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Same code version as I'm running. Hmm... 'Wish Orion had a better audit log and wrote to it with an explanation for warning states.

For my switches, I use the "Cisco PIX and IOS" tool that is under the "Firewalls" category. These are the settings of the tool, which I named "Switches": * Alias: Switches * Log File: /var/log/local7.log * Output: Alert * nDepth Host: localhost * nDepth Port: 10101 * Sleep Time: 1 * Wrapper Name: CiscoFirewalls * Tool…

Yeah, I know about the alert logic, etc, and while that's doable, it isn't as clean and smooth as a system-wide quiescing of polling & alerting (cross-ref to other products like MS System Center Ops Manager). That said, I'd welcome an example as well. Poking around in Alert Manager > Alert Suppression, I don't see a…

Thanks, Nicole.

For further explanations of the vMem licensing revealed in this dashboard, check out VMware's blog: VMware: Rethink IT: Understanding the vSphere 5 vRAM Licensing Model

Looks pretty good. I tweaked it to show average CPU and generated an Orion report with the data. Posted to the Content Exchange here: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-167077

I just discovered what seems to be a bug with this alert. As best I can tell, the criteria count(/datastore/virtualMachine/name) tallies up the number of folders in each datastore. Thus, non-VM directories are included in the count, when they shouldn't be. In my case, three folders (.dvsData, .vSphere-HA, and…

For folks using Storage DRS, this alert could be particularly useful for when DRS decides to overload a given datastore. One bug note: in VMan 5 the "Less Than" and "Greater Than" options can be (un)checked to (not) apply. In my environment, both were checked and thus it found no datastores since a number like "23" cannot…

Forgive me if this is addressed elsewhere, but will Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit) be supported in a future release? We are pushing to standardize on R2, but since it is only 64-bit, we are unable to move ipMonitor (based on the current documentation I've seen which states 32-bit only support). Thank you, Chris

Looks like one of two things is up: * The Orion service account doesn't have permissions to write/read to that directory and maybe other areas of the Orion server (check to make sure it can; for mine, the Orion service account is admin on the application front-end server, but you can probably run lower if needed). * The…

Hey Cortney, Have you looked at the "VMs rebooted" alert? It uses the search query of "vm.bootTime:[now-30minutes TO now]" and can be set to notify you accordingly. I haven't confirmed that this alert is on VMan 4.x, in case you haven't upgraded yet. Even if you haven't, you could setup that alert yourself (just let me…

This is a long-standing request. I've had on and off conversations with the NPM group about implementing decent reporting since July 2010. Coming from ipMonitor (all the way back in version 7.0 and moving forward to 10.0), the reporting was very versatile, so we took a major down step when we moved to Orion NPM. I've…

I was just looking for this myself. We need to be able to click "Unmanage" again and modify the end date/time while we are still within the unmanage window. In my case, I'm patching a vSphere cluster and won't finish before the unmanage window expires (I was overly optimistic ), but rather than flooding my Orion event log…

Based on the thread below, it depends on whether you have a group or individual nodes as the children (I believe). It's a little enigmatic, but the nutshell is that you can make this scenario work, but it may require tweaking the children. http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/128180#128180 Thanks, Chris

Hey Joe, I've been monitoring F5 LTM pool members using UnDP since at least NPM 10.1.3, but perhaps not before Big-IP 10.0 (can't recall). The details are in the screenshot below. I realize that might not be the same OID you're polling, but perhaps it'll narrow down supported ones. Let me know if that's a no-go, and I'll…

Per my understanding from past questions about this, VMan does not currently have an "exclude" option, though many of us would like that. In my case, I have a set of 30+ VMs which are cold and restored from time to time as part of our disaster recovery plan, but they pushed us over the license threshold so we had to…

I have nothing beneficial to contribute to this discussion other than that this cracked me up! I love it :). Thanks for making my morning!

mik22, I'm afraid this isn't possible from the web UI as of 10.2.2. The best way to unmanage more than one node at a time on demand is going to be: Settings > Manage Nodes, then check the nodes to be unmanaged, and click "Unmanage" (I realize you probably know this already). For scheduled mass-unmanaging, SolarWinds'…

You'll probably want to post this in the SAM forum: Thanks, Chris

Also check the versions of Adobe Flash and the IE security zone into which your VMan server/dashboard loads on your systems. Sounds like active content being blocked. --Chris

According to this older thread, you need APM (SAM) to monitor mount points using a component monitor: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/18617 Hope that helps, Chris

'Apologies if this sounds overly simplistic of an answer, but if other ESX hosts are polling properly using the vSphere API feature from the same NPM server, then the issue would seem to reside with the one host, rather than NPM. I'm sure you've done this already, but have you verified that the credentials you provided in…

Hey itinfserv, Did you get a resolution on this? If not, can you post the version(s) of Orion products that you're using? Have you tried either updating to the latest fix/build or reinstalling the current one? ~Chris

When you click another page/tab and it logs you out, does logging you in take you to that page? Or are you actually only able to go to your landing page (i.e. Summary)? I've had this issue before with IE and AD authentication. The solution on my end was to use Chrome for the initial login and then switch to IE (if…

Hey Term, I'm just a customer/user like yourself, but I do want to let you know that folks like you and me did test the new thwack and give input before it went live. Granted, no change is everyone's favorite, but I think most of us liked where it is heading. If you're a get-me-the-raw-data kind of guy like another fellow…

Go figure. It looks like 4.1.2 fixed this or else cleared the metric that was triggering it. My clusters are showing good now. FYI.

To make the group/map icon turn yellow, you will need to add the interfaces to the group and/or put the interface (not the node/device) on the map. That sub-icon you're seeing is showing you that a component of the node is down, but that the node itself is still up. Let me know if that helps. I can give more details/steps…

I'd like to help with getting this working. 'Working on getting some NFR copies of SolarWinds prods so I can spin it up in our labs here at Rubrik. I was a SolarWinds and Rubrik customer until January (2016) when I came over, so I'm a big fan of both companies and their products. Looking forward to pointing SAM at Rubrik…

Hey lchance, Can you help me understand what data you are trying to present in this report? I see that you want it on all datastores (not just "top XX"). Are you looking for capacity, IO, latency,...? Let me know and I'll see if I can help figure it out with you. ~Chris

Hey Jeremiah, I'm getting the same behavior on one of my Cisco ASA 5520 firewalls (but not the other two). 'Hadn't noticed it before, because I don't run many reports out of Orion, but one shows the same thing: Average: 22% Peak CPU Load: 32767% In my case I see that the spike happened at 4pm on 4/16/2012. I've checked to…