bobross

Create a script that scans for the process. If the process is not running/found then use the success exit code with a statistic of 0 or something. If the process is running then you can poll Win_32 for whatever process data you are looking for (in this case memory utilization) and return that value. The reason for the…

As far as version I'm not sure, but to access the Unmanage Utility you'll need to rdp into the Solarwinds server itself. I believe you can find it under Start > All Programs > Solarwinds Orion > Advanced Features. The GUI will allow you to select what monitors you want to unmanage and the duration for the unmanage. It will…

We've had pretty good success creating monitors using SQL queries. We had to work with our DBAs to setup the queries themselves, and I wasn't the one working on them so I can't go into too much detail. You might try talking with your DBA team to see if they can help with some queries that will gather the data you are…

We found that RPC traffic would be deprioritized with an alarming frequency which caused Application/Component down alerts to be triggered even though there was nothing wrong with the resource being monitored. We strictly use WMI and occasionally SNMP in our APM monitors now. Hope it helps with your decision MrS

Just wanted to follow up on this. Testing the Port 25 monitor from our local box to the box at the client site failed. What we ended up doing was running a VBScript that calls plink (plink is a command line version of putty). Since putty is used by pretty much everyone in the office, management gave the thumbs up. Its a…

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ET's solution is what we use. Each node has 2 Custom Property fields that contain email addresses: "AdminEmail" and "AppAdminEmail" These fields are populated with the email addresses for the administrators of the node and (if necessary) the hosted applications. It is much easier to manage custom properties over multiple…

That definitely helps to clarify some things. We haven't gone full production with 4.2+ yet (hope to jump to SAM 5 in the next few weeks ), but I think that part of the problem is the difference in output when an error is found (10 Outputs) and when it isn't (2 Outputs). Without making too many modifications to your script…

From my above investigation I concluded (personally of course) that the standard CPU & Memory Utilization monitor is a better indicator of overall memory utilization. I didn't have a chance to test the Physical Memory 'Volume' monitor, but from your numbers I would assume that it is counting Buffered and/or Cached Memory…

Posted here: Its a report to show what APM monitors are scheduled to be or are currently unmanaged.

Wow, that would be great for our environment. What is SAM?

I think that the port monitor is functioning correctly, but I was testing it locally on the Solarwinds box at the client site. ClientSolarwinds -> ClientNetwork -> Internet -> OurNetwork -> OurEmail/OurSolarwinds Instead of what is expected to happen with the port monitor when it is set up on a machine that is not the…

On *nix systems you'll be able to leverage the raw text parsing power of perl or even a system call to grep to narrow down the results. On Windows you are forced to wade through the nightmare that is VBScript. In either case you'll be relying on regular expressions to test for the existence of the error message. If your…

Much appreciated. I used the send email feature. Let me know if you didn't get it. I still haven't figured out how to send PMs on Thwack.

Unfortunately, I can't just do a straight export due to some information that we can't share, but this should detail what we have done. Originally, we had an alert setup to trigger whenever a component went down: Alert me when an component goes down Trigger Alert when all of the following apply Node Status is equal to Up…

Feel free... but I doubt that a technical writer will be able to capture the adventurous tone :D

This turned out to be one of the funnest things I've ever done with VBScript. This was created for APM 4.2 - Unfortunately I don't have access to a pre-4.2 installation to test. If you want to test on APM prior to 4.2 you'll need to change all of the lines that show "Message.Task" and "Statistic.Task" to just show…

Unfortunately, I just tested the TCP Port Monitor on a box that is having trouble sending email and it passed, so this solution won't work for us. This same server fails a telnet to our email server over port 25. Thanks for the idea at any rate.

I really don't know about that, sorry. You'd have to figure that part out. Maybe one of the staffers can help out there.

That definitely helps clear it up for me. Thanks!

When you run a program, there are extra options that can be added... grep --version It might be easier for your software vendor to create one with --status or --curjobs or whatever to return the information that you want. You could then use a custom script to gather that data.

The multi value statistics in that script will be labelled 1,2,3..10. I'm not really sure what the above script is trying to do. The comment indicates that you are testing for "ERROR" at the fourth position, but the test never compares against the fourth position. Also, with the script written that way it will trigger the…

The multi-value script looks like it would definitely alleviate some of the issues I've had with some of the more complicated script monitors. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for the final release of APM 4.2, much to the dismay of our server upgrade manager - 50 sites and he hasn't finished upgrading them all to 4.1.…

Andy, It was reported in this thread that NPM was changed to show 1024 data: Can you confirm?

Thanks, Danielle. Let me know if I need to submit a feature request.

If the monitors that alterego linked don't work you could try something like a trigger in the mailbox that writes to a log file on another server that you do have access to then have Solarwinds read that log file. I know its very roundabout, but if your admins won't give Solarwinds access to the server you'll have to get…

If you have the ${Script} in the command line, Solarwinds will SSH to the box, transfer the script to the listed Working directory, then execute it from there. More specific then that will have to come from one of the staffers. We've had to go the route of loading the file on the server locally once or twice. If you have…

I spent some time working on this, but its looking more and more like we won't be able to pull meaningful data from remote computers without some creative temp files. So far I've found that there is a WMI object Win32_ScheduledJob, but this only includes tasks that were created using WMI and does not include information…

I was able to get an Advanced SQL report to include proper links to the APM pages... /Orion/APM/ApplicationDetails.aspx?NetObject=AA:${ID} The field in APM_Applications that contains the AppID is named 'ID'. Not sure if this will work with the other pre-built Reports, but it does work on the following Solarwinds install:…

Can you explain how the TCP port monitor works? Does it send traffic somewhere and will it show as down if the problem doesn't lie on the Solarwinds' box itself, but somewhere else on the network? The description of the TCP Port Monitor says " This component monitor tests the ability of a TCP/IP-based service to accept…