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SAM Orion requires a minimum version of .NET Framework 4.0. PowerShell 3.0 is fully supported by SAM. PowerShell 2.0 is just the minimum requirement for Remote PowerShell.

Can you post a screenshot of what this report looked like in SCOM?

Being alerted based on response time would be something you'd have to create an alert for in the Advanced Alert Manager If you'd like to monitor the transfer speed of your website I'd recommend using the Download Speed component monitor.

We're currently developing an official application template for monitoring Microsoft Clusters that will be posted to the Content Exchange Zone of Thwack. In the meantime you can be alerted to critical cluster events such as failovers using the template below.

The following KB article should walk you though the process of removing Hardware Health from this device. * SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: Disabling hardware health monitoring manually.

Have you applied the following Microsoft hotfix to your Orion server? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974893

Bulk enablement of the Windows Scheduled Task Monitor works in conjunction with Network Sonar Discovery for intelligent discovery and assignment as discussed in the following blog post. * Server & Application Monitor 6.1 - New Feature Overview and Beta Sign-Up

Orion High Availability can most definitely be controlled via PowerShell using the Orion SDK. Below is a link to some examples using the Orion SDK with PowerShell. OrionSDK/Samples/PowerShell at master · solarwinds/OrionSDK · GitHub

It sounds like your application's SNMP Daemon has taken over UDP port 161 from the SNMP Daemon included with the operating system. In this case, you need to move one of them to an alternative port. Next, I would add the 'node' using whatever port the SNMP daemon provided by the operating system is using. Then I would…

This condition can occur when the Application Status is polled before the node status, but should resolve itself after the next poll. E.G. 1. Node is polled as "Up" 2. Node fails 3. Application is polled as "Down" (in Orion Node is still up until next polling interval) 4. Node is polled as down 5. Application status is…

Can you post a screenshot of the template or describe what the component monitor types are used within the template?

What many of our customers do today is duplicate their alerts based on shift coverage and configure each of them so they only notify the proper person during that time. For example they may have two configured alerts for "Alert me when a node goes down". One that notifies bob only during west coast business hours, and…

I would recommend downloading and installing the Oracle Client from your SolarWinds Customer Portal and installing it on the Orion server.

Indeed there is. This is covered in the following KB article. * SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: How to create a non-administrator user for SAM polling.

The new Web Based Alert Manager included in SAM 6.2 is not a replacement for Alert Central. The Alert Manager in Orion was not designed to retrieve (POP3/IMAP/Exchange) or receive (SMTP) email messages from other monitoring solutions and then route them to individuals within the organization like Alert Central does.

This error is returned by the operating system. I would recommend restarting the Remote Registry service on the affected machine, as well as rebuilding the performance counters by running "lodctr /r" on the Exchange server to see if that resolves the issue. WMI Error Constants (Windows) 0x8007xxxx Errors originating in the…

PowerShell 2.0 is a requirement for the Log Parser to run. This requirement is the same for the APM server as it is for the hosts being monitored using this template. It's not possible to use LogParser script against a host running PowerShell 1.1.

The Citrix XenApp 6.0 templates included out-of-the-box with SAM are fully compatible with all XenApp 6.x versions.

I've had no troubles creating "local" accounts in addition to Active Directory accounts using Windows Integrated Authentication. As you probably already discovered, when creating the domain account linkage in Solarwinds you define the account as "domain\user". Defining a password actually isn't necessary. If you want to…

I have a pair of UTM 1070 appliances running in an HA cluster if that's at all helpful.

Is the node managed via SNMP? Can you click 'List Resources' from the 'Node Details' view and select items such as CPU & Memory? If so, you should also have another button in the same 'Management' resource on that page called the 'Real-Time Process Explorer'. You should be able to easily click the 'Start Monitoring' button…

Would that not be as simple as concatenating the string with the variable. Something akin to 'http://myservername.ext${RelatedNodeDetailsUrl}'. The macro will then be translated appropriately when the alert fires to give you something like 'http://myservername.ext/Orion/NetPerfMon/NodeDetails.aspx?NetObject=N:10'

What version of SAM are you running? There was a bug in SAM 6.0 that caused disabled jobs to retain their previous status indefinitely. This was fixed in the SAM 6.0.1 Service Release. SAM 6.1 is the most current version of SAM as of this posting. 

I need to setup a monitor somehow monitor that a server share is up and running. Is there a way to do that in Solarwinds? Not presently. You can monitor the Windows "Server" service, and you can even port monitor TCP 445 and 135, but at you can't monitor a share in using APM v1.0. I'm really hoping this feature makes it…

Not at this time. Currently the Orion server itself must be joined to the domain you wish to authenticate your users against. You can however vote for this idea at the link below or create your own.

I would recommend placing PowerShell modules in the "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules" directory, but really any directory the "SYSTEM" account has permissions to access should be sufficient.

This is because SAM's Blade Chassis support for Dell servers currently includes the M1000e only. If you you be willing to send us MIB walks from the Dell VRTX (as many as you have would be helpful) I log extending that support to the VRTX as a feature request.

This isn't currently possible in APM v2, but there's talk about this functionality being added at some point. See my thread located here.

I would suggest using SAM's PowerShell Script Monitor for monitoring the COM+ component.

Native SAML 2.0 support for Orion is included in the NPM 12.4 Release Candidate which can be downloaded from your Customer Portal now.