KenKasmar

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  • Does 'Java Monitoring' mean JMX? Very cool if so!
    in What We're Working On for APM Comment by KenKasmar March 2011
  • We've used MS SQL Reporting Services to cover both executive/summary type of reporting generated & sent via email on a schedule as well as graphs inserted into Orion dashboards (via CustomHTML resource). Since Reporting Services is included in MS SQL 2005/2008 the only cost is someones time to build reports and such. 
    in When will graphs be part of report writer? Comment by KenKasmar March 2010
  • If you have little/no experience running MS SQL servers and you are going to be the one responsible for its care and feeding (a good base level of understanding is better than looking at it as a black box/magic): * Maintaining a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database * Implementing a Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Database If…
    in Need advice from SQL guru's Comment by KenKasmar March 2010
  • Are there any updates on the status of these changes (#1, #3 and #6 specifically)? Thanks
    in Orion Syslog/Trap - what we're working on... Comment by KenKasmar January 2010
  • If you are not planning on doing transaction log backups (in order to be able to restore your database to a point in time other than when it was last backed up, and if you are not maintaining a log-shipped standby copy) change the Recovery Model on the database to Simple. This will truncate transactions from the Tlog as…
    in NetPerfMon_Log growing larger than database Comment by KenKasmar March 2010
  • I would recommend using MS SQL Reporting Services, sourcing from the Orion SQL database and scheduling report delivery using 'Subscriptions' (basically just SQL schedule jobs but with a nicer UI). We've found Reporting Services to be a very effective supplement to Orion graphing/charting/reporting.
    in Send a Daily Email of all Active Alerts? Comment by KenKasmar March 2010
  • Most definitely!
    in Feature Request - Custom Properties when adding a node Comment by KenKasmar May 2010
  • Rather than having your perl script parse the page and trap on it why not plug the parsing scripting into an APM 'Windows Script' component and have it return statistic directly into Orion? I have something similar set up which we are using in combination with a JMX 2 HTTP gateway service that we wrote to poll JMX data…
    in Monitoring values within a HTTP page Comment by KenKasmar February 2010
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