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Hi, it says I have already completed the survey for the bonus questions but I havent

Danielle, I think the letter given for Question 13 is incorrect, it just does not make sense. Can you verify it is correct? Also, I know you get asked a lot to check received points etc, but it seems to me I did not receive all points for the November and December Mission, would you mind verifying sometime? Thanks! Q

What Update?

I was wondering if someone could answer my question, dont want to do all the work for nothing.... Are residents of Switzerland eligible for the prize as well or not? ">Questionario Apr 23, 2015 9:58 AM Danielle, is it still possible to participate in part2 of the mission and would I be eligible as a winner if I reside in…

Hi Danielle, were you able to check if I received points for Nov+Dec Mission? Chris

DanielleH - Is that only UK and Germany or other countries as well? Also for this competition, is it possible to "transfer" the prize to relatives?

DanielleH: I already completed the last week (and all others) and didnt check what it said at the end, would it matter or have I successfully completed all four weeks? Also, some ppl have already asked if non us-residents would be allowed to name friends in the US to send the stuff to or if they are not eligible at all...…

Danielle, is it still possible to participate in part2 of the mission and would I be eligible as a winner if I reside in Switzerland? Thanks, Q

yup, interesting question! Danielle?

Jiri, would you be willing to translate/merge the small vbscript/powershell comboscriptI showed you into Powershell so it would work with APM4.0 once we have it installed?

how awesome! that will hopefully finally get rid of those "§$&!% errors with WMI too... currently not much is working with WMI on APM, tons of false alerts and sudden stop of any polling. unfortunately you are right and I have been denied to install RC's Really cannot wait for the GA-date though!

Hi Jiri, apparently we do not have enough resources for more test machines right now so I need to wait for a new blade for ESX. But we are in the process of installing Orion on a new server (we still havent ordered the server yet though), I will test it on there as well... this will probably be a few weeks though.

:-\ that will unfortunately not work for us :-\ does anyone else have any idea where the problem may lie or where to continue troubleshooting?

Hi, I did correct the path... I executed the scripts with the same user that APM uses, if I just double click it while being logged in with the account APM used, the script works just fine. does powershell create the file for you in your test environment?

no text file has been created :(

Hi Jiri, the text file is generated just fine. why would powershell have a problem creating the file though if it works if I execute it manually?!? the script executes the (powershell-)command under the same credentials, doesn't it?

sorry, you lost me there... i am not much of a scripter :-\ what exactly should I try?

Hi Jiri, yes I use absolute paths (C:\Scripts\test.txt) The credential I used for testing was the service account that APM uses, if logged in via RDP the script works, if executed by APM it does not.

That was what I was looking for! Still have a few open questions though: 1) How does NCM determine a “blob”? By indentation only? 2) Why does “[A-Fa-f0-9][A-Fa-f0-9][A-Fa-f0-9][A-Fa-f0-9][A-Fa-f0-9][A-Fa-f0-9][A-Fa-f0-9][A-Fa-f0-9]” work but “[A-Fa-f0-9]{8}” does not? 3) What is the best practice to ignore the hex data? I…

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just curious and a bit off topic but next release would be 10.1?

mhh, then my error is already somewhere here... the file is created if i execute the vbs script but not if I execute it via APM Not sure where to start troubleshooting though...

yes, i am also curious why it hasnt been fixed yet... same as a lot of other bugs I have submitted tho... Can a SolarWinds official confirm that if I use "none" and "not all" that the logic will not be swapped but instead the labels will be fixed?

this config comparison sure is complicated! I have tried different variations but I would be grateful if someone could post the exact logic of NCM comparisons (obviously it is not as simple as "if the regex matches, ignore that line")!

My Query returns one result per component type to avoid email flooding by a faulty orion or component (e.g. there were cases where wmi would crash and anything relying on wmi would stop polling but stay green, without this kind o filter that caused us thousands of emails). if you have 1000 windows service monitors falling…

What I ment was to try the following: This alert was active for ${SQL:Select Floor(Convert(float,(Convert(datetime,'${Year}-${MM}-${DD} ${Hour}:${Minute}:${Second}')-Convert(datetime,'${AlertTriggerTime}'))))} days and ${SQL:Select Convert(time,Convert(datetime,'${Year}-${MM}-${DD} ${Hour}:${Minute}:${Second}') -…

I think the issue lies in permission errors... Is it possible that you can try to reproduce this and find out why this does not work? I really dont know how to proceed. I am not much of a scripter nor Windows Administrator :-\

well... but what can I do now? I dont want to implement alerts like this if I know it will be a problem if i upgrade with a fixed version... can you already tell what the fix will do with existing alerts that use this?

yes, i really dont want to mess with the databse too much :P please fix this asap! =)

sounds like its working fine for you! :) Would you mind trying the original query and only change the time format but not the date format? Would be nice if we could find a query that works for everyone =)