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  • Where is the link to "part 2 of this series"?
    in The Basics of PowerShell (part 3) Comment by bmcmcm October 2015
  • It seems to me that DevOps only applies to a portion of IT. My company has developers and it has IT and there are some developers in IT. There is some overlap, but the vast majority of applications in use to support the business are developed or hosted by a third party. Although we have some cloud operations and it will…
    in DevOps and the Slow Death of Traditional IT Comment by bmcmcm October 2016
  • We use Splunk, an RSA SIEM (basically defunct), and Carbon Black. I'd like to see better powershell integration with Solarwinds. Currently everything seems to require a query, and the metadata is somewhat obfuscated and not readily accessible if you don't know a query to get it. If I could execute Get-SWNode -nodename xxxx…
    in What tools do you use in addition to SolarWinds? Take us on a tour and get 2000 thwack points Comment by bmcmcm October 2015
  • Strangely the events list is empty for the node. The CPU 'meter' shows red, so it's definitely in a critical state. Anyway, I think I understand now that just because some item on a node exceeds a threshold, SolarWinds doesn't mark the node red or yellow unless an alert has been configured for the item that is out of spec.…
    in CPU load at 100% for days, no alert. Comment by bmcmcm October 2015
  • So the take away for me is that any item/component going out of spec in SolarWinds means nothing at all unless an alert has been configured in the Alert Manager. That is what I was having trouble understanding.
    in CPU load at 100% for days, no alert. Comment by bmcmcm October 2015
  • I'll try that query instead, thanks.
    in Orion WSQL Short-Comings Comment by bmcmcm October 2015
  • I guess I've been wasting hours on a lost cause. Are the differences in what is supported for SNMP and WMI documented anywhere?
    in Powershell Invoke-SwisVerb Comment by bmcmcm May 2016
  • I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean the configuration of the alert in the Alert Manager? If so, the alert manager is set up to not send out an alert notification no matter what the CPU threshold is. So I guess what I'm asking is if the alert has to be set up in the alert manager in order for something to appear in the…
    in CPU load at 100% for days, no alert. Comment by bmcmcm October 2015
  • Unfortunately this file does not exist in our installation. This is the version we are running: Module NameOrion PlatformVersion2014.2.1Service PackNone
    in Number of items per page Comment by bmcmcm April 2016
  • I agree that WSQL will never have the intelligence built in, better PowerShell integration is what is really needed. WSQL should be an option, not a requirement to return node information in PowerShell. A good PS snapin would allow a user to use a command like Get-SWNode -NodeName xxxxxx and return an object with all valid…
    in Orion WSQL Short-Comings Comment by bmcmcm October 2015
  • Anyone have any idea where to look? The Administrator's guide says nothing at all about historical data configuration, only how to report on historical data.
    in Where do I change Historical Stat Recording? Comment by bmcmcm July 2016
  • Put the file in the FTP directory, then download a copy of it and load that into the application monitor. In my case, FTP modified the file upon upload, so the SHA1 hash changed. I don't know what was modified in the file, only that the file was definitely calculating a different SHA1 value from the original file.
    in FTP User Experience template TEST ERRORS Comment by bmcmcm October 2015
  • I've discovered that if the ObjectSubType is SNMP, the command works, if it's WMI it fails. Why would the ObjectSubType matter? Here is what I got with an SNMP node: Invoke-SwisVerb -SwisConnection $swis -EntityName Orion.NPM.Interfaces -Verb DiscoverInterfacesOnNode 429 Id : 1 xmlns :…
    in Powershell Invoke-SwisVerb Comment by bmcmcm May 2016
  • Rarely. Any way I can cobble together disparate time stamped log information and correlate events works most of the time. 
    in How do you troubleshoot complex problems? Comment by bmcmcm October 2015
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