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More clarification: Does the threshold change per box, or per group? Meaning: Per box: ServerA alert threshold is 95% ServerB alert threshold is 90% Server C alert threshold is 80% Per group ServerA alert threshold is 95% for the server team ServerA alert threshold is 90% for the Sharepoint team ServerA alert threshold is…

Changing the machine type by using a custom SNMP OID is different than getting asset information (your original question). Related to this item (custom OID), please verify that you have the following: * a script on the target machine (not the poller) that outputs the correct text - whatever you want the machine type to be.…

Interestingly enough, I hacked at it and got it working, but my code looks like this: $swis->Update('swis://TheOrionServerGoesHere/Orion/Orion.Nodes/NodeID=NodeIDGoesHere', {'MyCustomProperty'=>'NewValueGoesHere'}); I tried it with the addition of "/CustomProperties" and that worked also. SO:…

Yep

from the Alert Editor, Trigger Condition tab, "Type of Property to Monitor" drop-down: For alerts on UnDB (custom oil pollers) you would use either a "Custom Node Poller" (for UnDP that collects a "get" or "get next" value) or Custom Node Table Poller (for UnDP that does a "get table" operation). If your UnDP is…

Reach out to jbiggley and see if he will do a reference call for you and your management team. (Josh: make sure you ask for Thwack points for that!) While you can certainly do a virtual SQL server, it's going to cave under the pressure at some point. And unfortunately the failure will not be "oh look the server crashed".…

Well, the dependency would be "if surface($mydesk) !contain $beer { function bringbeer($me) }. Jeeze, you gotta spell it out for some people.

Honestly it's not that bad. The upgrade to SAM 5.5 (including a MIB file update) took about 3 hours including validation and babysitting.

Thanks for coming to my defense!

Collecting the 5-minute-average every minute would be aggressive and probably not as helpful as you might like. Yes, the 5 minute average will change (since it's a rolling 5 minutes - actually, it's the average of the 1-minute load average stat), but not a ton (unless you see a huge spike in load in the last minute).…

You know we're gonna miss you, dude.

I am not sure how I misread that (three times!). Either I need MORE coffee, or I need to cut down so my eyeballs stop vibrating in their sockets. Good catch.

Just adding my voice to the "who needs XML" discussion. We're being asked to monitor WAAS devices and much of what we need to pull for the customer is in XML rather than SNMP: www.cisco.com/.../MG_XML_API.html

Well sure. I mean, certain systems are worth ANY expense!

Nope, aLTeReGo 's template is the one you want. There's a commandline switch to tell it to scan only new lines, so that's the one you need.

So off the top of my head, you'd have a template that you would apply to each member of the cluster, that had two components: 1) the service monitor (to give you up/down and stats like CPU, RAM, etc) for historical tracking 2) a script component that runs the command you want and returns the status of each member (primary…

Sorry for the long delay in replying. Based on this (and without getting my hands onto your system directly) I'd say that a ticket with SolarWinds tech support is the only way to go. Which I know you've already started, so good luck! - Leon

Setting the pollers to UTC will make all your data show in UTC. Note that NOWHERE in the graph will it specify what time zone the data is showing for. All your web portal users will simply have to "know". ALSO note that the database must be set to the SAME time zone as everything else.

We're up to 17 pollers: 1 primary 13 in our core 2 in our DMZ 1 in a remote site (With one more coming online soon). The pollers are doing fine - and to clarify Jason.Henson's statement, it's 10,000 elements, not 1,000 elements. And I'm not sure where the "per minute" thing came in. HOWEVER... I will say that any large…

The problem with alert suppression is that it's NOT specific to a particular node. If any node anywhere has maintenance set to yes, then the alert in question is suppressed. Where alert suppression works (and it's a really REALLY limited case) is if one of your key systems (like the core switch or something) is down, you…

It's a common mistake if you are new to SQL. You are referencing items in teh interfaces table, but you haven't told the SQL how to "get" there (ie: how to link your interface info to your node info. Try this (again, I haven't tested this *at all*) Select Nodes.NodeID AS NetObjectID, Nodes.Caption AS Name FROM Nodes join…

Netlogix: Absolutely right. What's slowing me down is the actual user interface and the back-end data to keep track of the on/off. It's not HARD, but I just don't feel like writing the web-based calendar applet, then the shim to write the nodeID, mute-on, mute-off data to the db, and the OTHER interface to list out the…

Also, did you see my long-winded reply on the other post of the same topic?

Freemen: Yes, BUT... You might conceivably mute a note during a maintenence window; when the node is just coming online but in pilot mode; when it's having an intermittent long-term problem that is already being looked into; etc. Otherwise, if the node was just down-down and it was going to stay down, no sense in muting.

LIke x 10,000

I would actually say that the way around this is to use the web-based "Manage pollers" option in NPM 11+ and replace the existing values with your choice. That way you are (more or less) replacing like-for-like in terms of polling, and it's handled differently by the engine. You also avoid double-collecting for CPU, RAM,…

I have to tell y'all, seeing aLTeReGo​ say "Adatole is correct..." still gives me chills. This job never gets old.

Good catch. I used the products in combination so often, sometimes the lines blur. Thanks for keeping me honest!

Here's a side-by-side comparison of the "cost" (meaning: the impact on target or polling engine) for ICMP, SNMP and WMI: As for what you gain/lose, I haven't seen anything comprehensive.

Short answer - yes, you need two NIC's. These days people use a laptop with the span port using the wired connection and the "regular" network running over wireless. But either way, yes. You can't capture traffic AND communicate on the same switch port.