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Damn, messed up the last one by using a space instead of a dash :|

I think I would consider Virtualization Manager as a good option

83% of the votes on no. Glad I can say I've got two SCP's already, but Architecture and Design is still a tough one for me.

When I look at the OOB Alert it's hard coded CPU Load is greater then 80%. What I've done in my environment is having a Node based alert with the condition Node - Criritcal Value Reached (CPU Load) - is equal to - Yes When doing it this way you can use the checkmarks and overrides on the edit node page itself. In that case…

I've seen the checklist before and definitely went through it already when we had some bigger performance issues. The main question is more: what would be wise to do when expanding the environment when monitoring multiple networks? And what fellow Thwackers have experienced with this.

I suppose he is referring to the time where it was still on the Orion Platform and you had to install every module individually. So if you we're running NPM and wanted to add SAM, you had to manually install that onto the platform. While now you got the SolarWinds platform and everything is already installed but not…

unfortunately I’m in the same boat. We had negated the cve’s already with how we designed the environment and logging in. Security team rammed it through because cve’s need to be patched asap. Now the environment is unstable while I was surprised how stable 2023.1 was running for me.

SolarWinds is currently one of our business critical applications since my environment contains 9300 nodes across 6 pollers. We’re running our pollers and ha in separate datacenters and I can’t tell you how much value it is to keep the polling going when things go haywire on one side. had some major core switch issues in…

While it may be a workaround. This is not really something I would consider within my environment where we have over 2000 agents. x) I also see the odd behaviour among agents. But mine mostly fail because all of them are deployed as Server-Initiated. So when the agent stop responding we know it's time to failover the pool…

It's part of the built in polling engine templates within SAM. We've added the polling engine VIP's as WMI nodes, so we always poll the application on the active server. Within Performance Monitor you can add the counter by going to "SolarWinds: Job Engine V2" and select the Jobs Lost counter. Right now at the point that…

Been encountering the same issue. Luckily I have dashboard screens on which I show a map with my Polling Engines with the default SAM Polling Engine applications assigned to the VIP's. So when I see a poller go haywire I check the jobs lost counter and when It's starting to lose jobs I'll initiate a failover. It ain't…

From what I've experienced you only really need to update your main polling engine and it should pop up with the update page on the web console after it's finished on the main polling engine. From there you should be able to update every other server within your environment. (If you're running an online environment) If…

Yeah, I've already got that one in place. Really unfortunate though, I was trying to shrink down the amount of custom properties people need to fill in for alerting to go to the right places.

I understand, but that's actually the thing. We also go to ServiceNow with that property. Which has the space in it.

Aw man, that really unfortunate. Would've made some thing easier...

Unfortunately this would still leave me with a space in between Team and the team name. so it would try to send something to "Team Name@companyname.com"

We are kinda doing the same right now since we have some alert actions going to ServiceNow and some by mail (but both with different custom properties). So we thought about making so we're trying to find a way to fill in the field once from a drop down and making it easier for engineers that add the node. In ServiceNow we…

Hey @"kdara", Currently I'm not experiencing a good upgrade in my lab environment and asked SolarWinds about known issues. They've told me that there is a known issue with database maintenance not being able to complete tables for modules that you've not licensed, this shouldn't impact daily operations.

Yes, I've got some Hyper-V's polled with an agent in my environment and it seems that I can poll the same data with an Agent as I can with WMI

I've been encountering this issue too. This would help a lot in my environment. Right now we've set everything to Server Initiated, but seems like we lose several agents when they reboot. So having a solution for agent initiated that connect to the HA pool after swapping them to another engine would help a lot.

I'm not sure what you mean, but I'm curious now. Doesn't a server reboot clean out the same temp files?

I had a similar problem on one of my polling engines. Turned out in my case the VM didn't have enough hardware.

Thanks for the reply, I'm going to open a case for it to have a definite answer. as of now i always plan 3 hour down-time during business hours. we got some alternate monitoring solutions, but those are not available for our customers to use. Doing it outside business hours won't be a good solution for me either since…

Support sent a reply: As of now, it is not possible to update SolarWinds without downtime. We have guides for upgrade with minimal downtime but unfortunately, there is no option right now for zero downtime. * https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/orionplatform/Content/Migrate_orion_server_zero_downtime.htm…