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I think we're mixing terms here. SAM includes a Threshold Baseline Calculator which aids in recommending warning and critical thresholds based on historical static collection. What the image you posted above appears to be coming from BMC, and is not a baseline in the true meaning of the word. It is instead a 95th…

My recommendation would be to simplify the alert down to it's most basic/minimum required conditions. For example, based on the other conditions the vendor type will always be "Windows" so there's no need to specifically state it as part of the rule. Also, if the status is "Unreachable" you will receive alerts for this…

To my knowledge, there the only way to remove a NetPath probe is to delete the agent itself. If you were using that Agent for other monitoring, that's really not an ideal solution. There may be a way of removing this capability in the database that I'm not aware of. cobrien is the resident expert for all things NetPath. He…

In APM 4.2 we added the ability to return a string value in addition to the numerical statistic for the database user experience monitors. This string value is shown in the "Messages" field of the component monitor. There's an example of this in the "SQL Server 2005-2008 Performance (SQL)" application template for the…

SAM includes a pre-configured out-of-the-box alert called "Alert me when any hardware component goes into a warning or critical state". It's accessible through the Advanced Alert Manager and should already be enabled. The only thing you need to do is enter your email address and IP Address of your SMTP server for the alert…

Based on the error it sounds like the Dell OpenManage agent hasn't been installed, or is possibly out-of-date. I would recommend updating to the latest version of the Dell OpenManage client to see if that resolves the issue.

You can simply edit the existing report, or create a new web based report and add the "Top XX Volumes by Disk Space" resource.

In most cases the issue is that there are no available DHCP leases on the subnet where the Orion Server resides. If the Orion Server and the DHCP server reside on different subnets then ensure you also have a DHCP helper properly configured on your routers so the DHCP request can make it past layer 3 boundaries.

This is a pretty tall order, and not something I believe is possible with Windows itself. You could use something like TCP Logger or CurrPorts to log these events to a file. For example with CurrPorts you can use the filter "include:local:tcp:9090" to log all attempts to access TCP Port 9090 on the server. You can then…

Considering Orion is licensed per element, or per-interface in this instance, you'd think it would be in their best interest to satisfy this feature request.

Are you saying this worked in SAM 6.2 but does not in 6.2.1, or did you upgrade directly from SAM 6.1.x to 6.2.1? I'm just curious. Either way I would recommend opening a case with support so we can figure out what's going on.

From within Network Atlas open the map in question, right click on the map and select "Map Properties" and check "Remove nodes that user do not have permission to view" under "Override Account Limitation for this map".

Sounds like poisoned ARP cache on your router or switch. It could also be sticky ARP. Anyway I'm glad you got your issue resolved.quote:Originally posted by nwood Busy, bizzare, bizzaro. Issue resolved. It was the only switch we couldn't get ping replies from (thus the Node Down status), although we could ping the Orion…

I believe node up/down status is based upon ICMP "ping" tests. Interfaces status is based on SNMP queries. It sounds like you have a device that is responding to SNMP but is not responding to ICMP. Is this device a firewall, or is it behind a firewall/router that does not allow ping echo request/reply?

This has come up once before. We're tracking this internally as FB82859. If anyone else requires this functionality in SeUM please post below and explain your use case so we can better understand how customer plan to use it. 

Without delving too deeply here on Thwack, on the surface at least this sounds like you may have stumbled upon a previously undiscovered bug. I would recommend opening a case with support so we can look through your diagnostics.

Connect the light strip to a smart outlet like WeMo, then use the Alert Managers's HTTP/HTTPS POST method to send a WebHooks request to IFTTT to turn on the switch. It's actually pretty easy. I use to have Orion start my Roomba whenever I left the house.

Are these files moved out of this directory on a regular basis? The File Count monitor can tell you how many files you have in a given directory and includes extension filtering, but if the number of these files increments regularly this wouldn't solve your problem.

If the application was in an 'unknown' state, this means that for whatever reason the application could not be polled successfully. That does not necessarily mean the application was down. Rather this could mean the polling job timed out due to any number of reasons. The only place to find out why from a historical…

We included native out-of-the-box support for monitoring the hardware health of IBM's MegaRAID controllers, and the storage devices attached to them in the latest SAM 5.2 beta. If you're an existing APM/SAM customer under active maintenance you can sign-up here to participate in the beta. We'd love to get your feedback on…

The only proper and officially supported method for creating or modifying the Agent transform is by selecting the appropriate options from "Download Agent Software" within the Orion web interface located under [Settings -> Agent Settings -> Download Agent Software]. Any setting configured here will create a dynamically…

As you stated, this could in theory be done using Directory Size Monitors, but that's likely far from ideal. Beyond that however SAM has no AppInsight for Exchange analog for FSRM at this time, though that would make a good feature request.

The ${IP} macro always returns the "polling" IP address of the node. E.G. the IP address Orion is using to manage/poll the device. 

This value is returned in seconds.

Can you provide the following information so we can assist? * Server make, model and manufacturer. * Server operating system * How the node is managed in Orion (SNMP/WMI/VMware) * Server vendor supplied hardware monitoring agent version number (OpenManage/HP SIM/IBM Director)

You might want to take a look at Web Performance Monitor. I did a blog post (below) a few months ago which discussed this very topic

Is it possible that a new version of .NET was installed and that caused the configuration to revert?

Has anyone developed a template to monitor Window Services such as CPU, memory, etc. The manual describes doing this but I haven't been able to find the magic piece to make this happen. Can you please provide a better example of what you're trying to accomplish? APM monitors applications, via ports, processes and services.…

You might want to checkout this thread http://www4.solarwinds.net/SolarWindsForum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2628

Monitoring Event Logs in SAM is a fairly straightforward process. You'll want to create a new application template with a Windows Event Log Monitor configured similarly to the image below. Then apply this application template to your SQL servers you'd like monitored. Similar to SCOM, SAM when this entry is found in the…