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No way to configure DPA to this, but I've taken it a security feature request. Thanks for the input. Brian

This is a great idea. Did you know you can add ideas for voting to our Thwack community? Just go to and add your idea, then other users can vote on it.

We generally recommend a separate server, as it has its own Database (MySQL) and core services. A VM is generally fine - 2 processors and 4GB of memory will generally do for small to medium environments. Let me know if you have more questions. Brian

Hi Daniel, Thanks for the question. DPAIM (DPA Integration Module) is bundled with SAM to make it easy to integrate with DPA (one less install on your Orion server). By itself, it doesn't do anything. For a high level overview of the difference between SAM and DPA, see this article: SQL Server Two Ways - SAM AppInsight for…

Sam, Thanks for the feedback on Solaris and Commvault. On deploying the agent to VM, what are you trying to do? You should be able to get storage and performance for all VM remotely, and do file analysis on Windows VM remotely. Brian

Greg - if you are evaluating DPA, are you working with Sales? If not, I can connect you and get a sales engineer to take a look. In general, mapping DB in DPA to DB in Orion happens automatically. Are you monitoring those DB in DPA?

DPA does not currently work with PostgreSQL yet - we do have it on our radar and you can vote for it here:

Hi You would need to find a property that you could filter on.. say if the name of these VM all had a common acronym, for example "brian" * vm.origin:vmware AND NOT vm.toolsStatus:toolsok AND NOT vm.name:brian would exclude all VMs with the name "brian" in them. Brian

I don't know of any special permissions we need for Qtree vs Volume information, but check out or Requirements Document. If that does not help, go ahead and contact support. Brian

Fabian - thanks for the excellent question and detailed example. I'll do a little research, but I don't think this is possible yet for generic alerts. If not, I'll create an idea for voting and reference it here.

RHEV is interesting but not on the roadmap yet. You can vote for it on our feature request area -

All Profiler security and permission requirements can be found at http://www.solarwinds.com/support/profiler/docs/ProfilerSec.pdf Brian

No way that I know of to identify a freshly added device. Brian

* Can SolarWinds monitor disk latency? Yes, we get latency on most Arrays and LUNs - what kind of arrays do you have? * We would want to be able to see latency graphed. Yes, each array and LUN, you can graph the latency of one or more LUN. * We would possibly like to set up notifications when latency surpasses a set…

Jeremy What resources does your Device Manager (cpu, memory)? Polling Device Manager for data will put a load on it and if it is a small machine, it may not be able to handle it. Two suggestions: * Add more CPU and RAM. * Enable the synchronous tag in STM (see below). To get performance data, please review our SMI-S…

Hi. I did a little bit of research, there doesn't appear to be a 64bit version of 8.x, only later versions. Can you still log into the customer portal and get what you need?

Sam If you install an agent on the physical server you want to monitor, it asks for the IP of the server during the install. Once the install is complete and the agents starts, it will self register and self configure with the Storage Manager Server. Once your agents are installed, you can choose any of them to monitor…

NPM mainly gives you health and status information of the VM and hosts, but not deep insight into the configuration, performance or contention within the virtual infrastructure (VMware and HyperV). Virtualization Manager also has features like Capacity Planning, Time Travel, Object DNA, Chargeback, Cloud Cost Calculator…

The integration between Virtualization and Storage Manager allows you to drill from an object in VMan (Cluster, ESX, VM, Datastore) to the Target View in STM, where a target could be a LUN or NFS share. The Target View shows you all the information about the LUN/NFS Share and what Raid Group/Pool/Aggragate it is residing…

If you are still having the issue, I would suggest you contact support. Brian

In addition, you will need a new license key that you can get from your portal. Please make sure you have a license key before you upgrade. Brian

Not quite following you - can you post a screen shot?

Hi I believe this is possible in newer versions. Maybe C:\ is one datastore, D:\ on a different one? Brian

It is percentage of heartbeats received from guest (vm tools) to host. Brian

Hi, all users who are monitoring the HP P4000 Lefthand series have this issue. We have it on our roadmap, but there is no delivery timetable at this time.

Are these 2GB drives? If so, you will need to upgrade to the latest HDvM to handle them correctly. Brian

mgerdin In general, STM should not care what kind of drives are there, so we need a little bit more information. Can you tell me the version of Device Manager and the AMS device model? Also, I would like to capture a sample output from your provider - I will email you offline with the instructions. Brian

There were no changes to V5 that would change the behavior of your alerts. If you continue to see this issue, go ahead and open a ticket: http://www.solarwinds.com/support/ticket/serviceticket.aspx

No requirement to keep the names at the default. Recommend you open a support ticket.

Hi. Take a look at this alert on the exchange: Custom Alert - Long Running Queries .