Adding HTML to custom queries

Question

I was browsing the show me your NOC view thread and I was inspired to try something a bit more fancy for our SolarWinds deployment. I followed kevin.kuhn's directions on how to add the clocks to the NOC view, and it won't work. Can we no longer use HTML? Does everything have to be SWQL?

Here's the thread:

thwack.solarwinds.com/.../100069

bobmarley · Accepted Answer

There is a setting you need to set here in order for Custom HTML to work. Read about is before enabling it because it does carry some security risks.

Use your server name where it is displayed in caps below and you need to be an admin to load this page.

https://YOURORIONSERVERNAME/Orion/Admin/AdvancedConfiguration/Global.aspx

Read here too.

Access the Advanced Configuration settings in the Orion Web Console (solarwinds.com)

jm_sysadmin · Accepted Answer

SELECT TOP 1
Concat(Hour(GETDATE()), ':', Minute(GETDATE())) as [Time]
FROM Orion.Nodes

In a modern dash KPI widget it looks  like: