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ActiveSync isn't anything magical. It's essentially an HTTP/HTTPS GET. You could use fiddler to dissect the communication of the tests. Even a basic packet capture like WireShark would give you the information you're looking for. From there you could create HTTP component monitors in APM that monitor the appropriate URLs…

The Message Field is optional depending how the query was written for each ODBC monitor. Normally this field is used to add additional information that's not numeric like table name, or database name as it relates to the component statistic being collected. If the component isn't designed to utilize this field then it's…

Bytes/GB are units of measurement. Custom property types listed above determine how the value will be treated. Since the value being returned in your example will be a number, I recommend using the "Integer Number" property type.

You will need to create a separate view for each page you'd like customized. To create a new summary view go to [Settings -> Add New View]. Name the view, select "Summary", and click "Submit". You can then add any resources you'd like to see on this page. If you already have a view you'd like base your new view off of you…

Have you tried using the "Get Next" method introduced in SAM 5.2?

I'm not having any difficulty downloading templates from Thwack through SAM. Can you try again to see if the issue persists?

Thanks PeterLyttle. I've logged this as a feature request and are tracking it internally as FB108221.

SAM 6.3 Beta 2 is now available which includes a Linux Agent for Node, Volume, Interface, and Application monitoring. This agent should address many of the shortcomings associated with monitoring Linux host via SNMP, up to and including properly calculating volume usage statistics referenced in this thread. If you already…

Excellent advice cnealwilliams! Excellent advice indeed.

This is not available as an out-of-the-box, and is not a column which can be selected via the report writer. This information is however stored in the database which can be queried via custom SQL or SWQL. If you need assistance I recommend posting this question in the Report Lab where many of the Thwack report gurus…

Have you tried using the Agent to avoid the double hop issue?

Provided your Hyper-V hosts have more than one IP address you could add one as a node managed via WMI and the other via SNMP.

The Additional Web Server is a separate licensable component of Orion. The Web interface on the primary Orion server cannot be removed.

Did you try clicking the 'Force Refresh' button?

When you go into the application what does the message say when you mouse over "More Information"? Below is an example.

The average in the Windows Performance Counter is calculated data and not stored in WMI or as a Windows Performance Counter object. SAM also calculates this average as depicted in by the blue line in the chart below.

You cannot add columns to the Active Alerts view but the new Active Alerts view included in SAM 6.2 includes the associated objects Node Name by default as shown below.

Legend location for the PerfStack widget is fixed. There are some individual resources which are powered by PerfStack which use a different legend orientation, located on the bottom of the resource. those are unique to those specific widget/resources.

This is an age old question that has no simple answer. RPC is more resource intensive (CPU/Bandwidth/etc.), but can under certain circumstances be faster than WMI. The reverse can also be true under certain circumstances. WMI is light weight in comparison to RPC, but has limits on the number of simultaneous queries and…

From the looks of your script it appears the problem is with how the result conditions are being returned. You are correct that a success needs to return with an error level of zero "0" and that a failure returns an error level of one "1" but the format of your errors is incorrect. If you want to return the error message…

This is really a personal choice, and I'm sure others will chime in offer up suggestions for what works best for them. I for one like to manage and maintain the fewest possible alerts. One trick is to chain alert triggers by chaining conditions together. This works well if the same action is required. Another option to…

Which components specifically within those resources are returning an "Unknown" status? Are there any visible errors you can see? Also, could you provide a screenshot of what you are seeing?

I'm not entirely sure what problem you are trying to solve, but unfortunately I can't think of any easy way to for you to report on database space/size used by individual component monitor or assigned application. This is especially difficult as not all component monitors are created equal, since some component monitors…

"Status" should be "Node Status". See the following screenshot

Enable SNMP on the Linux host, then add the node to SAM as an SNMP managed node. When going through the add node process you will be prompted to select which resources you'd like to monitor on the host. Select the volumes, CPU & Memory and complete any remaining steps in the wizard and you should be done.

SAM does not support wildcards or "<All Instances>" for Windows Performance Counter instances. These are actually a special functions only supported by Perfmon.exe, as discussed in this thread. If you need to monitor multiple instances, it's recommended to use either "_Total" or add each instance individually.

I have a very similar configuration to yours and my database is around 100GB with one week of netflow data being stored in the database. I'm not using a separate SQL server for Orion, but instead I'm using a shared SQL server that is dedicated to doing nothing but SQL. In other words my pollers etc are on a different box…

The JMX Bridge is only used if you are monitoring Java Application Servers such as WebSphere, WebLogic, and Apache Tomcat via JMX. If you're not using JMX then this service being stopped should have no effect on polling. However, this service should not be stopping on its own. I recommend looking through the Windows Event…

The only macro available for multiple-statistic script monitors is the ${MultiValueMessages}, which returns all messages from the script monitor. If you want to limit the message text included in the alert notification action you will need to break out the script so that it returns only a single message per-script monitor.…

Volume status = "Unknown" is a good one