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The list of databases currently supported for monitoring are here: Database instances DPA can monitor We do stop officially supporting the monitoring of older versions as the vendor stops supporting them, but in general, we do expect them to continue to work (but no guarantees). Any changes to supported databases list in a…

DPA 2019.4 is compatible with DPAIM 11.1 and later, so check your version at the bottom of your Orion home page. See the DPA Installation and Upgrade Guide for more information. As mentioned above, if you are changing the DPA server name, IP address, or credentials, you will have to recreate the integration, which will…

Hi EOC users! A long time coming, but you can now sign up for the beta of EOC 2.0, which is based on the Orion core. More details to follow.

No, STM does not allow you to take action on files. Brian

Karim, We have announced support for the VNX in our upcoming release: You can see what else we have coming in the future with the "What we are working on" post: Brian

Not necessarily. DPAIM is packaged with SAM to make it easy to integrate, so you could see DPAIM in the list of modules even if you don't have DPAIM. If you have DPA, and integration is turned on, you should see Databases under My Dashboards.

Can you post the query you are trying to execute?

No, its not in the 6.7 beta. If you join the beta forum, you can see the features that are in the beta. Cheers!

Thanks for the interest. We can't promise a specific version, just that we are looking at if for a future release.

You'll have to log into the portal to find out for now But as soon as I can officially announce the newly supported arrays, I will.

Yes, it is on the list. Brian

Hi, We don't have an option to have multiple agents on one server. I am not sure why you want to do this. In general, you deploy more agents if you want to 1) Monitor that physical server 2) Spread the load of monitoring Arrays, VMware, switches to multiple agents (or multiple locations/networks). It sounds like you want…

Virtualization Manager does not currently support pulling VMware events, but it is something we are considering for a future release (no timetable at this time). You can directly monitor hardware status via SAM (Server and Application Montor). Let me know if you have additional questions. Brian

Do all of the hosts have VMs that are thin provisioned? In general, the Storage Manager reporter tries to show options that are available in the data of the report. 

Hi Is Virtualization Manager showing different than vCenter or the Guest OS? Virtualization Manager gets it data from vCenter or the ESX servers in your environment, so we are looking at how the VM's are loading your virtual infrastructure, which can be different than how the OS on the VM is reporting its usage. This is…

Profiler currently limits the number of files returned to 5000 per target. You can subdivide the current target by doing local or remote shares leveraging the "depth" function which automatically subdivides the target per subdirectory. Brian

Server: Confirm the credentials on the Storage Manager configuration page in Orion. Login to the Orion server, can you login to Storage Manager via a web browser. Try uninstalling and reinstalling the module. Agent on host: When installing the agent on the host, did you enter the IP or name of the STM server correctly?…

We expect DPA to work with SQL Express as a repo, but given a number of its limitations, especially in DB size, you would have to adjust DPA to save less data, which kinda defeats the purpose of DPA. If you need a free DB, why not use MySQL?

Please go ahead and open up a support case at www.solarwinds.com/support/ticket/. Brian

You can also run the TestSMIProvider command to enumerate the instances. See page 99 of http://www.solarwinds.com/support/profiler/docs/SMISProvider.pdf BUT - the easiest way to find it, is to configure everything else but the identifier and then press the Test button at the bottom of the screen, it will give you a list of…

Marked for the PM. M

HP claims to support the P6500 with their SMI-S provider, so Storage Manager should collect data. Please let us know if you have any issues. Brian

Hi, DPA and DPAIM are 2 different installs, and have to be upgraded separately. DPA is java-based software that collects data from databases. DPAIM (DPA Integration Module) is an Orion module that integrates DPA with the Orion platform, and can be installed on its own or on an existing Orion server. To upgrade DPA, see…

In your Orion server, go to Settings > All Settings, scroll all the way to the bottom and look for "Database Details", that should give you the database information. 

Major releases are generally twice a year, the last one was in June. See our What We Are Working On post for more information. Brian

Hi The best way to monitor the VMware and Hyper-V hypervisors is with Virtualization Manager. You can get some data in Orion based products (SAM, NPM) which is great for basic health and status overview, but if you need more depth, VirtMan is the answer. Brian

Hi The main benefit would be more performance statistics than what we are gathering through VMware. Adding agents adds overhead on each VM, so in general I would not deploy agents onto them. However, if you have a few VMs that you need a better picture of what is happening on the OS, go ahead and deploy agent to them to…

If you build a group in storage manager with those 6 devices, create a new user and add it to that group ONLY, then you should be able to use that user's credentials for each instance of NPM to see those 6 devices only. Let me know if that makes sense. Brian

Matt - I'll reach out to you and discuss the best way to deliver these.

Hi, There are two reports that should help you: * Executive Raw Storage Usage Forecast * Executive Usable Storage Usage Forecast These will look at overall array storage usage historically, tell you how fast you are growing, and how soon you will run out of storage. Let me know if you need additional help. Brian