RogerWong

To let Orion NPM 8.5.1 servers talk to Orion EOC, you have to upgrade the NPM server with a component from the Orion EOC installer. The procedure for that is in the Administrator Guide, but I'll paste it at the end of this post for convenience. If you already did that, and you're still getting this error, there might be…

Tip: specify the account name in DOMAIN\user.name format. I tested this here and it works for our AD-protected intranet websites.

If you have APM 3.0 or later, ${StatusOrErrorDescription} suggested by qle should work.

You can find more details about the SQL Server Query template and others in the Orion APM Templates Reference included in your product documentation.

Contracer, I have to correct my answer. One of our devs pointed out to me that the APM application status roll-up is hard-coded to worst mode, and cannot be changed. The status of an application is determined by these rules (in order of priority) 1. If app has a down component, application status is down. 2. If app has an…

Hi, Jeff. The Linux script monitor in Orion APM expects your script to return a few things: A string that reads "Statistic: x" where x is the value you want Orion APM to keep as a statistic, and an error code that tells Orion APM what status it should return. The error you got means Orion APM did not see the expected…

For your own sanity, please only look at the PerfFormattedData counters if you're monitoring Windows Server 2003. The difference is that RawData values are completely meaningless unless you use a formula to calculate the actual performance data. This is known as "cooking" the RawData counter. The PerfFormattedData counters…

An alternate way would be to use a Linked Background instead of a background from disk. You can upload the visio.gif background to your web server, and then add a linked background of http://myserver/visio.gif. The next time you update the visio.gif file on your web server, the map will automatically use the new graphics…

profzoom1, You can create an external node and assign your HTTP monitoring template to it. Or, you can take advantage of the fact that you can type any IP address for the URL field in the HTTP monitor. It doesn't have to monitor the node you assign it to. So you can make an app that has a bunch of monitors all pointing to…

1. PNGs are officially supported as backgrounds. If that's not working, something is up. From: Administrator Guide : Creating a Basic Map : Adding a Background Selecting a Background Image Orion Network Atlas allows you to use images as the background of your map. The source of the background image can be a graphics file…

Yup. You've probably created more APM component monitors than you have licenses for. Check how many components are left in your license: Licensing

Yes, you can do this with SolarWinds Orion APM. However, you say you don't want to an assign an Orion APM HTTP monitor to the webserver node. But, that is how Orion APM works. You can also use the HTML/ASP monitors in SolarWinds ipMonitor for this.

You already have Orion APM, which is what you need to monitor services. Orion APM lets you browse a server node for services, and then lists the services so that you can select the ones you want to monitor. For the precise steps, look at the To create a new template using the browsing method procedure on the Creating New…

That's odd behavior that someone in support will have to take a look at. Please open a support ticket if you have not already done so. http://www.solarwinds.com/support/ticket/

Are you using the same user in the Orion APM script credentials that you are using for testing the script on the box? 

Well, you could go to the web site folder and manually swap the down status icons graphics with the up status icon graphics to reverse them, but it's not something that we'd support. Also, anytime you update the product or reinstall the web site, you would lose all your change. If I may ask, why is it that you want to do…

Hi dwil49. If you decide to remove Orion APM from your Orion NPM server, uninstall the Orion APM program files. To uninstall the Orion APM program files: * Uninstall the module through Add/Remove Programs. The Orion Web Console continues to display the Orion APM module. * Use the service manager (services.msc) to stop the…

1. How do you manually track your database transaction log size? Do you look at the size of a file in the file system or do you run a database query? If you can judge the transaction log size from the size of a file, you can assign a File Size component monitor to track the size of the file in APM, and then you can set…

Donald, it reports bytes for me, so there's a chance you might have to open a support ticket. The file I'm monitoring is 92.5 KB (94,720 bytes) in Windows Explorer, and I see: 94720.00 as the statistic data. So the byte size is correct.

You can replace the standard status icon graphics with your own versions, but: - This change is global and affects all users. - Your replacement graphics will be overwritten if you run the config wizard and update the website files. The status icons are located in C:\Inetpub\SolarWinds\Orion\images\StatusIcons As a…

The evaluation guides are also available here: http://www.solarwinds.com/support/evaluationGuides.aspx

The Orion APM Evaluation Guide walks you through creating an application, and it has screenshots. It's included as a PDF in the Orion APM 2.0 evaluation download.

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) files contain the style information for the your Orion NPM web pages. They are part of the World Wide Web standard for web pages. CSS and HTML go hand in hand. Do you know what they are concerned about?

No laughter here. That would work, but because you've created a new Orion node database, the node IDs are probably not going to be the same. So after you import those old maps, you'd have the correct map and node layout, but you'd have to update the elements on the maps to point to the right things.

The Orion APM "SQL Server User Experience" monitor is only for the Microsoft SQL Server. For something like Firebird DB, you have to use the "ODBC User Experience" monitor type. I Google searched for some information you will need to use the Firebird ODBC driver: Firebird ODBC driver (install this on Orion APM…

Orion APM 2.5 does not have a prepared Blackberry Server template, but I think you can make one to monitor the statistics of a Blackberry Enterprise Server. I searched Google to find "Blackberry Server WMI counter", and I found some information about Blackberry WMI performance counters that you should be able to monitor…

Hi, rgalloni. Here is a direct link to the latest version of the Network Atlas admin guide. Network Atlas Admin Guide (html version)

Lchance, I don't think that's going to do the trick. The Windows Event Log Monitor (and its older sibling, the Windows Event Log Count script) uses pattern matching to look into a Windows event log and count the occurrences of a particular event in a given time frame, then report that number as a statistic. So... we can…

The resource that tells you exactly which of your applications are having problems is the "Applications with Problems" resource. Is that resource missing from your summary view? I can show you how to add it back.

Have you set up any alerts to get triggered when an application's status changes? If you haven't, you won't have any active alerts to be shown in that resource. Have a look at Configuring Orion APM Alerts to see an example of creating an alert that writes to the Orion event log if an app goes critical. You can of course…