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I would be happy to provide these; however, to protect the guilty I don't want to post them here in a public place. Do you have a method that I could use to send them to you directly? It doesn't look like you have Direct Messaging turned on for your Thwack profile.

So the basically, the 50 monitor license is just about worthless. (as I can't see anyone wanting run APM if they only have 1 or 2 servers). [RANT] When I first saw Orion (and APM) I was impressed (and excited to start using it), the more I learned, the less I liked. so many damn got ya' like this license structure…

SELECT Nodes.NodeID AS NodeID, Nodes.Caption AS Node_Name FROM Volumes INNER JOIN Nodes ON (Volumes.NodeID = Nodes.NodeID) WHERE ( (Nodes.MachineType LIKE '%Windows 2008 R2%') AND (Nodes.EntityType = 'Orion.VirtualMachine') AND ( (Volumes.VolumeDescription LIKE '%C:\%') AND (Volumes.VolumePercentUsed >= 90)) ) Just to…

For what it's worth, I have been having a lot of problems with 11.5.2 RC. I think I currently have 5 tickets open with SW Support as a result of the upgrade.

You should probably read the Orion NPM Admin guide located HERE as it covers a lot of this stuff. When you go to Manage Views you should be able to preview the view that you have created. When you are doing that copy the URL. Now go to the Customize Menu Bars and at the very bottom left here is a button that says Add,…

The upgrade went smooth. Only issue I ran into is two linux systems that started crashing due to kernel panic's as a result of a driver bug in old HP's that causes specific snmp requests to crash it. Not sure what Orion is polling now that it wasn't polling before. Orion itself upgraded smoothly.

It's just a bit tricky to find the correct OID's ;-) If you have a copy of the SolarWinds Engineers Toolset installed on your primary core polling system (or any other system that has SNMP access to your nodes) you can do a full SNMP Walk on the device that will basically give you a report or SNMP Profile of your system…

Let me make sure I understand your question... You now have your SQL Server on a different system than your Orion Application and you want to know how to connect the Orion Application to the SQL Server? If that is what you are asking, then if I recall correctly all you need to do is run the Configuration Wizard on the…

But is there any way to create an alert for column "load-1"? Thanks. Yes, this is possible. In the Advanced Alert Manager if you create an alert with the Type of Property to Monitor set to Custom Node Poller you will then have Row and Column options when you go to configure the conditions. If you plan to do this you will…

Here is the SQL query to isolate a list of systems with a specific application name. Just replace <Application Name> with the name of the application you want to search for on all of your systems and replace <Custom Poller ID> with the Poller ID of the custom poller that you created. SELECT Nodes.Caption,…

I have uploaded a poller to the Content Exchange for capturing Load Average on net-snmp systems. Hopefully this will help anybody that is struggling with this.

Hrm, I am not sure these are necessarily true. As I sat and thought about this I found myself wondering down a lot of different complex potential situations and use cases. Eventually I came full circle back to a simple thought... I think you have to look at things from the perspective of the NMS system. In all cases (both…

Now if I take my situation from before but include it all in the alert as appended below it will notify me on all systems where CPU is greater than 90 except when that system name is equal to Bob. Trigger when all of the following apply CPU Utilization is greater than 90 Node name is not equal to Bob

Right now we are just sending alerts into Footprints via email and setting basic variables with specified things in the body of the email such as "Status=Alert".

You should be able to send basic node information in Custom Poller alerts, we have it configured to send the Node Name as well as custom properly information and it's working.

Are you aware that APM natively supports Windows Performance Counters without having to write any special code? In the Admin section of the WebUI for APM you can browse for performance counters on Windows systems and then apply them to an Application Monitor or an Application Template. Hope this helps!

When I asked about inaccurate data I was referring to MRTG. As I understand it (very likely incorrect) you are using the MaxBytes capability of MRTG to throw out values that are above what the interface is capable of and therefore inaccurate. What I don't undersantd is what is causing you to get these inaccurate values in…

Can you see those syslog messages in your system? If so can you post a screenshot of the syslogs that you want alerts for along with the alert that you have configured.

I both understand and can see the value in the eventual connecting of the dots between LEM and NTA/Orion. The value is for the correlation/thresholds/alerting of such data. However, with that said I think there is also significant value in having LEM be a stand-alone virtual appliance. We have and use Orion and it's not an…

Ok, thanks. How do I specify the which nodes I want this to fall under? That is why I told you that you would need a custom property as a unique way to identify the nodes. In the alert you can set a condition that says "Custom Property is equal to <Bad Nodes>" where Bad Nodes are the nodes that you have set "Bad Nodes" in…

I didn't even evaluate Splunk. I am familiar with it and have played with it in the past. Way more manual work to setup and maintain than I am looking for. If LEM doesn't suite your needs the next best bet (based on my evaluations) is LogRythm; however, it really all depends on your needs.

While I also love Alert Central and I actually think having some of the components of the overall architecture broken out can be a good thing; there is still the issue of support. Alert Central does not have a maintenance contract with SolarWinds so when I have problems I am at the mercy of the community and the SW folks…

The problem is each one of these is a different template so I still have over 400 templates that will need to be edited. The reason for the multiple templates is that the queries used in the components are unique in each case. We are pulling environmental data into Orion so it probably isn't the standard use case.

Well, unfortunately there is always the possibility that the specific thing you are trying to accomplish just isn't currently possible and that an alternative solution may need to be considered.

No matter what type of account I use it fails. I tried using a local account that was granted Sysadmin access in SQL, I tried a domain account that was granted Sysadmin access in SQL and I tried a SQL account that was granted Sysadmin access in SQL and it has failed every time. I even tried using the SA account and that…

Francois Is there documentation that I could read on this in advance of the upgrade? We currently have the NCM application installed on a completely seperate server from Orion NPM; however the database exists on the same server. We used to use the integration with NPM for the website but stopped because it was a pain. I…

Yes, you can connect Crystal Reports directly to the Orion Database. We do something very similar with SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services). Personally, I really am a fan of the 1st option I provided. I like that it empowers the executives to get the reports when ever they want versus having to wait for them to arrive via…

It's an L2 HP ProCurve Switch. Based on the process I outlined above, would you expect that to get the topology data or was I doing something incorrectly?

In my option, there seems to be a lot lacking on the Forums for setting up alerts using syslog. Doing a search will bring up info that is several years old. Is there some syslog alerting you need help setting up? If so I would be happy to try and help.

Just to make sure I understand, are we working with SNMP Traps or Syslog messages here?