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I've also seen it happen. It seems to occur when I am using the add-a-node web IF. If the hostname is already populated when I bring up the screen, I know it is going to cause a problem. When that happens, I do one of the following: clear the cache in the orion web, restart my browser or add the node via the console. Chris.

Further to AD groups, I've done some recent testing and am pretty sure that the AD groups you use need to be "security" groups and not "Distribution" groups. If you need to explore this by yourself here are some things that might be helpful * If your server is part of an AD group, there usually is a copy "Active Directory…

AD has the concept of a Security Group and a Distribution Group. When you casually look @ a group you typically can't tell which type of group it is. I believe NPM only uses AD Security Groups for Authentication. You might want to have a look inside AD or ask your AD administrator what kind of group was created for your…

Another thing may be that you SAM license is not unlimited and you're importing SAM applications like MSSql / Exchange / IIS Either way, you may need to open a support call to get it fixed. Chris

Is this what you're looking for ? SELECT AlertDefinitions.AlertName, ActionDefinitions.Title as AlertAction FROM ActionDefinitions join AlertDefinitions on AlertDefinitions.AlertDefID = ActionDefinitions.AlertDefID order by AlertDefinitions.AlertName;

I've also noticed that Chrome is not as NPM friendly as it used to be in the past. As to which is more likely to be the culprit, I'm still on the fence. What I have found as a work around is the following: * When a Chrome tab starts acting strange with NPM* Copy the url from the tab * Open that url in a new tab * Close the…

Here's the sql to a report I've used. This might be what you're looking for. select n.caption VCenterServer, vd.name DataCenter, vc.name ESXcluster, vh.hostname ESXserver, vm.gueststate VMState, vm.name VMguest from VIM_VirtualMachines vm, VIM_Hosts vh, VIM_Clusters vc, VIM_DataCenters vd, VIM_VCenters vcen, nodes n where…

As I recall, but I don't mind being corrected, The warning and critical thresholds for hardware sensors are set on the device that has the hardware sensor. It isn't inside NPM. NPM is just reporting what the node is indicating the current state of the sensor is. You would need to go into the switch and see if the…

On most stock Linux installations, the firewall is enabled by default. Depending on your distribution, you will need to either open port 161/udp for snmp or disable the firewall. <c>

This sql query will give you a list of all the overridden credentials in use. create a custom report of type sql and use the following sql: select Nodes.caption 'Node', APM_Credentials.Name 'Credential Name', APM_Application.Name 'Application Name', APM_Component.name 'Component' from…

ok, found 1 answer. Use ${Node.Caption} not ${NodeName} Still can't figure out ${AppInsightforSQL:DatabaseDetailsURL}

As a continuing discussion of complex alerts, here is another thing I came across. The first one shown doesn't work, but the second one does. The only difference is putting each "caption starts with" condition into a seperate condition group. I was getting real annoyed when alerts for excluded filesystems started showing…

Additionally, most current hardware vendors that have temperature sensors also have some form of a "service processor" that sits in the background and independently monitors the sensors. The service processor will have its own thresholds for a temperature alarm ( SNMP trap / Audio Alarm / Log entry / etc). There are…

Why impose any limit on the number of columns on a screen? There is no limit on the number of rows you can place in a column.

SnmpB available @ http://sourceforge.net/projects/snmpb is pretty good.

For the business, the information that is collected by Monitoring has a historical / trending value Monitoring as a business process is also referred to as "Event Management" in ITIL. In ITIL, Event Management feeds data into "Capacity Management". So, even though you might not alert on a data point that you are…

Check my post on this thread. Filtering out events from "Last XX Events" and "Last XX Audit Events" reports I managed to recreate the Event block including icons and colors.

How about this: 1. Build a custom report that is formatted as you need 2. add the custom report to the web page you want it on

Yes with a little html coding. * Create a readonly account (or use the directlink account).* I used WebViewer / readonly * Get the base url of what you want to view* http://orion/Orion/DetachResource.aspx?ResourceID=4660&NetObject=& * Modify the url to incorporate the username / password*…

I was instructed by Tech Support multiple times (in a pre 10.x version) that having duplicate IP addresses in the nodes table was a very very bad thing. They always would have me clean up the nodes table and remove the duplicates before proceeding. (Hi Destiny and Matt !) Since then I've written an alert that trips when a…

There are ways of incorporating color into custom queries but they are difficult. The example below is generated by the custom sql that follows afterwards select top 25 EventTime, NetObjectID, Events.EventType, '<img src=/NetPerfMon/images/Event-' + LTRIM(STR(Events.EventType,10)) + '.gif> ' + '<a…

This is similar but I use this query in an APM component to generate an alert. SELECT ISNULL( (SELECT 1 FROM Nodes GROUP BY IP_Address HAVING count(*) > 1 ), 0) as duplicates

Boy I hate to answer your question this way, but it is true in some environments. If you have enough DB availability / performance to deal with that you had to deploy RAC, then you also have OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manger). OEM does a splendid job of monitoring RAC for the DBAs that typically support it. If you want to use…

Based on the fact that you have a Pre-prod environment that includes AD controllers, I assume you have lots of nodes and therefore have more than one polling engine. If you discover the pre-prod environment from a different polling engine, then you can have multiple copies of the same IP address in the database and they…

Yes, Orion acts as a generic SNMP trap sink. If you point a SNMP trap source (the custom app) at the Orion server that is configured to accept traps, then they will get in. The formatting of the trap and the varbinds is up to the trap source (the custom app). Orion just treats varbinds as variables that are passed along…

Addendum / correction: * The de-duplication inside Report Builder only seems to show up while inside the Report Builder console Gui. * If a report is generated and viewed from the web, it does show 3 records.

Any update on your problem and your open ticket ? Chris

I also agree. The "location" property is polled via snmp. Rather than go back to all the devices and have the node owners update the location field to a standardized format, we took a different path. * create a custom property named something related to location. We used "building" but you could use whatever you want. *…

I assume you mean you want to measure the performance of externally facing web servers and not monitor the access. Monitoring the access would be a matter of going over the log files on the web servers. To get an external perspective of your web servers you can do the following: * Get a VM hosted in some place far away…

I suggest you start with the following: en.wikipedia.org/.../Slope you will need to make some assumptions * you select a tine window (x axis) that gives a good representation of the growth pattern. * the usage growth is linear over the selected time period I hope this helps. I am planing to create a similar report sometime…