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This can be done by placing each application or component monitor type into a group, then placing that group onto the map.

Thanks Markus. We're currently tracking this feature request internally as FB114182

AppInsight for IIS, which is part of the SAM 6.2 beta, includes native monitoring of server execution time and website response time.

This is not something that's currently possible today, but is actually something we're currently working on in the context of AppInsight for IIS.

Have you tried using the following template? Directory Existence.apm-template

Have you tried unmanaging any applications in either a "Down" or "Unknown" state that assigned to that polling engine? SAM has three different retry mechanisms for RPC, which can under some circumstances cause higher than expected CPU or Memory usage when a large number of applications are in a down or unknown state, as…

What version of SAM are you running, and how are the ESX host being polled by SAM? Are you polling them directly or through a vCenter?

This information is available via User Device Tracker.

vCenter and ESXi 5.0 update 1 are both supported by the products you have installed today. As for the minimum permissions needed for monitoring through the vCenter is the account will need full read access to all objects in the vCenter you want accessible through the Orion web console. No write access is required.

Generally users enter in a DNS name such as "www.solarwinds.com" in the "Name (IP Address) To Resolve" field. Then they either enter in an IP address/s in the "Expected DNS Query Results" field that the name should resolve to. Alternatively you can use the asterix "*" in the "Expected DNS Query Results" to signify that any…

Thanks for sharing ! You may want to consider posting this template to the Content Exchange here on Thwack for greater visability. It will also make it easier for users to download, as they can do so from within the product. This will translate into more Thwack points for you which can be redeamed for cool SWAG!

This would be a function of Network Performance Monitor (NPM), not Server & Application Monitor (SAM).

Can you provide any error message detail that might help explain why these components are down? During the evaluation did you work with a Sales Engineer to assist you with the installation and configuration?

Can I suggest using the following SNMP information? Monitor Name APC UPS :: Basic Output Status (On-line) SNMP Object Type upsBasicOutputStatus OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1.4.1.1.0 Returns The current state of the UPS: 1 = Unknown 2 = On Line 3 = On Battery 4 = On Smart Boost 5 = Timed Sleeping 6 = Software Bypass 7 = Off 8 =…

NET-SNMP has a hard limit of 128 characters supported in the hrSWRunParameters table. The parameters you reference above are only 79 characters so you should not have an issue using SAM's SNMP Process Monitor and using the Command Line Option filter to target specific individual processes.

Have you tried using AppInsight for SQL instead, or the SQL Server 2012 Performance (SQL) template instead? The issue you are likely encountering is that you have a named SQL instance which likely must be included in the configuration of each component in the template that is reporting "down". That is not the case with…

Is this true for all components within the template? If not, which one(s) are returning this error?

Here’s a great description from one of the community’s *BEST* authorities, Jonathan Kehayias, SQL Server MVP & MCM. If you ever get to hear him present, he is an outstanding wealth of knowledge and explains things very well. There is nothing inherently wrong with SQL Server’s total memory equaling the target memory thus…

Is your vCenter running on a physical machine? What is the vendor/make/model of the server if it is physical?

This usually means that the time is out of sync or timezones are different between the poller and the SQL database server.

Did you configure the script arguments properly after assigning the template to the node per the instructions? Note: You should set correct arguments in the following order: perl ${SCRIPT} IP_address,port where IP_address – IP address of target server with installed MTA. By default it uses value ${IP} which will…

Any word on a fix?

It's not possible to alert on all of these different entity types from within a single alert. I would suggest adding this user's email address to the out-of-the-box alerts for nodes, transactions, and applications. There's really only two each for applications and transactions by default.

I'm confused. Are you running SAM 5.0 or APM 4.2 SP1? The Orion server template has been updated in SAM 5.0 to account for recent service changes. Starting with Orion NPM 10.2 and later the Network Performance Monitor Service is no longer installed. If you're using an older version of this application template you can…

While the Windows Agent does not support JMX, you can configure that application to poll agentlessly simply by editing the assigned application, expanding the 'Advanced' section, and changing 'Prefered Polling Method' from 'Agent' to 'Agentless'.

Condition groups are used for and/or operations, where "All" is "and", and "Any" is "or".

Are these sites running on IIS? If so, are you using AppInsight for IIS? It sounds like the information you're looking for is located under each Site managed by AppInsight for IIS. You can check it out yourself at the link below.…

If the PowerShell script monitor is the item that is responsible for triggering the alert then yes, you can return the statistic value of the PowerShell Script Monitor "${StatisticData}", as well as the optional message value returned by the script "${ComponentMessage}".

Add the server to Orion as a managed node via SNMP or WMI and you will be prompted to select which volumes you wish to monitor on that node. You can then enable and customize the default out-of-the-box alert "Alert me when the free space of a volume is less than 5%"

If you're trying to monitor the SQL Server using the "SQL Server (via SNMP)" Application template included with APM you only need to ensure that you're managing the SQL Server via SNMP. I.E. that you added the SQL server node via SNMP and not ICMP. If you plan to use the "SQL Server 2005-2008 Performance (WMI)" Application…