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I don't know of a way to do this, but some button that would launch a real-time view of that would be a really awesome feature.

This is a very exciting list of stuff, thanks for posting it!

You are correct in that SolarWinds Orion runs on Windows and requires MS SQL Server. What I can tell you is that I have lots of experience with NMS systems but am by no means a Windows or SQL guy; however I have not had any trouble maintaining our relatively large install of Orion. I don't anticipate an Orion appliance in…

Currently the product doesn't support adding your own tabs. There is a feature request in for this.

This should be relatively easy to accomplish. In the Advanced Alert Manager on the Trigger Condition tab at the bottom you can set how long the condition has to exist before it will trigger. Now go into the Trigger Actions tab and set it to email Person A. Next, add another Email Alert that will go to Person B, when…

Have you tried just clicking the Add Object button and then editing the properties and giving it the URL of your other map? I haven't tried this so I don't know if it will work or not but thought it would be worth a try.

Is there no way to manage multiple LEM appliances from one location? Has anybody else ran into this problem?

Go into the Advanced Alert manager and find the Node Down Alert. Open that alert and add a Re-Armed action that tells you when the node is no longer down. Hope this helps!

Donald I totally agree on your points here (as I often do on your points). - A graphical object oriented interface would be sooooo much easier than one large linear list of alerts. Something like APM's management interface would be great where things are listed by categories and further details are easily viewable. Having…

If you click on the little gear above the filters you can choose to "send to nDepth". Once you have it in nDepth you can make it a scheduled search which will then email you a CSV based on the schedule you have set.

No, Orion does not monitor Hyper-V in the same way that it does VMWare and I am guessing that will be even more true once the next versions of NPM and APM are released. However, you are still able to do a good job of monitoring both the hosts and guests in a Hyper-V environment.

If you use the Node Management page you can basically do this in addition to un-managing multiple nodes at a time.

We are currently running vCenter 4.0 but have plans to upgrade to 4.1. Looking forward to those virtualization goodies!!! = )

Any ideas on how to accomplish this or is it just not possible?

This should be possible but you will need to write a custom SQL query alert.

alex.camargoti​ you seem to be under the impression that by importing the MIB that Orion would automatically start providing you CPU, memory, etc. out-of-the-box on these devices and that is not the case. If Orion does not provide you the information you are looking for out-of-the-box then you are going to need to create a…

Orion handles multi-tenant environments relatively well so long as you implement the proper design. No matter what product you use there will need to be some level of communication between the customer environment and the management system, this is the case with vFoglight as well as Orion. You can have a secure environment…

After updating my MIB database it would appear that the more current version of the database does have current Fortinet MIB's.

The SolarWinds product line should have you covered on all of these things, which products you use will depend on what you specifically wish to monitor on those devices. Here is a breakdown of what I think might work for you... Network Devices: Cisco, Passport Nortel, HP Procurve, SonicWall AP'sOperation Systems: HPUX,…

I would love to test the RC for LEM, let me know what I can do to get a copy!

We have some in-house built software that we use for flow data, I personally don't find it very useful. I am curious though, do you always have the flow collections on or do you only turn it on when you want to track down an issue?

Say I have a node that is in the Orion DB with a RO string, and now I want to add a RW string to that same node. Do I merely add the RW string under Node Management in the Read/Write Community String field? If I Validate, is it validating on the RW string or the RO string or both? Yes, this should work fine. Oh, one other…

So one important thing to point out is that (to the best of my knowledge) LEM won't necessairly collect all of your system or application events. LEM comes from a background of being a security focused solution so it's designed to look at the Security and Application logs specifically for security related events. Going…

I personally have used polling engines for two different use cases. The first use case is to add additional polling capacity. In this case you should be maxing out the capacity of your entire Orion environment long before you max out the capacity of 9 polling engines. The second use case is for different security zones. I…

I would use a SQL query. The following one works for me but it also excludes any vCenter nodes since they are associated with our virtual infrastructure. You may need to modify it for your use. Hope this helps! SELECT N.NodeID, N.Caption, N.Vendor, N.VendorIcon, N.CPULoad, N.TotalMemory, N.MemoryUsed FROM Nodes N LEFT JOIN…

New to Solarwinds but my Window's 2008 R2 with quadcore 8GB RAM CPU shoot's up 90-100% when Syslog is running on NPM 10.1.2. Soon as I shutdown the service the cpu drops back to around 30% which is good. Any ideas on how to remedy this? Jonathan You can read my post HERE regarding some best practices regarding Syslog and…

There isn't any good way to do this. The best possible option to look into would be using a Universal Device Poller with the Host Resource MIB; however, I am not sure how well this would work with indexing and across multiple systems where the OID would be different on different systems for the same process. Hope this…

I think this is a good idea since I would imagine on the back end it's just pointing to an OID anyway determined by the vendor of the product, this would simply give us a way to add additional vendor OID's for memory and CPU utilization. One of the issues that this may encounter (I know from creating many UnDP's) is that…

In the reporting application there is a database maintenance report that you can run that will tell you all of these things, it's a really awesome report to use.

Currently Orion does not do a very good job of making their traps human readable. I have a feature request in for this functionality that you can see HERE. As far as trimming out data, I don't think this is possible. However, there is the ability to call out the different varbinds as variables in your alerts.