broeben · Infrastructure Enginer

How will AppInsight impact SAM licensing?

My guess would be Active Directory or Sharepoint for the next AppInsights.

Ok, I see that now. But I still believe entering a reason for reboot would be a good feature to add.

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I saw in the beta forums that back during beta 4, if this was intalled on the same system as NPM, that it required NPM 10.6. Is this still the case for the RC, or the final version when it is released?

I had the same issue. It turned out to be a node that had an IIS 10.0 connector enabled on it. The connector was expecting fields that are not enabled by default in IIS. This link shows how to adjust the fields in the IIS web site. Just enable all the fields.…

When I cut/pasted it, I missed the last character. Case # is 238943.

No solution yet. Here is the response I got back from support: Thank you for contacting SolarWinds support via our web site. I took a look at your thwack post, but not being a programmer I am not going to know why your script is sending a RC of 128. I can only see what we get back in the log files. I can say, 128 is not a…

I'm home, but I have no idea. I would like to hear opinions on the matter as well.

I opened a ticket with support. The case # is 23894

Then is it possible to run a SQL Query in the To/CC/BCC fields in Email action of an alert? Maybe place an email address in the Group description and pull the info into an email using a query?

Ok, I got a result from the logging. It appears that when an item is listed as Unknown, it is getting a script exit code of 128. But I don't know why. See below for log output. 2011-04-25 12:22:01,097 [STP SmartThreadPool Thread #743] [C(null)] DEBUG SolarWinds.APM.Probes.ApplicationJobBase - [x68293] Creating thread pool.…

Ok, for database files that are located local to the SQL Server, if the volume space is not showing as available, is there a way to fix that so that is shows info? 

Ok, I have an idea for a workaround, but I want to find out if it is possible. Can I pull the Group Description as a variable in an email alert?

Okay. I figured out what needs to be done to get it to work. First, I needed to change the account for the SolarWinds Alerting Engine service from Local System to the AD service account that I use with Orion. Second, I need to bring up a 64 bit command prompt as Administrator. Browse to C:\windows and run the command…

No, that is not what I was referring to. The old interface percent utilization showed the min/max and the average line. The new graph just shows the average line, so you do not see the max spike on the graph. 

Anyone?

Anyone have any ideas?

If I open a normal Powershell command prompt and run that command, as I stated above, the snap-in loads fine. I can load the Powershell script without issues from the Powershell command prompt. I only have issues when I try to have an Advanced Alert run the powershell script via the Execute an external program option. The…

No. These database files are located on a drive on the server. I was testing with a SQL cluster. So as another test, I added a single node SQL server to the AppInsight. Again the alert went off for a database file saying it has 0 bytes free. On the AppInsight page, I clicked on the database. Under the file section, it…

I had tried those steps already. I got it working without the errors. I ran the configuration manager again for all items. I uninstalled the Exchange 2007 Management. Removed any remaining files from Exchange mgmt. Rebooted the system. Reran the install for Exchange 2007 Mgmt SP3 with Rollup 7. It is now working.

Thanks, that is what I needed.

Ok I got responses back from my support ticket, which was case # 385490. They released a hot fix, which fixes the issue. But as a result, we discovered that the event log monitor can only include/exclude up to about 14 event IDs. It is a limitation in WQL, which is recreatable via wbemtest. Oh well, I guess back to using…

I am opening a ticket with Microsoft. Thanks for you assistance.

Ok, thanks. I have reposted to the Ideas section.

Yes, I have seen that tip. I have also seen this and this. They are all good tips on setting up the groups and dependencies. But does the location of the NPM server, in the network hierarchy, change that parent/child relationship? Should the top most parent be whatever router/switch that the NPM server is directly attached…

I have a custom property created for the primary contact email address, but I can only apply it to a node, interface or volume. When I create a Group alert and add the custom property to the From or CC or BCC, it fails to send an email alert. If I change the alert from a group to a node or apm component or apm monitor,…

Sort of. I was hoping to export the info, as it appears, from the Neighbor Map to Visio and then make modifications/additions to the map in Visio. Then export the item to an image as a final map.

I would have done that, but there is a chance that the alert may need to report back more than 10 files in the monitored folder. I figured out a workaround that got the new line working in a powershell script. I made the below change: Old: ForEach-Object {$Count = $Count + 1;$Files += $path + $_.name + [char]13}; New:…

Our NOC view. It still a work in progress.