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It would be helpful to have the VMware tags in the solarwinds VMAN database. Many people that use vmware tags use them to organize the VM's in ways that would also be used in Orion to organize nodes. For Example: We have a vmware tag that indicates the "group_owner" of the VM. I import this value into Orion as the custom…

I've seen this a while back. Reboot the primary polling engine. OR at least restart the "Solawinds Alerting Service V2", and "Solarwinds Information Service V3"

The email address can actually be a comma separated list of addresses, so in this example _Email_Nodes could contain, "group1@example.com, group2@example.com"

Future note: Once you get the node added and working. When you do a list resources, you have the option of using ICMP or SNMP for the up/down status. I cannot say which is better. Networking people will always chose ICMP, but as the monitoring guy, I prefer SNMP. The advantage of ICMP is that the device will show green…

The normal way this works: You run the script from the "Edit Script" screen, and it sees the output statistics and messages. You return to the edit application screen and when you expand the component (which should already be expanded so you can get to the edit script button), it will show all of the statistics and have a…

Warning this is a veering off topic, but I still want to throw it out there. I have several of these custom properties on nodes, interfaces, and SAM monitors. Looking at one of them is the CPU warning level. Node Custom Property: Email_CPU_Warning Alert: If CPU is over warning level and…

Yep, sorry, it did specify bash scripts. I need to learn to read... so on the linux scripts, there is a "command line" option as well as the "Script Body". *IF* the script already outputs the proper SAM "statistic:" format, then you can call the script from the command line, and in the script body isn't used. You will…

Are you using "Alert can be triggered if ______ objects (at the same time) have met the specified condition and then trigger a single alert" ?

That's how I would put it, yes. There was a LOT of work that happened that I was not a part of, but simply put: Mobile Browser -> Mobile Device VPN application -> Internet -> VPN Server -> Orion

Ok, so it seems you lose visibility at the point of the problem. We can still work with this. Are you running SAM (Server and Application Monitor) in addition to NPM? Option 1 - No SAM ---------------------- If you don't have SAM, then maybe someone can help me with options. I've never run NPM without SAM. I would still…

It "appears" that everything runs on the agent. I am basing that guess on the fact that all of the logs are on the agent system and not on the polling engine.

Yeah those settings didn't appear until 2019.2. I highly recommend that SolarWinds be upgraded at least once a year, twice if you can get the time. They add so many actually useful features each release that you can get behind quick. This is an example where they listened to the customers and added this feature which can…

Yeah, it works the opposite way. What you are trying to do and I have tried unsuccessfully, is have a script that updates the status of a monitor on each node. but what SAM does is run the script against each node. Run the script PER npm Node with the node name or IP address as a parameter. Then the script outputs for just…

Unfortunately there is a lot of ways to do this, my method for this is antiquated using plink and ssh keys. If I were doing this new today, I would probably use Powershell+OpenSSH Here is an article on powershell and OpenSSH: Windows 10 SSH vs. PuTTY: Time to Switch Your Remote Access Client? Use the SAM component for…

I don't have them on the world map, but if I did I would put them on one of the big white area's, such as Greenland or Antarctica. Then again, I might spread them out among the Marshall Islands.

I would like to say it's all just add the world map widget to the page and bam it's done ,but that is far from the case. When I started the map very few nodes had location information and of those that did most was inaccurate. Being a transportation and logistics company, we just happen to have a database of every location…

I am sure they could add the option somewhere to exclude "unknown" from the uptime calculation. It can't hurt to submit that as a feature request. The difficult part is that Unknown can come from other situations other than only unmanage. So in reality unmanage really needs to set a status of unmanaged instead of unknown.…

So just to verify that Orion is doing what you expect. Lets do some debugging: 1) Add another statistic for debugging write-host "Message.readlatency: Average Read Latency" write-host "Statistic.readlatency: $stat" write-host "Message.debug1: Server:$(hostname) User:$(whoami)" write-host "Statistic.debug1: 0" exit 0; 2)…

Thanks, I never noticed that.

Ok, this is odd. Is it possible to share the command you are running?

I submitted a feature request: The requested demo site would have allowed me to test my swql on a generic install and I would have noticed that I included a custom property.

Ok, slightly off topic, but possibly relevant to you. CUSTOM PROPERTIES TEES Tees tees ... <echos off in the distance> I am a huge advocate of custom properties. Your example above is about the better examples of using groups, but generally I hate groups in Orion. Even when I use groups, they are just a dynamic query for a…

Sure that's not a pentagram... And this isn't a Chupacabra

It does seem in the latest download of SWQL studio there is an update option, but I don't quite understand it. Maybe someone could take this opportunity to esplain it to us (in a cuban accent). 

Yep found one mistake already ${Node.Engines.ServerName} should have been ${Node.Engine.ServerName}... no "s" on node or engine.... there it's fixed now. Let me know there's probably a dozen more spelling errors or typos in there.

I'll second, @"bobmarley" suggestion of custom properties. Don't try using groups, you will just end up hating it.

Now, assuming that you cannot customize the "Send SNMP trap" to meet your needs. One alternative would be to download Net-SNMP, and use the alert action to execute a script, then run the snmptrap.exe .... or possibly download some powershell module to send snmp traps.

So either something, like a firewall, is blocking the connection OR you have the snmp community wrong. You likely have an snmp GUI tool on your orion server at: C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion\SnmpWalk.exe You can use that for testing. It won't help you tell the difference between a firewall block or a wrong…

Now... your 9 sites. Is that 9 remote networks all monitored in 1 Orion, but with 9 different groups that need to get the alerts? Or is it rather 9 different Orion installations? Because if it's the first one, we can come up with some custom properties so that it will be 4 alerts instead of 4x9 alerts.

Since someone else is going to think the same thing, I'll just go ahead and post the stupid idea... "What if I use server initiated communication and both use the same password?"... I just tried it and it doesn't work. You get connection refused on the second orion server to try the connection.