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Bump. The only update I had heard on this functionality (around October) is that the H9 product functionality would NOT be included or rolled into Orion in the foreseeable future. I specifically asked this because a sales representative wanted us to try out H9 (now branded Virtualization Manager). As said before, I like SW…

Do we know for sure that SW plans to include this type of support? I've had to resort to using vCenter alerts and traps (which I really do not like at all) for our new ESXi 4.1 hosts. I plan on using this as a stop-gap measure until the functionality is back in Orion NPM. Our preferred tool is NPM and up until now, there…

I would also like to see this. I found an old post () where someone was able to do some updates in SQL, but I didn't want to attempt to change any of the index values in case something used those to reference the other fields. Is it possible to do this safely in SQL? I.e., re-order the index numbers so they appear in a…

I know this post is old, and I did read the 'upcoming features' blog, but didn't see specifically where ESXi was mentioned. I just wanted to say that my company is in the same situation. We are planning our ESXi 4.1 upgrade rollout and the loss of hardware visibility to SW is basically reducing the value of SW for us. I am…

Our performance issues were very similar to yours - the first time we opened the main page (i actually created a custom view for myself to have less things on the page to get the main stuff to load better for me since i dont need to see summary events every time I log in). Sometimes it would just time out and die. See my…

Well, quite honestly, I am trying to get this working because we're moving to ESXi 4.1 and currently SW doesn't gel with vCenter directly - so the traps i'm talking about are coming from vCenter. vCenter gives us LUN usage visibility and guest performance data without having to query Windows directly (which is a funny…

Well, i need to format the alert context. Here's an example below: (Medium)(noreply@mycompany.com)(TICKET_QUEUE_NAME)${NodeName} - ${AlertName} - (text I specify based on what the alert is) I use this Send Syslog Message action with our advanced alerts with that context. I can't just forward the traps since they are in a…

At this point, I would just be happy with the ability to save a view in CPE. CPE is still a user-friendly way to do mass updates since you can filter, etc to run basic queries and it's much safer than directly editing the tables via SQL unless you really know what you're doing. I don't know what SW has planned for the…

From previous discussions with SW sales and support: - SAM is really going to be the basic server tool (i say basic because VMware stuff is really best in the VMM tool) - NPM is heading more towards its original intentions of a network tool What this means is, all of us on NPM, where we had servers, network, etc.. are…

Well, Petr is right - when i put in the full OID down to the line number, it did return an 'up' status. Now i just need to figure out how to get the actual value. If you think this is working as intended, then i suppose it is resolved. I am little concerned that it needs to be that specific vs. returning the table since…

Of course! I always miss something When I encountered the issue I did send the CLR config document to the DBA and he fixed me up without having to postpone the upgrade. Thanks..

Thank you for your reply. I guess I am confused about the product offering and how they have evolved over time: NPM (Yes the word 'network' is in there): Monitors network, servers, other devices, whatever has a MIB basically (so technically anything). It now has some rather robust VMware support, which now seems very…

I have never had to set up Outlook accounts. The text I have in our email alert actions always come through: Enterprise SolarWinds <donotreply (at) eaton.com> - this is what our email headers say on node down alerts. This is the exact "from" field info. "Enterprise SolarWinds" is what it is the 'Name' field and "donotreply…

Oops, goofed on my screenshots - one more and the other i meant to post:

Yeah the logic can be really tricky. What I do when creating new advanced alerts is this - I sit and think 'is there ANY way this condition I am trying to ignore can possibly be true', or something like that - in other words, what could break the logic? It took me a while to really get a handle on logic methods. I have a…

Well, this may help - We use Remedy as our ticketing system. We are somewhat slaves to it. We also have HP OpenView for a variety of other systems out there. OpenView is directly integrated with Remedy. Basically, if you can configure your monitoring tool to talk to OpenView via syslog messages, you can get automatic…

I have been here too - there is no action to 'Send Syslog message' as there is when you create a standard Advanced Alert. It's simply not there, that's why I am wondering if I am not looking for the right thing.

Thanks - I don't think that is available to me (yet) - isn't that a v12 feature? I'm on 11.5 for now.

I haven't set up anything for vCenter. When I go to that page, the Poll Through option is grayed out. I assume this means directly. Note that I mentioned non-VMware machines are showing the same. I will include some screenshots. Included are 2 VMware servers and one Windows 2003 R2 server. The SMH on the Windows server…

I suppose this makes sense, you can't report on what doesn't exist. My main worry is that sometimes the C: or D: drive details change (i assume this is from someone extending the drives, changing them, re-ordering them) - they are almost always virtual. So, you'll have a server out there that 'used' to have a C: drive…

This is very interesting for us. We engaged Hyper9 recently to show us their product to fill in gaps from Orion (specifically storage management and capacity planning). Now, with it being a SW product, it has our focus again. It sounds like the product will continue to exist on its own for now - like Storage Profiler. Is…

Both Windows and VMware - seems to be the records or SW specific, not really anything broken on the other end. I have deleted a node from the database, then re-added and it cleared one of the statuses, but when I did that again for another, the box was already checked which was really strange...

It's SNMP 2c. No, I would just prefer to skip validation on the r/w community. Currently i can't add an old server if it wasn't set up with a r/w community string (blank doesn't seem to work?). i just want it to be optional.

Sorry, I keep saying 10.1. We're on 10 w/SP1 and the hotfix. Latest GA release.

I did try .0 and had the same result. Here is the table and line data from a current query from NPM: Are you saying i need to drill down to the row ID? You would think the functionality would be the same, the .6 is the lowest component i can get to, it's an element of the drive table. Thanks for your assistance thus far.

Chris, Yes, very interested. Our SW environment allows many people to enter in new devices and there is a good degree of user error, mainly because custom properties allow non-validated entries and the 2008 machines drive me crazy with the amount of unneeded adapters. If I could shoot someone a script to inject some…

I thought I would chime in since I just upgraded our environment from 9.0 (stock) to v10/SP1 + hotfix. Environment: - NPM Poller/NLX (virtual) - NPM Poller Additional (virtual) - Web Server (virtual) - SQL DB (on shared infrastructure server) (physical server - SAN connected) We have 9,000+ elements per poller. Yes I know…

This actually makes me very angry. NPM polls all of this information for network and server devices, where there are some notable gaps (ESXi), it doesn't make sense for this to be in APM!!! We don't want to have to install another module (and pay for another module) to do something NPM already does for the rest of our…

I should add this as well. When using the summary view, I have tried adding a custom chart to show interface utilization on a server or firewall. I can select the data and the query looks good, but no data is displayed (says no data available). I assume this is due to using the summary view. Is that correct? In my mind, it…

I think that we should at least be told if this is going to be an option for NPM at all. I realize NPM is focused a lot on the network side of things, including networking hardware, but so many of us have fleshed out NPM to be "the" server tool as well (aside from applications of course). I think we're all a little…