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Unfortunately I don't think there is a way to modify the value that is returned. I am guessing that there is an OID that maps those numbers to the actual sub-systems that they apply to as you have shown. You could add an additional poller and show it as a lagend. I realize this is sub-optimal but it may be your best…

This is not due to compression, it's due to consolidation. Orion (like most other NMS systems) is designed to consolidate data over time to keep the database from growing out of control. The settings on how frequent data is consolidated can be configured in the webUI Admin --> Polling Setting, under there you will see…

You should check out the free product SolarWinds has called Alert Central. It provides alert aggregation and management with just about all of the escalation capabilities you are looking for. Check it out HERE.

We are in a similiar boat. We plan to open this up to customers but I also found the issue where you can enter a viewID in the URL to get to a different view which could grant you info on another customer via map backgrounds, etc. I have thread I opened on this a while back.

This really depends on what you your intentions are with regard to Syslogs. Orion has Syslog capabilities; however, these capabilities are intended for alerting purposes only. Orion was not designed to be a log management system and you will run into problems if you try to use it's Syslog capabilities for anything other…

When looking at a ticket on the right-hand side of the screen there is a small bar with the word "Problems" on it. If you click on that it opens up a side panel that allows you to search for tickets. From here you can search for the ticket you want to link to an a "link" button will appear. Click on that link button and…

You can compare a UDP against a threshold, the easiest way would be to set the threshold in the alert as part of the trigger threshold. Would that work? Sent from my iPhone

Do you have SAM or just NPM? I ask because SAM can give you a bit more flexibility here as you can even script something if necessary. Sent from my iPhone

I was about to open a similiar thread but am glad I searched first and found this. You are doing better than I am. How are you getting the carriage returns? I can't get it to do anything beyond just putting everything on one line. Ultimately it would be nice if there were some text formatting options, kind of like the bar…

In one of the manuals it indicates that when in an Unmanaged status, polling is disabled, it doesn't mention if it stops the alerting engine from looking at that node as well. My assumption based on this is that the alerting engine would continue to look at that node since the alerting engine doesn't do anything more than…

The specific device details can be found HERE.

For the reports; yes they are stored on the local system in a folder. In order for those reports to be available on a different "additional web server" you will need to copy them over. For alerts, if you create advanced alerts, those are stored in the database and therefore only have to be created once. My understanding is…

I has been several years since this post but it looks like Orion still doens't do anything to monitor the CPU onthe VIP controllers in a Cisco device, is that correct? Now we do have the UnDP available to write a custom poller for this; however, the way Cisco presents this information via SNMP makes it difficult to work…

Leslie Here is set of UnDP (Universal Device Poller) configurations that were uploaded to the Content Exchange that are designed to get specific HP Insight information from the Proliant line of systems. We are also an HP shop and these work well out of the box or you can tweak them as necessary. HP Proliant Pollers: As…

Well, I am not sure that there are any best practices for this, just what works best for you and your situation. I have APM unlimited licensing so that isn't a limiting factor for me; however, I still choose to use the Log Forwarder & Log Matching solution more often. I like the Log Forwarder because I can then show the…

Yes, we use an additional web server (though this isn't a requirement to do this) and we force https. Here is how I have it configured... We are using Windows 2008 R2 and IIS 6. I created an additional site called SolarWinds Redirect and added binding on it for http/port80. I then put only an https/port 443 binding on my…

Make sure all of your alerts have a condition that says "status is not equal to UnManaged". Then just unmanage your nodes during the maintenance window. Hope this helps!

We also use the additional web server and are considering re-integrating NCM when we upgrade since significant improvements seem to have been made on this. I will also need to see how to upgrade an environment with an additional web server.

What specifically are you trying to monitor for the Scheduler, do you just want to make sure the process is still running? To monitor the Task Scheduler process (which we do) go into the SAM Settings, choose Browse for Component Monitors, then choose the browsing method that is suited for your environment (SNMP, RPC, WMI),…

Our environment looks something like this though I am guessing at some of the numbers so they may not be exact... Two polling engines with hot-standby, two web servers load balanced, two SQL back end systems (one on standby), and NCM. Unlimited licensing on everything but NCM which is 500. Also two copies of Engineers…

I think it's a little absurd that this is still an issue; is there some technical reason that this can be fixed so that the custom properties show up on these nodes like they do every other node?

I have not received any feedback on this and wanted to make sure that SolarWinds was aware of this potential security concern.

SolarWinds doesn't necessarily provide map locations for every place in the world. You can use any JPEG image as a background. Just do a Google search for an image that will work, download it and then use it as your background.

Brian It looks to me like you may be polling a table, do you know if this is the case? If so you can just poll the OID that represents the first value in that table and you should be good. Hope this helps!

With Orion APM you can use scripts to report statistical data back to Orion which can also be displayed in the interface. In your specific case I would have the script at the client site store the result. Then create a script in Orion APM that monitors the node at the client site which goes and collects the stored…

Kellie By "subviews" are you talking about the new Left Navigation?

You should be able to write a small Batch or VB script and then use a trigger action to call that program. Will this work?

Just create an advanced alert for your Exchange Server that says "Node Name is equal to {Node Name}". That should do the trick.

For the most part virtualization doesn't play into our patching process. The main reason for this is because the patching process already takes a considerable amount of manual management even with a patch deployment system. If we were to include some level of snapshots that would add an additional level of manual…

The first one is how often Orion will check the database to see if the conditions are met. The second one is how long the alert will be delayed after the conditions have been met. The last one is how long to wait before an escalation alert is sent, this basically turns the alert into an escalation in the even it wasn't…