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Create a group that contains the two parents. Make sure the group status reports "combined" status, not "worst" status (ie: if one is down and one is up, the group status is warning, not down.) Now make that group the parent of the children. You will only have dependencies activated if both of the parent devices are down.

Just for the record, I had this problem several months ago - none of the usual items worked - update schema (which doesn't really exist any more, now that the CPE utility is gone, but you can do it by manually copying a bunch of files); running alert manager as administrator, etc. Finally what cleared it up was re-running…

While it's a kludge, you CAN do this by * creating a customer field "client_IP" * including a custom HTML block on the node details page, which cobbles together each of the protocols or commands and inserts the ${nodes.client_IP} field where needed.

Cheers. That's what I needed exactly. Thank you so much!

I've asked directly and SolarWinds considers their table schema to be "intellectual property" and therefore won't publish it. Same with the OIDS they poll on a server for CPU, disk, etc. I've wanted to do it myself (document and publish the schema) for a while. Hopefully in the next few months I'll be able to pull it…

HEY!!! No beating me to the big reveal!!

jbiggley is a whiz at F5's - configuring *and* monitoring. Make sure he gets one of those slots!

this is one contest where I don't mind being surpassed at all. Keep being awesome, guys. We all win.

I'm sure aLTeReGo‌ and meech‌ would LOVE to hear what you have to say!

If you have ready any of my posts, you know I'm a custom property junky. I've got a node field called "Prod_State" that includes Prod (duh), Dev, QA, Test, etc. My groups use THAT field to determine what's in it (that way my lower level techs don't need muck around with groups. They can just change the custom property to…

Agreed. The only reason I label it a "myth" (besides it being an attention-grabbing title) is the almost slavish devotion to making EVERYTHING 5-9's reliable in an organization, from the servers to the internet connection to the coffee pot.

I guess the question there is how you measure reliability on an ongoing basis. Bonus points if you identify how you use SolarWinds tools to measure reliability. ;-)

This was a good point that I *didn't* get into here (but plan to in another post). Uptime of *what*, exactly? Yes, the server went down for 3 hours. It was one in a cluster of four. Shut up and let me get back to work.

Any discussion of this subject must include this post: if for no other reason than the title is awesome!

Thanks for the shout-out jamison.jennings‌. Another tip: Don't "force" the alert into a condition. Instead, set up your alert the way you want and then change the trigger in a way that keeps the alert logic in tact but will trigger naturally. In your case, you've got: when volume utilization > 90% change it to when machine…

OK, that's kind of sneaky. I like.

The environment *I* have going now belongs to jbiggley​ and his band of merry geeks (and has for over 4 years), so he can clarify what they're up to. But no, the upper limits (again people, it's all about the elements, not the servers!) has not significantly moved.

I don't want to be a naysayer (but.. you know I'm gonna). We're at 11 total servers right now: 1 poller 9 additional pollers 1 additional web server The pollers are split up: primary + 3 additional pollers plus database in datacenter 1 in EST timezone 1 additional poller in DMZ in EST timezone (still datacenter 1, but…

Still looking into it. I thought LastSync was different than LastPoll. Gotta test to validate.

He said 200 ports, not 200 switches. So that's 200/48 (or so), or about 210 elements total.

Apparently lots of other people are going that way too. Their free accounts are suspended and you can only get it for $24/year.

THAT'S the best feedback I could possibly hope for - that this someone helped or just inspired folks to make something you have and use even better.

Consider this a "me too" vote for XML. 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

A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Seriously, haven't dug into the UCS side of the house in a looooong time. Maybe cobrien​ has some insight.

Remember, this is a YES/NO field type. Not text. So it can only be checked or unchecked. Since checkboxes default to blank (ie: "no") then stating "where n_mute is NOT yes" means you DO get the alert. Only if someone explicitly sets the checkbox is muting turned on. If the "if n_mute is NOT yes" is too convoluted, then…

Sounds like you will soon be learning about SQL alerts, instead of using the query builder. Ditto reports. ;-) Honestly, your report requirement is the easiest - again, by using a SQL report, it would look something like this (I'm creating this off the top of my head with no testing. Caveate executor! select nodes.nodeid,…

I've been following this "thread" (ie: Microsoft's move to embrace Linux and Linux-like concepts) with increasing interest over the last few months. While I'm not an MVP myself and therefore not privy to the pre-release code, I've leveraged every resource to find out what I can about it. And I have to say that has only…

Have to disagree. ITNM is IBM's "OpenView killer/competitor", but ITM (formerly Tivoli Framework, with sub-modules for Distributed Monitoring as well as software distribution, inventory and more) are very much agent-based server monitoring tools that collect performance and capacity metrics. And even ITNM (for network…

Sit tight. I know that DanielleH​ is on it. It just takes time.

While I'm not connected to SolarWinds, and I've had my fair share of bad tech support calls, rarely was the case that the result was "utterly useless". Did you try talking to your sales contact? I find that they usually can put pressure on the support team.