adatole ✭✭✭✭✭

Are you connecting to the node as SNMP or WMI. One of the problems is that NPM/SAM still "prefers" SNMP in that if you scan your network with both sets of credentials and BOTH will work for a device, SNMP is used (and thus, mount points are not picked up). You need to convert those nodes to WMI (edit properties, change teh…

I'd be interested to know this as well. It's a problem we have in our environment, and I haven't found a work around yet.

Ha! OK, I'm 100% cool with that.

I'm really glad it helped. Let me know if you think I should have included any other topics, or how it specifically got you moving in the right direction.

Sorry for the late replay, but of course! We're also working on turning this into an ebook.

<blushing> Thanks guys!

With NPM you can monitor node availability (ie: ping), as well as interface and disk up/down, RAM utilization, CPU utilization, bandwidth utilization, disk space availability (fixed, NFS, etc), disk IO (depending on the disk and the polling method) and even physical chassis elements like fan, temperature, RAM module, and…

We have two lab episodes on component monitors: SAM TEMPLATE SHOWDOWN SAM Template Rematch Plus a Lab Bits on it: SolarWinds Lab Bits: Configuring the HTTP Form Component in SAM - YouTube SolarWinds Lab Bits: Configuring the HTTPS Component in SAM - YouTube SolarWinds Lab Bits: Configuring the SAM Web Link Component -…

Because that is actually set when the SNMP service restarts not when the device has restarted.

This report will give you a view of how your poller is doing: It should also give you a lead on which values you can monitor to trigger on whether the poller is REALLY polling, or if it's in a "lights are on, nobody's home" situation.

They have to be installed on the same system. I'm glad you are enjoying playing around with this feature set!

ENTIRELY our pleasure. Look for more of these in 2016!

Honestly, it is our pleasure. If you are still in a giving mood (as in "giving books to coworkers to make everyone more awesome!") you should also check out these 100% free ebooks: "Automation, Not Art" - eBook Resources – SolarWinds Network Monitoring for Dummies - Network Monitoring for Dummies Systems Monitoring for…

While it depends on the modules you have (NPM, SAM, etc) some options off the top of my head: * (NPM) Add the Linux "prCount" OID (.1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.2.1.5) in a universal device poller OID repository - 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.2.1.5 = {iso(1) identified-organization(3) dod(6) internet(1) private(4) enterprise(1)… * (NPM) Create a…

It's possible, but it's very tricky and most people just throw their hands up and go with domain admin. That said, one of my previous jobs had a fanatically scrupulous AD admin, and he helped me figure out the exact rights the domain account would need in order to collect WMI information from a DC. I can try to dredge up…

I would also question whether you want to unmanage the nodes, or simply turn off alerting. If it's the alerting you want to suspend and not the node monitoring, you can also do that by creating a "choke point" on the alerts. For example, if your alerts are sent via email, disable the email account.

I would do this with a database trigger. Using the "mute" concept outlined here: , I would run a query every night checking the alert trigger status, and if it's > 90 days I would update v_mute to true, and the reason to "device over threshold for over 90 days"

If you can hold off until the first week of March, I have a series of 4 deep-dive how-to posts to do this, plus make the node name click-able, plus add an "acknowledge" link as well. But the (very) answer is - I've posted an example to the NPM product forum content exchange. Use that as your starting point and you should…

Nice work, and even better that you documented with pictures for future generations.

Step 1: Get more space. You are going to need A LOT more than 5Gb, no matter what you are doing. For goodness sake, your operating system needs at least 40Gb. Show a little love and give the little bugger at least 100Gb. Disk is sooo cheap these days. That said, you can: * Go into Settings, Polling Settings, and change the…

I'm with bluefunelemental - do it through the ManageNodes page. While I like to think of myself as a SQL jocky too, the truth is that using the Solarwinds tools may be slightly slower, but there are a TON of safeguards build into the web interface to keep you from the OhNoSecond (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ohnosecond).

I have used the additional poller in my last two jobs for the following reasons: * To be able to make the SolarWinds "portal" to external users without exposing an actual poller to the DMZ* This also includes making any web-centric tasks (restarting the web server, updating certificates, etc) less of an impact on the…

I'll second aLTeReGo's comment and add that the user credentials ESPECIALLY I would not change, since that's part of a more "vertical" table structure. Plus, if you want to update a user credential, you should use the page under "Settings" because then you change it ONCE and it updates for all 700 nodes. IF I'm…

We did this by adding a custom interface property. In various installations that can be as simple as a Yes/No field called "alertifdown". Then your alert trigger would add another simple condition if "alertifdown" is equal to "yes". We also added the exact opposite for our cellular backup circuits (alertifup). That way we…

Let me know where to send names of my team who worked on the beta and RC testing, for thwack point purposes.

Just starting with the obvious thing first: have you tried removing and re-adding the element? Second item: have you run "Rediscover" and the "Poll Now"? In both cases, give it two polling cycles (whatever that is for volumes on your system) to make sure the data has time to populate, etc.

Your credentials to the VCenter machine will be a windows account (domain\username) that has login permission to VCenter directly. SNMP monitoring of the VCenter server itself is not critical (nice, but not critical). Your credentials to the ESX machines will likely be "root". SNMP monitoring of the SNMP boxes is key to…

bluefunelemental has got it exactly right - you need parenthesis to tell it which OR's group together. Try this: (OS Like 'Windows' OR OS Like 'AIX' OR OS Like 'Linux') AND MIT_City = 'Greenville' OR... if you wanted all windows, all AIX, and only the Linux from Greenville, you would do: OS Like 'Windows' OR OS Like 'AIX'…

Thanks Vinay BY! In most cases, you are better to have a separate web server because it protects more of your internal environment. That said, I've worked places where they didn't get the secondary web server. But if you do that, at least put in a second NIC on your polling engine, and only expose THAT IP to the internet…

This video from SolarWinds Lab may also get you started... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8YjDgSXWD8 This one also has some good details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yfrQz2TyyU