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This is a great question, but it will get a lot more attention if you post it to the NCM product forum: Network Configuration Manager

I'm not sure if I follow 100%, but I'm guessing you set up the alert as a Node "property to monitor", then changed it to hardware, then changed it back.... Or some variation on that. The trick is that the field names - both the triggers and the fields you can use in an email - can change based on the "property to monitor"…

Since having your product create a trap would still necessitate loading the MIB on the Solarwinds server to interpret the trap, this is probably not the right way to go. How about Syslog? There are several free/cheap tools that will take an incoming message (or text written to a log file, or whatever) and convert it to…

My bet is that your field "Disk_Threshold" is not a floating point. It can't be integer because SolarWinds won't "Cast" the data types. You have to re-create the field (sorry!) as Float.

The point of unmanage is that it completely stops monitoring. Therefore, when unmanage ends the first thing SolarWinds does is collect a full set of statistics. If one of those statistics breaches a threshold, you are going to get an alert, the same as if it had been monitored all along and JUST breached the threshold.…

Great background. But my question was an "either or"... EITHER you want to know when all interfaces are EACH over 80% OR you want to know when the usage across all interfaces adds up to 80% of the total available This may not be a SQL query, but before we start digging in, I wanted to be clear on the goal. - Leon

Just for clarification: If you have 4 ports in use, and the usage is: port 1 - 80% port 2 - 80% port 3 - 70% port 4 - 90% would you want THAT to trigger? Or only if all 4 ports were at 80% or higher?

This isn't EVERYTHING, but it should get you started. http://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-168997

This type of thing - showing the "conversation" between two devices - is precisely what NetFlow is designed to show. With NPM alone it would be (IMHO) impossible, since all you are getting is bandwidth information, not the destination of each packet. Unless you had an interface that was dedicated to talking to the other…

Just haven't had time to respond. one thing that we found lacking was the native display of application pool MEMBERS and their individual status. I got around it with a couple of UnDP's, but the alert was kludgy as well (there's a character limitation in the UnDP alert fields that we ran up against.). That's probably the…

Very similar to squinsey's comments. SolarWinds.com - maybe once a month, and usually to try to find some picture-ware to hand my executive team so they can understand what I'm saying. Customerportal: Once every week to two weeks to look for hotfixes, patches, upgrades, etc. But because we have an offshore team that also…

Yes. You need to have some consistent way of identifying the devices. I prefer the use of custom properties ("Team" or "Ownergroup" or whatever). Set that property for each of the nodes. Then, for each of the user accounts, you set an account limitation so that OwnerGroup = "engineering" (or whatever. Let me know if that…

The only way I've been able to do this is via database triggers or scheduled jobs. And we all know how sqlrockstar feels about database triggers (hint: the opposite of how he feels about bacon). Within the Orion tool itself, I don't thing there's anything at this time.

While you can find more details elsewhere on thwack, the short answer is: 1) That kind of granularity is not easily available in NPM today (ie: version 10.3) CAVEATE: you can glean *a little* information if you feel like scraping the IIS logs (%SystemDrive%\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\*). 2) User auditing in some form is…

You're missing something. Everything is there. At the bottom of the trigger page is are buttons for import and export that will create an XML file of the trigger values. To import that into your reset, you first choose "Create a special reset condition...". Then click "Add Condition" and "Import condition from XML file."

Create an alert trigger that looks for interfaces that have been down for xx days. Then create a trigger action that runs an external program (vbscript or otherwise). That VBScript will need to connect to your database, and set the interface to "unmanaged" with a particular end date. THEN create a report that you check…

You could create your own web page that uses the Orion SDK to list nodes and then let users update JUST those fields. I haven't written it YET, but it's on my radar for my team in the next 3-6 months.

This episode of SolarWinds Lab goes over all the built-in file and directory monitoring components. Jump to the 8:30 time mark for the specific information you need. SAM Template Rematch - SolarWinds Lab Episode #61 - YouTube

First, after you check those boxes, do they stay checked? Meaning - you hit "list resources", you check "CPU and Memory", you click submit. Then you click "List Resources" again - is CPU and Memory checked or not? Second, you need to give things 1 or 2 polling cycles to populate (which is usually 5 or 10 minutes. Third,…

Here you go: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/53656

Is it possible to send screen shots of the triggers for each of those alerts? Thanks!

SELECT ( STR(Events.EventType) + '.gif') AS EventTypeIcon, Nodes.Caption AS Evento, Nodes.NodeID AS NodeID, Nodes.IP_Address, ( CONVERT(VARCHAR(50),(datediff(dd, max(Events.EventTime), getdate()))) + 'd '+ CONVERT(VARCHAR(50),(datediff(minute, max(Events.EventTime), getdate())%1440)/60 )+ 'h '+…

Two options: 1) if this is on the same server, just open the report in ReportWriter and Save As with a new name, and then make your changes. 2) if this is not on the same server, find the file (it will probably be in %PROGRAMFILES%\solarwinds\orion\reports) which ends in .OrionReport and just copy it. Then edit your copied…

This is a very common issue that is hard to wrap your head around with SolarWinds because agent-based solutions deal with it so differently. Here's the skinny: For any active-passive cluster, you are going to monitor 3 servers: * member server 1 * member server 2 * virtual/cluster/fake server A On the two real member…

For your first question (separating the webserver) you need to purchase the "Additional Web Server" license and install it on another machine. It's a very simple installation but it is another license. For your second question (can't delete interfaces or nodes that are assigned to the second polling engine) I need some…

Check this out: http://www.solarwinds.com/extensions/failover.aspx

there's no fix because the device in question - whatever it is - doesn't support that object.' Despite the SolarWinds name to the contrary (UNIVERSAL Device Poller) Objects are not universal in the sense that they exist on all devices. For example, NetBotz devices have a sensor for humidity, and there's an OID to pull that…

The short story is: no. SolarWinds doesn't support double-checks, etc. It doesn't even support upstream checking - the Parent-Child feature really just injects an extra polling cycle for objects that have a parent so that the parent status has a chance to register.

I'm willing to bet it's the "distinct" item you have in there. I'm also curious A) why you think you need it (the nodes table only holds unique records, no need to specify distinct unless you are doing some other kind of complex query) ...and... B) how you got it in there in the first place. The top of the query - the…

Presuming you mean for your SolarWinds Orion database server, the ONLY option you should consider is RAID10. Ask afox and jbiggley‌ for details on why. They just lived through the pain.