects put into place. Now, in part three, we'll discuss the coding. Lesson 4 - The Coding The first question you may have is, "Where does the code go?" From the…
In part one of this series, I discussed installing and setting up your Visual Basic environment in preparation for creating a bandwidth calculator for use with SAM's component monitors. In this installment, I'll explain how to create the visual elements of the calculator. Lesson 3 - The Build First, open Visual Basic and…
We have a 192-socket VMAN license. We ended up with more VMWare hosts than we anticipated and maxed out our license, which caused new VMWare hosts to be polled using basic polling. We have several standalone hosts (not monitored through a vCenter) that we switched from VMAN Orion polling to Basic polling, so we now have…
This article provides quick & basic steps how you can troubleshoot Solarwinds application in case of failure "SYSTEM DOWN" situation . This article will cover following key points and more . Quick fast resolution and isolation of your System Down issues Server in isolated environment / Unable to send diagnostic to…
Hi Everyone, I am new Solarwinds, can someone help me with the powershell scripts in Solarwinds. I need to know where to start how to integrate the scripts with Solarwinds. If you know any documentation for this kindly let me know. Thanks in advance.
In my last blog, I wrote about what network management is and why it is such a large field. It does require a wide range of functions and in order to understand these functions better, people group them into categories, knows as FCAPS. FCAPS is an ISO model and stands for the Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance…
Programming is Fun I'm sure many of you reading this have been exposed to at least a little bit of a programming language, be it HTML, PowerShell, VBScript, or whatever. Some of you may enjoy programming, some may not. (I know I do.) Let me begin by saying that it is virtually impossible for any single programmer to know…
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