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yup! definately agree... I spend a lot of time just monitoring the monitor server to check if its still healthy... would be nice to have that automated or improved in some way that I will at least be alarmed!

I dont know best practice but I would suggest custom properties and then make alerts that use the custom properties. I have a similar thing for disk volumes... they all have a custom property, if this property is empty it alarms when more than 80% of the disk space is used, otherwise it alarms once the custom threshold is…

that would definitely be good.. installing google toolbar or such isnt an option for a lot of companies with strict policies as to what is allowed to be installed... I also think the ticket system has to be improved!

I second that feature request, also dont want any links on the pdf... at least the possibility to choose as the links dont work anyhow

I think it would be a nice idea especially with the new group function.... add a couple of unpluggable nodes to a group and carry over the best status, that way you can avoid having them shown in nodes with problems but still alert if the whole group is down (clustered services/redundant devices). we wouldn't really…

NCM has a TFTP server as well, that should work well :)

I dont completely understand your question, however you can execute a command script, this includes configurations as well (like radius configurations) and execute that command script on all of your selected boxes sequentially (though they will be done right after another and should finish quickly)

I dont get it, when does the polling stop? what credentials have to be assigned to the VMs? I never noticed any sudden stop of polling on ESX 3.5 but we are planning to upgrade to 4 soon.

the test alert function is only to test for the trigger actions... apparently sometimes you dont get the expected output, this does not mean that the alarm will show the same, if the alert triggers for real without "testing" the correct information should be displayed :)

you can create a custom property for the volumes, leave this blank for all volumes which you want to alert on the standard value (standard would be what you want most of your servers to alert on) and enter the required free space for all that differ. then create an advanced alert with a complex/nested any condition, on one…

well, there is a user submitted script somewhere that checks the status of orion and alerts if it or the database is down... then there is the hot standby engine of Orion NPM which I havent installed yet but it should alarm if the server is down... I am not positive if it alarms when the services are down and it took over…

for ports there is a pdf file in the content exchange zone which lists all needed ports! Details can be found there,I think tcp/17777,17778,1433 is required for connection between orion servers, depending on what modules you are running and what you are monitoring you need to of course open more ports to properly get the…

maybe one or more ports on these devices really are down? I think the questionmark appears when it cannot find the interface it is connected to on the other device, this could be when you dont have that specific interface added to NPM

Hi, this is not possible with Orion NPM, you will require Orion APM for this! There you have the SQL User Experience Monitor to create SQL-queries and record the return values.

currently Orion has some troubles updating when you have https and no http running... but you can setup https easily, I think its even described in the admin guide. You just have to change the website binding (and choose a certificate to use, orion comes with at least one but you can use your own) and under ssl setting…

hi, if you put that condition under alert suppression it will not trigger at all if any node has 'RSP' in its name. you need to put this in the trigger condition instead, just put does not contain 'RSP' as a condition

How would you do that? Orion currently cannot detect itself that it is down... :P I cant even get an alarm if the Orion is down. If a service is down, yes... but as soon as the connection to the database gets lost for more than just a few seconds you cannot do anything. only thing you can do is manually check if everything…

I think this is a planned feature: I dont think you can alert or report on which new IP's have been found

Erm, what is it that you want? You want to report on the uptime of your WAN link as in the percentage of time the interface was up? If thats what you want you can see graphs in Orion or just use a report but I am assuming you are talking about something different? Please elaborate a bit on what exactly you want to achieve.

I dont think the same database will work, same instance should be fine as long as the resources are there. However you can just run the config wizard on the new machine until you are ready to switch over so you can shutdown the old server and then connect the new one

there is a difference in admin rights (you should turn that off for the user) and "allow node management". just turn the latter on and he should be fine... i did the same... operators are not allowed to change any views etc. (thats another setting, allow to customize views)

you mean in the alert? yes you can, you would first have to create custom sql macros that will filter to the data you want. custom sql queries can be embedded into alerts like this: ${SQL:"your sql query here"}

APM is not 64bit aware yet... we have the same issue, anything above 4GB is reported incorrectly...

afaik it does not and it is not currently planned

for some, yes... I would like this feature as well but grouped like they are in vcenter... dont want to import all the test machines...

is unmanaging all nodes (e.g. from the webinterace) or shutting down orion services (with the orion service manager) an option? alternatively you have the checkmark "Disable all alert actions" which will not execute any alert actions for as long as it is checked (you can find it in the alert manager on the server under…

Hi J, as you have access to the switch via IP, it should not be a problem even though the subnet you want to monitor is a different one than the one you are managing the switch with. Like Mav noted, you can use ARP discovery for that, there is a little checkmark in IPAM in the subnet settings, enter the IP of the switch in…

yes, you can create a custom sql alert and search for the down event for that one node in the past hour and alert on that...

not sure I understand... the admin area is of course for admins... if they want to manage nodes, they need to go to "Manage Nodes"... unfortunately without admin rights, staff will be unable to unmanage applications :( PS: as you wrote v10, I am assuming you are talking about NPM and not NCM

simply edit the virtual centers and check "poll for esx", then enter vcenter credentials and you are done :)