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You should be able to forward on the Syslogs from SolarWinds to another system and tell it to "Retain the original source address of the message"; by doing this I think you will essentially be accomplishing your "unfiltered" goal. To do this all you need to do is go setup a syslog alert for all logs and for the Alert…

I think what you are looking for is in the CPUMultiLoad_Detail, CPUMultiLoad_Hourly, and CPUMultiLoad_Daily tables and it's broken out by the CPU index number. I hope this helps!

As an example I have uploaded a template HERE that collects the necessary metrics to measure SQL DTU.

After working with SolarWinds support they did confirm this as a bug that the SQL Server User Experience Monitor can't connect to Azure SQL. This has been logged as a bug and they will be following up on it. I have also confirmed that you can get the ODBC User Experience monitor to work.

I worked with this some more and no matter what I do I can't get this to work. I was able to setup a .udl Data Link Property file on my polling engine and test the connection with that and it works.

Few questions... * Do you have APM or just NPM? * Is this a Windows box or a Linux Box? There are two general ways to get this information. The first is with APM, you can use a WMI or Performance Counter moniotr (for Windows systems) to collect the information. Then you setup an APM Component alert for the level that you…

If you are saying that you only want this alert to apply to one node you can add an additional condition that says {Node Name} is equal to {the node you are concerned with}. Hope this helps.

You could do with an advanced SQL report but I think you should be able to do this with a standard report. To do this with a standard report try the following... * Create a new report and choose "Current Status of Nodes, Interfaces, Etc" as the report type * Select the following fields under te Select Fields tab...*…

smoked_angus​ I am not sure how your organization is laid out; are you setup in a way where different departments can effectively bill the other departments for the services that they are providing? I know this is how some larger organizations work and if so you could consider essentially billing those other groups for the…

I am pretty sure that this is going to be required so that Orion knows which domain to authenticate against. With the Active Directory integration Orion has the ability to authenticate against multiple domains and without putting the domain in front of the user name it wouldn't know which domain to use for authentication.

If the report is in an APM view you may want to try and filter it based on Application ID which is what the AA is in the URL. Would that make your report work as you would like?

I am sorry to hear that APM is not working well for you, I have found it to be the most useful SW product we have as it can do just about everything one could ask for with regard to application level monitoring. Monitoirng website availability is very simple to do. Just go in and assign an HTTP template to the desired node…

I need to monitor access to my servers published on the internet but the SolarWinds server is inside my local network. How can I do this? Another option is to use Cisco IPSLA. If you have any Cisco routers that are capable of running Cisco IPSLA that are not located at your datacenter you can have them do HTTP monitoring…

Here is a blog post on how to do what I have described...

A potentially better way to do this would be to just put the email address of the Owner in the "Owner" field. Then just have one set of alerts and in the alert email action put the variable for the custom property field instead of an actual email address and it will pass the email address from the field. Hope this helps!

We are a hosting solutions provider and provide similar monitoring offerings to our hosted customers, I have even used a very similar solution to what you mention here (great write up by the way). Assuming that you provide your monitored customers access to Orion to see their stuff, I would be very interested in hearing…

More and more people seem to want PDF reports from Orion. My question is how should this work? * An export to PDF button on each web resource * Scheduled reports send a URL to the resource so user can export themselves * PDF sent as an attachment in a scheduled email * A combination of 1 and 3 I know Denny will be watching…

Orion polling engines are fully supported as VM's; however, the database is not supported as a VM. We run both our primary and secondary poller as VM's with NPM and APM and the database is on a dedicated physical system; this functions very well. VMWare vMotion does provide DR for the system but it doesn't provide HA for…

We have this problem as well with several different LEM systems that we have setup. We have several reports set to run and most days not all of them complete though it does seem inconsistent for us. It's funny, when I talked to support about it they indicated I was they only case they had seen of this yet I come here and…

I 110% agree that something like this is necessary to ensure proper function of the system. A set of internal sanity checks that let me know if Orion or some part of Orion has kicked the bucket. Since this is a discussion... We were able to take advantage of a very good deal that SolarWinds had on the Fail Over Engines for…

Just a thought... If you are trying to capture bandwidth usage for the sake of understanding when upgrades are necessary, the best place to get this information would be from your border router to your upstream provider. This would be a much simpler approach then trying to get this information from each individual system…

You are doing things correctly. Now that you have the UnDP's created all you need to do is configure an alert or set of alerts. You can create one alert for each of these things, in the Advanced Alert manager you will need to select "Custom Node Poller" for the property to monitor on the Trigger Condition Tab. Then you can…

What additional benefit do you get from running the checks in a particular sequence versus checking them individually as components in an application monitor?

It seems likely you are using different protocols to check the Windows server 2003-2008 versus checking system up/down. The protocol being used to check system up/down (likely ICMP/Ping) may be getting blocked while other protocols are making it to the system.

An enhancement for this has already been logged. = )

Still looking for some help on this.

Probably the best way to accomplish this would be through the use of custom properties. Setup a custom property for interfaces and then only trigger alerts for interfaces that have a specified value in the custom interface property.

+1 I agree that the product needs this type of functionality, as the person responsible for our system I really look bad when this type of thing happens. Donald; quick question for you... Have you tried any of the Fail Over Engine products to see if they help with this? I ask because we have them but I have not yet…

My system always does this as well. It's only a mild irritation but does seem to oppose the logic behind having a specific tool for managing and starting the services in the proper order.

I don't run them side by side but my understanding is that Virtualization Manager provides a much deeper dive on the virtualization stuff including vm/host/storage mappings and such. Orion NPM is much higher level but also provides all of the network and system monitoring functionality that you won't get with…