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To show the new Orion Maps on a view, add the widget called "Orion Map" and choose the map you want to show there.

 The Solarwinds Orion API does not cost anything extra and don't add anything to the licenses.

Correct, only admins have the "settings menu". If a user have the "manage nodes" permission, you will on the "all nodes -tree" widget see a link to "manage nodes": You can also just customize the menu and add that link to another menu.

You want to the linux node to instantly trigger an alert in orion? Will not work, not instantly. For example, You can monitor a logfile on the linux machine. When the log file say "go" the component in orion becomes critical. Then you have an alert that fires if that component is critical. There you have latency in both…

Hi I would do that kind of alert like this: To remove the tunnel-interfaces choose the first line: Interfaces.[TypeDescription] != 'Encapsulation Interface' Then on all alerts I avoid adding hardcoded thresholds but instead use the warning and critical thresholds on the entities. In this case the interface transmit and…

Nice idéa! I had several databases "unplugged/offline" and there is no icon for that so I had to add a case part for that: SELECT a.Node.Caption as [Node] ,concat('/Orion/images/StatusIcons/Small-',a.node.StatusIcon) AS [_IconFor_Node] ,a.node.DetailsUrl as [_LinkFor_Node] ,a.name as [Instance]…

Understandable that things don't start as they should as you are halfway thorough the installation. Yes, config wizard must run after upgrade. If it fails I would check the log files at C:\ProgramData\SolarWinds\Logs\Orion\ConfigurationWizard.log. They might say more why it fails.

So in this case we have to join a few times to get where we want. First from SQLDatabase to Application and then to NodesCustomProperties. Like this: SELECT E0.[SqlServer].[Node].[Caption], E0.[SqlApplicationAlert].[InstanceName], E0.[DisplayName], CASE E0.[SqlDatabaseAlert].[RecoveryModel] WHEN '3' THEN 'SIMPLE' WHEN '1'…

Hi I would say - Don't use APE's. Why, because SMTP and WMI protocols handle the latency better than the SQL protocol. You might end up with long locks on tables as the APE updates info. Stopping "local" queries from running. If you have the proper license the new ORC might be better for you though…

Interesting question. One would think that would work but I think the "mute-feature" is on another place in the code. What probably would work is instead of mute the node, unmanage the node. Then the node will never get a critical or down status.

Hi For starters you can just monitor the windows service for SQL. See if that one is up and running. Second you can ask a simple SQL query to see that you get a response. I have a template called "SQL Server Basics" to check just that. The query in the "response test" I use look like this: Declare @"nr" int Declare @"mess"…

Hi, not sure it can be done in DPA. My tool of choice would be SAM. There you can create any SQL query against the db you are monitoring. Create a query that shows how many new rows you got in the last timeframe you want. Or use the link @"mesverrum" gave to look at the table itself Remember that you have to return 0 even…

Agree with @"johnny_ringo" , with this license limitation it is not helping most of my customers. A small fee for an ORC for those not using NAM would be helpful. Don't think ORC and APE compete against each other. They will be used in different scenarios. 

Thanks @"jblankjblank" for pointing that new offline feature out. I did miss that line. Will actually put that to use very soon at one customer. 

Don't know about using a proxy but do you know you can have the traffic go in the other direction? From Orion server to the agent. Sounds better when monitoring servers in DMZ.

Can you explain more what you want to do. Not use I understand. Here is an example that works with WHERE-clause on the two tables. SELECT N1.Caption, N2.Caption FROM Orion.Nodes N1 INNER JOIN Orion.Nodes N2 ON N1.Nodeid=N2.NodeID AND N2.Vendor='Cisco' WHERE N1.MachineType<>'Windows'

Hi Personally I would use dependencies for this. That's what it's made for. But just for fun. MAYBE you can do it like this, with dual sections in the trigger condition. Not sure. Havn't tested in real life: (faked node names to make it somewhat understandable....) Test and tell us if it works!

Hi Domain account SHOULD work. Just tried on both 2019.4 and 2020.2. BUT, I have heard others that recently also have had issues with that. Don't know of any solution though.

Hi For starters I would monitor the two nodes (if the cluster has two nodes, all nodes if more... ). On the nodes I monitor resources that "don't move" like local disks etc. Then I monitor the exchange cluster VIP for services and resources that move from node to node. Whether to have critical alerts on all three parts, 2…

Do you have a picture of what you try to do? What template are you trying with?

Hi The easy answer is "no". There is no obvious way to do this. BUT, you can create a custom graph with several lines in one graph. The custom graph can take it's data from a SQL- or SWQL-query. I guess you can there create the query so you get data and thus lines that can represent your two extra lines. Haven't done it…

@"tony.johnson" Just tested: Yes, toggle browser bookmark bar does remove the wobbling, but only because it changes the browser window size/resolution. I can get the behavior both with and without bookmark bar. I did NOT get the wobbling with Microsoft Edge 44.18362.449.0

Can you reach the target for Netpath from the client manually? Like if you are setting up a Netpath to a website, can you reach it from a browser on the client? Also, netpath it not that good at handling proxies if such is involved.

I made something like that last year. You can look here: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/Alert-Lab-Discussions/Alerting-on-Volume-Growth/m-p/316517/highlight/true#M4568 Or try this copy-n-paste from what I wrote there: SELECT Volumes.FullName, Volumes.VolumeID FROM Volumes Inner join [dbo].[VolumeUsage_Detail] D on…

I had the same issue. Found this article: https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Invalid-cert-warning-while?CMP=LEC-BAD-SCTR-X_WW_US_CS_X_CE_EN_X_SW-X-20191029_InvalidCertWarn_0_X_VidNo_X-X Did that and it worked!!

I had some customers asking for a way to search for what node is using an IP address, and also on what interface. And we wanted a widget to show that. (yes, actually two customers on the same day asked that!!) So I created below widget that lists all IP addresses that is used on all nodes, what interface that is bound to…

Hi, did you find anything? I'm also interested in monitoring Dynamics 365.

Hi I wrote about something similar in an action a while ago, then for listing dependencies: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/NPM-Documents/List-Dependent-nodes-in-alerts/ta-p/526355 I then used a function instead of an SP. Don't remember why but I guess I also had issues with the EXEC SP. Would that work for you?

@"tony.johnson" I use custom query a lot, for some cases that is covered already but the search capability in custom query i like a lot.It's faster than other search tools in orion. The wobbling: 3 screens, resolution: issue comes with a combination of widget size and browser window size. Browser Chrome Version…

Yes, you can have a SQL query as datasource for a report