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I will be installing this week in my test environment. Need to see if the 'ALTER ANY CONNECTION' requirement is still there in order to complete the install. I can't install 4.5 in my production environment as our SQL DBA will not allow that elevated account setting our our shared SQL clusters. Probably wouldn't fly with…

As soon as I get my lab back up and running I'm going to trial this product again. I had it at my last employer. Let's see if my new one likes it.

I just had an internal customer asking if they could record DTMF (touchtone) dialing into a transaction to test out their IVR systems...... Going to have to give that one some thought.

There are a lot of issues when coding synthetic transactions against a website. With WPM its a fairly simple record/playback look for event, etc. Problems arise when you have items like a random popup for a survey show up when it's not expected, then the transaction shows up as a fail. Most of the other tools I have used…

Maybe roll this product into SAM?

I wish I could use all of these cool features but I'm not able to install the agent on my machines. Each 'silo' uses their own tools, and it's usually the one provided from that 'silo's vendor. It's a shame because Solarwinds has some nice solutions and features at a decent price point for most of their offerings.

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.

There was a similar report in the legacy Report Writer. You could edit the query below to include the time you are interested in. This was the Node Availability - Last Month chart SELECT TOP 10000 CONVERT(DateTime, LTRIM(MONTH(DateTime)) + '/01/' + LTRIM(YEAR(DateTime)), 101) AS SummaryMonth, Nodes.NodeID AS NodeID,…

-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…