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Seconding mesverrum​. Assuming you have a windows server with all patches and a SQL server already set up, the install will take all of 20 minutes (I call it "SolarWinds' patented 5-click yes-yes-yes-GO-done install" but it's not patented and our legal dept always starts chewing aspirin when I say it at SWUGs). If you have…

Not for keywords. You can monitor a webpage as a "node" to see if it's up (pingable) but if you are looking for particular keywords, you would need SAM and it's http (or https, or http-with-forms) component.

You've been caught by the "suppression tab" trap. It gets us all. http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/204905#204905 Upshot: Don't use the suppress tab. EVER. Put all your "if not" conditions in the alert trigger. Which in your case you don't need. Since you explicitly state "Vendor = Cisco" there's no need to indicate…

It's interesting. This is almost exactly the same question (same wording and everything) that was posted back in 2008: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/47713#47713 Check out the thread there for several options.

So for clutter, here's what I have But in terms of my space (cluttered as it is right now), I'm very happy with this work environment:

In my copious spare time (COUGH!) I've been playing with the database modeler utility inside Microsoft SQL Studio, but I'm not having luck getting it to export in any meaningful way. I opened a ticket a while ago about this and was told that the schema is considered part of SolarWinds intellectual property, and as such…

I'm finding it on my servers, including the freshly-installed NPM 10.6 beta. Start, all programs, solarwinds orion, advanced features

Can you give some details on how the message is being sent to his phone? Is it another email to the email equivalent of his phone number (ie: verizon would be 1234567890@vtext.com), or via a pager board, or something else?

You are probably right that it needs more resources, but a little more info would help: * How many devices are you monitoring * WHERE are those devices in relation to the monitoring server itself * what is the speed of the CPUs * What about the database specs. Sometimes the problem has nothing to do with the monitoring…

Yes, but it's not as easy as if you had SAM (shameless plug). The MIB file describing windows SNMP objects can be found in C:\windows\system32\lmmib2.mib. In there you have OIDS like: svSvcName OBJECT-TYPE SYNTAX DisplayString (SIZE (1..15)) ACCESS read-only STATUS mandatory DESCRIPTION "The name of the network service…

Before digging into this too much, are you aware that SolarWinds had automatic dependency mapping, so that you only get "down" for the thing that is down, and anything after that is "unreachable". So: Core Router ---> Branch router --> switch ---> 3 AP --> 10 computers If the branch router goes down, the branch router…

Post the ticket numbers and we can dig into it for you.

Incredible list. And... I'm humbled. Just humbled. Wishing everyone a Happy, Merry, Joyous, Festive time, whether it's a holiday or not, warm or cold, light or dark, the ending, beginning, or just the middle of a year. Continue to be the awesome people you all are, and share the message of #MonitoringGlory with the world.

Tell me more about what you want - do you want to know the latest time this alert has triggered (once) for ANY device? Or if the alert has re-triggered (because the target is flapping/sawtoothing and going from good to bad)?

Short answer, "yes" Medium answer: if that's in the nodes table, you can refer to it as ${node.APP_Group} - note that in the alert variable, the "nodes" table is called "node" instead. If you have it in the application table then the answer is still "yes" BUT how you get there depends greatly on what type of alert trigger…

It's not COMPLETELY inconceivable that an SNMP poll causes the snmp service/agent to bounce, but in every case where I've seen it, it's a bug in on the vendor side, rather than the SNMP poller What's more interesting is that the SNMP walk DIDN'T kill the SNMP process. Can you test a few other OIDs that are adjacent to the…

Two answers: To see all OIDS which respond on a particular device, use SNMPWalk.exe, which you can typically find in \program files(x86)\solarwinds\orion. If you need to see the specific flow of SNMP get requests to a particular box, use wireshark, filterd down to the polling engine and target; and only looking at port…

Guys, I know this sounds fanboi-ish, but some of the new screens are 100% pure unfiltered awesomesauce. You have GOT to see what the UX team has created for us next! And plus, this gives you a chance to affect look-and-feel (and function) BEFORE it goes to beta and you have to grumble about "how come nobody ever asks ME…

Almost 2 years ago I had the privilege of working in a large environment where I could really test out the impact of such questions. The result is chronicled in this thread: Re: SNMP vs WMI polling - pros and cons as well as this document: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-170788. As for your question about support,…

You also might want to check out this PowerShell script that KMSigma​ created (with a little goading from me) which reports on both all the alerts each node (and sub-elements of the node) can trigger; and all the nodes that could be triggered by a particular alert. You'll find it here: GitHub - kmsigma/thwackcamp-2019:…

Nothing except forget that Danielle - ThwackMistress par excellance, Keeper of the Keys to the Closet o' Crap, and PointsLord Supreme (like a TimeLord, but better) is surely recovering this fine Sunday afternoon after the frenetic joy that was ThwackCamp 2013. I assure you based on past experience that your points will…

Bump. My team just encountered this as well. Is CPULoad calculating the overal average of all CPU's, the "worst case" CPU, or some weighted average. By way of example, we have a 32 CPU box where CPU1 was pegged at 90%, but the other CPU were strolling along at 1%. Professor Excel calculates that average as 3.78125%. But…

Because a "node added" never reverses, you will likely trigger the alert once and it will never trigger again. What you probably want to do is have a reset that is always true, so that the alert always resets and you get a new alert at the next "Node Added" event. You can do it with adding a complex condition of "value 1…

I got nothing. While resetting an alert WILL cause it to trigger again, you changed the value so that it SHOULDN'T have triggered again. The only other thing I can think of is to select the alert, click "reset" to ensure that all nodes for that alert are now in a "cleared" state, and see if it fires again. If so, Halloween…

Maybe a dumb question, and it *might* not make any difference, but what kind of custom property is node_tier - text, numeric, etc?

Short story is "you can't". I can shoot you my testing for the minimum permissions needed for WMI monitoring (and RPC, which has more to do with ports than rights) but at the end of this conversation you are left with needing SOME KIND of permissions. You can't crap out faerie dust and unicorns to make this happen any…

I have always been more comfortable creating a new field in the Custom Property Editor, then using copy-paste to move existing values over to the new field, and finally deleting the old field. I'm *fairly* certain that field only exists in the nodes table, but one can never be 100% sure. ;-)

NPM 12 Release Candidate 2 should be available soon in the customer portal, if you have an existing maintenance contract. That's not the production release though.

Yes. I just pulled this one together this afternoon. IT's a SQL query based report, but it's do-able: select Nodes.NodeID, Nodes.StatusLED, Nodes.Caption, Nodes.IP_Address, Nodes.DNS, Nodes.SysName, APM_Application.ID as AppID, APM_Application.Name as AppName, APM_Component.ID as CompID, APM_Component.Name as Component,…

If you want to change the polling interval for a single node, you do that on the Node Properties page. (go to node details, click node properties, adjust there) If you want to change the polling interval for everything in the system (not advised) then go to the polling settings, but after changing it you have to click the…