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The best learning tool I've found have been the report writer and the alert writer. in Report Writer there is a nice little menu commmand For alerts you need to go into the DB and see what the alert writer wrote. I have scripts that assist me in this already, but the idea is based on this: select triggerquery from…

I've already got that in place and when I look at the availability of that SAM component, it think it might be the answer if I build a component level alert around it. Thanks for the reminder.

I think I figured it out. you said you were running the stock apache SAM template. I tried it and got similar results. The template I tried has the following description: This template assesses the overall performance of an Apache web server. Prerequisites: Configure the Apache web server to allow itself access to the…

New variation: select Nodes.Caption 'NODE NAME', APM_Application.Name 'APM NAME', APM_ComponentDetails.Name 'COMPONENT NAME', APM_ComponentDefinition.name 'COMPONENT TYPE', APM_Application.Created 'CREATION DATE', APM_Application.LastModified 'MODIFIED DATE', APM_ComponentDetails."Key" 'VARIABLE',…

Can you expand on this a bit more please: "Adding new columns to the Tables would cause issues"

I saw the preview of SEUM but will wait untill it handles painfull things like Oracle Forms based apps. For Simple (web 1.0 type) web apps I've found that using a linux box and the nagios check_http monitor works just fine. For the setup I describe above, each of the external Linux nodes have the nagios monitors installed…

Here's a diagram of how I montor the performance of our external facing web server. I use 3 external nodes to get network diversity (network outages outside our network are out of our control) and by having 3 different testing nodes, I can tell if the "Internet" is broken or is it our problem.

Yes, these 4 views in the DB have the weight column and a similar sqll change IMHO should be applied. * InterfaceAvailability * InterfaceAvailabilityByDays * InterfaceErrors * InterfaceTraffic Note, if you're using the database manager, will not see the above listed tables. they are views and the database manager doesn't…

Are you using a stock APM template, or something you have crafted to match what BMC was doing? If stock, which one? If custom, can you post the template or at least enumerate the components and component types?

When I look in the netperfmon db for the specific esx in the VIM_Hosts table I see the following: OverallStatus: Red ManagedStatus: 2 HostStatus: 2 ConfigStatus: Green ConnectionState: connected Does that give any further insight

Please publish the API publicly as soon as possible. I'm sure many many people are interested. I am for sure

I would have expected the second part of the expression to look like: (Caption does not start with /export AND Caption does not start with /import AND Caption does not start with /oracle AND Caption does not start with /opt/oracle) since the "Trigger when none of the following apply" was the condition group qualifier. The…

The trigger conditions work just fine now. As for the test process, that worked perfectly also. I guess I was trying to solve a simple problem with a complex solution. Changing the alert thresholds is the best way to go. Chris.

yes, it is a custom property.

Agreed. Your's is simpler. I was recreating the exact color coding and icon selections in a special event view for a customer.

updating the snmp agent solved the problem.

You are correct. My original ask was about the trigger query only. You answer was an extended answer to my question. I just wanted to share that I've been down that path also and have spent too much time in the dark side of the netperfmond database Since we're the only ones discussing this we can probably close it off.…

if you drill into DiscoveryProfiles.PluginConfigurations you will find the address space (subnets / range / addresses) encoded in xml. I have no idea how to take it apart in SQL but have had good success using PHP and PowerShell.

Interesting question. I spent the last hour googling and searching wmi for the answer. I cannot find anywhere that shows what core a process is running on. I suspect that unless you bind a process to a specific core (using processor affinity) the process will wander around the cores and use them all. So I don't think you…

Here's a bash example I have running successfully:

How are you calling this PHP from Solarwinds? Do you have PHP installed on your Solarwinds server? Yes, I've installed PHP 5.x on the server and use the CLI interface. To call it, I do alert action of "run an external program" like this: C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\TelAlert\php.exe c:\remedy.php -u username -p password -g…

This is one method: * edit /opt/netsnmp/share/snmp/snmpd.conf and comment out the line:* #agentaddress 161 * edit /sbin/init.d/snmpd and change the options string to the following:* OPTIONS="-Lsd -Lf /dev/null -p /var/run/snmpd -a udp:1161" * restart snmpd with /sbin/init.d/snmpd restart Option 2: * edit…

Much better answer than mine. I should look @ the available templates more often. I just put the Server Clock Drift (Perl) template on 40 servers and found 1 out of sync.

there is no sync col in the pollers table. The only place I find a col named %sync% is in the interfaces, nodes, volumes tables.

Rather than go to the trouble of re-implementing UNIX application APM definitions in SCOM, I'd like to expose them to SCOM and then use it for the health-rollup and alerting.

I don't like the idea of using the email system as an intermediate step between the monitoring and ticketing system. If you rely on the email system to accept and store the alert and then make it available for another application (the ticketing system) to retrieve the alert via POP / IMAP / MAPI then I think you have…

I went thru the same problem and found a _long_ but workable solution. I wrote a php script (my scripting language of choice for the last few years) that did the following: * for each alert definition in the Orion database* read the trigger condition * decompose the sql * remove portions of the WHERE clause that related to…

How often is ContainerMemberSnapshots updated ? Also how is it updated ?

Where are the Custom properties not showing up? Since you're talking about dynamic queries, I'm assuming groups (containers). Custom properties work fine there if you set them to be allowed as filters. C

I've gone down a similar path in the past. I used fiddler instead of httpwatch. Below is the timeline for a node-display with 20 resource blocks on it. As you can see, all the processing time is hidden inside the aspx file.