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100 Monitors cost $5000.00, but that also includes your first year of maintenance & support. What I find upsetting is that your license type needs to match your Orion installation. So for if you have an SL500 Orion license, then you need to purchase the 500 monitor APM license at a cost of $12,000.00, even if your just…

The "Not Defined" error appears when WinRM has not been properly configured or the credentials supplied for WSMAN are incorrect. You can validate this by going to the command line of the Orion Server and testing the WinRM connection to the remote host. You should see something very similar to the following.

Without trying it myself I can't say with any degree of certainty, but it sounds good in theory. In this case the component monitor would essentially only show as status of "down" where there was no response from the server. If that's the desired result then you should be good. 

There is no hard limit on the number of groups you can create, but you may encounter a practical limit. Group complexity plays a large role in how those groups are updated, how their status is reflected, and how their historical availability is calculated. Complexity is determined by the number of entities contained within…

Yes, this process configures the Agent, based upon the parameters specified in the driver.ini file.

Jiri is correct. It sounds like you performed the recording from your workstation where you have pass-through authentication enabled. What we believe occurred is during the recording your workstation credentials were automatically passed through to the web server and not captured by the SeUM Recorder. The easiest way to…

Also how are you enabling the monitoring of these SQL instances. You should be using "List Resources" or Network Sonar Discovery, not manually assigning AppInsight application to nodes.

If you're currently evaluating the product you can obtain assistance with configuring these alerts from any of our Sales Engineers by contacting sales@solarwinds.com. You will also find in product training videos located under the "Home" tab in the Orion web console. Below is a link to a Advanced Alert Manager video you…

As always, slaj is correct. This error means that the value collected is likely the same with each poll, therefore it is not mathematically possible to calculate a standard deviation.

There is a built-in 30 day evaluation for scalability engines which can only be used once. This evaluation license allows you to run an unlimited number of Additional Polling Engines, Additional Web Servers, or HA Backups during your 30 day evaluation, and is activated automatically when you install any scalability engine…

RADIUS, TACACS+, LDAP, and Active Directory are all good suggestions for authentication options in Orion.

I really don't understand what all the uproar is all about. I don't remember anyone clamoring for justification when Solarwinds required moving to .NET Framework 3.5. Honestly I think most DBAs are afraid of things they don't know or simply don't understand. As CLR (which is a fantastic technology) becomes more commonly…

 sweet... how can I get a black password? mspaint.exe

When the MAPI User Experience monitor is functioning properly, there should be no email left in the mailbox. The component deletes the email after it's been validated. 

I agree that unmanaging is probably the best/proper way, but what kind of alerts do you have setup? Are you using Basic or Advanced Alerts? If you're using Advanced Alerts the simplest/easiest way would be to stop/disable the Advanced Alert Manager service during this time if you didn't want to receive ANY alerts from SAM.

The "View" which is referenced in the Error you were receiving was the "Custom Application Details View". When/if you encounter this issue again, I would recommend changing this to "No, use Default Application Details View". This should prevent the view name conflict error that you were encountering.

Each application template applied to a node operates independently from the other. In your example above you would receive an alert for one once the 80% threshold was exceeded, and another when the 90% threshold was exceeded. As for template philosophy I generally like to maintain a single template for the application that…

This can be accomplished by running the Network Sonar Discovery Wizard against those nodes. Even if you don't import any additional interfaces/volumes/etc discovered,so long as you select the nodes themselves that already exist and finish/complete the wizard flow Hardware Health and Asset Inventory will be enabled for…

If you have no interest of desire in ever managing those VMs within Orion then I would recommend filtering them out completely from monitoring. This can be done by creating a user account in vCenter for monitoring that does not have access to the VMs you don't wish to monitor. When you use that account in Orion to monitor…

I think it's a little early to begin speculating. I have not yet read anything which suggests that SQL on Linux will offer feature parity with Windows, which means it's unclear if the necessary functionality required to run Orion on SQL will be supported on Linux in the first release. Also aside from cost, It's not clear…

Sorry, but the title stated "SAM", so I assumed you were referring to applications. For network devices I would recommend using either the Node or Group Availability reports in the Report Writer. The node availability report can be customized to include specific nodes, and the group report can be filtered to a specific…

Adding ICMP information to the Application Details view is relatively easy to do. Simply click the "Customize Page" on the "Application Details" view and add the "Min/Max/Average Response Time - Today" and "Network Latency and Packet Loss - Today" to the view, as pictured below.

Jiri is correct as always but this KB article should help explain the issue as well as provide options for recording transactions that utilize Windows Integrated or Pass-Through authentication. SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: Windows Authentication problems when playing back a recording

How are these nodes managed in Orion? SNMP or WMI?

We're currently developing a service release for SAM 5.0 that should address this issue. I would recommend opening a case with support to gain early availability to this service release so you can test it out in your environment and ensure it resolves the issue.

Viewing and alerting on the top 10 processes was a feature included in SAM 5.0 through the Real-Time Process Explorer. You can learn more about this feature in the blog posts and video below. This is Ground Control to Sergeant SAM Real-Time Process Explorer - YouTube

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The simplest solution would be to create an alert for WMI nodes that notifies you when a volume is in an unknown state for longer than "x" amount of time. Node status is determined by ICMP, no differently than SNMP managed nodes so I'm not sure how the problem you describe is unique for WMI managed nodes? These forums have…

As Leon Adato's very in-depth analysis confirms, there is very little difference between SNMP and WMI as it relates to the monitored servers. I would argue that the difference is so insignificant as to not be measurable. The Orion server however does undergo some additional load, though certainly not enough enough to…

AppInsight for IIS, which is part of the SAM 6.2 beta, includes native Application Pool monitoring.