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Just change the scale of the numbers are recording (eg N/1024). The scale of measurement is the same across Solarwinds is the same so that things can interoperate. If a mix was used it would be too confusing to compare numbers accross the system for graphs, etc.

Do you mean something like this? https://thwack.solarwinds.com/content-exchange/the-orion-platform/m/custom-queries/3326 Or do you want an Orion Map to show up on the node page?

You can also setup the additional nodes and have the status setup by the main node you are monitoring (handy if you cannot ping the additional nodes). I have done this with F5 vIPs, and this also allowed me to attach SAM monitors to the vIPs, while keeping the monitoring of the additional nodes with the main machine IP I…

Be aware that MS has deprecated windows SNMP support, when the servers get upgraded in future.

Well by checking a file is accessable, then the disk is available. The only time that will be wrong is if the file was deleted, or blocked by ACL. The only other option is PowerShell, which is extremely flexible. Your powershell can talk to Cluster Manager to get status of any cluster role (file share or otherwise). I have…

https://thwack.solarwinds.com/product-forums/ip-address-manager-ipam/f/forum/32501/alert-on-ipam-event 

actually if you store the table (or at least varchar columns) as compressed, it will be quite small. due to the large amount of duplicate text. Messages repeat a lot. And when there is no error message, well NULL is easy to store.

I think this answers what you need. However, if you can find more from a different angle if you look at an additional audit table I made - to log script changes for security purposes. Trigger based. If you need it but can't find it, just drop me a line.

You need the history stored in another table. When the data changes, it the old text data is put into a secondary table with the timestamp from the original data. this is sometimes referred to as a Z table. I would do this by a regular SQL job (every few minutes), or a SQL trigger. A trigger is how it is usually done.

I would write up some code, but currently don't have access to an install to do it in.

You mean have a mathematically derived list of subnets/supernets? No widget that I am aware of, though it would be a fun task I think to make one using swql/sql and possibly JS. I would have a hack at it myself if I was able, right now.

What you need to do is setup an alert by SQL/SWQL, against the Component. With this you can reference the historical component values, and compare them to the current value.

I don't see what in that list Solarwinds does not currently do. I am also not aware of something else in the market that covers all these things. If you Solarwinds install dies every time you install Windows Updates, then it sounds like your install is sick.

That should appear in text part of the component. There us no history of the text, retained, so you can only see a text message for the current state. I have not used the Oracle monitor, so I have not seen this in this specific case.

I thought to do a similiar though using the SAM component using AWS Powershell API. Where I worked last had the Solarwinds access to internet and cloud stuff heavily restricted (which was a good thing...) so AppOptics not an option anyway.

This has been fixed.

SCM is definitely pretty awesome. While you can (and I have) used SAM for things, SCM is designed for the task. Now if only I could convince my organisation to buy more licences for SCM....

Still waiting for an answer (or fix)

Maybe I jinxed myself by saying it was easy in the first place lol. I did gain a lot of understanding - like why making a minor change and pressing [save] takes so long on the SAM Template screen. Anyway the amount of work/logic required is why I plan to build more of a suite of additional auditing. What comes next…

If you want better automation then do it similarly to the way maintenance mode is done. The custom suppress alert property is not true false - it is a number in minutes, or an end time. Then the alert action to turn them back on again is simply counting down till expiry, and clearing the suppression value.

I haven't see anything about an additional feedback channel. I was a bit offline due to illness recently though. With enough notice I am fine to get up early or late for conferences. I used to have a weekly call with a mastermind group that was 5am. anything up to 1am I can stay up late for, or after 5am I can get up early…

How is progress on this?

This will give you the most interesting parts off that table: SELECT TOP (1000) [GroupId] ,[ParentId] ,[GroupType] ,[Address] ,[AddressMask] ,[CIDR] ,[FriendlyName] ,[Comments] ,[Status] ,[ScanInterval] ,[DnsZoneId] ,[EngineId] ,[PrimaryServer] ,[SecondaryServer] ,[Mode] ,[State] ,[RelationshipName] ,[PrimaryServerName]…

etail Type Required Meaning Statistic Yes A numeric value used to determine how the monitor compares to its set thresholds. This must be an integer value, (negative numbers are supported). Statistic.Name1: 123 Statistic.Name2: 456 Message No An error or information message to be displayed in the monitor status details.…

Thanks for the comment re TOUPPER() and LOWER(). I went searching for that when my LIKE gave me case sensitive results, ad only found the feature request for such functions. I can now 'fix' a software search screen I build last month.

I got 'in' after doing my survey, but then the bookings where opened a few hours after I went on leave so they were all gone by the end of the weekend when I got back to the office.

Yes there was a discussion requested by the MVPs and SW when we heard about the licencing change, and that did happen (I had to miss it due to scheduling). I think it fair to say we didn't feel like our concerns were taken on-board. I don't have the experience of other MVPs with clients in SW space, as I work at an end…

I have already written on this topic elsewhere. Change came in with 2020.2. Broke a lot of my monitors - and actually they are still broken as I still need to handle the rendering with some javascript. Had I realised I would have avoided the upgrade as long as possible. I was assured by support there is a 'feature request'…

I logged a ticket when all my html encoded (mostly where a table was required) monitors became an ugly display of HTML. This was broken for 2020.2RC. Support told me it was a 'fix' for XSS and was being applied all over including custom tables/queries (this through me as HTML is a vital option on columns in custom tables -…

I plan to 'email' named groups setup the SMSEagle appliance. Should be doing this soon, now I finally have them on my desk, to setup.