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Support responded with a flat out "no": * there is no way to format the percentage with two digits after the dot using new variables, and we can't explain why * the new variable is a string (text) with a "%" sign appended, not a number like the old one, and we can't explain why * "Format Output Value" is not documented…

"It gets curiouser and curiouser" Variable picker does not show format output options for "Percent Used": It does - for "Volume Percent Available": What are the options, one might ask? Never thought "Response Time" or "Duplex Mode" applied to percentages or numerals but who am I to question Solarwinds developers?…

How would I go about it? I think I got it. Per "net-snmp-config(1) Mac OS X Manual Page", I run these two commands: net-snmp-config --configure-options net-snmp-config --snmpd-module-list ... to get the compilation flags and the MIBs list, and then attempt to run net-snmp-config --compile-subagent ...with those flags and…

it's difficult for support to say "it's broken" if the behavior has been consistent since inception. Despite the many threads that report it as a bug - since 2009 - and Solarwinds never acknowledging what the expected or as-implemented behavior is, until today? Is there a disconnect here or is it just me being cranky? I…

Support just closed the ticket with "it does clearly states that there’s no data collection external Nodes therefore, it includes updating the IP address". Could someone from Solarwinds confirm that this is Solarwinds' official position? My feeling is that support for hostnames in external nodes has nothing to do with the…

If we wish to update IP dynamically, we should set as ICMP. ...Which is just wrong: unlike internal nodes, external ones may not do ICMP at all. It's not intuitive and we certainly could adjust this behavior. Will look to do so in future releases. I think it should be a patch to existing releases. My company already paid…

I'd recommend upgrading the versions though to the latest release on those OS's that aren't giving you what you need. How would I go about it? Net-SNMP Wiki warns: Note that starting with 10.5, Apple's binary provides additional information above and beyond what the standard Net-SNMP agent provides. So unless you need a…

Per aLTeReGo‌ in TCP Port Monitor for FQDNs on external nodes?: Properly updating the IP address for dynamic external node types is a bug we are tracking internally under CORE-341 So at least this isn't considered an "as designed" behavior by Solarwinds - as it previously was.

Support responded that ${N=SwisEntity;M=VolumePercentUsed} is "string" variable, not a number, thus making any efforts to format it as a numeral - futile. They suggested to use old style variable, ${VolumePercentUsed} - which works with formulas like Round(). I responded with: * This doesn't answer the question: how do I…

Did you apply the latest available hot fixes? Your issue may be covered by item 7 below: "(Orion Platform 2015.1 Hotfix 4) 6. Alert schedules that occur during the Daylight Saving Time change (2:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m.) may no longer respect your maintenance windows. 7. You receive false alerts about node reboots when users…

What's the proper protocol to get this thread closed? (Don't want to mark my own post as "correct answer".)

Are you using net-snmp for this, or a built-in snmp agent? If you're using net-snmp, what version? Are they the same on both servers? Built-in, I am guessing. Thought there were all net-snmp. Whatever came with OSX. Versions 5.4.2.1 on 10.6.x and 5.6 - on 10.7. We have 40-50 xServes deployed and about 15 2006-2010 Mac Pro…

Thank you. I take it, SAM can't run in "read-only" mode? (E.g. off an existing database already in use by SAM 6.1?) "Best practice" beta testing - on a separate system and DB, on a subset of existing nodes?

Solarwinds support is seeing the same issue and "sensing that is the default behavior". In other words: NPM does NOT support external nodes with dynamic IPs. Shouldn't this be in big bold letters on NPM and SAM product pages like this one? Otherwise people may be lead into purchasing decisions based on false data (of…

${N=SwisEntity;M=VolumePercentUsed;F=Integer} Again, assuming Integer is valid. Give it a try. Doesn't resolve. Would also prefer it rounded to a two-digit precision (or scale) rather than converted to integer.

Is there a way to specify the node within the script? If you could pass the IP address of the target node as a command parameter to the script, would that work for the purpose? (Sorry if this is irrelevant - I am a complete noob in SW and perl.) If it does work, here's how: Script Arguments This field is in the script…

Since you are going to ask me "HolyGuacamole, which question are you answering?", I am going to pre-empt this a bit So, I am answering this question So here I go whining again: WHY? Why can't I send application tier in the email when I can check for it in trigger conditions? Well, you can. There is nothing a little SQL…

Well I am a dork. It was a 2012 server, not R2. Once upgraded to R2, it worked out of the box. Sorry for the trouble. The correct answers are: * WS2012 R2 can be polled out of the box by enabling remote WMI, * The OP (Original Poster) is a dork and should check OS version before posting questions like this. Sorry for the…

It would be disingenuous to visually convey volume status as "red" within the Orion web interface, stating there is a problem, when in reality this is normal behavior when a volume is deleted from Windows. ...or if it's a SAN volume disconnecting abnormally in which case it makes a lot of sense because a single "volumes…

Thanks. Case 751230.

Try adding Hyper-V resources to your normal node detail view, go to settings, custom views by node type and change for hyper-v to the standard view. Now you should have a unified view where everything you change or add looks the same for hyper-v. That's a good tip, thank you - gives me some ideas on how to adjust our SW…

Has anyone gotten Hotfix 3 installed correctly? Works for us on a production system, thus far. Not sure if this matters for you but support told us of an error in the installation instructions (corrected since): The hotfix was already released by our development team, please download on below link:…

At the time you receive the alert gather diagnostics and open a case with support. Thanks aLTeReGo‌. What would prevent support from telling me, "it's a problem with your equipment, fix it"? The issue likely is with the equipment (target node taking too long to respond) however I can't troubleshoot further w/o getting SNMP…

Is there an ETA on 6.2 going out of beta?

Is anyone running perl scripts longer than 2-3 pages (more than 1k characters) in SAM successfully? If so, anyone running them on OSX targets? P.S. Dear Solarwinds: it would really help to make that error message less cryptic. You created it. Please tell me why. Document possible scenarios where and when it occurs. At the…

Sorry, just don't see how using a 3rd party always-on agent (that must be deployed with privilege escalation) is a sound security policy, vs. tightening down a built-in OS monitoring toolset.

Just curious if you were able to resolve this issue? I'm am running into the same thing. No resolution AFAIK. Quite a few other things are broken in NPM so this wasn't high on my radar - and I did not submit a support ticket yet. If you, could you please mention its number here?

These are not as much external nodes as they are external services managed by 3rd parties - like Amazon AWS or 3rd party FTP sites for content sharing with partners and clients. Being a sysadmin, I want to know the uptime of these 3rd party services for SLA and preventive trouble-shooting purposes, so I monitor these…

"The Ping will be performed from the Windows node that this template will be assigned to." I think the purpose of this template is to check if node A can ping node B. The monitor's stats remain with Node A rather than with B. I need it to be node B. The monitor should be assigned to node B, the external node. You tried.

Most machines managed in my lab are not joined to a domain, nor are most of my Orion servers that I have monitoring. Thanks aLTeReGo. Firewall? Edit: my mistake. WS 2012 R2 does work for SW polling out of the box through firewall by enabling remote WMI.