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This absolutely works, by the way. Bo

I run them on the same box with no issues.

In case anyone is curious, here is what I did: * Stopped all services via the Orion Service Manager (I did not unload the COM+ application) from top to bottom * Changed the time zone to GMT and cleared the checkbox for Daylight Savings * Started all services via the Orion Service Manager from botton to top * Opened the…

 http://www.solarwinds.com/support/Orion/docs/ReleaseNotes/releaseNotes.htm 

I would like to know this also. Has anyone testing the SOAP interface with version 9.0.1?

I have made several views for my Custom MIB pollers. What woud be really nice is if I could have graphs of more than one Custom MIB poller (or any data item in Orion). It would be great to be able to have this reporting feature. I would love to see some kind of ad-hoc reporting in the web. Additionally, the option to send…

I did that upgrade without any real issues. Only "issue" I had was with the SP2 install. After installation, it was unable to start the Server Manager. I rebooted, and all was well. I also allowed the initial install (9.0) to open Server Manager and run a baseline. The new features rock. In fact, the Universal Device…

net stop <service display name> net start <service display name> You will need to determine what the com+ service name is. Bo

How do you have your alerts set up? If you are alerting by device or group, you could take this device out of the alert group, and only add those monitors you want to alert on. I do this all the time.

When I get asked these kinds of questions, I always try to think of how it will benefit the person asking. So, here are some reasons I would use: * Proactive maintenance - this means you will be able to replace components before they totally fail, minimizing downtime of the device. Specifically, downtime waiting for parts…

When you use the "contains" condition, it will fire true if the string you are testing contains the string condition anywhere in the string. You should use the "Starts With" condition in your case. Bo

I wonder if this is an XP issue. You only have 4 outbound connection, and I wonder if you are getting them used up. Any reason you haven't installed on Windows Server? Bo

I have a c# executable I made which the monitor launches. It does a test for me, and has a return code value. I then look at that to know what happens. For example, a return of 0 is success, 5 failure, etc. It works well for me. Bo

You can specify which log to monitor, and then the event types, codes, and/or text. I am doing this to alert of a modem fails, or even if print job fails. What events are you trying to monitor, and in what cases do you want an alert?

I had a similar issue with the Custom MIB Poller. I have to restart the Custom MIB Poller service to fix the issue. After talking to tech support, it is very possible that my configuration (SQL Server is on the same server) could be causing the issue. I have a scheduled task to restart the service once a day. It only take…

You could do this by making your instructions and such as tags, then including the tags into your email alerts. Although I do not do any formatting in my emails, I do include server specific information in most of my alerts. If you are using version 9, you can find how to insert tags into your alerts by going to Help, and…

Personally, I would use an external script or c# executable to do this. ipMonitor could monitor for a "fail" condition, and then execute the script.

I was refered to the Administrator Guide, which does a good job of explaining how to ge this working right. In case anyone is wondering, here is an example of the regex I am using: ^mytest[0-9] for the mytest hostname and ^test[0-9] for the test hostname. The "^" means "start at the beginning of the string." Bo

Should this work for automated reports and on the web site? It seems to me it only adds the custom logo on reports generated directly from the Report Writer. Bo

Just thinking off the top of my head, you could try monitoring for a file. For example, make a simple text file on the share you want to monitor called monitor.txt, and then monitor for the existance of that file. You could also make the test time very short, like 10 seconds or so. If the share is not accessible in…

I seem to recall having a similar issue with traps and executing a program. As I recall, I had to specify the absolute path the the EXE, without any variables, to get it to work properly. Although I usually hate hard coding anything, this did not seem to unreasonable, since I have only 1 Orion server. Bo

I am using the Universal Device Poller to track several items on my ESX servers. By the way, the UDP is awesome! Anyway, here are th OIDs I have started using: 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.2.1.1.4 (vmGuestOS) 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.2.1.1.6 (vmState) 1.3.6.1.4.1.6876.2.1.1.8 (vmGuestState) I am also getting the ESX CPU and Memory usage to a…

Orion doesn't support tables. So...you will have to make a custom poller for each port. Which is an obvious hastle. I know SolarWinds is looking at supporting tables in the custom MIB poller for some future release. Hope this helps. Bo

I did that upgrade and all my pollers came over with no issue.

I like option 4. However, I would also like to see this option in the web console. In fact, I would also like to see an option to export reports into any available format from the web console. Thanks! Bo

I also would love this. Bo

SMTP Error! Damn it. Bo

I have done something similar. Here is what I did: 1. Open the node details page for each node 2. Click on the CPU Load radial gauge to get to the Chart 3. Customise the chart so it looks the way you want (Sample Interval, Time Period, and Size) 4. Refresh the page if you made changes 5. View the page source. You will see…