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Do you know if you have the Windows Update Monitoring Component enabled on those Windows Hosts? If so, removing that component should alleviate the issue. http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/en/flarehelp/SAM/default.htm#sam template reference/windowsupdatemonitoring.htm

To my knowledge you can't hide the configured interface speed for a node. Can you elaborate if you were trying to do something else?

There isn't anything out of the box that would allow for this type of an alert. The Orion platform is built with performance monitoring in mind and your request seems more security focused. However, if you or any one else in your company is good at SQL then you might be able to leverage a custom SQL alert, but that is a…

You are correct that there are two license tiers. One for Oracle SE and another for Oracle EE. An Oracle SE license cannot monitor an Oracle EE instance. However, the SE license could be upgraded later to an EE license. An Oracle EE license can monitor either EE or SE instances. Hope that helps.

I'd suggest opening a support case for this.

This would be a custom script monitor, probably either Powershell script monitor or Linux script monitor. Depends where the csv file lives. You'd create the script the parse the data and return a numerical number (statistic) and an optional text (message). Here is an overview of custom script monitor guidelines. SAM Script…

Being able to use variables for the out of the box component monitors is a long outstanding feature request. What you described can still be accomplished if you used a custom script monitor and passed the respective directory name into the script once the template is assigned. There should be a File Count Script template…

Orion just released a Linux agent that can be deployed that *should* gather that detail out of the box. Need NPM 12.0.1 or SAM 6.3.

Cisco ASA's don't expose packet counts via SNMP, so they will always be 0. Do you need to export netflow on your outside interface? I rarely see people do that. Typical scenario is to just do the inside interface or a tunnel interface. I would fix that and then see if you still see anything weird.

joel.regado​, I know that the IBM SNMP package that comes default with AIX is very limited. I've heard that to get more info through SNMP is to replace the default SNMP package with net-snmp. Once that is done then you should be able to get interface statistics on the host without needing to create a custom script. SNMPv3…

download and install both of these on your Solarwinds server. CLR Types x86: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=239643&clcid=0x409 x64: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=239644&clcid=0x409 Then try the NPM installer again.

Try modifying the timeout setting in NCM and see if that helps. Settings (All Settings) > NCM Settings > Protocol Settings

Can you let us know what specific application templates you have assigned? SAM is licensed using 3 "buckets. If you have a SAM AL300 as an example it would give you 300 Nodes and 300 Volumes and 300 Component monitors. * Node: Basic node information such as CPU/Memory/Disk/Hardware health, packet loss and latency counts…

If you're needing solutions for Servers, Virtualization, Storage and Networking then this is what I'd recommend Network: Network Performance Monitor (NPM). Depending on networking needs there is also Netflow Traffic Analyzer (NTA), Network Configuration Manager (NCM). Servers: Server and Application Monitor (SAM)…

That's a very broad question. Honestly, SAM can do just about anything when monitoring Windows or Linux. Do you have a list of requirements that you need to confirm? That would probably be the easier route.

Here is an overview that I put together and using an actual SMS gateway to send text alerts. It's worked pretty well. Clickatell - SMS Gateway - Alert Overview

Huh, that's interesting. What do the DNS entries for those 3 servers look like? The fact that it's failing on the solarwinds server and saying it can't find that cmdlet is weird. A quick google search didn't really find anything except that some people just use nslookup and parse the results.

This article talks about availability calculations Calculate node availability - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

I believe the right person to ask is Cisco themselves.

I ran into the same issues. My fix wasn't the cleanest but it worked. 1. Uninstall NTA 2. Upgrade NPM/NCM (I had other modules too that were upgraded all at once with the new installer) 3. Run NTA on FSDB server to update the database. 4. Run NTA on main SolarWinds server and point it back to the existing FSDB. I believe…

What i've done in the past is to place a random text in the 'Seach String' part of the HTTPS monitor that i know will not exist on the page. Test and it fails. Then replace it with a string that I know would exist like 'login'. (The actual string that would exist on a page varies from site to site.) Test and it succeeds.

perfstack does not have any exporting capabilities to my knowledge. You can save the chats and share that link.

I had the same issue too. Basically comes down to changing some windows services on your solarwinds server to not run as local system and to use either a local or domain account. You can check out my write up here. PSEXEC to start remote process

Page 5 talks about a distributed architecture. http://cdn.swcdn.net/creative/pdf/techtips/orion_scalability_tech_tips.pdf

There is a NTP template out of the box that you can use called "Server Clock Drift (Perl)" There are 2 component monitors in it but it sounds like you're only after the second one, so you can disable the first. The prerequisites are to have perl available and the ntp package installed. The NTP command is typically located…

I'd setup a multi-value output in this scenario. You can have up to 10 per script. And you can just hard set the status instead of referencing via a variable IMO. Have the threshold for Statisitc.Load_Status dictate the status of the component monitor. #!/bin/bash load_average=`cat /proc/loadavg | awk {'print $2'}`…

One thing to remember is that by default CPU polling in NPM happens every 9 minutes. So by the time you receive an alert the issue might have resided. You do have the condition must exist checked which is what I was going to recommend (and it's what I do too). Have you watched the CPU directly on that Linux host to see how…

I haven't tried using a modem directly for alerting but I've had a lot of success with using a 3rd party SMS gateway provider. Clickatell - SMS Gateway - Alert Overview You could also accomplish the same thing with push notifications through Slack for free. Slack Alert Integration - Overview 

I found this article that seems to have the same error. https://support.solarwinds.com/Success_Center/Network_Performance_Monitor_(NPM)/Message_Center_Times_Out_With_Error_%3AU… Are you sending SNMP traps/syslog data to NCM? That could be the culprit.

There isn't anything out of the box ready for Supermicro hardware health monitoring. NPM can setup Universal Device Pollers (UnDP). SAM can also run custom scripts. If there is a script that you can write or one that could be borrowed then SAM could use it. There are some guidelines on how those scripts should output the…