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Sorry, but I'm still confused about what you want. You want it to run "secureCRT" and do WHAT? SecureCRT is a GUI terminal program. You can't just have it fire up and sit there waiting for you to do something, because technically nobody is logged into the server.

Here's the short answer: * Create a new alert * select "Custom SQL" (at the bottom) from the type of property * Set Trigger Query drop down to "Polling Engines" * in the query box, add the following SQL where engines.interfaces > xyz where <xyz> is your threshold * Configure the rest of the alert as you see fit (reset,…

Until their monitoring solution is pummeled into the dirt by the metric butt-load of spurious syslogs. Then they're all "this software sucks!", right? If it's worth the thought exercise, on the polling engine open up the perfmon viewer and load "total packets" from the SolarWinds Syslog collection, and the similar counters…

We have also started seeing this issue, and I am going to log a ticket as soon as I complete this post. Our configuration is NPM 10.1.2 running on Windows 2008. We have a primary poller, additional poller and an additional web server all running behind a proxy server with SSL. If I point to the website running on the…

It's not that suppression doesn't work, it's that suppression works in a way that people don't expect. As I said in my reply, It suppresses your alert if ANY machine, ANYWHERE in your SolarWinds installation has parameters that fit that criteria. It is independant of the alert trigger. To put this in more concrete (if…

Thanks! I had put in the feature request back in 2010 - but after it was clear we weren't going to get it soon we coded around it, and the solution you see is what we came up with. Hopefully if enough people ask, they can bake it into the interface.

I'm sure there is a way to script it - the data is a simple field in the nodes table after all. So you can write a web front-end that changes that field at will. At Sentinel, we've created a system for our NOC staff to mute/unmute devices without needing to give them "manage nodes" permissions within SolarWinds. We've also…

Oops. I didn't realize it was YOU that posted the IPSLA question. I thought I was looking at the OP. In the immortal words of Ms. Emily Litella: "Never Mind"

Look through my "stop the madness" posts for a whole series of ideas that use custom properties.

Thanks for the quick reply! Any word on a timeframe? Dozens of my users (and one tired technician) are eager to know. Or should I just start hacking accounts now? Also, viol8tor mentioned "I've temporarily remedied my needs by inserting the required values into the appropriate SQL table. This allowed me to negate the…

Please don't ever call me that again.

that's awesome. Thanks for the tip!

bump!

that is a sweet and simple little bit of code. Thank you for sharing!

The alert action to "play a sound" DOES work - on the server. The polling engine. Which is probably in the data center. As a virtual machine. Without a sound driver. Yep, it's that dumb. (Hint: So is "text to speech" - it WILL read out the alert. On the polling engine. ) So unless you are standing near the server rack, you…

I spoke to the guys who are involved with 6.2. They say you are correct - the new agent architecture will mean that you can monitor "sensitive" systems such as DC's or outside-the-DMZ boxes without constantly hitting it with a service account. The agent will send the relevant data BACK to the SolarWinds infrastructure.

File that under "things I haven't been able to get to during my period of transition". Let me see if I can get an answer for you though while I come up to speed.

Honestly, except in smaller installations where the primary poller was the web server, I always constructed my URL variables in the alert messages anyway. ie: "http://MyHappyDNSName/Orion/blahblahblah/N:=${NodeID}" So in this case it would be…

One of the challenges we face is that - since we have a lot of applications where the vendor and/or developer has insisted on a hands-off approach from our DBA team, the policy is that nobody does anything with a database unless explicitly instructed to do so. Where can we get a list of these "non-Orion specific database…

Just to clarify - even though your PRODUCTION licenses are SLX, you can request a lab license that is SL100. According to the SolarWinds - Price List - North America , that would cost $2,675 to buy at list price (not considering the discount for lab licenses - which can be significant for larger customers like you) and…

Typically, everything that is fit to print is on the "What We're Working On Now" pages for each product (in the case of Patch Manager, it's here: What We're Working On - SolarWinds Patch Manager (Updated May 29, 2015) ). If (as is the case here) the page hasn't been updated, the comments will usually have some interesting…

My mistake - try it with "not all". Again, the issue is OUR understanding of what NONE and NOT ALL indicate.

I swear to Dog that default changes every other version.

I responded in private email, but the upshot is that SolarWinds wants to provide tools to help our customers be successful. That said, officially supported configurations often lag slightly behind what CAN be done, and sometimes behind what IS BEING done, until we have sufficient use cases to build troubleshooting…

I'm honored, even if I am not sure what I did to deserve such kudos at this time. I've been hovering between 5th and 6th for a while now. But I'll take any super secret achievement thrown my way, so thanks again!

Outstanding!

What platform are we talking about? Meanwhile, this post: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/163840#163840 Gives you an idea that reporting "Memory" can be highly subjective and even the built in OS-based tools often betray a bias of the coder more than an empirical representation of the system.

Building on this idea, but removing the need for SAM through the power of Linux and SNMP OID wizardry: On a spare Linux machine (can be a VM or whatever) create a script (shell, perl, whatever) that does the following: * Download internet file to /tmp while calculating the time taken in seconds. * Get file size * Divide…

I just want to +1 this. I cover some "tricks" (not really tricks, just best practices) for opening and managing your support tickets in this SolarWinds Lab episode: SolarWinds Support Spectacular! - SolarWinds Lab #36 - YouTube

HumanK: something like this: