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Before we start to understand how this works, you need to know that SolarWinds Alert Central is a FREE SOFTWARE - totally, completely, free for life! Once you have installed Alert Central and linked it with your Orion (NPM, SAM, IPAM, NCM or other Orion-based products from SolarWinds), all your Orion alerts will be sent to…
Alert Central packs a lot into a free package, enabling you to know what issues are going on when with your systems. To accomplish this feat, SolarWinds Alert Central uses icons showing alert status – that is, how close the alert’s issue is to being resolved. Out of the box, the Alert Central Alerts dashboard displays four…
How does your company deal with IT issues today? Like toothaches, IT issues have less impact and are easier to deal with when they’re resolved quickly. Let’s face it, IT problems do not get better if you wait for them to take care of themselves. Really. What does it usually mean when you have a toothache that goes away on…
Just in case you missed it, March was a busy, busy month at SolarWinds. We released two new products: Alert Central to coordinate the handling of notifications from your many systems, and Network Topology Mapper to help you see what's on your network. (And maybe find a few things you didn't expect!) On top of that, we also…
I was running some tests on the NPM where I shut down a device and would wait for the alert. My polling times for alerts is 1 minute It took 11 minutes after shut down to receive the alert. When I turned the device back on, in the events it shows that the device has been turned on, but on the Node summary page, the device…
I have an problem with NPM can not receive email notification from alert. for example "Alert me when a node goes down" and it's display alert notification but I can't receive email from this notification. SMTP server and port number had configured correctly, what must I do to solved this issue? Thanks.
I have a component name alert that has 3 devices running a wireless connection verification. We are testing if the wireless connection fails and send an alert. I'd like to "group" the alert so I get when 2 out 3 or all 3 components goes down I'm only getting one notification. Is there a way to write the alert to do that?…
I'm missing something in my syntax for Advanced Alert Manager and was hoping I could get a boost. I have a custom poller hitting my VPN routers for OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.99.171.1.2.3.1.35, this poller returns a 0 if the IKE tunnel is down and a 1 if the IKE tunnel is up. This custom table poller displays these values in NPM as a…
Hi, I want to setup an alert so that if a hard drive on one of the servers increases 10% or more in 24 hours, does anyone have any idea if this is possible to setup? I had a play around with the alerts but couldn't seem to set it up. Thanks in advance, Josh Royle
I am monitoring a group of servers that are in a closed network - ICMP is not allowed. SNMP has been allowed through the firewall - but I am not able to get a successfull SNMP test unless I use SNMPv1 - can someone educate me as to why that is? Also since I am not able to use ICMP my servers are marked as DOWN - How do I…
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