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Term It sounds to me like this is a case of using the proper product for the environment. In your case it would seem that IPMonitor is just a better fit for your environment as I am sure is the case for many others as well. In our case IPMonitor doesn't begin to satisfy our requirements so we use NPM+APM; the additional…

You can setup a unique trap alert for eachof your APC UPS devices, I realize this is not an optimal solution from an alert management perspective but it should work.

What you will want to do is make your alerts more dynamic so they will always cover your systems without needing to modify the alert each time you add new systems. You can do this by using Custom Properties or perhaps Groups (groups available in the most recent version only) in conjunction with Advanced Alerts. In the…

Hello - I have a undp poller for percent utilized for each volume on my netapps. When attempting to write a custom alert I discovered an issue. I don't want to issue any alerts for the aggregates as they will always be close to 100%. How can I check the volume name before I alert? I cannot see it as a variable in the cusom…

To add some more detail to this, the memory begins to significantly climb as I use filters in the WebUI and at the same time it uses a lot of CPU resources (4 vCPU's averaging greater than 80% utilized). In general it seems like the WebUI portion of this product really struggles and this is only with a single user…

I would recommend doing an SNMP Walk on the device to get a list of what OID's do respond. If you have the SolarWinds Engineers Toolset it has an SNMP Walk tool that works great for this; if not download the 30 day free trial and uninstall it once you are finished with it.

Can you give an example of what you are trying to do? Normally you would need SAM to do custom script monitoring.

I love that you guys are working on making this stuff better, I took the survey and provided my input.

I am not familiar with mini_snmpd, only net-snmp. Are there any configurations you can make to the mini_snmpd that will allow you to get rid of the required .iso? I am guessing that if that wasn't required things would be working as you would like.

Yes; however, this is not configured in the Advanced Alert Manager. You need to go into the Syslog Viewer console application, in there there is a menu option (represented by a yellow triangle) that will allow you to create alert rules.

I am not sure I understand what you are doing here. Are you planning to make that system just a Web server for Orion and have all of the polling done by a different system?

Are you not able to use the hot-standby engine? You can configure a hot-standby engine so that it is on standby for any number of polling engines. We currently have a hot-standy engine that covers our two primary polling engines and it works fine. The only problem I will point out is that it only covers NPM functionality,…

Is this just not possible?

Yes, this will work. You can see this in one of my previous posts...

I have confirmed with SolarWinds support that this is not currently possible. I have submitted a Feature Request HERE for this functionality.

Well, it looks like the Current Value is only used for Basic Alerts. I found this thread where this is noted by SW staff...

Orion typically needs to be able to talk directly to the server that it's monitoring. There may be a few exceptions to this. Without better understanding your environment it's hard to suggest a solution. Could you try and explain your environment and what you are trying to accomplish in more detail?

NPM gets this information during the discovery process when you use Network Sonar. Currently it only collects Layer 2 connection information. In the upcoming version there have been improvements to this system including the collection of Layer 3 connection information. If you search Thwack you should find several threads…

I agree with both of you. I wish the mac address tracking was included with NCM and NPM as I already own those two products. I also wish the Synthetic Transaction monitoring was included with APM as I already own that and that functionality was one of the reasons that I purchased the product in the first place. I also wish…

If you are talking Windows based systems, then this information is not natively available via SNMP. However, if you install the free SNMP Informant Standard extensibility agent on your systems then you will be able to get disk I/O for your Windows systems. We actually do this versus using WMI via APM. I actually wrote a…

Are we the only ones using LEM (or at least looking at using LEM) for PCI?

In the Orion web interface you can click on Settings in the upper right hand side and then under "Details" choose "Database Details". Here it will give you information about your database, the name and what server it's running on. Hope this helps!

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Not sure if this is something I should open a support ticket on? I was hoping that somebody could either validate that my experiences are in line with the functionality of the feature or tell me that what I am experiencing is incorrect and point me in the right direction (support ticket if necessary).

Do you want this data on a per node basis or just one big sheet? If you want it on a per node basis you can create a custom node properties for contact information. You could then have a summary report that shows all contacts with their information. Another alternative if you don't want to store this data on a per node…

I was able to get to the bottom of how all this works... Data is consolidated with Stored Procedures in SQL For example when hourly CPU statistics are being converted to daily CPU statistics the procedure is named: "dbm_CPULoad_HourlyToDaily" Similarly interface detailed traffic is rolled into hourly statistics using this…

Some of the reports we are working on that pull data directly from the Orion database require that we understand how this works. I was hoping that I could get a response from the SolarWinds development team. If this is something that I should open a support ticket on please let me know, thanks!

I don't know of a single resource that you can use that will generically show all of the message center items. However, there is a resource for each of the different things in message center (Syslog, Traps, Events, and Alarms), all or any of which can be put into a node level view and which will show you just those things…

David You need to create a template for your application if a good one doesn't already exist in APM or in the Content Exchange. Go into the APM Settings section of the WebUI and from there you can "Find Process, Services, and Performance Counters" (if what you want is a Process or Service) and you can then add that to a…

You should set an Advanced Alert with the following conditions... Where Interface Status is equal to Down Where Node Name is equal to <your switch name> Hope this helps!