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Above is the direct answer to your question and probably where you should start but.... I am going to describe a different philosophy on monitoring and alerting. Keep in mind that every situation is different and your question is generic. I am going on the assumption here that you want one primary server to be the active…
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I actually read your post wrong, sorry, but the answer is mostly the same. with the disclaimer that I don't use that wizard, I download the agent and do a manual install.
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When you are doing the install, or setup, it's called "server initiated". I means the agent is sitting passive waiting on a connection from the orion server. The alternative way is "agent initiated", where the agent starts the connection. For the most part, when your server is in the same network as your orion server it…
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yes, and since my upgrade to 2022.4.1 I have not seen it. I never found the reason or even a pattern, I would schedule it to be unmanaged for 5 minutes and then all would go back to working correctly.
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No. That would be nice to have a widget template or something like that, where there is one place to update all the widgets that are based on that template. Unfortunately if you use the "same" widget on several pages, when you want to update it, you will have to update all of them individually. Updating them is not hard,…
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Here's where I am: * Orion version: 2022.4.1 * additional web server: orionwebserver1.example.com * polling engines, web servers, and workstations are all in the same domain. * DNS alias orion.example.com that points to the above server name * This will eventually be on the F5 load balancer, but a DNS alias should be a…
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Nearly impossible to do as you would expect. I mean it might be doable if all of your alerts are really simple, but even then it would incredibly difficult to produce. I mean just think about simple situations like "alert of both app X and app Y are both down", or "alert triggered of more an X objects match the criteria".…
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This is eerie that I did the exact same thing at about the same time. I ended up reverting the entire database... but if anyone from Solarwinds is listening, you have half of the solution in place already. The Audit logs show that I changed all of the custom properties and what I changed them "to", if you has simply also…
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Just to be clear, you can create node alerts that only alert when x or more nodes are down. I went through this similar process and fought it for months, but eventually changed to custom properties and node alerts instead of group alerts. I still think you will be happier in the long run if you make that effort... but here…
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If it's a custom property of the group then see Bobmarley's answer, but if it's a custom property of the node then this is a MUCH longer discussion. The short version is that if you want to alert if the node is down, then alert on the node instead of the group. Now your logic is usually like: "I want to alert when any node…
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Ok, so some more just to let you know things. The alerts that neomatrix1217 pointed to, are exactly what you need to start with. 1) an "application" here means an "application monitor" not an application like word.exe. 2) That alert will go off any time any application monitor goes down, so we might need to refine it. 3)…
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Yeah. I login to the customer portal. https://customerportal.solarwinds.com I am actually not sure what's available if you don't have a license. When I go to download the product I do have to select a license, so maybe that is required to download the offline installer. You could always try support, or contact a sales…
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Ok, maybe something changed in an upgrade. I just did a custom query in a summery view SELECT TOP 10 NodeID, Caption FROM Orion.Nodes and the darn thing worked. I know I am getting old, but I remember this defiantly didn't work before. I no longer have the example where I got around this before, but I think I put the "top…
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Hmm, well, I've always removed it from reports SWQL's also, that's interesting. I found a way around this let me see if I can find it.
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APM is just the old name for SAM.
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Yes that is what it does. Just to be clear we are talking about another product that you install with your NPM. SAM Server and Application Monitor. Basically NPM monitors ping and SNMP, SAM monitors a lot of the "other" stuff. Honestly I'm not sure how people get by with just NPM without SAM.…
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I love it, but it's going to depend a lot on what you want it to monitor, what other products you want it to integrate with, such as your helpdesk software, etc.
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Also try "unmanaging" the node. Wait a couple minutes, then re-manage. Not sure what the issue is, but I have had this fix several issues where everything seems to be working, but it just does not collect data. NOTE: "mute" is not the same as "unmanage" and does not work the same in this situation.
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All solarwinds installers are the trial version and later you install the real license. The offline installer even includes all of the products, at least all of the orion line of products, NPM, SAM, NTA, IPAM, etc. You can even freely install the trail versions along side your licensed versions... so for example you are…
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Do you mean that a) you want a custom default summery page that shows all of their devices for their site? but they could still see all nodes if they searched for them. b) you want to limit all of orion down so they can only ever see or access devices at their site? For A: You can assign them a default summery page. This…
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The reporting function already has the ability to limit the number of records. That feature interferes with the SQL "top 10".
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Just to sum it all up... The agent is superior in almost every way, but WMI is much easier.
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NOTE: I just made this up, so there is a high chance of error here. Also note this is just one of several ways to do this. The logic here is that 1) setup the alert so that it would normally alert on EITHER process being down. 2) enable complex conditions, and set the "alert can be triggered if [more or equal] [2] objects…
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Is the node being monitored by SNMP or Agent? (NOTE: if you are using the agent it's still possible to provide snmp credentials, but the answer to this question is still "agent") IF it's the agent is it Server initiated or Client initiated? Are you changing to: 1) an additional polling engine in the same Orion…
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It looks right. I litterally took your text made it a script with just echo's of your data and it works.
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One possibility is that the exit code from the script is non-zero. When you manually run it at the command line, do "echo $?" to see what the exit code was.
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I run SWQL studio as my normal AD user, which is not an admin in Orion so I have to manually type in my other account. I connect as "Orion (v3)" (nothing after that), and it works just fine. My Orion admin account is also an AD account, so I have to put Domain\User in the "User Name" field, but it's always worked without a…
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Just in case anyone read my previous post, it had an error. I've fixed it now, but I showed the email address as: ${{N=SwisEntity;M=CustomProperties.Email_CPU_Warning}}. I have no idea where the double curly brackets ${{...}} came from, and sure enough my alert had it, and sure enough it was not working. I edited the…
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By logs I mean that I turned on the SAM debug logging for it and looked under "\ProgramData\Solarwinds\Logs\APM\ApplicationLogs\App####" on both the agent and the poller.
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Does anyone later go back and reread your post because you can't remember if you typed advocate or avocado, because I was thinking about food. My brain even goes one step farther and type advacato, but since it's got the red underline, my brain goes hey maybe I don't know how to spell that, lets use another word....…
