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In addition to Node status improvements, the Orion Platform 2019.2 includes a slew of other great new features and enhancements. There’s a tremendous amount of diversity in these improvements, ranging from deployment flexibility to usability all the way to security. So, no matter what your jam, this release for the Orion…
When you think of adding a Node, you think you have to be able to ping a device to get meaningful information. External Nodes were created for devices we didn't want to actively monitor, but set as a placeholder. Standard uses for External Nodes. Placeholders for: * Nodes we do not want status, but want to monitor a Server…
I ran into a weird issue where if you have an external node and it is converted to the ICMP polling method, the system doesn't add the ICMP poller in the background. The node status stays Unknown because it is never polled. The "fix" is currently delete the node and re-add it back in as an ICMP polled node. This would be…
I currently have several external devices, these nodes are monitored externally by another system which sends traps in to our SolarWinds server. Based on the trap received, the status is of the respective device is set to Up/Down. Within the database, all the nodes have the "CustomStatus" flag set to 1. Recently I noted…
I need to monitor a port on an external node via FQDN and not the IP address. What are my options other than using a script? For the record, Solarwinds SAM and NPM don't support dynamic hostnames on external nodes and thus the regular TCP Monitor template can't be used: Polling IP on external nodes with dynamic IP not…
Is there any way change a Nodes External flag via SDK? I am doing this via perl using the JSON/REST calls This same call works for other properties. my $result = $swqldb->update($node_info->{uri}, {External => 'true'}); I keep getting the following error. 'ERROR' => 'ERROR CODE:[400]…
Scenario: We have a SAM template written that has components that execute vbscript to check the modified time of a single folder (I folder per component in the template). Normally this would be "simple" as I'd just assign the SAM template to the server holding the files...but...These folders are on NAS filers that have DFS…
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