borgan · SolarWinds Engineer - Service Delivery

No, this is not possible with Orion. For Orion to "know" about a new device on the network, it must be added to the database manually or through a discovery process. Additionally, the re-discovery interval in Orion serves only to update resource information on elements that are already in the Orion database. However, such…

The SysObjectID is referenced in a file named SWDiscovery.cfg. Orion uses this file to resolve machine type information. Unfortunately, this file is updated by SolarWinds only at major version releases - about 1-2 times per year. You might call support and ask if there is any way to manually edit it, but I doubt it will be…

Well, I realized that Syslog was one way to go, but I would like to do it with APM if at all possible. Would this be a WMI Monitor, and if so, which type?

Bump again

There was a comma in the report title field. I removed it, but that made no difference.

So, in spite of this in the new NPM Administrator Guide p. 38: we should still include all of the exclusions mentioned in the KB?

Unless I am missing it, there are no categories related to Events available on the Property Type drop down menu on the Trigger Condition tab in the Advanced Alert configuration.

Believe me, I know better than to ask for any promised specifics. I was just wondering if there was a list similar to the "If you'd like to know what we're working on" thread that you post for each application.

One other option is to set the one group map to remove nodes that the logged in user is not permitted to see. This will allow you to employ user account limitations to "redraw" the map to show only the nodes or groups that a particular user is supposed to see. Will that work?

Is there still an issue with integrating the Toolset in Firefox? I cannot get the tools to show in the right click menu using Firefox, and as far as that goes, they are currently not showing on IE either. Do I need to reinstall the toolset to get IE working?

Adato, I am having so much difficulty not asking you about GeoCode. Can you promise to provide details at a later date?

Thanks Alex. That is the direction I was thinking I would need to take. I also assumed that the node added event would be deleted after the event retention period had been reached. Therefore, I had the thought that I might set up an alert that would trigger when the audit event "node added" had occurred. The trigger action…

Good advice silverbacksays, but if I may ask a clarifying question.... As you mentioned, the one thing that is difficult to "backup" are the customizations you have made to the Orion website. However, are there any files and folders in the inetpub directory that one could make a simple copy of in order to avoid having to…

I had already tried that one and a bunch of others from the same region of the Orion MIB database. None of them return any data. This particular one returns a result of "A value was not returned". Any ideas what is going on?

No takers?

I can't necessarily prove tdanner wrong, but you might try the following: Add two simple conditions for the first node - one for system name and one for Node Status = Down. Add a condition group using "all", then add two more simple conditions for the second node (system name and status) I am thinking that thus will equate…

I noticed that this never got a reply and I am wanting to do the same thing. Anyone?

I can verify the solution offered by mesverrum. This very thing was talked about yesterday at Thwack Camp. Define the Node Name in the Trigger Conditions, then use the Trigger Actions to define what custom properties to set and the values that should be assigned. Better yet, if Nodes with one particular custom property…

Actually, this scenario should be an excellent candidate for the use of account limitations in Orion. If you configure each user account with a node group limitation, the map will reflect that limitation in one of two ways. You can set the map to look the same for each user, but a given user will not have drill down access…

Crickets? Anyone?

This SQL query worked for me: select Caption,IP_Address from nodesdata left outer join ContainerMemberSnapshots on nodesdata.NodeID=ContainerMemberSnapshots.EntityID and ContainerMemberSnapshots.EntityType='Orion.Nodes' where ContainerMemberSnapshots.EntityID is NULL I got it from…

This feature is enabled by default for a map. Right-click on a map in Network Atlas and select Map Properties. There are two options for how maps will behave with a user account limitation in place. You simply decide whether restricted objects will show on the map or be removed. In either case, the account limitation is…

Anyone??

Just installed the NPM 11.6 Beta 1 and I have a quick comment regarding the UI itself. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE stop using the light blue and gray font colors on a white background!! The combination is extremely hard to see for eyes older than about 30. I would request that you either include some buttons on the Admin page…

This is a very nice resource. Is there some way to add the Notes field to the report? The Notes field is used by many to explain the "why" aspect of maintenance. Thanks.

This is very nice Alex, but when I validate the SQL, it comes back with an error related to "r1.AccountID" in line 68. I suspect it will also complain about line 78 as well. What does "r1" refer to?

Humejo or anyone?

I think I may have found what I need re: the last successful status poll. In the NetObjectDowntime table are the "DateFromTime" and "DateTimeUntil" fields. In the screenshot you can see one node that I purposely took down a little earlier today. The DateFromTime shows when the node went down, while the DateTimeUntil field…

Good point. I am still using ICMP as default status polling. So, do we know what field should be used? What I am ultimately after is a report that will show nodes that have not polled up in some designated number of hours or days. That data would then be used to determine "stale" devices that could be deleted from the…

Good advice about using SWQL for custom queries. One question... it looks like I could change the "n.Status=1" to a value of 2, and then I could use the query to display a list of nodes that have been down for some period of time (in this case 10 minutes), right?