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[UPDATE: 09/05/2014] I have solved it in a very freaking creative way. Stay tuned and I will publish an article shortly... SolarWinds Rocks... as usually... for its ULTIMATE flexibility. Thank You!

I have WMI managed node and need to monitor certain application via SNMP. It appears to be not possible, as described above. +1 from me

I just found something that may assist some of you with this - it is possible to schedule exclusions on the alert level. Well, I know this is not exactly what is being discussed here, but nevertheless, close Hope this will help some of you

ok, after a bit of testing unfortunately this limitation has stopped me from using mandatory custom properties for drop down list - I better deal with nodes which have null values separately with the help of reporting, rather then have them all incorreclty tagged with first option in drop down list. Hope this will be…

I am still a bit confused tbh. Forced poll is available on SAM application level, whereas you can also set polling cycle on application level as well. So, I can see both options are there already... Can you give/expand on case please. In your case, if some apps need fast polling I would segregate them into different…

Thank You!

ye, I had a feeling it is not going to be easy. I agree with all comments above, thank you aLTeReGo However, Polling Issues (such as inability to collect CPU/Memory) whilst having node as Up (PING working properly) is a real problem here, which leads to false-negatives (for example CPU runs hot, but we don't event have…

This is just unbelievably awesome, thanks aLTeReGo​ In fact, believe it of not, I already had most the above implemented by means of reporting, scripts, workaround, leveraging SAM components, etc... I am super please to see this coming. Thanks guys and looking forward for our upgrade With Gratitude, Alex

Interestingly I took similar path. I have set a goal to myself to answer at least 1 question every day and usually I was ending up answering way more than that. I was also pushing myself to pick questions that I would not know the answer for, that made me to do additional research and learning myself and helping others was…

I agree, having single point of config is paramount, otherwise it will not get done, for sure. Just an assumption - how about feeding your circuit ID via NCM into text-based CS? I haven't researched this yet, but with new rules (in latest version) that will allow you to modify CS based on certain Events this might be…

3aLTeReGo​, below are few more ideas that I currently have implemented in a custom way, but it would be great to have them OOB at some point: (1) Node/Interface Down Status to have X polls - We have a way to define number of polls object needs to be down before firing alert. Very similar to what I see here with CPU and…

Me personally - I am here because I am not on fb (too much noise there) ... Thwack helps me to relax my brain a bit and have some fun with like-mined geeks, like yourself As for the delegation - I see it differently. Delegation is when I give a working and tested procedure/model/framework to someone else to do the job and…

This is cool! Congrats Leon! I have noticed only 4 people have this one... pretty impressive. What do I do to get on this list?

I like you thinking about "ComponentImportance is equal to High". Up for it!

Ah, ok, got it. I was actually looking under Database level - that's why could not see it. Thanks

Yep, that's true. You will need to specifically target this app to a new server. I know SolarWinds team is working on ability to assign apps dynamically, based on rules and policies - this is yet to come as a feature, soon. As for you specific example - I have an app that is checking all automatic services are running. So,…

rob.hock​, are you able to expand on "Summarization"? What/where is it and how is it different from Aggregation?

aLTeReGo​ ... last question Why having UNKNOWN children has no impact on overall (final) status? Polled Status Child 1 Status Child 2 Status Final Node Status UPUPUNKNOWNUPUPUNKNOWNUNKNOWNUP Also, back to my point (4) previously - I believe there is needs to have a visual for polling issues on parent level itself.…

Interesting discussion and awesome answers here. Notice the diversity of perceptions - some people define PRO as a bunch of certificates under the belt, others as readiness for whatever comes next, many also attribute this to some kind of work experience and hands-on skills. To me - this is all about decision. I become PRO…

Yes, I have indeed seen it, thank you for sharing. Here is my challenge: let's say you do need to include a little disclaimer on all your templates, or change colour from green to brown, or add extra parameter or whatever else - how would you go about it across all your templates?

Hi All SolarWinds Gurus and Newbies, I have known this product for just over 5 month and during this short period I became absolutely in love with what it is, what it does, customer focused approach of the company, values and constant stream of creative ideas from SolarWinds engineers, from Thwack community members and…

This looks pretty cool. I also assume there is a way to drive all this show privately on Twitter (I am not a big fan of it, so, don't really know what it is capable of) Thank you for sharing

Best luck Lindsey That actually made me to realise how awesome it is that I will never need to write such statement. I mean - I can go offline for 3 month tinkling with some new deployment, then re-emerge for a little while helping and absorbing knew knowledge, then dissappear again... Kind'a cool, no attachments, pretty…

Hey guys, anyone has a workable workaround for this? Would multiple polling engines solve this problem? [update]: I just found my answer. Yes, it is possible to do with Additional Polling Engine.

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would you be able to share PS script?

by the way, kasaff​ - are you able to point to any documentation which lists all those 75 checks that are part of it? I am not on the latest addition at the moment and would be great to see what they are. Screenshot is ok as well, but I wanted some hard-core technical info about every check - what it is, why it is done,…

Well, but this would not roll it back to green status... I am looking for a way (hack possibly) to exclude this so that SolarWinds skips this task completely

To be honest, I would not want to go that far, simply because it then becomes difficult to control and audit such setup. I treat apps same as I would GPO - best recommendations for such is that you would only have one policy per GPO object. Similar with my apps - most of them have only one component. So, that's pretty much…

Ye, no problem buddy. Just do some research on Wluther's comment above: "I have already changed the "ForcePluginsInSeparateProcess"" setting to "True", on my primary, as well as additional pollers." you may need to enable this as well