MrSampsonite

thanks Andy. I'll give it a look-see.

There are times/places for reports, yes. I don't disagree. However, I live in ORION. Not in emailed reports. I need realtime data to support our infrastructure. I find the things like bars and charts to be very helpful as I am a visual person. The ability to put those things in reports would be great for snapshots. But it…

cool. good to see it's a request. if you point to it for me, i'll add my support.

and if I do that it will alert us for each one, or one per polling cycle? What I mean is if it detects 3 during a cycle will we get 3 alerts or 1?

Spikes are important if they are over a significant period of time, but with large SQL operations (the types of servers we're monitoring) spikes are normal if they don't last long. Of course the time period matters. If I'm look at last 4 hours and a spike takes up 1/4 of the chart then it's not a "spike" per se. But…

Just an FYI - I'm using the performance (perfmon) counter System Up Time under 'System'. It returns a value in seconds that is accurate no matter if snmp restarts, event log service restarts, etc. My alert is based on this value being less than 5 minutes. The idea being that if the server reboots, within the first polling…

Shooting blanks. Oh well. I guess we'll have to figure out something else.

nope. they said it's an issue because i'm using a custom sql report. however I have to use those because our peak time is from 7pm to 5am and the rollover past midnight causes issues with the basic report builder. we're out of luck for now.

Thanks. We'll probably try to implement this at some point. Right now, I'm in a trial and someone from our team requested that the product be able to do this. Thanks again!

we are using 10.1, the latest. if you know of a way to change these via the web, I'm all ears. Also, I cannot find a way to acknowledge or clear advanced alerts. I can clear events, but not alerts.

Thanks. This is along the lines of what I was thinking of doing, but I don't know how to build such a report. I do have the component set to "down" when the process is running, mostly so we'll know visually (it turns the Application Red in ORION). So if the report could be based on that "up/down" status that might work.…

Thanks. While this is helpful, it's not really what I'm looking for. I'm more looking to make it so that certain types of events are not displayed anywhere (except maybe message center). There are APM monitors that I want to track but not flood the "last xx events" report with. For example let's say I'm monitoring when a…

so I should enable it? No real downside? It will over ride and just query for 64 bit instead of 32 bit? Do I need to do anything on the NICs?

These are all process monitors, either via snmp, wmi, or rpc using APM. Polling interval I think is 10 minutes. They don't fluctuate much so they are pretty consistent. I posted above which values each seems to correspond to (in task manager). In server 2008 task manager you can add lots of columns including multiple…

Thanks. I have a ticket open and I'm not sure if it's related, but I also noticed these types of reports do not filter on node views when I put in the common: "Nodes.NodeID = ${NodesID}" Not sure if it's all one big issue or not. Thanks for taking note!

add us to the list. it's one of the things keeping us on the fence. our current product, though less feature rich provides this and the CEO himself loves driving the graphs to drill down during investigations (small company). I am not looking forward to explaining to him that he'd have to now type in every time span. At a…

Thanks. Unfortunately we'd have to buy that though.

Did you ever figure out how to just say "Drive C" instead of the whole caption? I like that the serial number and Drive name is in there for reference so that when we want to view a report we can grasp what is on that volume. But for alerting purposes (and some reports) it's not necessary and downright annoying.

unfortunately the R710 can only hold 6 drives. however it's nice they let me keep 32GB ram. perhaps if I give SQL 26GB or so the whole DB could be in cache and not need to use the disk for reads very much. I don't know how to force that of course.

that stinks. we plan on using the engineer's toolset which would be lose the integration pieces we like.

also, do you know if we can control the thickness of the lines so they are more visible from afar? we want to use these on a wall mounted TV, but the lines are rather thin if not close. And we'd like to make the axis marks bold. So in example above the 10, 20, 30, etc on Y axis would be thicker to see. Thanks!

yeah the volume version shows correctly. is there a way to get a radial or linear gauge to show the volume version?

Thanks. I did that and now get this error, though it works fine when I run it in Powershell from the ORION server: Testing on node server3: failed with 'Undefined' status Windows script execution error.

this question is old, so it may fall on deaf ears. I hope not. SW now sets the polling frequency at the template level. do you know how to update via SQL the polling frequency for individual monitors across multiple nodes? thanks!

Then I have to go into every alert and add that as a condition right? Seems like there should be some other built in method instead of adding this for every alert and every node.

So you added that as a node property and then if there are a bunch of nodes at once you're going to stop monitoring temporarily you go into each one and mark it Yes or No?

Good point. Let each monitor have a checkbox that says "record events" so we can say things like "I want to track the value of xyz but I don't need events about it's availability or values". We can create alerts and if we're actively monitoring things, it will go yellow or red if unavailable anyway. Which reminds me of…

thanks.

support gave me the following query which seems to be a decent look. I'm still surprised this is not just a node property. seems pretty basic. use NetPerfMon Select n.caption as 'Node Name' , Min(datetime) as DateAdded from responsetime r join nodes n on n.nodeid = r.nodeid Group by n.caption order by n.Caption

one of the processes is just snmp.exe. The others are snmp.exe *32 with a very long command line path. see picture. I did notice the "trap" part in the string but don't know what that means.