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Set up a custom SQL alert that calculates the time and if it's between 9:00 and 9:05, triggers an alert. And if it's NOT that time, it resets. I know that's shorthand. Let me know if you need help with the SQL itself.

Adding my voice to the mix. We have a need of it at my company as well.

To expand on Jeff's reply, you can: 1) create a report in reportwriter that shows the fields you want 2) on the SolarWinds website, display the report 3) add "&dataformat=xls" to the end of the URL and hit enter. ...or "TXT" or "CSV" What you will get is the report exported to the format you specify. UNLESS this is…

The short answer is "it depends". The medium answer is: WHen you pull stats every 5 min, you are getting the stats at that moment. Those stats are then averaged when we do summarization (minute-ly stats to hourly every week, hourly to daily every month, etc) However, in each specific case, you need to have a sense of what…

My understanding (in talking with several SW techs) is that the fast-poll works like this: ping every xx seconds (120 by default) if a ping fails: mark node as warning and ping every 5 seconds IF 10 pings in a row fail, mark the node down IF you don't get 10 failed pings, stop "fast ping" after 1 minute wait polling…

The answer here is "yes" and "no". If you only have one poller and that poller is set to the same timezone as the database (which it SHOULD, near to the point of my saying it MUST) then you can get the correct time by putting a ${SQL ...} field in your alert rather than just the ${LastSystemUptimePollUtc} field. More on…

Look at your initial line: "Trigger alert if ALL of the following apply" A device that is down cannot have an IP address of 1.2.3.1 AND 1.2.3.2 AND 1.2.3.3 What you mean to say is: Trigger alert if ALL of the following apply Node status is equal to down Trigger alert if ANY of the following apply IP Address is equal to…

My bet is that you are monitoring RAM and Virtual memory as a disk volume, and so you are getting alerted on those "volumes" as well. You have two choices: * Stop monitoring memory as a disk (WHY is that the default?!?) * include another logic line in your trigger for Volume type = fixed disk* OR if you want network,…

I discussed this in this thwack post: as well as on my blog: Time zones, DST and gaps in monitoring | AdatoSystems Monitoring. But the upshot is that the time displayed is the time of collection on the poller itself. So if you have a Hungerford node that is (for whatever reason) being polled by a US poller, the data shown…

Generally speaking, if you aren't sure whether a standard (non vendor-specific) service is needed, BlackViper is a fantastic resource. http://www.blackviper.com He offers a configuration guide for versions of windows back to XP, and lists the default settings (standard, enterprise, datacenter, etc) and the changes you can…

So this isn't working for you? http://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/solarwinds-community/product-blog/blog/2010/02/24/audible-alerts-in-npm--aka--wow--i-didnt-know-it-could-do-that To clarify: Vinay BY - you are right that setting up a "play a sound" in the Alert Trigger Actions will play the sound on the primary polling…

OK, I just did a little digging. You will need a plugin like this for firefox, which lets you open multiple separate sessions (ie: cookie sessions): Multifox - Different logins at the same time

This is a known issue. The problem is that SolarWinds is session-based. Every tab or window of your browser all goes back to the same session pool. So the Node Edit page pulls the data for node 1. If you then open an edit page for node 2, you over write the session info for node 1 (even though it stays on the screen in…

Last year's THWACKcamp event had a session JUST for you! Who Watches the Watcher?

Short story is that as long as YOU can get to the internet, you can un-register a license and re-register it to a new machine using the customer portal (and a ticket to customer service for the un-registering part). NOW... that said I don't know if 8.1 is still supported. You also didn't say if you had an active support…

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You can certainly get an alert (described below) but to have it show up as a red "up" event and a green "down" event is probably not possible. To set up the alert, you need to set up a custom interface property, binary type field, called "backup" (or whatever). Then you create an alert where the trigger is: field "backup"…

I'm not 100% sure if you can upgrade straight from those versions to the latest, BUT here are my general thoughts on upgrades: The Order * NPM. This will also take care of "Orion" (which is really just a statement of the core software you have, either as a function of NPM or SAM)* Also, if you have additional pollers or…

I had a similar problem recently (with a test server, thankfully). I tried several different uninstall-reinstall scenarios and finally gave up and scrubbed and reloaded the server. The second time was the charm. The best thing I can tell you is to start with a "bare OS" - just Windows - and let Solarwinds do ALL the work -…

Not pays for, except in the sense that it's a common demand/expectation made by "requesters" (read "management") to providers. Or it's a claim made by design teams as they propose and build solutions. That was the original source of frustration that lead to me writing the article.

It will take some finageling, but you can use this SNMP table: 1.3.6.1.2.1.6.19.1 (tcpConnectionEntry) which has child table elements of: tcpConnectionLocalAddressType, tcpConnectionLocalAddress, tcpConnectionLocalPort, tcpConnectionRemAddressType, tcpConnectionRemAddress, tcpConnectionRemPort The description is somewhat…

To drill down, click the "export" button in the corner. It takes you to the same drill-down screen. The one piece i miss is the right-click, save image as option. But I installed the "Awesome Screenshot" add-on into Firefox, and that gets me what I need (plus it works in a whole host of OTHER screengrab situations).…

What we are seeing is that, because our systems are sending a near-constant volume of syslog, the "connection" (from the VIP to the box) is being retained. Even when we set the timeout to 1 second. per the F5 documentation: sol10430 shows below info about UDP traffic. " UDP traffic When multiple UDP datagrams are sent from…

Short answer: yes Medium answer: You have a couple of choices: 1) Using the custom property editor, you can export your list of servers to an excel file, add the descriptions (merge them with the file from vcenter, and re-import that spreadsheet back to SolarWinds and the descriptions will update 2) you could also use the…

Take a look at the SAM content exchange (Server & Application Monitor ) and search for the word "parser" and you'll find a few options that will at least get you started with what you need.

Can you post a screen shot of the disk % utilization for one of the misses, for the time period where it was missed? Also, do you have a delay on this alert (it would be at the bottom of the alert trigger tab). Generally my experience is NOT to trigger alerts after 0 seconds because there are always blips. Also, specific…

If the device supports it, you should probably move to SNMP v2c because it supports operations like "get bulk" which are more efficient. That said, it's probably not the reason you aren't seeing the values you want. While some UPSes are supported natively, many require that you set up Universal Device Pollers. This link…

An update to the Orion core just posted this morning, fixing a few issues. You should see it in your customer portal. But I'm going to say that SolarWinds upgrades are uncharacteristically solid, unless you are seeing a VERY specific kind of bug. My habit has been to always install the updates as soon as I could get a…

Hi Simon. Just a quick sanity check: did process explorer work on a previous version for you and stop working after an upgrade? Is this a node where process explorer worked before and not now? Does it work on some nodes and not others? Or is this a new installation and/or a new node? You've probably already done all those…

It's probably worth mentioning that SolarWinds just acquired Pingdom.com, and that (monitoring from external locations) is their sweet spot. Just in case you want to keep it in the family.