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I have the same issue with the CPU counter sticking. It happens on Windows, and various flavors of Unix. I have even seen it stick on a Windows cluster name, but not on the nodes. I just have to remove the CPU monitor and then add it again. I too am surprised that this hasn't been addressed by SolarWinds.

I agree as well. When we first started using Orion in 2004, I would call support and actually talk to someone who knew the product. Now, the SolarWinds support staff has grown, but their knowledge is minimal. It would be nice if they just admitted not knowing the product and pass you up to the next tier. I am so tired of…

However, we actually got fairly positive feedback in Beta regarding the look of the graphs, which issimilar to what we have been shipping in our NetFlow and Application Performance modules. So, while we respect your aesthetic judgments, we'll have to agree to disagree on that one. I would agree that on the surface the…

You can pass variables to external programs. This has worked at least since v7. I have done this with sc.exe. Let me know if you need the syntax. 

I have used this Syslog Message Pattern to show the reason code for the server reboot on Windows 2003: *USER32 : The reason*,*USER32 : The process winlogon.exe has initiated the restart of computer* I have Warning and Informational checkboxes checked in Message Severity.

Very nice Vic! Thanks! When I get a few minutes I will create a table and experiment with your code. Why didn't you just add a field in the Accounts table? Were you worried about SolarWinds supporting you, or maybe you would break something? Thanks.

aLTeReGo, Please explain how you are monitoring AIX processes with the APM. I have had no luck with this, and SolarWinds Support is of no help. I have the legacy AM and the new APM ALX. Please provide exact details on how your AIX server are configured (AIX version, and/or NET-SNMP version) and how you have your AM and/or…

I think Orion does have its own e-mail client. I don't believe Orion is using anything MAPI related. What works for me is to create custom properties such as OSOwner, OSOwnerEmail, and OSOwnerPager which I then populate with full e-mail addresses. As far as I can tell, the only input Orion is checking is if the variables…

I agree, this would be a great improvement. In the meantime, I have had to create an alert action that launches an osql.exe / sqlcmd.exe query that will dump the results to a text file, which I then include in an e-mail sent by blat.exe or mailsend.exe. It is a pain, especially formatting the SQL output, but it gets the…

This actually works! 

The issue I have had since day one of the install is that the basic alerts will trigger every time the NetPerfMon service is restarted. VERY annoying. As I get time, I have been trying to convert all my basic alerts to advanced so this doesn't happen.

I have to routinely delete rows from the Interfaces table due to this issue. This is the only solution that SolarWinds support ever provides. 

I have been attempting to get full SNMP monitoring of AIX through Orion for about four years without success. Support has been of no use either. They say that some of their customers have used NET-SNMP to get the data, but have no details. I have tried various version of NET-SNMP without success. Support doesn't have any…

I would like to disable the nightly database shrink. We want this only to be performed during our own database maintenance plan we run weekly. Thanks.

Another feature request would be to have a text field available to put comments as to why the node is being unmanaged. 

More specifically in my case, I need 1.3.6.1.4.1.1139.2 Currently only 1.3.6.1.4.1.1139.1 emcSymmetrix is my only option under EMC. Thanks.

I will be needing this functionality as well. 

I am experiencing the same thing. I don't think I will ever do another repair since it resets all my settings to the default.

Vic, I don't think your new hardware was the main factor in the database maintenance running time. I have an HP DL380 G3 with hyper-threading with 4 GB RAM Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2000 Standard, on local RAID-5. Version 7 of NPM had different maintenance code which took a little over 8 hours. With version 8, it now…

The reason I suggested monitoring an interface such as the loopback, is that every device typically has one. Monitoring whether a process is responding to SNMP only works for servers, and won't work for network devices.

I guess I should clarify myself. This isn't the typical "try this" troubleshooting. This is when they make up solutions . Once I had a duplicate NodeID error, so they had me change all my alerts to have the condition "field Node ID is equal to field Node ID". I have had so many incidents like that where they have me go do…

Yes, you could add multiple custom properties and then create a suppression for each one. Here is an old screen shot: So since the alert suppression is first in the list, non of the alerts following will be executed. If my e-mail alert was first, then it would be sent out. When the router listed in the custom property…

I created one that sent an e-mail if a condition was true, and repeated the alert every five minutes while it was still true. I also have the SolarWinds SysLog service monitoring the other Orion services, and the Advanced Alert engine is monitoring the Orion services including the SysLog service. If a service is stopped, I…

I have thousands of these alerts since I've upgraded to v8.5.1 SP1. I am hoping that Orion is "rerunning the transaction" or else data is not getting written to SQL. I also get hundreds of these Alerting Engine errors that tells me the alerting process has hung: Event Type: Error Event Source: AlertingEngine Event…

I ran the executable, but this is what I get: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SolarWinds AM to APM converter You have 18742 instance(s) of AM application(s) configured Should I delete all AM applications, statistics and alerts after conversion comp letes? (y/N)n…

You could run an SQL script to update your new custom properties. If you had to you could schedule using OSQL or SQLCMD. An SQL statement like this: update Nodes SET [OSOwnerEmail]='TwinCities_IT@fakecompany.com', [OSOwnerPager]='TwinCities_IT_Pager@fakecompany.com', [OSOwner]='TwinCities IT Support' FROM Nodes WHERE (…

It is located under System.

You can with the Custom Poller on v8. If you are interested, I will upload the ProLiant OID's for you.

Orion can't fully monitor AIX. You can't monitor process CPU, process memory, or the number of processes running.

Vic, would you please share an example of your code that uses the "NetPerfMon.CurrentAccount.AccountID" ?