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Are you building new servers and attaching to your 'old' database? I am hoping to do the same. I am planning on firewalling everything off except the ports SW needs. You could block off the SMTP port at the firewall temporarily if you have one in place. 

Post your query so we can see what it is.

All we needed to export was our list of IP's via custom properties export. 

You could download a fully functioning 30 day demo and install it and test it out in your environment for free. I used Solarwinds NTA for several years.

You can create your own views with the tool and it does have the ability to ingest SNMP Traps for alerting purposes. It should be able to do everything you need.

Mine only go back into November as well. Going forward you may want to schedule an end of the month report and save it off somewhere or log the alerts to an external file if you need to go back 12 months. 

I liked 'Intro to APIs for People Who Hate to Program'. I went back and watched it again once already. Very helpful. 

You can, we use a flow director so I split them up evenly across all of my polling engines to spread out the load. 

Savvius (Wildpackets) and Gigamon can help with this. Be prepared for sticker shock. 

In NTA 4.5 I wasn't able to complete the install without Alter Any Connection enabled. My DBA said 'No Way' to that setting since there are many other DB's hosted on that same shared SQL server. I did try the Beta version 4.6 and it installed perfectly using only DBOWNER for my setup.

Thanks adam.beedell ! The powershell version is even better in my environment Our Help Desk app isn't one of the ones that directly ties to Solarwinds. I'm putting some code together so the ticket number gets pushed back to Orion.

Thanks for the heads up

The next version 4.6 does not have this requirement. I did try the beta version of 4.6 and it installed perfectly without Alter Any Connection turned on.

Thanks Mesverrum! I'm going to see what Support suggests but at least this is an option

I was not able to complete the install using NTA 4.5 with only DBOWNER. The install failed with the message mentioned earlier in the thread. I did download the 4.6 beta and was able to complete the install with only DBOWNER rights. There is some history around my install though. When I tried to upgrade from 12.01 upward in…

Thanks this is an old post but this still seems to work.

@ adam.beedell If you find a way to update the Alert Notes externally please share what you found. I am looking to create a Down Nodes dashboard for my NOC and am running into some quirks using the Alerts Notes. Now considering using an alert custom property for that instead.

It runs with the Windows SNMP service. If you Google EVNTWIN or EVNTCMD you will find information on how to configure it. 

I'm not sure you can do it in the NodeName field, I use a custom property for circuit ID, building, name, etc, but you can try this on a few nodes and see if it works. Before you take them out create a custom report with Report Writer with all of the fields you need, run it and save the results as an Excel spreadsheet.…

Excellent work!

Assuming you have already installed the SDK. Put your Orion server name where 'YOURORIONSERVERNAMEHERE' And assuming you have a text file named c:\SolarwindsPowershell\nodelist.txt that lists out the names of nodes you want to unmanage. These parameters will unmanage the node from now 'UtcNow' and stay unmanaged for one…

I have a ticket open on this 00274137 Support suggested I install as SA but this isn't possible in my environment, asking the question below. "I can't run the installer as SA. It is on a shared SQL instance with several other databases. The most I can get from my DBA is DB Owner. I believe I did find the problem.…

Meesverum, One of the node I can't get the topology to populate is a Cisco 5548 (Just one example) These are selected All of the active uplinks to other switches and active links to the servers are also selected and being monitored And if I understand this setting the L2 topology gets polled about once a day The switch has…

Thank You rschroeder

Thanks for sharing this.

Thanks you very much wluther I created a custom property for each of the nodes and then used the All Nodes - Tree (AJAX) you described and it works perfect! This is actually a better solution for me since I am moving all of the alerting to use custom properties and I am already in the custom property editor while working…

Here is a simple SWSQL query that pulls _Group and _Severity from my database. Replace these with your custom property names and it should pull them for you. Paste then into Excel then import it in your custom property manager. Select IP_Address, Caption, NodeID, _Group, _Severity FROM Orion.NodesCustomProperties cp INNER…

Here is a little known utility that comes with Windows that will send you an SNMPTrap for any event ID Go to 'Search' on your server and type EVNTWIN It will bring up a utility that allows you to send traps for any event. SAM license not needed.

Any one know if I could undo this option 'ALTER ANY CONNECTION' on my database once the install is complete? If I were to make note that I have to re-enable that prior to ever making future database maintenance changes? 

Can you post up the working version when you get it done?