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This has been eating at me, and I asked around. Hat tip to Jason Ferree for the insight.. IF you are logged into the SolarWinds support portal FIRST, then the upgrade advisor has links. If you aren't logged in, then it just gives you the list of upgrades with no links.

You know, I *THOUGHT* there were links the last time I looked, but there's nothing there now. I could have hallucinated it. So for now, we'll chalk it up to bad cold meds. Sorry about that.

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I'm sure you can! Just use SQL management studio or another SQL tool to look at the Engines table and see which fields tickle your fancy. Yes, I'm not giving you a direct answer - I'm offering you a chance to explore and grow, now that I've giving you a point in the right direction.

So it is (or isn't, in this case). Nice catch. I hadn't even noticed it!

I've long since left Sentinel, so I can't show you any screen shots of that. But I can describe it. Basically, we (and by "we" I mean "not me") wrote a .Net application that connected to the SolarWinds database and had a few small search options (node name, IP range, etc) and displayed a checkbox for "mute" so that…

Just a reminder (to you and everyone else) that WE (as customers) also have a stake in managing support calls. My experience in 10 years of being a Solarwinds customer has been that I get good support response if: * I'm always respectful. Always. It doesn't matter how down my environment is, how much abuse my boss is…

Yep, we got it working and - while it required us to modify the login page to let users know where to click to change their password - it was sufficient to our needs.

Pick "Floating Point" number and see how that works.

I'm working with Josh (a001615) and I think the point he (and I) are trying to get to is understanding the more than just the usage flow. For example: If I'm running the query "Select nodes.nodeid, nodes.caption, nodes.ip_address from nodes" and I get a particular resultset back, how do I iterate over each record and parse…

You have no idea. Check it out:

One possible hangup is the custom property itself. You have to make sure it's numeric. Otherwise the > comparison doesn't make sense.

I just want to confirm that you start out with a NODE alert in your trigger (Custom SQL Query in the first dropdown, Node in the second). Also, that your component monitor has been deployed, and it's collecting data, and that it's called (case sensitive here "Win_Processor_Queue_Len" Finally, how are you getting your test…

In response to your desire to monitor custom applications (which is now a THIRD item, also different from the original post), you can *kind of* do it with SNMP, but honestly you are talking about monitoring with SAM. So I want to verify that you have both NPM and SAM modules before we fight this new issue.

So I think (I *think*) the disconnect is that you won't have a "Linux" grouping. What the custom poller does is exchange one SNMP OId for another, existing one. In this case, you want to swap out "machine type". So instead of collecting whatever SolarWinds normally looks at, it will substitute your custom OID on machines…

You mean the raging nuclear-level firestorm around "what the H-3-1-1 did you do to the custom property editor?!?!" isn't explanation enough? Sure the web based utility was nice, but I'm willing to bet that someone at SolarWinds is still getting skin grafts in the ICU burn unit and figured "if it ain't perfect, it can wait".

Depending on what kind of alert this is (node versus UnDP) you may have to give the "fully qualified" field name - ie: ${node.DNS} or even ${nodes.DNS} instead of just ${DNS}. I'm not near a SW installation right now to check the exact field name, but I think that's your issue.

AMAZING CATCH.

One of my favorite webcomics is (was) Pants Are Over-rated. Mostly because of their Calvin and Hobbes tribute. But also because... well, because they are (over-rated)

Ah yes. Little Johnny Tables. I love that one.

With that said, there are a few ways to quickly update the MUTE (or if you want to call it "Maint") field (updating properties from ManageNodes, using a direct DB query, using the Orion SDK, etc) whether you want to do it for one node or many. But the key is to get the logic into the alert trigger.

Yes, you are right, it WOULD make no sense if you had a reboot on switch one and it used the "maint" field setting from switch 2. but it does. Honest. See this comment from netlogix (he makes it often in various posts) from this thread: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/210026#210026 "The suppression tab is for global…

With the gallant assistance of SolarWinds tech support, I've stumbled upon a work-around as long as: 1) You are OK using the built-in NCM roles (webviewer, engineer, etc) rather than individual accounts 2) you are comfortable playing with the database itself. This completely fixes the hassles described above, as well as…

This is A LOT of modules. You may need to bump up RAM. You DEFINITELY need to bump up the CPU count on your primary poller.

Sorry for the delay in replying. The short answer is "no". Solarwinds rights as assigned to AD groups are mutually exclusive, not additive or (subtractive - whatever the real word is). ie: the rights from groupA and groupB don't "combine" in some alchemical way to provide a new set of permissions that merge the two.

It has almost certainly changed since 2014 when this post was first written. You've stumbled upon the #1 reason to transition from SQL to SWQL and the Orion API. While table and field names will undoubtedly change as SolarWinds adds new features and functions, SWQL will change very little. And the new web-based alerting…

I had it set up and working for both Windows and Linux machines at my last job Joshua Biggley is manning the fort there now so he can verify. It's true that sometimes the alerts don't populate (it just depends on HOW busy the server is) but most of the time it worked as advertised - enough that we were able to take a…

I voted your suggestion up, however I would also like to point out that you may be in the realm where a custom database trigger would be better. You *can* manually edit the database value (nodes, interfaces, volumes) table. If you use your custom property as the key, it would be fairly simple to set a trigger to update the…

I can't speak to this particular issue, but since I recently went through the fight of getting Perl to talk to Orion, you may be able to derive some REST/JSON techniques from here: TC18: Customize Polling Intervals With the Orion SDK

OK, I finally hunted this one down. I don't do much with topology reports so that's why the report didn't look familiar. For those coming here later, the report in question is (in a default 10.3 installation) under the "Topology Reports" group, named "Discovered Links". With that said, the reason you can only see "up"…