Ralphr

Can I use PollerChecker to manually assign topology pollers to devices ? 

if you change the detailed retention time the data will be summarized but that and tweaking polling times are normally done in response to overall DB size and performance issues. It sounds like you can get what you want without doing any of that by editing your report to "summarize data" either hourly or by day.

Thanks Steve, What version of Scrutinizer are you running ?

Jiri, You said you were going to "publish a blog post that will clarify many things" is that available yet ? If so where ? Apparently, like many other users even though I have a valid CCOID and SmartNet I continuously get an invalid user error.

Brandon, How could I replicate this trend data specifically the ability to extend it into the future in report writer? I want to be able to run a report based on utilization on key WAN links over the past 6 months and forecast which ones, if any, will be at X% in 3 months. 

Got it to work...Biggest issue seemed to be that in the select portion of the script I was selecting * and then just trying to show the statistic for LDAPClient Sessions. Once I changed the Select statement for just the client session stats I was good to go. The other issue was that the MS link suggested using WMI…

If you want a report that shows a daily avg statistic over the past 5 days - per day build a filter similar to this edit your hours of the day as appropriate. Then set the Time Frame to Last 7 Days and set Summarization to DATE

Rich, You need to determine which MIBs are supported by the platform and specific UNIX OS your systems are running. Once you know that you can use UnDP to create polls to monitor any metric within those MIBs. I would assume your "unix tech" could provide this info but if not and given that you have SNMP comm. to the server…

If you have Kiwi you can use a combination of that and the Solarwinds Event Log Agent to e-mail you when specified events (like an Orion service shutting down or recording of alert errors ) occur.

Can anyone post the steps to check if there are "old jobs the scheduler was working on" as noted in Dons post from August of 2009. And if we do find old jobs what is the process for deleting them? Thanks in advance.

One way to simplify this and make things easier for you in the future might be to create a Volume Custom Property where you might create a Text Field labeled Application and label all those volumes associated with Exchange. Then your alert logic could simply be If its a removable disk AND Volume Application = Exchange (or…

I did something similar but instead of an alert I created a report that lists all IP's whose current status is transient and that are about to expire...i.e. change to available. Simply change the (dd, -XX, getdate) to your liking. My transient period is 30 days so I set the report to show anything expring within 4 days…

I had just about given up on this ever working as I continued to get UserID is not valid even though I could login into Cisco without issue. As others have mentioned this turned to be because we had multiple Customer Names and Addresses in Cisco's DB and only one of those correctly correlated to the CCO ID being used. I…

From Report Writer go to the "General" tab for that report and uncheck the "Group historical Data by days" box.

Dale, Just got around to installing Open SSL and started testing your cert script check. So far so good. Great job. Thanks Ralph

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I do have a C: drive. I believe it's possible that the InstallShield is trying to write to a place where it doesn't have the rights to do so. Hence my question: What log file and where? I appreciate the quick reply though...

Kevin, I think you are trying to apply a Ver 10 Secondary Polling Engine to your Primary Ver 9 installation. There should be just an "Orion NPM v 10.0 SLX" module available in your Customer Portal, if there's not SW staff will need to make that available to you.

Understood, but this was the throughput graph displayed in bps not the data volume chart. Likewise the utilization chart shows utilization over 100% .

Thanks but the settings for NPM and IPAM are different as my NPM is pinging with 64 Byte packets while IPAM is utilizing 300 Byte packets

Have not gotten that far. Sent an e-mail to our Oracle DBA stating that I needed a user ID and password to test this monitoring....and he came back with the following What level of access you need? What database objects that you may need to access? Will those accounts access data dictionary objects including DB environment…

I believe that you will only see min/max when your graph display interval is less than your polling interval (10 minutes in your case). So when your looking at a bps graph with the display interval set to 30 minutes you have three polling intervals rolled up so they will compute the avg and min/max for that time period.…

May be having a similar problem. This past Sunday at 4 AM about 15 interfaces on 15 different servers went to status "unknown". Can poll the interface admin and oper status directly from SNMP and they show status of up up. Also running NPM 10.1.3 with Core 2011.1.2. Tried un-managing then re-managing problem interface.…

I am already doing this. What I want to avoid is having to save 1000's and 1000's of rows of historical data in a table (every 10 minutes get all the destinations in the routing table) when all I need to keep is a single entry (kept historically) for each polling cycle that is a count of those entries based on a…

Honestly I don't know if that's what I'm asking Are private keys and certs the same thing ? Our Linux team still uses some Nagios scripts and I wanted to try and get APM/SAM to run these. Our Linux admin gave me a CD of public and private keys that need to be installed in order to access thier systems and run these…

OK .. LDAP Client Sessions maybe as close as I get to what I'm looking for. Wrote a script that gets just that and can run it from the server itself. When I take that script and create an APM Script Monitor (credentials used in script have full admin rights to the server and can perform standard WMI Queries) I keep getting…

Finally got it working, and it looks like you are going down the same troubleshooting path. What I found out was the server was under the domain of a Group Security Policy that was disabling services at designated (unknown to me) times. Make sure your Com+ Application Service is running. Once I ensured all the necessary…

So I'm curious, what magical thing happens when you switch a nodes polling method to WMI that allows the software inventory data collection to work without this 10 item return limitation? Switching nodes to WMI will require defining new collections to replace all of my UnDP's (which are many) and re-doing all of the alerts…

Thanks Milan, Yes I saw that and in fact ran the export but I was really looking for a way to just extract the alert name and what exactly the alert based on. At the end of the day I can go through each alert one by one and manually document this information but I was hoping there was some easy way to create a script that…

We are missing a lot of server applications under "Software Inventory" , a prime example is that for my primary Solarwinds server not a single Solarwinds module is reported. Yet if you RDP to that server and go to Control Panel -> Uninstall a Program I see more than 20 different entries for Solarwinds products complete…

Michal, It would just be a nice way to ensure that my end to end MTU size isn't suddenly getting squeezed somwhere along the line.