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Have you tried using AppInsight for SQL‌ instead Yes: a bit too much for my purposes, and "expensive" license-wise. If I enable it for our few SQL Servers, we'd be out of licenses fast, given that I can't disable / delete components in it. AppInsight just seems like a cruise ship where a kayak might do. or the SQL Server…

Thank you. Are you saying though that everybody else can submit tickets just fine?

That's the point, you have to add that suppression to each alert. There is no way to add one rule that would apply to all alerts, like "do not send any alerts for nodes that are down and that are located in London". (I know this particular condition doesn't make sense - in my case, I want to add an "in maintenance" custom…

Thank you. "Unmanaged" isn't the only condition I need to disable alerts on, though.

Am I right to suspect that to create a custom email alert I have to access the SW server directly and not via SW administrative web GUI? Well that was a "yes", thank you very much. The next question I have trouble figuring out: How do I set up a new monitor (say, HTTP) and a custom alert for an existing node (that is…

Have not - will check it out - thank you!

This behavior would be expected at present. The results of the last A record lookup for that host are stored in the DB. In the event DNS lookup fails, NPM is still able to poll the device via last-known IP for that host. To test for DNS lookup failure- SAM has a built in DNS user experience template. Rob: sorry but it's…

Can I select which nodes to license with SAM, or does it simply apply to all nodes in our organization? All "managed" nodes - i.e. all directly monitored nodes including ICMP ones. (Yes, you read that right ) It would be nice to know how this works before making an irreversible change to our licenses. We'll hold off on…

Don't have and couldn't find the updated links - however following Craig's advice to "edit" - expand "filter examples" - then "show properties" - worked for me.

That does it! Thank you!

Each one of those component monitors would require a license, correct? I.e. the only way to avoid a situation where SAM appears to function properly yet in fact failed and stopped functioning, is to purchase additional (or use existing, paid for) licenses - or use a 3rd party monitoring tools? "Power cord to be purchased…

Thank you Danielle

Is SNMP polling allowed on the external node? If so, click on 'List resources' for the node and change the 'Status & Response time' option from ICMP to SNMP There's no option to "list resources". Don't believe there are any "stats & response time" choices for nodes set as "external" or "ICMP only". If you see any, please…

External nodes in NPM are not polled. WPM can do this in some ways, SAM can do this in some ways. Curious in what ways SAM can ping external nodes (other than via a scripted monitor). If you know the way, please let me know...

Unless I missed something, can't use conditions in trigger actions. E.g. you can't set it up so that "for tier 1 nodes, use this trigger action, otherwise use that one". You have to use separate alerts for that. Unless I am missing something.

That makes a lot of sense - thanks Christian. I don't particularly like the idea of setting up a separate alert for each type of escalation, object tier, or type of problem, and outsourcing escalation to a ticketing system makes a lot of sense on several levels. That didn't occur to me before and I'll keep that in mind for…

, I never got an answer for that yet. Either in the DB directly or re-add the server to Solarwinds which is not feasible & defn not a good approach Thanks. My ticket with support for this issue is 777003. Let's hope it's a lucky number.

add "Custom object resource" to a view, then add your group. you should be able to add a single node or a group, and then should be able to select the object resource to show. i.e. "Disk Volumes" "Memory Usage" "CPU Load" "Availability" etc... Can't seem to be able to do what paulwang asked: auto-populate CPU load /…

Indeed it is: Thank you!

Did another test. Timeline: * 0: set SNMP community string to a wrong value so NPM would not be able to poll anything other than ICMP status. * 1 minute (why are timestamps so off? Don't know):* Interface eth0 on RStudioDB changed to Warning at 5/23/2015 3:26:00 AM * Interface eth0 on RStudioDB changed to Warning at…

If the port you are monitoring is a Web Server or similar web service, you could use Web Performance Monitor, as WPM is not impacted by this defect. Similarly, if you have IPSLA capable Cisco devices in your environment, you could use Voice & Network Quality Manager to create and monitor a TCP Connect operation. It too is…

a simple workaround would be to create a SQL Trigger to show volumes as Down when they are not responding to queries. Thanks for the response HolyGuacamole... what question are you answering? P.S. At the end of the starting post, there're three questions I'd love answers to.

Hello my friend. OK, I just gave it a search on Thwack and found not much on it. I need to figure out solution for the same thing myself. I will be digging further and will let you know how it goes. Appreciate that. So far I installed SD3 (SuperDoctor 3) on one of the nodes - that started a monitoring service that can do…

I'm sure based on the information that graph is displaying. Raul, may I recommend to be more than just "sure" when your sig block says "Solarwinds consultancy" in it? If it is not I would raise a ticket with SolarWinds as this is how it should work. I'll consider that. May I in turn recommend abstaining from technically…

that is the total bytes transferred across all monitored interfaces Over what timeframe? Since the beginning of time? The timeframe of the graph? (Neither option appears to be the right answer - please read my post.) ..and maybe go easy on those sig blocks?

Thank you. That's a bummer.

Read the thread please.

Solarwinds is able to reproduce the behavior every time yet is refusing to start a bug tracker - they're asking for my diagnostics and logs. In order to make it work: "edit script", choose random credentials, save, then back to "inherit from node" - and it may start working. If not, rinse and repeat. Solarwinds: just in…

aLTeReGo wrote: Orion does not currently provide a macro for including dynamic warning and critical thresholds for volumes in alert message notifications. aLTeReGo: is this still true with the latest releases / patches / updates? In that case, what are the best practices recommended by Solarwinds short of duplicating…