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Tips on how to customize and improve the product from other users. Entertaining an informative challenges that increase my ability to use the products you put out. The ability to interact with Solarwinds production and support team members to influence future upgrades and direct sunlight to any issues that pop up on…

to be honest, the reasons I have for wanting the AppInsight concept on all of my main server is because I am a network engineer and I don't know what is "pertinant" on all of the systems I am monitoring. The administrators of the various systems rarely if ever engage with me to define what they want to see, but they will…

I agree with Jspanitz. One of my biggest issues is the creation of new views for presenting information. The way the system works now, the widgets and frames that are allowed are restricted by the view type you choose at the beginning of the process, and god help you if you con't pick the right one. Also, unless everything…

SO we also took the entire solarwinds system offline and rebuilt the indexes on the SQL box. Fragmentation either stayed the same or got WORSE. I really do not understand. Either the info it is pulling is bad, or something is drastically wrong with my DB server. The DB size also jumped 7GB when we did the…

SQL will always try to use up as much RAM as is available. I have always thought it a good idea to put enough RAM in the server to pull the entire DB into RAM if possible. We were finally able to pull our SQL database of a multi-tasked SQL box and use a dedicated Solarwinds SQL instance. Ours has 70GB ram but is using 6…

I agree with Joe Dissmeyer and telethwack, both IIS and Exchange are great candidates. I would also love to see this concept on UCM/Unity Connection servers.

Our Unix administrators have said hte service is on and running, they confirmed I entered the community string correctly and they confirmed the SNMP port (199) and they confirmed that it was v2c. I am still unable to poll.

Thanks, After I realized that the smaller sized tables were the ones that were causing the critical errors, I simply moved the goalposts on the alerting mechanism. I can manually check fragmentation in the larger tables, and scheduled maintenance seems to keep that fragmentation in check. I look forward to the version…

OK, so the SQL database server has been through one maintenance cycle after running the Defragmentation query specified in the KB article. The defragmentation is minimally better but not enough so that I could call it a success. Any other ideas?

Well, The SQL server was set up using that PDF document, so it is in compliance with all of the recommendations. I ran the SQL query in that knowledgebase article and I will wait for the nightly maintenance to finish in order to see if that helped out. In any case, thank you for the answer.

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately when I started attempting to use the image matching function I ran into a new issue. The Java forms applet that is launched seems to be re-sizing the browser window and subbordinating it behind a full screen Java window. When I try to get back to the browser window, the "Match" button is…

Thanks for the reply. That makes sense to me, and I will have a discussion with our SQL admins about cleaning up the databases.

THis is probably a dumb question, but how do I import this into the Virtual Manager?

We do the standard stuff like Scott. Additionally we added them to NCM and pull the running configs nightly and startup configs weekly. We are also pulling IPSLA information from the switches and of course environmental info.

We have 6 sites across the globe. I set up a page that displays the Internet circuit usage at each site. In order to do this I created a custom summary view and added custom HTML resources. If you are using NPM 10.5 or higher you will get the new graphs and have the ability to make subpages, which speeds load times for the…

If you have NTA running you can limit the view down to a single node/IP Address and then actually parse all of the bandwidth to let you know exactly what Applications are being used, who is on the other end of the conversation etc. Just this week, after turning on NTA we found this little GEM in our network

We set up a separate account on the Solarwinds server with view only access. Made the account never expire and removed the automatic logout due to inactivity. Then we logged in using those credentials and used Chrome with the Revolver extension to automatically move between the pages we wanted to see. It is working for us…