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I try to think about the end-end and user experience where it's possible to measure. An example is a NAS share that had an outage - all green on our storage monitoring and it turned out to be a DNS issue. Still we needed to find a way to show that legitimate user outage or our monitoring becomes a limited tool - and hence…

‌I had a subselect in our ipam subnet view which returned the next available IP. Don't remember if it was based on min ip_addressN guid or just the min last octet but I lost it somewhere along the way. Do I need to recreate it or is IPAM going to calculate this for us soon?

new reply to an old reply It seems this is still the case that admin rights are required? Any hope on granular rights for dependencies or looping it in with node management rights like groups are?

This really becomes an NCM vs Puppet (or other devops app) discussion. I would almost rather see SAM become more like NCM. 

If this looks ok to you then drop me a note and I'll send you the SWQL to use. Depending if your UCS are on their own node details page by MachineType, "Cisco" you will see this either for just them or on all your node detail pages. For that reason I made a new left-side navigation page and put these there. Benefit is when…

Our ticketing system has a contracts module that works great. Allowing entry of contracts and separate association to assets. For now I plan to create a custom property and push the contract# over and then display in a custom HTML referencing back to the ticket system. While today I beleieve WHD has this functionality- If…

I have all B200 M3's and am not sure what's missing, I thought hardware health was missing because it was UCS and covered by the UCS manager? Have I been missing stuff this whole time and not knowing it- now I'm paranoid

People over Process over Technology ...and super tool-building skills. Not just the scripts we've all built and relied on for our own needs but tools that are portable, understandable, and transformational. My current example is pushing Windows config files on change (PS compare-object) to a Github repository. This brings…

I Agree - I do not want to have to ignore thousands of nodes/interfaces for my discoveries when I can state right up front I only ever care about discovering physical interfaces on nodes.

Excited as hell about all of these! Can I ask for a summary of what "Real-Time Performance Analysis" is solving? Also - all of this after the amazing 6.2 release -I wonder if you're going to give your devs some well-deserved summer vacations

Did some digging and have found that nodes that are neither virtual nor have any Application monitors all seem to be missing from Appstack server categories. Here's the workaround: I've been able to add simple http and snmp app monitors to my storage nodes(not yet supported by SRM), blade chassis which should have been…

How then do I grant access in report writer application to see those subfolder reports? Without that it's only modifying webpage account access to reports and not properly reflecting those changes in report writer. Worse yet is multiple organizations that need access to write their own reports and not affects others.

SAM page includes that one. I also thought it strange it was not on NPM page but the thinking was SAM guys script more? Flame retardant suit on.

I have this today for each datacenter. * I have added an AppStack environment resource to that summary page for each datacenter. * Then I opened that in AppStack and filtered by location and Production then saved so the resource filters the same way. * I've modified the AppStack participation queries to include all nodes…

Yup- read the video transcript and no answers- the above link would have helped

This is in my list to accomplish next quarter. In hopes someone else will do it for me here was my thoughts. * Powershell script run from poller in question testing connection (ping) and on success calling up snmpwalk to test only uptime oid. Tested and works in an IF THEN ELSE script block but needs to have community…

FIrst off- I hear lots of others saying they to rely on whiteboards to start off drawings and then hopefully get them translated to Visio? has anyone else just uploaded the whiteboard camera pic as a network atlas background and overlay nodes?

Go to manage nodes and on the left group by Machine Type then select 'net-snmp - Linux' and confirm these are all your linux servers. If so then just replace this filter section or just add that last line. Add more for each type of machine type you want to filter. --filter on not unmanaged, not responding, not Linux, and…

I agree a volume filter just like the interfaces would be great. Alternatively we will likely mute volumes (Custom Property) based on name pattern, or worse case move them into the Discovery Results ignore tables based on name. Either way it will only find them the first time and ignore thereafter and still be automated.

But what about us network guys?... Breaking the silo mentality Leon, I agree that AppStack is the best root-cause analysis/visualization tool in Orion. But as a network guy I would expect it to show at least my switches or non-application servers. Rather then breaking the silo mentality it seems at the moment to put the…

I would prefer to evaluate alert severity based on business service or application prioritize and impact. A clustered/ load-balanced webserver is not very critical on its one but when they all go down or there is a site outage then it's a P1. Hmmm how to do this??? Paging Alterego. Thanks, Christian

Old post but the AlertStatus.Notes (SQL) or Orion.AlertStatus.Notes (SWQL) now contains the acknowledged notes - so a custom query as such should return all active alerts and their notes: SELECT AlertDefinitions.Name TriggerTimeStamp , ObjectName , AcknowledgedTime , AcknowledgedBy , Notes FROM Orion.AlertStatus INNER JOIN…

I have started using Discovery Profiles for 100% of new servers going into my Orion and I have to say Auto-Import and Add by AD are the missing links. I might still decide to import by IP since we have a subnet not on the same AD but it's great otherwise. Testing this against server agents rolled into images should be…

Search for OGS and technology preview and you might find this: Re: NPM unified and syslog search preview and you might be interested in it.

CloudWatch you say? Autoscale groups you say? Zoidberg feels like king of the AWS!

Agreed on all points and want to add that both Dynamic Queries and Account limitation builder not having an IS/IS NOT NULL and more Boolean operators such as AND/OR has been severely limiting. If I build groups on custom properties, and limit accounts based on groups then I end up in a horrible Bermuda triangle when…

I would suggest your custom property to be "No" for normal and "Yes" for outlier as it will default to no. Mine is called Mute_CPU. You are correct about the alert as it triggers on status regardless of reason, cpu, memory, Virtual, metric, etc. Not in front of it but is there a type field that shows the reporting object?

No just that I want the power that more left hand conditionals would bring. Right now I'm up to more then a dozen left hand views on our node detail page and it's getting unwieldy. I don't use custom pages per device type as there are too many different sub models (it needs a begins with Boolean search such as groups and…

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