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I also support the concept of Service Packs. Using our friend Microsoft as an example, they roll a large quantity of patches (hot fixes) into a Service Pack that has been vendor validated to work together and has a pretested installation sequence builtin. Please consider the idea of Service Packs using one of the following…

If you read how to check if NTP adjusted system time on Linux? - Super User you find there is a file named /var/lib/ntp/drift. It contains the amount of drift that your system is experiencing. Combine that with the following: * is the NTP client up and syncing and you could have a viable NTP SAM template.

To add on to what ALTeReGo said: This is also true for RedHat systems. You can verify it as follows: * Confirm net-snmp is installed* rpm -qa |grep net-snmp * Confirm net-snmp has diskio built into it* net-snmp-config --configure-options|grep -i diskio * Query the agent for diskio information* snmpwalk -v1 -c public…

You might want to follow this thread. The discussion should result in a process that will give you what you need.

It looks like you're mixing apples with Volkswagens. Your SNMP settings appear to be all well and good BUT linux script execution has nothing to do with SNMP. Orion logs onto the system via ssh using the supplied credentials and executes the script that was set in the script body of the SAM component. Based on the error…

Are you using locally attached disk or SAN disk presented as exchange Storage Groups ? The reason I ask is I've created 2 templates to monitor Exchange Storage Groups that track free space on the SG volumes. They appear (in my environment) as e:\sg01\logs, e:\sg01\mail, e:\sg02\logs, ... I can post the templates if there…

Assuming that you already have your linux system configured to syslog to your NPM server, you can use the command line "logger" to send anything you want into syslog from a script. What you would do is write a script on the linux box that looks like this: * #!/bin/bash * logger This is a message from a linux system Here's…

Additional information: When running the Report Writer sql and doing a "Summarization by Date", the following sql is generated SELECT TOP 10000 Convert(DateTime,Floor(Cast((DateTime) as Float)),0) AS SummaryDate, Nodes.Caption AS NodeName, AVG(ResponseTime.Availability) AS AVERAGE_of_Availability FROM Nodes INNER JOIN…

Question: Will the serial interfaces on the routers still exist ? (ie: are you swapping out the routers) I ask, because if the routers stay the same but the serial interfaces have no traffic you can just leave them monitored and unmanaged to some absurd time in the future like Jan 1 2038 (unix epoc rollover date). This…

Matt writes: Anyone else feeling frustration with the web-based alerting? Oh, yah. I've got 3 instances of NPM running with an EOC linking them together (EOC sucks btw). It wasn't until I had done the 11.5.2 upgrade on the 2nd instance that I noticed the table changes from AlertDefinitions to AlertConfigurations. I had…

This has been a common problem I've dealt with. We have 3 instances of Orion and one has 6 pollers. When one gets overloaded, we shift nodes to other pollers to balance the load. The only issue with load balancing may be firewall rules that are in place for specific pollers. If there are firewalls in the way, it's good to…

My experience is no. I have a similar application that my users wish to have stats on. The only thing I can do with APM is touch the root of the citrix web, touch the login page of the citrix web and login and get the application menu. For going inside the app, I have been told that Citrix edgesite can provide that…

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As a piece of incentive to SolarWinds, I offer the following: Our company is getting tired of the following: * Giving Monitoring servers the 3-finger salute to fix problems * A monitoring system built on a series of cryptic DLLs that remind me of playing Twister as a child. * Not being able to upgrade in place without an…

I would like to see the volumes exposed to SCOM as well as the APM elements. Being able to see the node status and the interface stats is a good start. Chris Gregors

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Read this Node Details URL in custom SQL Report

I've also noticed this while in Chrome. When it starts happening, I copy the url, kill the tab and open a new tab. Everything works for after that (for a while). Chris

You could achieve what you want by moving all the polled nodes onto one of your additional polling engines. Then it's just a matter of keeping all polling jobs off the main server. That will reduce the load and essentially create a central management server.

My experience with using the SNMP location, contact, etc fields has been to avoid them. Since they are free-form and at the discretion of whoever controls the system they tend to become inconsistent quickly. Most likely you want to use the field for some grouping, reporting, filtering or alerting function. I suggest using…

Additional note: My SQL query: select F5D.NodeID, N.caption, F5VS.Name F5VirtualServer, F5VS.IP F5Vip, Port F5VipPort, F5P.Name F5Pool, F5P.EnabledState PoolEnabled from nodes N, F5_Device F5D, F5_Pools F5P, F5_VirtualServers F5VS where N.nodeid = F5D.NodeID and F5P.NodeID = F5D.NodeID and F5VS.NodeID = F5D.NodeID returns…

You've gotten closer than I ever got. I think the advantage you had was you could convince whoever manages the F5 devices is to line up the F5_Pools.name field with the F5_VirtualServers.Name field. Unfortunately this doesn't work for me as the conventions adopted by the F5 Admins results in something like this:…

Have you tried creating groups of nodes (in groups) ? You could use the rollup - worst status into the group object. Then the group availability would reflect the availability of the subset of nodes.

What you're asking for is complicated and if you determined to go down this path you will need to be very familiar with SQL and / or have someone that can do SQL for you. I would suggest a different path for you to try: * Collect baseline temperature data from your devices * Create 2 node custom properties (…

I felt like digging into this because it has relevance to similar request I have from a customer. Here's What I did: * Using Report writer, generate a report that includes EVERY possible column that can be used. It takes a while to do, but if you know exactly what you want reported on, then only select those fields. * Set…

doing the math: 300Mb_per_hr / 120 servers = 2.5Mb per server per hr (avg) 2.5Mb / hr = ~42Kb / min / server (avg) Question: Are your polling rates all set to 1 minute ? Chris.

I'm not exactly sure of how to implement a solution to this problem but do have a comment on what the customer is doing. I suspect that they have a procedure in place that whenever a new network connected asset comes online, it is ALWAYS configured to send traps to a standard trap destination. This is their procedural link…

There are at least 2 feature requests in to have the ability to relocate the log files off C: I suggest you vote on both requests. SolarWinds will act on features that have high vote counts. Right guys? Chris

If you use something like the "Mib Browser" from the Engineer's Toolset, you can find what you need. * Select a host that has the services you want to monitor. * Browse to the hrSWRunTable (1.3.6.1.2.1.24.4.2) * Do a "Get Table on the hrSWRunTable and you will get something like this: Notice that the column "hrSWRunName"…

Try switching the node from SNMP to WMI polling and see if the interfaces dedup better. I've had lots of problems with discovery and SNMP on windows nodes. Everytime the node is rebooted and rebooted it rediscovers the interfaces again. That might be the source of your problem.