RogerWong

Yes, I asked our developers and it is expected behavior. "Operational State" is the state of the guest operating system installed on the VM, and the only way we can know this state is if VMware Tools is installed on the guest OS. The actual VMware API property we read for this is guestState. For more information,…

Here's a previous thread on the topic with some ideas:

Mike, in the Requirements section of the admin guide, there are a number of charts and recommendations from SolarWinds concerning virtualizing your SolarWinds Orion deployments. We do support it, and you can find our suggestions here: http://www.solarwinds.com/NetPerfMon/SolarWinds/OrionAGRequirements.htm (The virtual…

Nick09, Don't mind my previous response. Renaming the sever will not invalidate the license. So, just go ahead and rename. Are you running Orion EOC in a virtual machine? The developers said that if you were running Orion EOC in a Virtual Machine, that cloning the VM would probably invalidate the license. But this won't…

Nick09, I think renaming the EOC server may invalidate the license. I will check on that and get back to you.

What else... oh, yes. There's also a Web Link monitor that checks the accessibility of any hyperlinks on a web page. It also counts the number of broken links and returns it as a statistic. Web Link monitor Hope this helps!

Yup, you'll be looking at the HTTP and HTTPS monitors, and the HTTP Form Login monitor. The HTTP and HTTPS component monitors attempt to retrieve the page at the URL you give them, and let you pass or fail it based on string matching (for example, fail if the text contains "404 error"). If the content is protected with…

Hi, Jon. If your server team took away remote permissions from Domain Administrators as you suspect, some possible solutions come to mind: a. use a local admin account to access the node b. ask the server team to undo their group policy change c. move your nodes to a different domain where you have complete control over…

Hi, Jorge. It is possible with some of the components. If the component lets you manually specify an IP address, server name, or file system path, then at any time you can put in an address/path that does not match the node the application is assigned to. The consequence is the application status is given only to the node…

If you can't resolve the host, you might have to add an entry to your hosts file to compensate.

It's probably easier to paste it in from the Windows Clipboard, though. See: Pasting Custom Icons from the Windows Clipboard You can paste graphics from the Windows clipboard directly into your Orion Network Atlas maps and then display an overlay behind them to depict the status.Icons that you paste into Orion Network…

Adding Custom Icons from Graphics Files You can use any Windows Media File (.wmf) or Graphics Interchange Format (.gif) format graphic as a custom icon, but you must name the graphic files according to their roles. The file name must not contain any other dash (-) characters other than depicted in this table.RoleFile…

Hi contracer, This depends on your Status Roll-up Mode setting (Settings > Web Console Settings). If you set roll-up mode to "Show Worst Status" then Applications get a Down status if 1 or more member component monitors are down. In this case, your alert would become active for a single monitor being down. If you set…

I don't know much about SCCM, but pickerin uploaded a template named "SCCM Secondary Site" to the content sharing area on thwack less than a week ago. I downloaded it, and it appears to monitor these processes: CcmExec.exe smsexec.exe sitecomp.exe smswriter.exe You can search for and then import this template into Orion…

What monitor type is this? Peter described one brute force method to stagger the polls, but he added there might be a better way if he knew what component monitor type you're specifically having problems with.The brute force staggering method is to stick non-conflicting component monitor between the conflicting…

1. The parser looks at the name attribute. 2. For 2.5, the httplogin.vbs script is deprecated, please use the "HTTP Form Login Monitor" instead. HTTPForm Login Monitor This component monitor tests the ability of a web server to serve web pages secured behind a forms-based login page. The test is performed by using the…

What is the difference between Application Warning/Critical State & Application Down? Application Warning and Critical states manifest when a measured value passes a limit (threshold) that you've set. For example, if you have an Apache application monitoring an Apache server, you might set thresholds to notify you when…

The DNS User Experience component monitor attempts to use the DNS protocol (http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/Topics/77.htm) to resolve a name or IP address with the selected DNS server, waits for the response, and then compares the response against the expected values. Do you think these timeouts are related to the way Orion…

Hi, Fauzan. Separate installs of v8.5 and v9 happily monitor the same network resources if they are installed on different servers. But I think you're going to run into a licensing issue, because it's not possible to share the same license simultaneously between ipMonitor installations. You can't run both a licensed v9 and…

Yes, that's right.

Orion APM doesn't have a monitor that returns the number of days before an SSL cert expires as a statistic. Someone would have to write a script that would put that number somewhere APM could access it. Consider instead implementing these known expiration dates and system names as reminders in Microsoft Outlook or some…

Replace the "perl" in your Command Line field with "${Script}" It should be: {$Script} /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_sun_hardware -c cpu You can read some more information about this in the ScriptProcessorForNagios(tm).pl section of the APM help.

I believe you have to enable the Windows Firewall: Allow remote administration exception. Open a command prompt on the firewalled computer and type: netsh firewall set service RemoteAdmin enable This is from: msdn.microsoft.com/.../aa389286(VS.85).aspx

almarri, Can you give me a link to that headgeek video? I see the problem. In the APM Linux Script monitor, you typed a script into Script Body. But you are not actually running this script as part of the monitor because you changed the command line. Instead of running the script, you hardcoded a different command to be…

Hi, Jay. Your local PC needs to be able to connect to the Orion NPM/EOC server over port tcp/17777. That's all the requirements for running remote Network Atlas. I'll make sure to get that mentioned in the docs.

The Orion APM template "Run 3rd Party Application" contains a Windows Script monitor that runs notepad.exe as an example executable file. Do you have that template assigned to any nodes?

If I understand you correctly, you want to count the number of files in a folder using APM. The File Count template from APM 2.5 should do this. It contains a Windows Script monitor that runs a script to count files in folders. You need to specify the folder path as the argument. Specify the path in Universal Naming…

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They are huge numbers because the raw data has to be "cooked" with another number to convert it to something meaningful. Unfortunately, because the Performance Counter monitor doesn't provide a way to do arithmetic in the monitor itself, you can't use that monitor to get accurate disk size information from Windows 2000.…

Nope. I recommend you use 2008 R2, though. Microsoft fixed a 2008 bug that used to max out lsass.exe at 100% when APM or any other software tried to make more than a handful of remote WMI calls to other servers.