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I added this custom widget to my deployment of SolarWinds to help with that. Shows on a Node Details page. Widget: Node Status Root Cause I also added this to my Node alert (Node is in warning or critical state) Edit Alert > Trigger Actions > "Message displayed when this alert is triggered' text field Root Cause:…

We are working on Aruba SD-WAN and switch integration with Aruba Central. General timeline is EOY 2024.

With ICMP only, we are limited in discovering what the name of the device is, unlike SNMP/WMI/Agent, where we can ask each node for there hostname/system name. ICMP by default will attempt to use reverse DNS to populate a name, if it does not have a DNS entry, then the IP Address will be used. So the options are (no…

Nothing yet, but there will be once it officially lands in General Availability (GA).

So there are a handful of out of the box macros listed here: NCM macros (variables) (solarwinds.com) ${SysName} is one of the macros. What does the CLI syntax look like when you backup a config today with these routers with unique config names?

SAM does have to ability to run a WMI query and/or a PowerShell monitor. You might also see if there is a Windows Event Log (eventID) generated for printer status. I don't have specific examples, but those are your best routes in SAM.

I use to monitor a handful of networked (IP Based) Dell printers a long time ago via SNMP. I found the OID's that correlated to 'ready' state and also found OID's to monitor the toner level. Set up a SAM template with SNMP monitors to track that. Every printer is different so you'd want to first see if the printer has SNMP…

It sounds like you're wanting to use a single network device as a proxy to collect configurations from other devices. e.g. SolarWinds --> Router 1 --> Router 2 backup. Did I understand your question correctly?

I'm guessing you're referencing the SAM database user experience monitor (MSSQL/Oracle/etc)? If so, then unfortunately, there isn't a way to group all of these checks into a single call. It would be a feature request.

There is a place in-product to view community driven templates for NCM. In your SolarWinds web console navigate to: Settings > All Settings > Manage Device Templates > Shared Templates on Thwack (tab). You can import it directly into your deployment. The template should attempt to 'auto-assign' based on the System OID from…

This feature is found in Server & Application Monitor or also included in [mention:a84e186fd01942edab9c43c038b14c6c:23b05a61c3e5445190d9bfa00453bce4] . If you needed something more elaborate than text search, we also have a tool that dives into the 'synthetic transaction' monitoring of a website found in…

Modern Dashboards are missing functionality to do it today one for one today. However, we are working at expanding the Modern Dashboard framework planned to come later this year and beyond. This isn't an exhaustive list, but highlights some of the larger aspects we are prioritizing first.…

So I've reviewed your original post and the comments. There are no bugs in monitoring WMI services that I'm aware of and the WMI service monitors have been working perfect for me. I'm thinking we need to better understand the STATUS of the component. Your alert logic only lists 'when status is not equal to up'. It is safe…

Building off of what @"mesverrum" mentioned, what type of component monitors are you using in your Application Template? Is it the 'Windows Service Monitor'? or another type? 

The next release of the SolarWinds Platform (2024.2) will have Aruba Central Wireless Access Point monitoring added, similar to how we monitor Meraki WAP's all through API. If you own the product, then the Release Candidate (RC) is dropping within the next two weeks if you wanted to try it out.

I've kept the service account with read-only access to all DB's in the SQL instance. Then post assignment i've run this SQL query on my main SW database to 'unmanage' or effective stop polling on DB's i didn't want to monitor. Update [dbo].[APM_SqlBbDatabase] Set UnmanagedStatus = 1 where name like 'master' or name like…

@"akhasheni", if you use the service account you're using for VMAN and log into vSphere, can you see those 3 hosts there? I want to make sure it isn't a permissions restriction on the service account to not see those 3 missing hosts. Other thoughts: Do those 3 hosts have overlapping IP addresses with existing nodes in…

Since the 'access denied' is coming from PowerShell directly and not from SolarWinds you'll need to do some troubleshooting on permissions on the Windows servers. Once you can get PowrShell (run from the main SolarWinds server) to work then it should work in SAM.

We are at least getting the correct path to show in the output. I would definitely follow what @"Seashore" recommends and run the script natively in PowerShell first. Make sure it works there before testing it in SolarWinds. There are some more errors in your original code. The $Today line starts with Get-Date, pipes it…

So you're not actually referencing any arguments into your script itself even though you've defined the 'Script Arguments' section with info. You need to update your first line like this: $Path = $args[0]

It isn't possible in the tool today directly in Orion Maps. You can submit a feature enhancement for it here: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/product-forums/network-performance-monitor-npm/i/feature-requests Today, you would need to click on the node name on the map to take you to the Node Details page. From there you'll see…

I'm sure the formatting of the variable text is what is causing it. If the hyperlink is not critical to have you can try the alternate variable that does not have link info. ${N=SwisEntity;M=NodeStatusRootCause}

@"Callisen", you can keep everything in a single template. When you create the alert you'll most likely want to create an alert on 'Component' instead of 'Application'. This means it would trigger an alert for each service that is down and allow you to pass the down component info into your script.

@"Markys", Try adding the follow text into your email alert. Root Cause: ${N=SwisEntity;M=NodeStatusRootCause} Some other recommendations I would suggest are the following: 1. Add that same text above into the 'Message displayed when this alert in triggered' section. This is in my opinion one of the most under utilized…

@"acurrent", I do work for SolarWinds but in a non-support role. I have EOC running in a lab so i spun up a fresh VM and I was successfully able to add an additional web server to it. You can find the web server installer by logging into your EOC web console and navigating to Settings > All Settings > Web Console Settings.…

Would you be willing to provide the cURL command you're using? You can omit the Meraki API key if you're testing with one.

@"engumar82", I can't think of getting a true 'full screen' view. The best I can think of is to build a Dashboard page with a single 'Maps' widget that takes up the entire page. Then enable NOC Mode for the dashboard to minimize the borders.

Is there a proxy or something between your SolarWinds Server and the internet? That error is generic enough that it isn't even specific to Meraki. It is simply stating it tried to create a secure connection and had an issue with the certificate. If you RDP into your main SolarWinds Server does the web browser show any…

Yes, you can add additional web servers to EOC. Depending on what licensing you currently have they would cost extra.

@"rhether", I have not come across this before. Outside of creating a custom Universal Device Poller (UnDP), you might consider sending Traps instead. There should be hardware related traps that you could send from the Nexus 7k's and then alert based on what is received.