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These gauges are built in. You can add them by going to Customize Page --> Add Resources --> Universal Device Poller - Linear Gauge. Then edit the resource and choose which gauge you want to use. The three above are, respectively, Black LEDs, Black Round LEDs, and Black Dial.

This is an SWQL query and cannot be used as just a SQL query. You either have to put it in a Custom Query resource on an Orion view or you can put it in a report using the Advanced SQL/SWQL Query option and selecting SWQL as the query type. I edited it to add in the use of a custom property: SELECT n.Caption, SUM(CASE WHEN…

I brought a server on NPM 12.0.1, SAM 6.3.0, NCM 7.5.1, UDT 3.2.4, and SRM 6.3.0 directly to the current releases with the new installer without any issues. There is no need to take an interim step of going to 12.1. One word of warning, the installer will check for incompatibilities with existing modules and will refuse to…

In Orion, navigate to Settings --> Manage Accounts. Then select the account in question and click the "Edit" button and scroll down and expand the "Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor Settings" section. You will find those setting within that section. One note, if you don't have Orion administrative rights, you will…

john.trumbul​, yes, you can certainly do that. On the Trigger Condition tab, in the drop down where you select what type of object you want to alert on, there are options at the very bottom of the list for custom SQL/SWQL queries Oh, and, War Eagle!

Events != Alerts Although you can write to the event log as an alert action, Solarwinds logs events constantly that do not originate from alerts. As an example, when a node goes down, Solarwinds will log a Node Down event that says something to the effect of "Node xyz has stopped responding". This happens without the need…

Going back to the document I linked yesterday, the 'none' and 'not all' options don't work as you might suspect. You can look at the top of page 7 of the document for a description of how they work. The none option you have it configured with is saying something like the following in the appropriate portion of the SQL: NOT…

As tony.johnson​ referenced above, I would recommend using the 'Current Numeric Value' as opposed to the 'Current Value' field when creating UnDP alerts that involve numbers. I have a sneaky suspicion that when you just go with the 'Current Value', that Solarwinds is just doing a text string comparison in which case 9…

Under the scope of the alert section, set it in both sections to just look at a particular node something like the following: However, if you have multiple devices that you want to use this (or a similar) alert for, I see two options: 1) Create a separate alert for each device. This would be pretty straightforward: create…

No, these don't replicate automatically. Solarwinds provides documented procedures both for updating Solarwinds Orion itself as well as installing operating system patches: Upgrade SolarWinds Orion when Orion Failover Engine is Installed - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support Apply operating system (OS) patches or…

It just hit me that you can't do that and I came back here to reply. No, the best solution will be what jhandberg​ mentioned and creating a complex alert condition. That's what I get for posting too early in the morning.

I think this is how you want to configure your alert:

Availability is located in the ResponseTime view as well as in the ResponseTime_Daily, ResponseTime_Detail, ResponseTime_Hourly, and ResponseTime_Statistics tables in the database. If you are just looking for availability within your detail statistics retention window (default 7 days), you can use the ResponseTime_Detail…

Do you have any other Solarwinds modules, SAM especially? Each module can have it's own set of credentials. As an example, if you do have SAM, you may want to go to Settings --> SAM Settings --> Credentials Library and see if the account in question is in there.

I would avoid deleting objects from the database. If you just delete it from the database, you may be leaving orphaned data behind in other tables. There is a stored procedure you can run to do the deletion though. For interfaces, the stored procedure is named swsp_DeleteInterface and takes the InterfaceID as a variable.…

Oh, so you are trying to sum poller data from two different nodes? If so, I don't know that you can do that and put it on a map because at that point, it is not associated to any single node. A transform only looks at the pollers on a single node. You should be able to do a custom query resource and show the sum that way,…

Shutting down the interface is making a change to the running config, even if you don't save it to the startup config. Any time you make a change, the switch is going to fire off a syslog message that contains the string "Configured from console" (at least for Cisco IOS) which is the string that the syslog rule is looking…

What do you have for a threshold further down the page? Warning and Critical for SAM components come from the threshold settings. My thought is that there is a threshold set for greater than zero or something like that. I would suggest setting a threshold of less than one.

So, that is kind of a tricky question. Technically, yes, you could set the custom property directly from the PowerShell script. But, to do so would require using the Orion PowerShell snapin from the SDK. And, if you are running the scripts on a remote host, each one would need the SDK installed, or alternatively use REST…

Thanks. As I said above, I have duplicated it on both RHEL 6.5 and CentOS 6.5 fresh installs fully patched. I have tried using both the Microsoft ODBC driver for Linux and FreeTDS and both produce the same behavior. But, I do think it is something MS SQL related. I brought up a MySQL server today and that worked just fine.…

Yes, FOE would require an additional license cost. Also, to answer your question number 2 above, FOE only protects the Orion server, not the database server or the NTA flow storage server. And, if you are talking about a site going dark scenario, you will definitely want to have a solution for those, at least the database…

What I was referring to above is that the script does indeed run on the Solarwinds poller. It doesn't get pushed to the remote server and executed. So, if there is nothing in the script to tell it to connect to the remote server, all of the actions it takes are going to be on the polling engine server itself. You will need…

Yes, when you are editing the Custom Query resource to enter the query, simply change the title to whatever you would like:

That is the global search function. To install it, you would manually run the installer file C:\ProgramData\Solawinds\Installers\OGSInstaller.msi. More information can be found at: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/groups/global-search-preview

If you look at their new offerings, this should not come as a surprise. They now have HA built into the Orion suite itself starting with SAM 6.3: SolarWinds Orion 2016.2 feature: High Availability - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

You could do this in one alert as follows: I added in a middle category to cover all volume sizes. Another option would be to create a volume custom property for the alert threshold and use that in the alert: - blsanner Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems * Facebook: Loop1…

You may also want to check your user account rights under the "Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor Setting". You would need to have the appropriate rights in this section as well:

You can also get it right within the Advanced Alert Manager by clicking the dropdown for Type of Property to Monitor and selecting "Custom SQL Alert" at the bottom of the list. However, if you are going to copy this into Database Manager, you need to remember to type in the part in the greyed out box at the top.

This is not true at all. The Alert Suppression tab within the Advanced Alert Manager does not work as most people suspect. Please see page 8 of the following document: http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/UnderstandingOrionAdvancedAlerts.pdf Basically, the Alert Suppression condition is evaluated completely…

The ${NodeName} is just a variable that passes along the name of the affected server as an argument to the PowerShell script.