KenKasmar

From my experience it looks like you are running Orion apps on too small a box (looks like VM 1vcpu/2GB ram).

It does make sense except that if they don't have permissions to use the 'Customize Page' link, they why even display it? It isn't displayed if you don't have the 'customize views' permission. Having the button present but non-functional seems to be causing confusion for users.

This is a MS SQL query that I use (within a MS SQL Reporting Services report) to show the distribution of servers (VM, Physical, ESX Host): declare @TotalCount real select @TotalCount = count(*) from (select nodes.caption, nodes.Vendor, case when vm.hostnodeid is not null then 'VM' else (case when nodes.vendor = 'VMware…

Bump

Definitely OLTP.

While the Notes and Description fields on APM components can be handy in a pinch, it would be much cleaner to have custom properties. It would be even more awesome if they were the long sought after Pulldown type!

Using a Script component rather than a User Experience SQL Query component can return two bits of infomration to APM, one Statistic and a text field designed to contain a Message relating to the poll (Query Succeeded, Operation Timed Out, etc). Sham is suggesting using this Message field to jam your multiple values into as…

I am running NPM v9.5 SP5 (hotfix 2) APM v3.0 SP1 Additional Web Console (x2) Looking at Node Details, users with 'Allow Administrator Rights' & 'Allow Account to Customize Views' can edit individual 'resources' (ie change titles, change filtering, etc) as well as see and click on 'Customize Page' for the entire page and…

No, adding that name space will not work. That was just a way to identify that what they had sent was an APM Template export. The next logical question is what exactly did they send you? Since XML is not really meant to be executable I'm not sure what it would be. Could you provide a sample or more information?

This is the response that I got from support. I had that thought what I read in this thread () indicated that this was not the case and you could use DirectLink and passthrough authentication together. Am I confused?You can enable both anonymous and windows authentication but once anonymous is enableIIS does not use any…

Whatever the retention period on your Daily Statistics is the longest period that you are retaining data. If you want to be able to report on more than 1 years worth of trending data, you're going to need to increase your retention periods but of course this only applies going forward. If you've been running NPM for more…

We implemented a strategy similar to this. Custom properties were set up for CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Interfaces. We then assign alert 'package' codes to groups of alerts that the we created and include the package code name in the trigger logic. It is then just a matter of adding these package codes to the nodes that…

General setup listed above. Configuration related to Passthrough Authentication & DirectLink: * Configured passthrough authentication on all web instances (primary NPM server and 2 additional web consoles) by unchecking 'allow anonymous login' and checking 'Windows Integrated Authentication' in IIS. * Created 'DirectLink'…

In addition the this you want to make sure that you are only monitoring 'Direct Attach' volumes on the physical servers and 'SAN' volumes on the cluster IP. In this way you maintain continuous view of the clustered volumes (the ones that get passed back and forth between the physical servers during failovers).

Chis, the way that I have worked around the issue of limited threshold controls is to add a number of custom properties that I use as 'Alert Package Designators'. These are organized in a tiered structure with system wide defauts at the bottom of the list and the most granular at the top (volume & interface specific). Then…

Thanks Roman for the fast reply! That should more or less do the trick! Any thoughts on the performance impact to NPM and external Pollers if I were to have more than just a few components polling using this 'call VBS' method? Maybe 7000+ spread over two pollers? Thanks, Ken

I think that it is important to note that if you were using Passthrough Authentication for other users that you would not be able to use this approach for anonymous users.

Looks like the Advanced alerts are available now, but not the poller anymore. Would it be possible to repost the poller or a combination.

Add my +1 to the vote count for custom properties on applications and components in APM.

I encountered this too and found it odd. It seem that users with only 'Customize Views' write can only edit the existing pieces of the view, but not use the 'Customize View' button to add/remove things from a view. If you're going to limit that function to 'Admin Rights' why show it to lower levels of access? Also, the…

Put me down for all of these as well, with emphasis on #4. For us I would put 'Lookups/dropdown/checkbox' as just short of must have.

I couldn't possibly be the only one who wants to do this. Does anyone have a workaround???

Are you running the MSSQL database on the same server as your NPM (et al) server or on a separate server? You mentioned that you are running APM, do you know how many APM components are running?

Was there ever any sort of resolution for this issue? I am having the same problem where 'Windows Script' components, when enabled, cause the LSASS process to leak memory and CPU until the server is rebooted. NPM 9.5.1/APM 3.1 running on W2K3 x64 (ESX VM) Thanks, Ken

For users that I have set up with Account Limitations (based on Custom Property values), the Event and Alert views only show entries based on the Account Limitations. All the usual questions apply, what products/versions, etc.

We're creating incidents in HP Service Desk (v4.5) via sdevent.exe. I created a database rule (script) on the SD side that is triggered when an incident is created by the NPM user. An Event message pushed into Orion (inserted in SQL) indicating that a ticket was registered, for which node (matches CIs in the CMDB) and the…

Is what they provided you a .apm_template file (that contains XML with line 2 contains xmlns="http://schemas.solarwinds.com/2007/08/APM" ) or something else entirely? If it is a .apm_template you can import it into Orion APM on the Manage Application Monitor Templates page.

Xsigo VP780 I/O Director SysObjectID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.24440 Thanks, Ken

From the NPM Manual: • To generate a condition based on a comparison of device states, click Add a Simple Condition. Note: The has changed condition is only valid for the Last Boot, IOS Version, and IOS Image Family device characteristics.• To generate a condition based on a comparison of device fields and values, click…

I agree 100% on alert management through the web console. In fact I would say that the entire Orion platform should be managable through the web console. This of course would also require more granular access controls (need more options that just 'data consumer' and 'admin') and this should definitely allow for role based…