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I seem to have found a solution. I have copied one of the general 'out of the box' advanced alerts, renamed it and added variables into the email section. This seems to work as I no linger receive dozens of emails. I now receive two emails, one from the 'alert me when an application goes down' alert and one from the copy…

Hello, I'm not evaluating the software, I am trying to set up a variety of crucial business alerts that will alert the support team via email when a particular events happen on a particular server. I don't understand why it works when I select one of the 'out of the box' advanced alerts, but when I set up my own using the…

Hello Syed, I found the database which was helpful and I've done some tidying up around the system. I am now receiving one alert when I run 'gpupdate' on the specific server. The problem I have is it doesn't work with the advanced alert I've created but it works with the standard 'alert me when an application goes down'.…

Hi Syed, Thanks, I tried what you suggested but I'm still geting emails/alerts for other servers that are alerting for other events and services. quite bizzare, I thought if you set up monitoring for a unique event on one particular server that the alert should only look for those consitions. I'm wondering if the guy who…

WOW, thank you so much for the detailed instructions and taking the time to help me. I am going to read your information/instructions very carefully and then try to apply it. This is just what I needed; thanks so much again

Hello, We got to the bottom of the issue, the security guy checked all firewall rules and was confident that the issue wasn't firewall related. The issue was actually on our Netscaler MPX's. There is only one guy who has an account on these, he assured me he had set everything up for Solarwinds, and he had in terms of…

Thanks so much Bryan, I will try this approach and when we get to the bottom of it I will update here with the findings.

Hello Guys, Thanks for your replies they helped me a lot in terms of thinking about the process more and the places where I needed to delve further. I have since discovered that I seem to be receiving alerts from a few different servers, even though my trigger alert states a particular node name! Also, when I untick the…

I deleted it :-/

Just to let you know, I have entered the script and got an output; thank you so much. I don't seem to get an actual hypertext link that I can click on, do you know if there is a way of doing this? Is there something I can do in here:- Also I tried to add more information to the report such as 'installed software' 'version'…

Sorry, I had tried it in SQL Server Management Studio. I will try it in SWQL; thanks so much.

Thank you for your help Marc. We are using the wrong raid type so have raised a change request to remedy this. We will be upgrading soon so this is just to improve performance until it happens, the main issue is when using the Web interface its ridiculously slow.

Hi Bryan, I can ping the internal side of the firewall but I'm not sure about the DMZ, I asked our security guy but he's not got back to me yet with the details. We decided we could go live anyway and monitor the outstanding devices on the old system for one month using an evaluation license. But I've just tested our AS400…

Hello, Thanks so much for your input, I think I might try using the File Count Monitor first as we definitely would like to know how many files are received into the 'Error' folder. I would also like to try PowerShell Monitor, however I've written basic scripts before but think this might not be basic and I don't have a…

Thanks so much David, that is really helpful; just what I was looking for. Want to get a balance of not overloading them and making it interesting, so the mix of the demo site, videos and creating an alert on our production system seems like the right approach. Thanks again. Anita

Hi, Thanks fro your reply. I'm actually importing the alert back into the system that it came from. I was just testing the process out before I do the real thing, so it doesn't make sense as to why the alert doesn't import back into a system that it came from.

Hello HolyGuacamole, I have assigned the template to one server only at the moment. I think I'm getting emails every time there is a 'poll' which is every 10 mins. Please excuse my naming 'ZZ_P_Spoolertest_now_GPupdate'! I was testing the print spooler event originally but changed it because there were too many events…

Hello, Thanks for your reply, we are currently using Orion Platform 2011.1.5300 NPM 12 & SAM 6.2.4 on Windows 2008 R2 and we create our alerts through the Web UI. We plan to upgrade NPM and SAM on the old server first then perform the migration. The main objective is to upgrade the physical server as it's pretty old and…

Hi Richard, Thanks for your reply, Building the SQL server first then pointing the old server to it is a good idea. Because we are using the same IP and Hostname I need to make the transition as smooth as possible and I think this idea will definitely contribute to that.

Thanks Geoff, I had two separate alerts for two servers however I have created a component group and now one alert serve both :-)

Thank you so much for your help, this is now working a treat, also the option of component with HTML orders the services into a list which is great when you are alerting on 30+ services.

Hello, Thanks for your reply. Looks like this is the kind of thing that I need, I entered the code into a query but I'm getting an error, I've tried to find some examples on the internet to work it out but getting nowhere fast! This is the message:- Invalid column name 'AssetInventory'. I've tried adding a column name from…

The list I have is just IP addresses of nodes, I could try extracting the node names and IPs from the current database but it sounds like Solarwinds will pick up the FQDNs. I will start by initially discover just a few devices and take it form there. Thanks to everyone for replying, this has put my mind at ease

Thank you for the link to Service Control Manager, I'm just about to have a good read, it sounds promising

Hello and thanks for replying, We have the NPM Platform, I can see 'Server and Application Monitor' under this platform, also when I look at 'Active Alerts' I can see existing alerts for applications that have (WMI) next to them, so I'm assuning we have SAM. Also in 'Advanced Alert Manager' under 'Manage Alerts' I can see…

Thanks for your reply, our database is on a separate server however I've since discovered that there has not been any maintenance done in a long time, I got our DBA to take a look today and he's made some tweaks. We are also looking to change some of the disks. We are using RAID5 for our data and are looking to swap these…

Thank you very much Raul that makes sense to me now

Thank you Tony, that makes sense, I'm learning as I'm going along here. Really appreciate your response. I have found a few VMs that were missed by the GPO, so I've added the details into the SNMP Service, done another rediscover & Poll and they have now moved into the VMware category. I still have quite a lot outstanding…

Hi, Thanks for your reply. The Old Poller is using ICMP and SNMP Old and New servers are on the same subnet space It's not a switch that I'm trying to monitor it's 4 web server's and Netscaler MPX I can ping the Servers from the Old Poller but not the New one, but the Security guy assures me that the new Poller IP has been…

Thanks David, I have created the Software Inventory Report but I've been asked to get the licensing information specifically. Apparently there is a way to do it, I was sent this link from Solarwinds Support Create, apply, and alert on a WMI monitor - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support but I got stuck at the part…