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"Suppress" is the Alert item I wish would go away. It does not work the way ANYONE things it is supposed to. Specifically, the rules in THAT tab do not cross-reference the rules in the trigger tab. Meaning, in your example, if ANY volume ANYWHERE in your environment has a volume type of RAM, or a description of (whatever)…

I can see two choices here: 1) create a new custom property for location, and populate that instead 2) create a script that updates the registry on each of your target devices. If you change HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\services\SNMP\Parameters\RFC1156Agent it will be reflected in the SNMP agent and therefore picked up in…

<IM(ns)HO> - - - - - clip and save! - - - - - - - Discovery is an amazingly useful technique. But it is NOT a useful technique for the realm of Monitoring and Automation. But that's a mistake LOTS of people make. My experience is that onboarding works best when you treat it like a paid service. The only things that get…

Simply put, break it up. If you have a ton of devices, or a ton of devices which are slow to respond (and admittedly, network discovery is the slowest thing SolarWinds does. Once the box is discovered, everything else is pretty snappy), or a ton of devices that are on slow WAN links, or whatever, you are best to break it…

In 10.4 (and earlier, IIRC) there is a sample alert that does just that. Two, in fact - one that tells you when a node has failed 5 polling cycles, and another that tells you when the last poll time is over xx minutes ago. Let me know if you can't find it.

You should have the win32 version of NPM syslog manager. THat's how you did it years ago. If you have LM enabled, I'm not 100% sure of the action, but that would be in the consolidated alert manager. HOWEVER, you know how I feel about syslog/trap and sending everything straight to Orion. (ie: don't). Get a few Kiwi syslog…

I agree with tigger2, you may be fighting an issue with the test button more than anything else. Let's eliminate that as a potential problem: In the alert trigger, remove all values except one: Where Node Name is equal to <blahblah> And set <blahblah> to the name of an actual node. This is a very simple trigger that will…

OK, so we know that you CAN run external actions. Now let's get to the heart of the matter: What is it that you ultimately want this external action to DO? Also, note that the TEST button is less-than-optimal. In many cases it will not pass the correct variables into the execute action. So you are better off modifying your…

Jumping in here and taking a small step back: Both of the programs you specified (SecureCRT and Calc) are basically programs that run in a window. If you think about it, when you aren't logged into the Polling engine, there's no user to SEE that program run. It may be running, but no way to view or interact with it. To…

Generally speaking, you can if: 1) you have a custom property that groups your customers together 2) You assign each and every node a customer If so, you can FAIRLY easily create a report that counts elements per node, grouped by the "customer" property.

NCM is a completely separate product set (even if the web portal is merged, so you can upgrade that as a separate path; NCM 7.2 > NCM 7.2.2 Overall, the upgrade is to do the primary poller first, then the additional pollers. You can EITHER shut down all monitoring and do that: PRIMARY > NPM 10.5, SAM 5.5, VNQM 4.1 PRIMARY…

Welcome to the club of those of us unsatisfied with the current Trap/Syslog options (NPM or Kiwi-based). Here are some other threads that you can jump in on: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/1139 http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/1488 http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/1489 I wish I had a perfect solution for you, but…

If you are comfortable with SQL and reports, check out the Polling Engine health report () and you should be able to pull out the parts of that query that you can then use in an alert. But the upshot is that you are going to query the Engines table to get the count of interfaces and alert when it's greater than a…

NPM isn't going to let you mass-change SNMP settings on your nodes - in fact, changing settings is exactly what SNMP R/W is for! That said, our NCM tool (and it's scaled-down cousin, Kiwi CatTools) is designed to back up configs, let you make changes to one or more devices, and generally control everything about the…

I think we need to understand the load on the machine: * What is the monitoring load* How many devices * How many interfaces * How many volumes * How many UnDP monitors * How many SAM components * What is the hardware* CPU (sockets, cores, and speed) * RAM * what is the database situation* on the same server as NPM/SAM or…

