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Hi We have build a command-line sms-application that we use with solarwinds alerts. Just write "sms.exe [number] [text]" with some more optional values and you are done. We have a gsm-modem connected to com-port to send the sms. We have it on both 64 and 32 bit win 2003 and 2008.

+1 for that request!

Hi As I understand Orion NPM does not support sql-mirroring but: 1: Does the failover component support that? 2: Can I edit the sql connection string manually? (Becouse the sql .net data provider supports it by using the "FAILOVER PARTNER=[MyMirrorServerName]") 2.1: If I can, where is it? /Thomas

Hi First, I always try out my queries in SSMS first, that way I get more details on the errors. Second, VolumeUsage_details is a view, not a table. I'm sure you have that. Third, I think you have to have some values in those custom properties, at least "VolumeSizePercentageChangeTrigger", I get an error in SSMS if a set…

Hi I don't know solaris that much and maybe I have missunderstod part but I have an idea. Can you make a Universal Device Poller to see the status on that process? If you can you can say that UnDP shouldn't save the data as history. Can that solve your problem?

Interfaces turns grey: Solved! I had a problem that interfaces on some nodes turn grey and unknown. I use snmp v3, don't know if that has anything to do with it. The solution was to enable 64-bit counters on that node. That could only be done from the web interface. Then I restarted the Network Performance Monitor Service.…

Understand now what you mean humejo. That would be a good solution in another situation, maybe here also. Have to think about that.... Don't like that we will get an alert in the alert-list about that but we can have it disappear in a few seconds. Thanks!

Found this post in the hunt for a good solution on how to create normal orion alerts when backup in NCM fails. I was not satisfied with the solution with reports, wanted a proper alert. So I created on. Below script looks at when last backup job was done, taking into account if the config was unchanged and backup file was…

I also have this problem at one custome site. Both the "Exception in service...." and the popup shown up here. BUT, I also think that when I get this error some units gets corrupted. Monitoring of the units are ok but all of the interfaces are "unknown" and grey. "Only" a few monitord units gets this way. I have to delete…

You might be able to simulate wan router down. In windows firewall on the orion server, add a rule to block all traffic to that IP.

Ok, thanks for all input! LadaVarga : Ok, that answers why it don't work. Hope you can fix that later on. humejo​: Thanks for all inspiration! Think I will go with two alerts now that I know it's a bug/limitation/feature... :-P

Finally got time to test this and thought I'd give back by sharing my solution. Thanks mesverrum​ for all input! So, we wanted to clone a view and create one view with limitation per siteID, where siteid is a custom property where we have enabled limitation on it. (I'm no PS programmer so I hope the code don't look to…

Yes, using SQL variables you can use a lot of magic :-)

Hi No worries about delay. * No QoS * Both (see picture) * The packet loss only last for one 5-min period (according to chart data) so no time to logg in to device, sorry Picture shows packet loss from VoIP, both ways. At the same time NPM shows no packet loss on any of the devices. The phenomenon occures on several…

What if someone (!) should show on thwack how to implement that feature. Then it wouldn't be in the original product but an open source solution.

Hi Yes, putting variables in the "To" and "server" feilds of alerts would be realy nice to have. Changed email server a few weeks ago and there where a lot of rules to change in... Thanks for a good work!

I needed a alert rule that resets itself also. What I did was to make alarm rule like: hostname is x and mem.usage is 0 And a reset rule like: hostname is x and mem.usage is > 0 for more then 1 min Time is between 07:50 and 07:52 First I hade a alert action but it never worked. But when I changed to a reset rule everything…

IP.packets, I'm not sure but I would assume like you. I haven't used that solution myself.

Varsågod, as we Swedes would say

I don't think there are any guide to what tables and columns do what. Running SWQL in SWQL-Studio you get some help but not that much. Check on thwack to get more input and dig around. Not always easy to find the answer. If you want to delete alot of interfaces, use "Manage nodes" and "show: interfaces". There you can…

Hi, yes it's an alert. (Createa a Custom SQL alert and choose Volumes as "target")

No it seems the XML version is no longer supported by NIST and the new version is not supported by NCM. Not good! (NVD - XML Vulnerability Feed Retirement Phase 3 ) Solarwinds, time to work!! This feature request has been announcing this since April:

This is how it's connected.

Hi @swenson_nathan, I have had issues once when using Availability groups, AG, (I guess that is what you are using). In the ConfWizard you point it to the AG-listener. The wizard apperently runs a "select @@servername" from there and then get the hostname of the active node and use that instead of the AG-listener. To get…

It was a new alert, on a node that before it was renamed (both in windows and Orion caption feild) has an alert. If you look in you database table [AlertObjects], how many rows do you have? In this installation I have about a thousand rows and maybe 15 active alerts. Meaning it picks alertobjects from this table and reuses…

Yes I know that. I get interface speed and how much it is using. But I want to measure max throughput on the link. Say I pay for a 100 Mbit link from site A to B, but how fast is the link actually? Maybe I only get 75 Mbit. I can see my interfaces are configured in 100Mbit, I can see how much I use. Like an internet speed…

You also have the option to run the script on the remote/monitored node. Check below setting on the Powershell component. But your solution works also. Choose the one that suits you best

We use a maestro GMS modem at several customers with our own program against that. Works perfect. You might also need a ethernet-to-serial box if you use a virtual server for orion, like a Moxa NPort.

Yes, that is how I would do it, WMI against the cluster-address. Also remember that the cluster, WFC, has one IP address and the SQL-instance has another. It is the SQL-instance IP-address that you want to be monitoring.

Hmmm, and I guess you try this from the Polling Server that is handling this node? If you have additional polling engines... Have you tried turning on debug and check the log? (Do you know how where to find that log?) Otherwise, sorry I have no idea. Strange....