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Good news! We're hosting a webcast on this topic on September 4: Managing Active Directory -- Health & Performance. Click here for more details and to register. In the meantime, you can read about AppInsight for Active Directory (introduced in SAM 6.8) in the Monitor with AppInsight for Active Direction section of the SAM…

Please see if you can add it to the AppInsight for IIS Application Details view, per the AppInsight for IIS Application Details View topic in SAM online help.

While researching WPM and Smart Cards, I found this old post. Here are two resources that provide details about WPM and Smart Cards: * USE WPM TO CREATE A WEBSITE RECORDING WITH CERTIFICATE AUTHENTICATION FOR AVAILABILITY * WEB PERFORMANCE MONITOR - CLIENT CERTIFICATE AUTHENTICATION

Updated links where you can learn more about the Oracle User Experience monitor include: * Oracle Database​ (SAM online help) * ODBC User Experience monitor​ (SAM online help) * Oracle User Experience Monitor Component (SolarWinds Lab Bits video) * Monitoring Those Hard to Reach Places: Linux, MySQL, Oracle, Java and More…

arjunreddy​ What version of SAM are you using? AppInsight for Active Directory was introduced in SAM 6.8 so you should upgrade to the latest version of SAM if you haven't already. The template is included in all installations of SAM 6.8, SAM 6.9, and SAM 6.9.1. SAM's AppInsight templates are powerful, complex templates…

Per input from SolarWinds Support, we updated the WPM section of the Scalability Engine Guidelines for SolarWinds Orion Products to list factors that impact the amount of transactions each WPM Player can handle. The Player Load Percentage post also includes good information that will be added to the main WPM documentation. 

SolarWinds SAM is compatible with PowerShell 2.0 or later, including v. 4.0. (You need at least PowerShell 2.0 to support remote execution.) I recently added an article to the SolarWinds Success Center that describes how to set up target servers for use with PowerShell. See Microsoft Office 365 template requirements​ and…

We recently added articles about SAM's Office 365 templates to the SolarWinds Success Center. You can access them via this link: Using Microsoft Office 365 templates. All feedback is welcome!

Hello, 300​. We've been working to improve the PowerShell information in the SAM documentation. Please check out Use PowerShell in SAM in the SAM Administrator Guide. It includes a section about enabling remote access for PowerShell with WinRM. If you still have questions, try searching in our Success Center. You can also…

This THWACK thread may be useful: POWERSHELL - TEST FAILED WITH "UNKNOWN" STATUS. Additional resources include: * Use PowerShell in SAM (online help) * The Basics of PowerShell (Part 1) (THWACK) * The Basics of PowerShell (Part 2) (THWACK) * The Basics of PowerShell (Part 3) (THWACK) You can also start a support case --…

mudassir​ Yes, SAM 6.9 and later supports the monitoring of the Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS). I'll update the Orion Platform and SAM documentation to reflect that. Because container monitoring is an Orion Platform feature shared by multiple products (in this case, SAM and VMAN), we store that information in the Orion…

To learn more about SAM licensing, see SAM licensing model and SAM Licensing FAQs.

See also: * SolarWinds High Availability (HA) * How failovers work * How to set up High Availability for the Orion Platform (video) * Multi-subnet failover (WAN/DR) deployment (THWACK)

I'm reworking the WPM docs and came across this tidbit: "Custom properties for WPM transactions are stored in the SEUM_RecordingCustomProperties table." Although this post is old, someone might find this info useful and it will be included in the next release of WPM documentation.

Here's a page from the SAM Administrator Guide to get you started. Be sure to note that you need to install third-party agent software from supported vendors and then run Discovery so SAM can detect the agents on server nodes and start polling.

Here are some threads that might be helpful: Solarwinds Product Support with Smart Card (PIV/PKI/CAC) Product Support Setup Smart Card (CAC/PKI) User Authentication and STIG Securing for Orion 2017.1+

topkick​ Check out Pingdom help for related KBs. See also Support contact information for SolarWinds Cloud companies.

Starting with Orion Platform 2018.4 and NPM 12.4, we added support for the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) v2 protocol for supported identity providers, including Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and Okta. See Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) and the Orion Web Console in the SolarWinds Success Center…

To see what's supported by the latest version of SAM, please see SAM System Requirements. To access system requirements for earlier versions of SAM, see Previous versions. For UDT, see UDT System Requirements and Previous versions. For UDT EOL info, see Currently Supported Software. You can also run the Orion Installer to…

r.mabuie​ Last year, we published a Product Blog that included an SAP HANA template. See NEW & ENHANCED APPLICATION TEMPLATES FOR SAM - PART 1 - EXCHANGE, SQL & HANA EDITION. That template hasn't been added to the official SAM product yet, but it might be useful. You can download that template and then import it into SAM.…

FYI, an article about this issue was added to the Success Center​, Resolve inconsistencies in SAM SQL tables related to a known Microsoft issue that causes DBCC CHECKTABLE errors.

Check if you can ping the devices from the Orion server, if ports are open, and if IP address ranges in the wizard are correct. Here are some helpful resources: * Install or upgrade Orion Platform products * Discover your network for the Orion Platform with the Discovery wizard * Create a Manual Discovery Job video If you…