JedTheHead

This is fantastic news (following the link to sing up shortly!) Question: will 6.3 also give us the ability to collect detailed network stats via SNMP for Unix / Linux (that is currently available only in NPM)? Thanks man! Jed

Thanks for the reply! Actually, all of our servers are already managed by APM/SAM. We upgraded to SAM and are attempting to enable hardware monitoring for all 980+ nodes en mass without having to do it manually on each Node - which would take quite a lot of time. Thanks!

We have an existing case open on this #318282. Thanks!

...one other note. In the database I did NOT see a field for "Volume Percent Available", but it is available to choose in the alert manager. My feeble brain tells me that the system would have to perform a calculation (albeit a tiny one) to determine "Volume Percent Available" from "Volume Percent Used" - so we went with…

Bob Ross! I had no idea you were on Thwack! Happy Little Trees indeed! Um, yeah... because apparently we are idiots and completely overlooked that. I think many other people have as well considering the traffic on Thwack for "disk space". Thanks! Jed

Thanks for the quick response! While this makes perfect sense, it would be very nice to be able to throttle or change the priority of such scans. Thanks!

Hey man! Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately, that template is for Server 2003 and uses lsreport.exe which is not available for Server 2008. We do have this template applied to the servers - it appears it DOES return issues TS Cals, but in our environment it is only reporting the issuance of temporary (vs.permanent) TS…

We have similar "unique" requirements for monitoring and often I find relying on the event log is a workable solution. If the "automated process" is something you have control over - meaning it is a script or can be called by one and provide result codes - you can easily write to the Event log from most languages (or wrap…

Just to expand on this for anyone else playing with disk space.... We have many active / passive clusters. As can be seen in the screen shot below, some disks (i.e. K:, N:, and Q:) appear to be "empty" or "not complete" when in fact these are just disks active on the other node. In the case of Q:, this is the cluster…

Thanks for pointing out what we had obviously missed! :)

Thanks for the reply! Which viewer are you using? I was trying the one that shipped with SAM and the web viewer and don't see options for complex filters in either. 

I perhaps should have done a little more research on my end before posting, but here are my findings: - Credentials are OK - DTC is a PITA anyway and it appears to be a mixed bag of up and down as far as the services are concerned. Case in point, most all MS clusters stop this service on the passive node, thus impacting…

Well dang. I had re-addded that host. For the host, I am using SNMP v2 (read-only, is RW required?) and the actual ESX root credential - both are testing successfully. Are you using the same? I will continue to dig and call support as you have suggested now that I do see it is possible. Thanks for the reply! Jed

If the application registers as a running process, you can also monitor for that being present or not. It's possible the user could be logged in but the process could be stopped - you'd be down and not know it. The Windows Process Monitor could watch for this. 

Well, I'm closer. If I follow the scan method and verify both my SNMP community strings and the Windows Credentials asked for in the sonar wizard, all the hardware monitors are checked but result in an unknown state with the following: Hardware polling failed: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: credentials If I take the…

This appears to have done the trick and those nodes scanned now have hardware monitoring enabled. I will try a larger group of nodes now. Thanks!

This is an upgrade to the latest RC from APM 4.2. I will try the sonar discovery on a small batch and report back. Thanks!

We have a very similar issue with the same services - out of 841 servers, about 100 suffer from this. Were you able to find a resolution? Thanks!

I did something very similar on my Node Details page using Custom HTML for system management and for iLO access. In the simplest form, you can use built-in variables from SAM: <A HREF="https://${caption}:2381" target="_blank">System Management Homepage</A> Or, use IP_Address if your captions (host names) are not…