christopher.t.jones123 · CRIS Solutions Architect/Engineer · ✭✭✭✭✭

@"pmaldonato" you may have to ensure that you have "Upgrades" selected as a classification as well 

@"kpieckiel" I believe that if you run the installer with the "-uninstall" switch via command prompt it will go through and conduct the necessary DB tasks. I know when you do it for an APE it moves all the nodes to the main engine in an unmanaged state, which would lead me to believe that the AWS may have a similar…

@"shuth" is right if you don't have VMAN you won't be able to obtain snapshot data. Once you do have VMAN there would also be an out-of-the-box alert for this condition you could use as a template to build it out as well.

are you able to receive HTML formatted emails? it looks like SolarWinds is sending an HTML formatted email but when you receive it's plain text so none of the formatting displays correctly. I would double check to ensure that you can receive HTML emails.

@"bobmarley" you should be change your select for DOWN TIME to below and it will convert the time to your local time. MAX(tolocal(DOWNEVENT.EVENTTIME)) AS [DOWN TIME]

@"klevans8907" this may be a problem with WMI on that server. Take a look at this article regarding it https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Interfaces-are-not-displayed-in-List-Resources-of-a-WMI-node-with-SAM-installed?language=en_US

@"kpieckiel" As long as the MPE is completed first APE's and AWS's can all be done concurrently. I've done several upgrades like this since 2019.4 and that's also how centralized upgrades does it as well. I would still stagger them cause I have seen where it will fail because one APE has what I assume is a lock on a table,…

is the object you are alerting on a component as outlined in this article? https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Monitor-alert-and-restart-a-Windows-service-from-SAM?language=en_US

@"alamubarak" Does the ConfigurationWizard.log located in C:\ProgramData\SolarWinds\Logs\Orion provide any more detail for the error?>

@"geo1" I believe when the fan and psu are removed it will most likely show as unknown and not down. When you navigate to the stack within the web console what does the hardware status for the stack say? what do the individual hardware components say?

Does the account you are using within the script have the ability to unmanage the nodes in question?

@"rrichter" SAML is not a currently supported authentication mechanism for the SDK, it's strictly for auth to the web console at the moment. So even for scripts to run against SWIS you'd need to have a separate account outside of SAML to authenticate with (alternatively if you run the scripts on a SolarWinds server you can…

if you filled out the Alert Message for the alert to contain the desired information then you could use the Alert Message Variable ${N=Alerting;M=AlertMessage}

@"carxfrog" looking at the screenshot, it looks like most of the information they are requesting is covered in AppInsight for Active Directory. Do you have AppInsight for Active Directory enabled on your DC's in the environment? Once you enable it creating a report with the items that you would like should be fairly…

How long have you been waiting since the assignment of the application monitors? You're probably not going to like this suggestion but I would suggest waiting the night. The agents don't deploy with all the plugins enabled, they enable them as required. based off your overview of the issue it looks like it is doing the…

You could use the Component Monitor Wizard found on the SAM Settings page. That will allow you to browse a server and select the services you want to monitor, then you can turn it into a template and assign to all the servers that it is applicable to.

you could use something like below to update the Captions of the devices in SolarWinds to match their sysname value that is polled. Caption is not a dynamic field because it can be modified to give a custom name. import-Module SwisPowerShell # Connect to SWIS $hostname = Read-Host "Enter SolarWinds FQDN" $swis =…

Something like below should get you started. I haven't been able to test it yet, but it should at least get you pointed in the right direction. import-module SwisPowershell $swis = Connect-Swis -Host localhost -Certificate $agents = #Define Agents either via a query or a CSV of some sort $plugin = #define Plugin…

so there might be an easier way to do it but the way I could find would be to do a join to the appropriate tables and match it on the entityuri column. Below is one that I wrote for applications, from there you should be able to add on to it for Nodes, Interfaces, Transactions, etc SELECT ae.ID, ae.EntityUri,…

This sounds like a scheduled job within NCM or a compliance report with an auto-remediation script also within NCM. That's where I would begin looking to find what is reverting these changes.

if the goal is to have the query only look for defined IP addresses then you can change it the where statement to below $nodeuri = Get-SwisData $swis "SELECT Uri FROM Orion.Nodes WHERE IPAddress = '$IPAddress'"

when you click edit on the widget is there a value in the Chart Subtitle under the advanced section?

looks like you are missing a statistic value which is a requirement for SAM script components to work. take a look at this thread, it might help show you what you're missing. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/Geek-Speak-Blogs/The-Basics-of-PowerShell-part-3/ba-p/434046

Take a look at this article. It shows you how to create a custom poller for those devices so that you can get an accurate CPU/Memory statistic. Once you create the new poller you'll be able to assign it to all appropriate devices en masse. If the statistic you are already looking at is accurate, then you can modify the…

the SQL user Experience monitor as I understand it needs to be assigned to the SQL server that is hosting the DB, if you need to test connections from that server to the SQL server then a powershell script is probably the best route to go. 

these icons indicate a difference in severity for the alert.

@"l.mendoza" this link will get you what you need https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/SAM-Discussions/How-to-copy-Component-monitors-that-exist-in-one-template-to/m-p/244992

It's extremely likely that the top 10 processes aren't consuming 90% of CPU utilization by themselves. I believe the intention is to list out the top 10 to highlight what is consuming the most CPU, and if there is an anomaly it gets highlighted for the administrator. 

yes this is possible. When creating the discovery you just define the OU you would like to scan by selecting the last option on the first screen of the Network Sonar Discovery. It will prompt you for the DC and credentials, and then a selection of the OU's then under the "Monitoring Settings" screen you would tell it to…

@"l.mendoza" take a look at this article it should give you what you need. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/SAM-Discussions/How-to-copy-Component-monitors-that-exist-in-one-template-to/m-p/244992