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Beat me to it. Well done!

RichC: If you restrict an account to a set of nodes, it doesn't matter which view they use, they will ONLY see the list of nodes permitted. Even if they attempted to view another node by guessing the nodeID (ie: http://orionserver/Orion/NetPerfMon/NodeDetails.aspx?NetObject=N:123 where they don't have access to 123 due to…

Right, but you are missing my point. I have a large number of external users who log into SolarWinds. In order to avoid managing dozens of different accounts with various needs (some get NCM, some don't. Some have one toolbar, others have a different one, etc) I've created AD users instead, and added them to various AD…

As a long time (since 2003) hacker of the SW SQL database, my PSA on this is: If SolarWinds changes the table schema, your SQL job may be impacted. Doing this via the Orion SDK - and thus using SWQL (SolarWinds Query Language) means you are using the slightly-obfuscated views and object names rather than the specific…

Easy one: when the machine is retired/upgraded/changed and the IP is re-used immediately. A server becomes a switch; a windows machine becomes a linux box; a 2800 becomes a 6509, etc.

So what is that link at the top of the page talking about? It SEEMS like it is saying you can drop back to the managed nodes page, then select stuff, then pull that selection list back into the "assign template" page. For those who find this in years to come, my current work around is: * I have a custom property (if you've…

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I checked the commandline parameters and indeed, there isn't an option like "-h" (for human-readable). This sounds like a great feature request for aLTeReGo​, bshopp, et al to consider.

Any thoughts on how this would be done in Perl?

What this would do is - if you had 100 servers down - send 100 emails (one for every server) and then send another 100 again tomorrow (assuming they are all still down). I don't think you want this.

Just to be clear, Pingdom has been part of the SolarWinds family since June 2014. (Through the acquisition of Pingdom, SolarWinds adds Cloud-based website and application performance monitoring to its po… ) So when people come to the booth at conventions and ask me "Oh, is that a new merger?" my response is "Well, if you…

Hey, that's not ANOTHER thwack person, that's ME!! Seriously, thanks for quoting my stuff. - Leon

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So here is the interesting point about that graph (thank you for including it, by the way!) - SOMETHING is wrong with the connection between the SolarWinds server and the node. That's a lot of packet loss to be having, and if the SolarWinds server is having it, there's a chance that other machines are experiencing it too.…

bourlis​ and I were replying at the same time, but his answer was both concise and more correct than mine. Check out the other thread, open a ticket, and hang on for a fix.

<black magic voodoo> I was able to do this by creating a new website instance, and then copying the entire /inetpub/solarwinds directory into that new instance, and then modifying the elements I wanted to change for that new site. Every time you upgrade SolarWinds, you'll need to copy things over, re-modify, etc. As long…

Tell me a bit more about what you want to do. I use custom values all the time but it may depend on your specific use case.

nodes.captcha isn't a field. nodes.CAPTION (emphasis mine, keep it lower case in real life) should work. Also, single quotes, not double quotes. So: nodes.caption not like 'ServerNameHere' also, make sure the server name you list is the one that appears in SolarWinds.

Nice catch! Fixed in the OP

Thank you for the kind words. It uses the average of all CPU's.

As someone who has taken the beta version of the new certification test, I can promise you that it's head-and-shoulders above the old version. We're all very excited to see it roll out!

Nice word Wesley. Make sure you get that uploaded to the Content Exchange, and post a link to it here for future generations.

Yes, but to be clear - the difference in impact on the target is (generally speaking) negligible. If an SNMP request takes .001% of a machine's resources, and WMI takes .005% (I just made that value up, don't quote me on it) nobody is going to pitch a fit when you turn on WMI. And the value you get from WMI monitoring…

From what I've seen, WMI *does* pull interface stats. However, I have both NPM and SAM and it's possible some of what I'm seeing is coming from SAM rather than native NPM.

Precisely. We can't scan from the NPM box because it's on our side of the VPN. We need to put SOMETHING on the customer side, scan from there, and then pull the results through the VPN to our side and compare to the db. My first thought was a laptop running Engineer's Toolkit. But Sonar in that version can't be scheduled.…

The benefit of byrona's answer versus superfly99 is flexibility - each device can have a different email recipient (or multiple recipients) without requiring you to create and maintain a whole other alert. Of course you have to maintain the email recipient custom field, but once set you probably won't need to change it…

Great catch!

Specific to Jan's comments: * Definitely set up scheduled maintenance windows for groups/classes/whatever of servers as well as entire sites and the enterprise as a whole. And again - being able to PROGRAMATICALLY "mac" (move, add, change) those schedules is a big plus. * The self-service report schedules as mentioned…

Ah. I think your only way out of that conundrum is to come up with one all-encompassing device class code. serv_phys, serv_virt, Net_router, net_switch, net_wap, etc. Then your grouping will be on a single custom property.

Currently (and yes, I *AM* pushing for this king of thing internally. What, you think just cause I get an employee badge I'm going to stop being a huge nag about stuff??) for beefed-up SNMP support. Just to be clear - Kiwi will transparently forward Syslog, but not Traps. Traps either get converted to Syslog OR they are…