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Excellent! Thank you!

I believe the post chad.every referred to would do the trick. I did it a slightly different way which also would work. Since the alert script is being processed on the Solarwinds Orion server but being ran against another server, the server that you are running it against needs to have permissions added for the Orion…

Thanks!

I have been using Solarwinds products since 2003 and support has always been pretty good.

Here are the support numbers on Solarwinds.com. You can also submit a ticket online in the customer portal.

Just bring a lunch and enjoy

In your alert set the 'Condition Must Exist' to higher than a single polling interval. So in this case if your nodes polling interval was 2 minutes, it would need to fail 5 times (10 minutes) before it alerted.

-Website responding/not -Services on servers up/down or consuming too much cpu/memory -With SQL I did a simple 'get name' for each database and set alerts based on if it responded yes/no and response time warning/critical then made a dashboard for it. It was a good red/green indication to if the DB's were up and responding…

SELECT ac.AlertID, ac.Name, ac.Description, ac.Enabled, ac.Severity, ac.CreatedBy, ad.TriggerQuery, ap.ActionID, ac.AlertMessage, a.Title, a.Description, ap.PropertyName, ap.PropertyValue FROM dbo.ActionsProperties ap LEFT JOIN dbo.ActionsAssignments aa ON ap.ActionID = aa.ActionID LEFT JOIN dbo.Actions a ON a.ActionID =…

I would forward it as a syslog instead, that way you can format it in Solarwinds to look exactly like you want before it reaches Netcool. That way there is no need need to edit a second time in Netcool for every alert. Then you can build a few rules in Netcool once and forget about it.

Depends on your companies security policies. I like to use as few accounts as possible and the accounts I use have the bare minimal rights to run the SAM templates. The more accounts you have, the more time your going to spend administering those accounts. For example, in my environment the magical password genie sends me…

Once you've become a customer, what SolarWinds web properties do you visit, how often, and for what? * Do you continue to visit the solarwinds.com website? How often? What kind(s) of content do you normally go looking for on solarwinds.com? I go to this site to download new versions and open support tickets. Also just to…

Are you are looking to know what pages customers visit on your companies web site look into the logs on the web server.

If you search for 'Node Down Time' you will get several different correct answers with different ways to do it. Or here is one I used:

They are also included as syslog messages if you are sending your Syslogs to Kiwi or NPM.

1. Should I enable Netflow on the trunk ports between the Core and Edge Switches at each site? - I would get the WAN up and running first. Set it up in smaller increments. Whatever is most important to you first, get everything running the way you want then do the next section of the network. Unless you really beefed out…

Anyone get this screen while trying to upgrade? It doesn't go away and the upgrade is stuck at this point.

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When creating a new rule in Orion NPM I use the action Send an SNMP Trap then the 'Forward Syslog' template to create an SNMP trap to Openview. This sends the Orion OID then all of the varbinds that go along with it in trap format. The name looks like it is going to be a Syslog but it is actually a trap.

You could set up a custom property called country then copy the alert and add country as one of the alert variables that need to be matched.

When I tried using the script above or using powershell I ran into rights issues on the remote nodes. My servers are managed via WMI so the credentials are already in place. To restart a service from a script I used the VB script below. This restarts the Kiwi Syslog Server service on the remote node. This works for…

I am running into the same issue. Even running from the command line I get the same error My Component ID = 14877 Below is the command I ran C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion\APM>APMServiceControl.exe 14877 -c=START I would like for the alert to use the same credentials that are used in the SAM template associated…

We only use Solarwinds for up/down as ICMP Only nodes on ours. Cisco Prime for everything else.

Then... you could always use Report Writer to create your own custom view and make it fit your dashboard. I had a similar issue with wanting an extra column in the 'Down Nodes' frame so I made my own. Try this link out on how it's done. Hope this helps.

And I just got the the old one tatooed on my chest... oh well....

I have always had good experiences

Save this as .ps1 and run it. This will use your AD credentials to authenticate to your Orion server and unmanage a node named NODEYOUWANTTOUNMANAGE for 10 minutes from now. Add-PSSnapin SwisSnapin $swis = Connect-Swis -host YOURORIONSERVER -Trusted $nodeid = Get-SwisData $swis "SELECT NodeID FROM Orion.Nodes WHERE SysName…

Thanks Eric, this is great!