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Could also be done with Network Atlas. Create your background with Visio, Excel, whatever, screenshot is as a .jpg then import is as a background in Network Atlas. Drag the dots over onto it for whatever resources you need to show. 

I don't always have easy access to configurations is switches/routers because I have to have another team do that work. However I am admin on Solarwinds and can access the Custom Properties easily. Is there any way to add the address in Custom Properties -vs- doing it with SNMP?

I wrote some scripts that Orion executes that create a ticket in Service Desk, then Service Desk sends out the page automatically if the ticket priority is high enough. Each team needs to maintain their own Queue Monitor each week but it works perfectly.

Thanks lhardswgeek I will be using that in the future. Another method is to send the email directly from your script. Here is the code to do that. $EmailFrom = “BobMarley” $EmailTo = “AllMyFans@webejammin.org” $Subject = “RedRedWine” $Body = “This is where the alert stuff goes” $SMTPServer = “smtpgateway.webejammin.org”…

Good Luck!

I used a program called Email to DB which read an email box and then forwarded the body of the message as a syslog to Solarwinds. You could also spin up a small Splunk instance and do the same.

Assuming your running it against another node you probably don't have the credentials set up correctly to run against the remote machine. I got around it by adding my Orion server as a local administrator on the REMOTE computer. Need to pick Object Type choose Computers and add your Orion server as domain\orionservername

Go to product forums for NCM and start by checking that product out. It's the main one everyone uses. There are alot of videos you can watch. Also try the onboarding mission. It will introduce you to the site.

We delete your account if you haven't logged in in >90 days. Same thing with Software, if you don't launch Visio for >90 days they remove it from your computer. If you need it back you need to re-request it. This keep the systems way cleaner than supporting accounts that are not active and and saves money by putting…

Try disabling and re-enabling the alert rule. I have one that gets stuck once in awhile and that is what fixes mine.

Sounds like a firewall rule allowed the old servers but is excluding the new ones. Try doing remote desktop into your new Orion server and open the command prompt and see if you can ping the servers directly. If it fails then it's not something in Orion. Most likely the firewall not letting the pings through.

I ran into the same thing. I have always ran as DBOWNER in my previous installs but some things are not working in 12.4.

Did you happen to use it in your port descriptions? If so I can send you report easy enough?

The app is pulling in from the Events table, what I needed was the Alerts table. Added the query below to grab the correct table to pull triggered alerts in. SELECT TriggeredDateTime, TriggeredMessage, Acknowledged, AcknowledgedBy, AcknowledgedDateTime FROM Orion.AlertActive

Guys, We ended up using Splunk as our single pane of glass and have it it receiving messages from Orion, so essentially reversed roles with it. Orion was missing some key elements in the alert console such as the ability to acknowledge a message and run an action such as an external program that created a trouble ticket.…

I think the possibilities are pretty endless using the generic data input. I don't have it installed yet but plan on doing it on our lab system soon.

Thanks for the post. It does look like it will bring in anything you want with the generic data input. Here is the description from splunkbase. "The Splunk Add-on for SolarWinds allows a Splunk software administrator to collect SolarWinds alerts and SolarWinds asset inventory (network devices and their various attributes).…

Did you ever find a workaround?

SELECT TOP 1000 Name, Trigger, Reset, TriggerSubjectTemplate, TriggerMessageTemplate, ResetSubjectTemplate, ResetMessageTemplate FROM Orion.Alerts

As an alternative if you are running it from your own workstation you can use your own credentials using the code below. $swis = Connect-Swis -host YOUROrionServer -Trusted

I kind of look at it like a Swiss army knife. It covers a wide range of uses but there are a lot of point solution tools that you need if you need to dig in deeper. 

Here is how I did it in our Cisco devices, Firewalls should be similar. -Set all of your devices to log to your Solarwinds NPM server. -Set up a syslog alert to trigger any time someone issues a 'write' command I also have that trigger NCM to download the config

Any Ideas?

You would probably be better off breaking down your discoveries down into smaller chunks rather than doing a domain wide single discovery. Mine seem to run concurrently when done in that fashion. Also If you make them too large they might not complete at all.

Awesome news! Been waiting for this. I'm going to start getting a fresh stage up in my lab

I also had a similar situation. I ended up putting Longitude and Latitude and a location code in for all of the nodes in the custom properties fields. It took a couple days initially but now they group automatically on the World Map and I can sort, run reports, etc any way I want. About once a month I go out to Custom…

Thanks for sharing! It is a little bit of work but you can also log directly to a SQL database with Kiwi. We had a set of servers we wanted to keep the messages from long term so we set up a SQL database and created an action to write those messages there. It was much easier to search in.

I used the All Groups resource and divided my servers up into sub groups based on what they did. This helped because that resource will show CPU and Memory of all the servers in one place easily. You can then use Custom Properties as tigger2 suggested to break your alert down to Nodes that alert at 95% CPU, Nodes that…

Sounds like it should work. If not the Kiwi product Chad.Every mentions is fairly inexpensive and does forward on messages without altering them and keeps the original source address. If you need redundancy buy 2 its cheap.

We use SolarWinds as the 'Monitor of Monitors' and several of our alerts come from out on the internet. The easiest way to get a message through our firewalls is through an email message. Additionally many of the items we monitor only support email. These include environmental monitoring, camera systems, UPS's, etc. To…