RogerWong

Yes, you should be able to do that. I did it just now. Added www.google.com as an external node, then assigned some monitors to it. Test is successful.

Hi, vg. There are a number of macros you can put into your alert email that are described in the admin guide in the "Orion APM Alerts" topic. The one you want to report the status of components is: ${StatusOrErrorDescription} There's a table full of other macros in that topic that you might also find handy.

Hi mdriskell, Right now, adding users in the Orion Account Manager is the only way to let them use Orion Network Atlas to modify the NPM maps. This answer doesn't make it any easier for you to give your folks map access, and I acknowledge your frustration about that. There are a few more open issues regarding Orion Network…

Well, you could program a timer into your script to print the elapsed time as a statistic. Or you can test your web site using the HTTP monitor as the testing component. Is there any reason you can think of that the HTTP monitor will not work to test whether your web site is up?

It sounds to me as if you need to write a script that does the following: 1. Requests a web page. 2. Searches through the retrieved web page to locate a marker of some kind that immediately precedes the data you want. 3. Extracts the data and reports it to Orion APM as a statistic. The Apache template contains several…

Andy, You said that you tested an application template against a Windows server node and that several of the component monitors failed. Was this a template that contained WMI performance counter components? If so, what I would do in this situation is look at the "WQL query" of some of those failed component monitors, and…

Hmmm. Could this be a symptom of running out of licensed APM component monitors? Can you check the license count? APM Settings > License Summary

By inflated, I meant "really, really wrong". Non-hyperthreaded, multi-core CPUs are fine according to the bug report I just read. It's the hyperthreaded CPUs that have X number of physical cores but Y number of logical cores that confuse the APM WMI process monitor.

Wow. It's *gone*. Alternate link to a PDF version: http://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2008/06_w23/30909/Using-Distributed-COM-with-Firew.pdf My google-fu technique to locate this: There were enough links from other web sites pointing to the page that Microsoft removed that I was able to find the author's name, and…

Borgan, this may be a bit late, but you could create two identical component monitors and set the threshold of one to be <5 and the other to >25.

mstolle, Without seeing the trigger condition of your alert, I can only guess at the problem. My first theory is that you've selected "APM: Application" as the property type of your alert instead of "APM: Component". Applications don't have statistics, only components have. If you have an APM: Component trigger condition…

Byron, I chatted with our dev about this briefly. The HTTP monitor isn't equipped with the settings to handle certificate issues, so it seems you need two monitors here: 1. One HTTP monitor for the web server, but ignoring the redirect (set 'Ignore Redirect') 2. One HTTPS monitor for the secure web server that you get…

Noe, One of our developers here just pointed out to me that the Microsoft iisreset.exe command-line utility can restart Internet services on a remote computer. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/95826e7a-bac4-4e1f-bcb6-c52d49c9d7f4.mspx?mfr=true If the iisreset.exe command-line…

If i have 16xsites with 16xnetperfmon databases and EOC installed at the main site. Does that mean that the EOC database will now include all 16 databases? No. The database requirements for Orion EOC are more modest than those for Orion NPM. Orion EOC doesn't store any long-term data in the Orion EOC database. As far as I…

Application names are independent of the template name. I'll mark this thread for the PM to make sure he sees your requests for the ability to set template inheritance on the application name.

We've recently posted a workaround for this in the knowledge base. http://support.solarwinds.com/kbase/ProblemDetail.cfm?ID=1162

Hi, Jody. You can use * as a wildcard in the File Existence Monitor. So in your case, you can specify \\dumpserver\c$\dump\dumpfile*.* and the monitor will respond appropriately if any files exist that start with dumpfile. I'll make sure this gets into the example in the File Existence monitor docs for the next update.

I see that I cross-posted with Chris. Sorry, Chris!

Seftink, we don't have a monitor in APM that will let you specify an XPATH or some other construct to retrieve a data value embedded within an XML file. I'll add it as a feature request. If you need that functionality today, you will have to write your own Visual Basic script to parse the XML file, locate and pull the mail…

Heh. You're quite welcome. I'm serious about the suggestion to set up an AD account dedicated solely to monitoring, though. I have to change my AD password every 60 days or so as corporate policy, and the last time I did this I forgot to update my domain credentials in Orion APM with my new password. Apparently, ten…

 It also looks like you are more flexible by using a Script (you can query more Values, do some calculations...). You're right about that too. Getting the value through a script lets you manipulate the data to get the result you need, formatted the way you want. For example, you could query a bunch of values, calculate…

Hmmm. So, all that you ought to need to do is enable the Restart a service canned alert. It's not supposed to need any modification to work properly and automatically -- the alert, as configured, does this: "If a component is down, and that component is a Windows service monitor, execute the utility on the command line…

The author claims this was the minimum permission set that let him use WMI with a non-admin Windows account in his monitoring environment. I hope it works for you too.

Here's a video showing our Head Geek using the Linux/Unix script monitor as a wrapper to run an existing Nagios script. http://www.solarwinds.com/geek/videos.aspx?video=19 If the command line parameters in the video are not clear, the command line is: {$Script} /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_sun_hardware -c cpu…

Paul, I think what Michal is saying is the children of a device only affect the status of the parent if you also add the children to the map. In your case, you want the child interfaces to affect the parent device status, so one possibility is to create another level of submaps representing the interfaces: Map 1 (Link to…

Jon, to open the login page directly in the custom HTML without having the link, use the HTML tag <iFrame> (inline frame). What that does is make the browser open the webpage inside a frame it draws in the resource. Here's an example that loads the Google search webpage in the custom HTML resource: <iframe…

That means the webpage can't load the graphic using that URL. What's the URL you are using?

I've presented three ways in which you can gather Performance Counter data from a computer system. None of them is the right way or the wrong way, so please feel free to choose the method you think works best for your workflow and for your IT environment.

And after showing you all that, I'm going to show you the EASIEST way of doing this in Orion APM. All of that was just for background. So, here's what you really should do to create all the performance monitors you want: 1. Click APM Settings. 2. Click Find Processes, Services, and Performance Counters 3. Select…

That's what you would have to do for APM 2.5 and earlier. If you are using APM 3.0 and later, you don't have to create WQL queries any more. Instead you can use the Performance Counter monitor type. This is actually the monitor type I would recommend you use if you can, instead of making WQL queries for the WMI Monitor.…