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You need 3 IPs for HA. One virtual that you define in the HA settings and 2 physical for your servers. The vip is just a secondary IP that is switched on once a server becomes active. The physical IP is used as Heatbeat. I would use the current IP as vip. Like you mentioned it should prevent Firewall and config issues. Use…

I assume you are disabling a component on the “template” level rather than on the assigned template level. I haven’t done this via SWIS yet but this sounds a lot like it. can you show us the relevant code snippet?

Do you have an authentication service in the background that maybe limits the amount of logins within a certain timeframe? I also remember having an issue with one of my clients where the backend System was not performing well so the authentication requests against that system were running into timeouts.

Hi, there is a SDK for the API on Github https://github.com/solarwinds/OrionSDK There is also a SDK forum here on Thwack. After yesterday’s change I need to find it again. I have done multiple CMDB integrations so I can say: yes it is possible. Cheers!

SWQL itself is read only. You would need to use the SDK verbs to update the captions. I do have a script sitting around somewhere that I can share. I just have to find it.

If your config Backup window is long enough, I download the same config twice. Once as running once as startup. I think I had to modify the device template to send the same commands for backing up those config types.

The only way I can currently think of is by using the SDK or a direct manipulation of the Data in SQL. I don't recommend manipulation by SQL, however just changing the NodeCaption should not break anything. Are you familiar with either? SDK or SQL Queries?

A bit more information would be very helpful. Where in NCM are you experiencing this? What are you expecting to see and how is your environment. Is the NCM Forum even the correct forum or are you using NPM/SAM?

What version where you upgrading from? And this screenshot is from the passive HA Pool member, that you are trying to update now, right?

Check the acls on those boxes and compare it with those that are working. Maybe there are some permissions missing. pretty sure the issue is on the device side, not on NCM

Welcome back, we missed you and your fabulous posts as well. Hope to see you more on the slack Channel as well.

I remember a performance issue with ISE with one of my clients. The issue was with some ISE Settings, so check there first. Unfortunately I don’t remember the ISE Settings they changed as I was not involved after I pointed my finger at ISE as the cause.

I „think“ the amount is stored in Bytes rather than GB. At least for NPM this is the case. I also think you can’t compare a string value to an integer, that doesn’t make sense. For an alert I usually use a custom SWQL Query as this gives me more flexibility in comparing values. E.g. I can use GB in the Custom property and…

From my experience the Agent is Updated without the further need of entering admin credentials. I would agree with your assumption that the agent-update is using the credentials under which the agent itself is currently running. I never had to enter any further credentials when performing the agent update with my clients.…

Are you changing the AD accounts entirely or are you just renaming the users in AD -> will the SID of the user object stay the same. Are your users stored as individual accounts or as group accounts in the Solarwinds DB? Or do you want to create whole new logins in Solarwinds that are no longer AD accounts?

Absolutely outstanding piece of Solarwinds Customization! Thanks for this! I only have a small suggestion as I ran into this issue at one of my clients. the line : FROM Volumes WHERE VolumeType = 'Fixed Disk' could be replaced with: FROM Volumes WHERE VolumeTypeID = '4' In the environment in question the "Fixed Disk" is…

Hi sja​ we were questioning this restriction as well. As it is in the „what Solarwinds supports“ restrictions, we were taking this as a given fact. As we had a few performances Cases I doubt that the handling would have been as smooth as it was. Let‘s be honest, every Supporter first checks if you are using the product as…

With NCM only you can't poll Interface information. Just RAM and CPU. You only need "Orion Core" to run NCM. I personally think that client could benefit from NPM but they have "bigger" tools for that.

I'll just copy Paste from the Post below that I commented on There has been a discussion about a "Remote Office Poller" however this discussion has been dead for a while. It is supposed to be a "special" APE with a Node/Item limit, Cheaper than the "real" APE. I have not found anything in the Price List for that so I…

you can spend your money however you want. The thing what makes me shake my head is that Sales guys want to sell APEs just because of the sake of selling APEs. I am technical not sales. My goal is not primarily to "save money" but to invest the money wisely and exactly where needed. When I read "I use an APE for Website…

Why use a Main Poller as Website only? There is the additional Webserver for a fraction of the cost! When you have money leftover I can send you my banking details. why use 16!! APEs for only 4 Datacenters? This means 4 Pollers per DataCenter... don't you think this is overkill? I run 35.000 Nodes on 3 Pollers NCM only,…

You can tell them politely to stop contacting you. This usually works.

Just Process all the syslogs/traps on KIWI and forward only the ones you need via a rule to Orion. I am not too familiar with KIWI but if we have a Web-Frontend you could embed an external website into orion

As long as you "Polling Completion" is 99 or 100, don't bother to buy a new Polling engine. All other values seem calculated and do not represent actual load, at least this is my observation. In today's virtualized environments there is no need for stackable polling engines. Set up a new machine use a regular Polling…

some of those are indeed CPEs but not all

currently we are over the limit as we have 34.000 NODES in the Database. The projected count over the next years is 90.000 Nodes. it is my "NCM Only"-Instance I keep bragging about here on Thwack

Hey NCM Team, are there any plans to remove the "30.000 nodes per NCM instance" limitaion. I'd like to set up some my client with more APEs, but they all have NCM and they are not willing to fully license a complete new Orion instance. Additional APEs are not a problem to purchase

I'd use the product upgrade advisor that can be found here -> Product Upgrade Advisor | SolarWinds Customer Portal to help find out the compatibility of all products just type in what you have and what you want. It will tell you if it works But to answer your question, it seems that they are not compatible with each other

Hit me with the german localization. Technically I am Bavarian/Swabian but I think I can work with “proper German”. and as I already participated in a maps session, I would love to see what’s going to happen there. ready for a ux session

Hi Guys, we are Running a NCM only deployment for one of our Clients with 35.000 - 40.000 Nodes depending on how eager the engineers are deploying or decommissioning machines. The System is running on 3 Polling Engines (I belive this limitation should be removed from the guidelines, but I never could get my client to…