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Mark, No plans for supporting OpenFiler at this time, but that can always change based on user interest. Are you using OpenFiler to serve files to your environment, or to do shared storage to your Virtual environment? Brian

That should be covered in the policy. Is it just one server or all servers? If all/most, then try pushing the policy again. 

Peter What problem are you trying to solve? We have another product Virtualization Manager that takes a deep dive on VMware and is better than vCOPS in many ways (and cheaper). It is a virtual appliance and easier to configure than Storage Manager. I suggest you give it a try before you make a decision. Brian

Hi Virtualization Manager is fully compatible with vCenter 5.0. Note we license per-VM, so if you have exceeded your license, you cannot add any more data sources. If you have not exceeded your license, please check your credentials and user permissions. If that doesn't work, then contact support. Brian

Note in recent versions - 4.12.2 and 4.12.3 I believe - the SQL was hidden by default. I ran the same report as above on 4.12.4, did a view source and the SQL was there: //REPORT QUERY //SELECT a.DeviceId, a.DeviceHostName as Field_6069, name as Field_6070, basePath as Field_6071, Level as Field_6072 FROM…

RE: VMan Orion integration - yes, version 6.0 added extensive integration features in Orion - if you have not turned them on, you are missing the all the good stuff! For more info on features and how to turn on the integration, please review: As far as the SWQL question, Lukas can give you a better answer. Note that 6.0.1…

In general, we expect newer versions to work. Haven't heard any reports of problems with MySQL. Are you using DPA 12.1?

Kevin put together a post with monitoring local administrators, might be a good starting point. Manage and Monitor PowerShell Scripts

Thanks, please keep us posted. Brian

Maustin, It is high on our priority list and is on our what we are working on post, but no timetable yet. Brian

Yes, you can configure all agents via the policy under real time status. 

Thanks for voting, we will keep you posted.

For the Profiler Server, I would recommend a 2 processor 4GB server if you can offload the monitoring of the arrays, switches and Virtualization to 2 agents (a virtual machine is fine). You can leverage any of the agents you deploy to the backup server or file servers to monitor your storage arrays and switches. For the VM…

The attribute you are looking for is /virtualMachine/guestFullName, but you need to modify it like this: if (contains(/virtualMachine/guestFullName, '32-bit')) then '32-bit' else if (contains(/virtualMachine/guestFullName, '64-bit')) then '64-bit' else 'Unknown' You should be able to paste that into Field and then save it.…

Depends on your use case. If you want to monitor and process logs, use SEM (LEM). If you want to watch for changes to configuration files (or registry, or the output of scripts), use SCM. The Windows FIM drive allows both products to know when a file has changed in real time, and SCM also picks up who made the change to…

Thanks, we will. Brian

Looking at a couple of sources, the best definition I found was "The approximate utilization percentage for a particular component over a particular time interval.". Let me know what array you are collecting data for, and I may be able to get more specific.

Check out the SEM 2020.2 Release Candidate blog post for more information on the new nDepth.

Check out SCM 1.1 RC is now available in the customer portal

You can now add features and vote for them. Isilon is on the voting list, so please vote for it. http://thwack.solarwinds.com/community/storage_tht/storage-manager/storage-manager-feature-requests Brian

SEM is almost all HTML5 now, what do you still use in the Flash console? Make sure you check out SEM 2020.4 Release Candidate. 

Not a 100% sure what you are asking... you should be able to change the user to a domain user with no issue. If permissions or the password of the user are changed, STM generally stops collecting data and you will see a permissions or connectivity error message in the log. Brian

Note that Alert Central is now EOL but have options with OpsGenie, see this post for more information. So Long, and Thanks for All the Alerts

Thanks - let us know if you have any issues.

Hi When you install an agent, it asks for the Profiler server IP address. When you start the agent service, it sends a trap to the Profiler and says "I am here, what am I suppose to be doing?". If the trap makes it to the Profiler server, it should configure the agent in the database and push a configuration to the agent.…

Storage Manager supports arrays from HP (EVA, XP and Lefthand) but it does not support MSA at this time (but it is on the roadmap). Brian

Note - if you have virtualization manager, you can do search for multi-datastore VM using the filter: vm.datastoreCount:[2 TO *] Brian

Gavin. Seems like the username/password being used to talk to the clarion aren’t valid but that is just a guess. Try to log into the Unisphere gui using the username/password they are using to discover the clarions via the provider and see if that works. The username/passwords must be admin level and global scope. If that…

Hi Hopefully you caught my post on the new Storage Manager feature set. Please let me know if you have any more questions. Brian

Here is a screenshot: