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In earlier versions, if you forced a node to a particular name, then it stayed even if the hostname changed. So even adding a dash or a space or whatever caused SolarWinds to "honor" the set name rather than updating based on DNS or the hostname variable. Not sure if that's still the case, but you can give it a shot.

My first thought is to cut out the middleman (ie: email) and have your monitoring solution watch the thing that is happening to trigger the email, and have it (monitoring) do that instead. We can discuss that further, but I had to contribute my 2 cents. Second, you COULD write an email processing routine, but that is…

I just verified that this is still an issue in NPM 11.5. rob.hock‌ is this a known issue? Meanwhile, has anyone on this thread opened a ticket on it? If so please log the ticket number here so we can follow along. Also, if anyone feels like opening a feature request, we can all upvote it to get it onto the list of fixes…

Ah, "standard alerts", how I both love and hate thee. First, I'd be remiss if I didn't direct your attention to the free "Monitoring 201" ebook, which delves into this exact topic - what alerts should be standard, how the out-of-the-box alerts were (for the most part) NEVER intended to be used as-is, and how to create…

this is very achievable. A couple of initial questions: Do you have anything in SolarWinds now that identifies the region of the device? Do you have any consistent way to note which devices you want "in" or which you want "out"? How many devices total (for this report) are we talking about?

I apologize for not having the EXACT oid of the top of my head, but when you verify SNMP from the web page, it only pulls the systemname OID (I think. If not that, then something else just as basic). Some devices have lots of OID values, but not that one which MAY BE why you are seeing it fail.

Just to add to Steven's thought - you can also run "SNMPWalk.exe" from your solarwinds poller. And actually, I would start by doing an SNMP walk on the machine itself, as root. Then run SNMPwalk.exe and compare the results. If they DO NOT match, you have a permission issue within SNMPD.CONF (or the equivalent. I can't…

Let me dig into this. Also flagging jbiggley​ Dez​ KMSigma​ patrick.hubbard​ & cobrien​ because they KNOW THINGS.

One thing to verify (in the actual Windows task manager) is that the "run when the user is not logged in" is checked. Otherwise it won't run unless you are RDP'd to the server as that user. What we do is set up the job as "us" and then go into Windows Scheduler and change the owner to the local system account (and again,…

I *presume* you mean an IIS cert applied to the SolarWinds Orion webserver itself. Not an IIS cert that you are monitoring using the web certificate component monitor. SAM should continue to collect data, store it in the db, etc. The only thing that would be impacted by an expired cert is your ability to get to the Orion…

For any alert, there are two "action" tabs - the alert trigger action, and the alert reset action. If 1) you don't have any logic set for the alert reset trigger or 2) you don't have any action set for the alert reset action ... then you aren't going to see anything.

Upgraded two days ago. Nothing glaringly problematic (yet).

Adding one more thought to Alex's comments is that you need to think about the math of collections, delays, and alert check cycle. * Collection interval - the amount of time between "asking" the server for it's CPU * alert check cycle - the amount of time the server "asks" the database about this alert (ie: run the query…

I just posted this overview of time issues with regard to NPM. I believe the same issues will "follow" you to most of the entire product set.

Hey, welcome to you and your team on your solarwinds journey! I agree (in a somewhat selfish way) that SolarWinds Lab is a great way to get started. Some episodes you can look at include this one, that focuses on alerts: All About Alerts - SolarWinds Lab #42 - YouTube I'm a big believer at making sure you have solid…

I don't run EOL often, so I did a bit of digging and got some interesting information back from KMSigma​: First and foremost, we just absorb this information from Cisco’s web site, so if they say it’s a replacement, it’s a replacement. Second, some of the 3750’s (Specifically thinking of the 3750-X series) were released…

The tables must have changed recently, because APM_Credentials exists but is empty in my installation. The query that works for me (with joins!) is: select Nodes.Caption as Node, Nodes.Nodeid, APM_Application.Name as Application, APM_Component.Name as Component, Credential.Name as Credential from APM_ComponentSetting join…

Just to be certain: are you reading posts from people who have User Device Tracker (UDT) rather than NPM? That is the purpose-built solution SolarWinds has for port usage tracking.

<sarcasm> If you ask me, it's a feature. If blocking ampersands in email addresses wasn't in there before, your post would make me DEMAND it be added. I mean, who DOES that? Why would you ever want to have to go around telling people You can email me at Turducken&Oatmeal@Thanksgiving.com, but the "and" is really an…

If these are Windows boxes then you should already have a sample alert named something like "Alert on High CPU - top 10 processes". This alert will not only tell you when you have a high CPU, it will grab the top 10 processes at the time of the alert and stuff them into an email message (or logfile, or whatever). I…

How big will the based of monitored devices be? How many modules will you have? Generally speaking, you want the largest number of spindles (ie: individual disks) as close as possible to the server itself. However, I've had successful installations with non-optimal configurations (RAID 5, virtualized database servers,…

We currently have: 6 virtualized pollers (1 primary, 5 additional) split between two locations primary is in the same location with the database server separate (physical) database connected to SAN separate additional web server In this environment we're monitoring 8200 nodes which have 32,000 disks and 8400 interfaces for…

While you could populate it using queries right on the database, I'm pretty sure it will get over-written on the next rediscovery (every 30 min by default). Ultimately the "right" answer to this is to get SNMP on all your devices correctly configured. Then Solarwinds will have the right information.

Unless I am DRASTICALLY overlooking something, child elements (interfaces, disks, hardware, among other things) are, in fact, automatically treated as "children" of the node. So if a Node goes down, you won't get alerts on the interfaces, disks, etc, of that node. Applications are a different story. I'm asking aLTeReGo‌ to…

Off the top of my head, you would need to: 1) monitor every port on the device whether it was up/down/whatever. 2) create a report for that class of device (by machine type, vendor, IP address scheme, custom property, etc) that shows all interfaces where the data is <=1 for the last xx months. Make sense?

I revisited this post so that we could include it in an upcoming SolarWinds lab episode. I realized the trigger query needed some tweaking. here is what works for me for an alert trigger: The top area will show: SELECT CustomPollerAssignmentView.CustomPollerAssignmentID AS NetObjectID,…

How can I click "like" about a million more times? This is AWESOMESAUCE!!! Well done! Bravo! Cheers! Yasher Koach! Salut!

Do you want to see what WENT down (but might be up now), or what IS down, sorted (and possibly grouped) by duration? Just want to be clear before I start throwing SQL at you.

It's been my habit over the years to ALWAYS install products and patches using "Run as Administrator" to avoid issues if something happens to my user account. So I can confirm this not only works, but in my (not so) humble opinion, it's the better way to go about things.

Meh, I got curious. What it should look like is something like this: Custom SQL alert using the Nodes table (in the box where you put your code): where nodes.nodeid = 1 (just so you don't kick this trigger for every node in the database) and convert(varchar(10), GETDATE(), 108) >= '10:00:00' and convert(varchar(10),…