How to monitor available updates of Solwarwind Orion plattform?

Hi there, 

First of all, this is the forum for SEM (Security Event Monitor) and not SAM (Server Application Monitor) which I think your question is related to. 

SolarWinds does in fact give you a notification when new updates are available:

In order to do this, it must be able to communicate back to the customer portal, so if you have the internet connection blocked my recommendation would be to use the following article to whitelist specific URLs to enable this ability: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/product-forums/network-performance-monitor-npm/f/forum/88937/orion-urls-for-firewall-whitelisting

Once that is available, you can also do all of your updates through the centralised updater, straight from the web console:

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/install-centralized-upgrade-primary-server.htm

Kind regards,

Marlie Fancourt | SolarWinds Pre-Sales Manager

Prosperon Networks | SolarWinds Partner since 2006

If this helps answer your question please mark my answer as confirmed to help other users, thank you!

Hi there, 

First of all, this is the forum for SEM (Security Event Monitor) and not SAM (Server Application Monitor) which I think your question is related to. 

SolarWinds does in fact give you a notification when new updates are available:

In order to do this, it must be able to communicate back to the customer portal, so if you have the internet connection blocked my recommendation would be to use the following article to whitelist specific URLs to enable this ability: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/product-forums/network-performance-monitor-npm/f/forum/88937/orion-urls-for-firewall-whitelisting

Once that is available, you can also do all of your updates through the centralised updater, straight from the web console:

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/install-centralized-upgrade-primary-server.htm

Kind regards,

Marlie Fancourt | SolarWinds Pre-Sales Manager

Prosperon Networks | SolarWinds Partner since 2006

If this helps answer your question please mark my answer as confirmed to help other users, thank you!

I don't talk about the notifications, I ask how I can get an alarm like with all other nodes. I would like to have these kind of events integrated in the monitoring, not on some sub page. So in my summary where I see all warnings and critical I also want to so missing updates for Orion. Is that possible?