BaldFeegle · Monitoring Engineer · ✭✭✭✭✭

Is this one of those "don't choose the correct answers, just choose all the answers that appear on the hint page" questions?

Wait what? How on earth did that happen?

The printer at work is broken so I couldn't print it out. Besides the correct answer is pixels because the clue is "tiny squares" not "tiny square". No chance of some leeway due to a badly crafted clue?

All of the above would provide value to my business.

I selected: * CPU usage * Memory consumption * Storage I/O but got a message telling me I got the answer wrong because coffee breaks don't need to be monitored. I'm pretty sure that I got the question right because 1, 2, & 3 are the only metrics. Coffee breaks aren't a metric and Real-time and historical insights are…

Just gotta think about acronyms and you can LANd this one

Improve the release notes to make it possible to check whether we are affected by a given bug. Each bug fix should have a hyperlink to a page which lists the symptoms of the bug and any available workarounds. Maintain the release notes of older versions to include all known issues as they're discovered.

I found another egg, I wouldn't say it was map related, but was definitely linked to making connections with the global community.

Yep. The question needs fixing. @"kpina" 

Right back atcha!

That too but I saw the other comment before I answered so that one didn't catch me out.

I don't get it.

Thanks! Fingers crossed I can spend a USD voucher on Amazon.co.uk

Found it!

Having to select an incorrect answer just because it's on the hint page is dumb. Le sigh.....

@"kpina" Hi there, I just read that SolarWinds offers each MVP an annual MVP-exclusive gift. Any idea what that might be?

Fresh month, fresh quiz!

Sorted now.

Tracked it down to a SAM job that a colleague had added recently. He's updated the query he was running now so it's much more efficient.

Tentative suggestion (unconfirmed with devs) is that complex conditions don't work with SWQL. Waiting for dev reply.

Hi Daran, A group custom property is my backup plan. I've raised a support case to get to the bottom of why only the primary trigger condition is firing is my current plan. If that doesn't pan out then I'll go with this. Cheers!

Further tests indicate the issue is the 2nd condition isn't being evaluated. 

Custom properties might be a way to do it. Certainly the 24x7 guys could set a value on a group custom property to say Muted or whatever, but I really want to automate this, and the code should work. I'll log a case with SW and see if they can advise, but I suspect it'll be bounced as it probably qualifies as a…

Our infrastructure benefits from group down alerts being available. I don't get why it works in Swql studio but not in the trigger. 

For testing this I have two groups with one nested inside the other. Top group contains two nodes, nested group contains one node. All three nodes are down, but the node in the nested group is muted. So I enabled complex conditions for the alert. The first part is just a simple Group Status = Down. When the SWQL is run it…

Thanks, that's good advice. In the end I realised I could just set it up as a HTTP Monitor and it's working perfectly. When it comes to SAM I tend to default to PowerShell for everything and totally forget there's so many built-in functions available.

Thank you.

I believe this covers that scenario. It's not what I needed in the end but it finds just the top-level groups that aren't a member of any other group. SELECT c.ContainerID, c.Name FROM Orion.Container c WHERE c.ContainerID NOT IN ( SELECT cm.ContainerID FROM Orion.ContainerMembers cm ) order by c.Name

Turns out I had the answer yesterday, but I was looking at a filtered view of our groups without realising it. so the view didn't match up to the query results. 

Hmm. I wonder if there's a group where Containerid=1...