Mustafa, I'm not sure what tools you are using or what hardware/OS platform they are running on, but let me offer my experience: 1) I just shifted from IBM Tivoli to SolarWinds. There was NO single server in the Tivoli infrastructure that could support SNMP polling of 12,000 elements of anything at anything resembling…

While I appreciate the responses, they are all variations of "capture the whole screen to the clipboard and then crop it in another tool". Even my current method (a plugin in Firefox) is a multi-step process (right click, tell the plugin I want the visible screen, drag to select the area I want, save to clipboard, go to my…

If you have the VNQM module and IPSLA-enabled routers and and you only want to test connectivity to a relatively small number of nodes (my current environment is 10,000 devices. Wouldn't want to do that to EVERYTHING, now would I?!?) then that's a fine option. But your question was about NPM specifically. That tool is NOT…

"Smokeping" is exactly the tool I use to describe what SolarWinds is NOT. You can ratchet ping down to 1 ping every 10 seconds (default is 120 seconds)or as slow as 32767 seconds (once every 9 hours). But aside from those parameters, it's not the right tool for the job you are describing.

I agree with bluefunelemental: It MAY have to do with the nested select statement. I guess I would have gone for a more linear SQL. I also like ot explicitly call out the table name just in case: SELECT Nodes.NodeID, Nodes.Caption AS Node_Name, Nodes.IP_Address, Nodes.Modal, Nodes.Vendor, Nodes.MachineType,…

As I posted over on my blog (Reader and Weep | Adatosystems) I ended up at Feedly. But there were a few interesting stories that came out of all of this. * Gizmodo did a nice "top 10" comparison: 10 Google Reader Alternatives That Will Ease Your RSS Pain * There's a guy who replicated Google Reader all by himself: How a…

A scheduled report is simply a job that prints/emails an existing URL, at the time of the schedule trigger. So the action you want is "email web page" - Then you put the URL of the report in the appropriate spot, and the web page will be emailed to the recipients you indicate.

Another great tool which is not free, but not horrifically expensive either, is NTM (Network Topology Mapper, downloadable from here: Network Mapping - Network Topology Software | SolarWinds ) Not to be confused with NTA (ie: Netflow Traffic Analyzer), NTM will discover your network much the same way Sonar Discovery does…

Agreeing with chad.every​ - back in the day (boy, don't *I* sound old?) we'd use a custom (boolean y/n) property called "mute", and all alerts would have to include a "If mute = n" check. But recently with the addition of the new, improved "mute" feature, you can do it all within the system. You still may need to group…

Using SNMP V-toe, you can connect to some of the higher-end brands like Jimmy Choo, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton. As for your Grandmother's set, you have to either install the a Unix emulator on your polling engine to use the tee utility, or you can set up your monitors in PowerShell, since it has the "Tee-Object" command.

In Manage nodes, change the listing from "nodes" to "interfaces" (drop down near the top). THEN select your interfaces and go through the process you described. Just don't ask me about volumes. For some inexplicable reason, you can't get to volumes from there.

chad.every​ echo'd my idea: have the batch file output a result file, and monitor the contents of that file with SAM. If you don't want to configure a log file monitor, you can also do a file-exists monitor and have your batch file create (or delete) "ran_successfully.txt" or something like that. Or check the age of the…

It's pretty easy as long as you know your polling interval. If you leave it at the default (120 seconds) then 3 intervals is 6 seconds. So your alert trigger is really just: Node Status is equal to down and then at the bottom of that same tab, set the trigger delay to 6 minutes (or 7 if you want to be on the safe side). As…

Two more choices: * Go to Settings, Polling Engines - that will give you the load on each polling engine (if you have more than one) * Download my polling engine load report: which will give you the breakdown of total nodes, interfaces, volumes, APM monitors, custom pollers and more.

But there's a good chance they STILL couldn't convince sqlrockstar​ to wear pants!