MikeAsthalter

For any issues you are having with Orion APM Oracle User Experience Monitors not connecting to Oracle databases, refer to the following SolarWinds knowledge base article: http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/2067/

Hello, The APM Admin Guide states the following for credentials: Credentials: An Oracle user name and password with read access to the Oracle views dba_free_space, v$sysstat, v$rowcache, v$librarycache, v$sgastat, and v$session. Please see:…

Your current hard-coded path should work fine. Alternatively, you could use the following path with the IP variable ${IP}, which represents the target node's IP address: \\${IP}\D$\MSW\Internet\Addressing Then when you assign the monitor to a node, the IP address for the node will be filled in when the monitor runs. I…

Please note that the DHCP User Experience Monitor was updated in APM 4.0.2 to address the issues noted in this post. Refer to the knowledge base article "How can I monitor DHCP servers on a different subnet than the Orion APM Server using the Orion APM DHCP User Experience Monitor?" for additional information:…

Hello, You are correct, you should enter the UNC pathname for the desired directory name in the Script Arguments field. In your case, this would be: \\${IP}\d$\Spool You can use the token ${IP} and the IP address will be filled in with the IP address of the target node to which the monitor is assigned when the Windows…

Please see the Knowledgebase Article at: http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/1951/ Mike

The following Windows PowerShell script shows an example of how to use the Statistic string: *******code example******* $avg = Get-WmiObject win32_process -ComputerName '${IP}' -Credential '${CREDENTIAL}' | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq "lsass.exe" } | Measure-Object -property ReadOperationCount -Average; Write-Host…

Hi zhollett, Hopefully your issue has been fixed by now. Would you mind sharing the results so we can learn from this?

The File Count Monitor is available in APM 3.5 and later. I believe it was introduced in APM 3.1, but I'm not sure. If you don't have a later version, it may be worth it for you to upgrade in order to get access to the new features. Mike

I would suggest that you have support take a look at this by submitting a ticket at: http://www.solarwinds.com/support/ticket/

Hello grahampriley, You are absolutely correct in your post! You definitely need to use the Orion APM Windows Script Monitor to execute the vbscript which will run your Powershell script in 64bit mode. I have corrected the KB (http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/2374) as follows: Copy the following VBscript…

Hello, It seems that this is a known bug with the Windows PowerShell Monitor that development is investigating. Mike

Hello, Are you using the APM File Count Monitor? If not I suggest you give it a try, since it is designed to count the number of files in a directory. In its field Full Directory Path, you specify the path to the desired directory in Universal Naming Convention (UNC) format, such as yours: \\testserver\D$\SunGuide You can…

As long as the credential is a valid administrator on the target node, it should not matter whether you use a local or domain admin. Are you receiving some sort of error, and if so, what?

One possible solution is to use the Windows Script Monitor to monitor the file age. Create a vbscript that examines the directory and checks the ages of the files. When you find a file whose age is > 1 day, set the statistic to 2 to indicate warning. When you find a file whose age is > 2 days, set the statistic to 3 to…

Hello, Both the Custom Object Resource and the Scheduled PDF Reports features mentioned in the blog post are available in APM 4.0, which is currently available as a Release Candidate. Regards, Mike

Yes, with Orion APM, you can use the Find Processes, Services, and Performance Counters wizard, and then select Windows Service Monitor. This allows you to set up monitoring for windows services of interest. If you like, you can even create an alert which will restart the service if it is down. Take a look at the…

Also please see the following KB article for the latest information for using the Windows PowerShell Monitor: http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/2203 Mike

Hi Dave, You can select Manage Templates in the APM Settings. Then look through the list of Application Monitor Templates, find the Run 3rd party application template, and check to see if it is listed as being assigned to nodes. If it shows "No assigned nodes", then it has not been assigned. Hope this helps, Mike

And the test does work. Mike

Hello Dave, You need to figure out why the node is showing Down before you will be able to use the HTTP Monitor successfully to monitor its status. Some suggestions: * Ping the node from the APM server to see if it responds * Check the response time that is reported by the ping command. If it is abnormally high (compare it…

Please see the following kb article for information about how to run PowerShell scripts in 64bit mode with the Orion APM Windows PowerShell Monitor:http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/2374 Hope this helps,Mike

Hi Aaron, Would you be willing to share your VBScript wrapper? It could be useful to other thwack users.

The documentation for Directory Size Monitor is shown below: This component monitor determines the disk space used by the files in a directory, optionally including all subdirectories. Files that do not match the File Extensions Filter are not included in the disk space calculation. Statistic The disk space used in bytes.…

Although targeted at Exchange 2003, the most recent post in the thread Monitoring Exchange 2003 contains a link (http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/HealthCheck/Exchange_Health.htm#Monitor%20Queues) to some interesting items to monitor in Exchange.

I did a quick test to see if the script can be executed in Unix (I tested with Solaris) by the shell using the "sh ${SCRIPT} arg1 arg2" command line format in the Linux/Unix Script Monitor. Remember that the script must have text output that contains the Message on one line of output and the Statistic on the next line of…

Hi, Did you try using the following thresholds: warning = greater than 130 critical = greater than 180 Hope this helps, Mike

Typically what users do is to set the warning and critical thresholds in the monitor based on when you want to be notified. So in your case for example, you could set the critical threshold to 6419597050 and the warning threshold to a lower value where you want to be warned. The monitor status will go critical when it…

Hello, You are correct. The predefined templates should all be listed in the "All" category in your screenshot, instead of the 2 templates you created. Perhaps this is related to the fact that "this is in a staging center that won't have internet access yet for another couple of days." In the meantime, you may want to…

Hi jdluna, You might want to take a look at this thread: Creating an alert to test SQL query results - thwack Hope this helps, Mike