bobross

Supposed death... We're actually at an island resort in the Carribean. Tupac, Elvis, and the Jims say "Hi".

Thanks again for the info. I've signed up for beta, just waiting on this Jeremy guy to push it out to our portal At any rate, I'm going to try talking my boss into just upgrading our prod environment to the beta release. Its pretty much unusable to us right now, so running beta isn't going to hurt anything.

We've found that it works better for us to use Custom Properties instead of Custom Alerts. We were originally going with custom alerts, but as more different things got added we found that there were just too many places where changes needed to be made. With Custom Properties we were able to get it down to a handful of…

Overcomplicated maintenance is what I'm trying to avoid. If I add the template to a node then I will have to add it 16 times to that node. To modify the command lines I have to then go into each individual component screen. Since the monitors are basically all monitoring individual parts of a whole it makes more sense to…

When we've seen issues like this it usually relates to an SMTP Relay Server that is not forwarding the traffic.

You should be able to reproduce the templates for use on SQL. Best bet would be to show the templates to a DBA and ask them how it would be done in your environment.

We use both Application and Component alerts as follows: Component Down get rolled into an Application Alert. As you've found, when an Application goes down you will get flooded with Component Alerts. This way we just receive the one Application Alert with a list of all Down Components. For Warning and Critical Components…

You can give this a try. We use this to just check for the existence of a process. I've never tried it with a regex as the search string, but there it should work just fine with any regex that will work for grep. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $search = $ARGV[0]; my $process = `ps -ef |egrep -v 'grep|perl' |…

This is just a basic script that is able to run locally. Unfortunately, I'm not at work to test it through Solarwinds, but I did test it on my own computer using a file called C:\20120106\today.log and everything shows up correctly. Also, there is no fancy error handling included, but it should give you the meat and…

As far as I know, you would still need to have 1 dedicated component for each of the MQ_ processes that you want information on. If the processes are duplicated across servers then setting up 1 template with 10-20 components isn't too bad. I've had to do this myself a few times and while it is a pain to get setup its the…

I'm going to put in a feature request to have an "Inherit from Node" button/checkbox added to the Edit Properties page of Volumes/Interfaces as well. Thanks for the help.

Does anyone know can this be done? If so how and are there limits to the amount of text that can be returned? It can be done with Solarwinds APM. You will need to either modify the existing script (unfortunately the code is not self documenting) or create a new script. It is much easier to do if you are reading from a…

You'd need to create a new template with a Windows Script component. With VBScript you should be able to use wshshell.exec to run the schtasks command. I haven't played around with the command itself too much, but it looks like you should be able to run a query against one particular task. Once you have the response you…

A system admin recently sent in a ticket which claims that Solarwinds is not reporting memory data properly for a Linux server. Wanting to see what the issue was I decided to dive in and see what information I could find. This is what the admin wrote in detailing the issue: Solarwinds is reporting 20% memory used but in…

I doubt that Solarwinds itself will be able to receive emails, but if you have some other way to receive emails on either the Solarwinds server or another server you might be able to use APM to check for the error emails and trigger an alert.

Great news alterego. Sometimes wish there was a like button on Thwack.

There is a pretty limited number of alerts that can actually triggered. It would take a little setup, but you could use 's suggestion of putting together views for reports. I know it isn't exactly what you are looking for, but it might be workable for you. Also, we recently started using Acknowledge links in the alert…

Here is the top 10 Script on Windows for CPU. In 4.2 it returns just one message with the list of top 10 processes. It was created to give a quick look so tier 1 knows who owns the processes causing problems without taking the time to login to the server. It can pretty easily be modified to only return 1 result, or to…

We've been asking for auditing for quite a while so that we can open up Solarwinds to administrators outside of our department. I believe there is a feature request for this, but I'm not sure where it is exactly. If you have someone skilled in SQL maybe they can come up with a way to track logins by looking for changes in…

If you are pulling APM data keep in mind that APM entries are based off of UTC time, so if you need data down to the hour or less use GETUTCDATE instead of GETDATE when working with APM information. You shouldn't need to change the second -1, just the first one.

Unfortunately, I believe that the file monitors require you to specify a file and won't be able to dynamically grab the file with the oldest name. VBScript can be used in a similar fashion, but you'll likely need to make use of a FileSystemObject to pull the File Objects and sort by the DateLastModified Property. A word of…

It shouldn't be too difficult to roll your own script for this. Are the files on a Linux/Unix or Windows box? It should be as simple as grabbing a list of all files in the folder, sorting by the "time stamp" in the file name to find the most recent addition and comparing that to the current time. If the difference is >24…

What are the names of the 3 custom properties and which is the one that didn't come through after the upgrade?

Any reason why the 'Number of Newly Found Strings' script won't work? Number of Newly Found Strings This monitor shows the number of newly found strings after the last script execution. Below is an example using the Command Line field: perl ${SCRIPT} "/etc/inittab" "init"

Ron, unfortunately I've been told that I can't share anything that we create due to IP mumbo jumbo. The information is there in the database though.

This would be two separate components, one for Nodes (NPM) and one for Applications (APM). The reason for creating these monitors is that from time to time a monitor will remain unmanaged even though the original unmanage duration has been exceeded. As an example, we have Device01 that we unmanaged from 4:00pm until…

There are SMTP Performance counters available. Refer to How to Check the SMTP Performance Counters in order to see how to view what counters are available. On our Solarwinds test box it looks like there are "Messages Delivered Total" and "Messages Sent Total" performance counters available. I'm not really sure what the…

We use Custom Properties to set monitoring/triage level. All nodes, volumes, and interfaces can be set to either... Critical = Alert Generated. Phone call and Email by tier 1 staff Email Only = Alert Generated. Email by tier 1 staff Monitor Only = No Alert. Monitor only used for historical data There is some additional…

I don't see anything like this. This is for the Enterprise Operations Console using either the 'Global Down Nodes' or the 'Global Node Status by Site' resources. Can you post a screenshot of what you are referring to? I could just be missing something simple. Thanks

I was afraid this was the answer I would get. We don't have a resident DBA on staff and my knowledge of SQL queries amounts to 'Select * Where x=y'. What you are saying makes sense though and as far as I've been able to determine the only way to autopopulate.