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That's exactly the way I would have suggested you do it. As long as you are monitoring the servers involved in the conversations, you will see the data start to show up in the QoE dashboard.

<Leon grabs the ball, races down the court, goes for the layup and.... passing the ball over his head back to rob.hock !!> All yours, buddy.

Bytes transferred is on an interface by interface basis, so you won't be able to get it onto a single line without a custom SQL query. It can be done, it's just not one of those things that intuitively obvious. Do you want TOTAL bytes transferred for all interfaces, or for one particular interface, or something else?

Either in Managed Nodes or on the interfaces detail page, click "Edit Properties". In the "General" section, check the box that says "display the interface as unplugged rather than down". Checking this will not change the STATE of the interface (ie: it's still down) but it won't show up on any down interface reports.

I'm just curious, is there a reason why the "alert can be triggered if more than xx objects" option isn't working for you?

Vote for it here: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/2227

Can you take a screenshot of the alert trigger page? There's a few details I'd like to see.

Out of curiosity, what is your timezone and what is the timezone of the polling engine?

In the upper-right corner, hit Settings, Polling Settings Near the bottom of that page, un-check "Perform reverse DNS lookup"

While it is technically possible, please note that the design information requires a very low level of latency between the primary poller and the database. So you have to be VERY confident that you can maintain latency under 100ms (that's my own personal number. YMMV, caveate emptor, etc etc) before settling on this design.

IM(ns)HO you can go virtual on all the polling engines. The only server that "needs" to be physical (and it's up for debate) is the database server. Which should be separate from the polling engine. So sure thing. Go virtual. Just make sure you give it a decent amount of resources (ours have 8CPU and 12Gb RAM)

rob.hock - is there a super-secret migration tool for this?

You may want this instead: select Nodes.NodeID, Nodes.Caption as Node, Interfaces.Caption as Interface, Interfaces.Status, interfaces.StatusLED //more fields here if you want from interfaces join nodes on interfaces.nodeid = nodes.nodeid But the upshot is that, if you don't have SQL Management Studio set up, you really…

While I can appreciate the creative approaches of updating the database, the idea of programatically running an UPDATE query give me the heebie jeebies. If all you want is to make sure the emails stop, why not programatically disable the email account that Solarwinds is using to send those emails from instead? That seems…

Please see my notes on this thread: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/204905#204905 the Suppression tab DOES NOT DO WHAT YOU THINK IT DOES. Do not use it. Period. For an easier way to make elements (nodes, interfaces, etc) "shut up" but still get monitored, see this post:…

Monitoring (any solution, not just SolarWinds) has always had a "complicated" relationship with monitoring RAM on Linux - mostly because of the various ways Linux tools get their numbers. TOP versus FREE versus whatever other command/tool you are using can report wildly varying numbers. This post will describe the issues…

vbscript execution occurs on the local server (meaning the poller). In order to execute something remotely, you need to: * launch the local vbscript * create a connection (drive mapping) to the remote server * echo the "real" script you want to run on the remote server to a location ON the remote server * create a…

In addition to mrs.alterego‌'s answer, there is also the Thwack job board: GOT A JOB? NEED A JOB? GET A JOB.

While I am excited for the new "up/down via SNMP" feature, I don't think it will ultimately resolve anything. Do up/down via SNMP and inevitably some group will say that it isn't as clear as ping whether it's up or down. Do it by ping and you get the opposite. You need both and you can have both - even under pre-10.7. Let…

Everyone on the thread that is a point hunter (guilty!) missed the biggest (and often easiest) one of all - DO A UX SESSION. It's usually worth about 2,000 points for 30 minutes of "work", and you get to influence the direction of the products as well. Oh, and you totally get a peek behind the curtain at what is coming up…

Great catch. I've updated the Ultimate CPU Alert (https://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/212028#212028) with this information, but for those who got here first: You can't just select "reset when the condition is no longer true". The solution, as elaborated by Richard Letts here: Warning about custom SQL alerts (reset…

The item you may want to look at is the reset trigger. It tells Solarwinds when to consider the box back "up". It won't change the red-green status in the display, but it will control whether you get another alert. Simple example 1: trigger when node status is "down" trigger delay (the dropdown at the bottom of the trigger…

Hey sja thanks for mentioning that ThwackCamp session. For those who tl;dr My standard VM sizing tends to run like this: 8 CPU (assuming something between 1.7 and 2.3 Ghz) 12GB RAM 100Gb C: drive (because of log files, etc) 100Gb D: drive (where I save all the application installers and actually install the software Now…

This thread has a nifty (if I do say so myself) way that you can set per-item (CPU, RAM, disk, interface, etc) thresholds and manage them from a single alert.

My experience is that there are no hard and fast numbers to be able to pull to get the modeling you are talking about. I've got 8 pollers running NPM and SAM. On some of them they are spiked to 90% utilization (SolarWinds calculation of that) with 8000 elements. On another poller (same installation) I have 9000 elemnets…

From my (user, not SolarWinds support) perspective, SAN storage WORKS and can be used, but support will give you flack in certain situations. They are adamant that you should NEVER put it on a RAID 5 SAN, and prefer RAID 10 (I think, but I'd have to check the documentation). The upshot is that SolarWinds is insanely…

I know this is an old thread, but I got this error and wanted to offer another solution: I got the same error this morning AFTER cleaning up some disk space. It turns out I had deleted a few temp files that my login account probably needed. My clue was that I couldn't even navigate to %TEMP% (at the command line). After…

There's no such thing as a "local group" in SolarWinds. If you want groups, you have to use AD. There are local (ie: solarwinds only) user accounts, but not groups. That being said, nothing is stopping you from creating a completely separate AD server with it's own closed domain with a trust to the "real" domain, setting…

So.. rob.hock (and other NPM gurus), how is one supposed to execute actions into areas otherwise inaccessible to the primary poller?

Also, you can't monitor Eventlog with RPC, and you can't restart services if you are monitoring them with RPC. So there's a couple of trade-offs. In our environment we really try to monitor with SNMP for the base stuff, and then go straight to WMI for the application monitoring. We've decided (for the moment) to monitor…