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We are running Vmware ESXi 4 on HP Proliant servers and would really benefit from having hardware level monitoring of our systems without having to introduce another monitoring system just to be able to pull HP SIM or HP CIM providers. With our previous ESX 3.5 and ESX 4 systems we could install the vendor management…

From our experience with monitoring the virtual IPs of the clusters as long as you are monitoring the resources such as disks and applications for that instance through the virtual IP a cluster failover will be almost invisible. Some of the node details will change since it picks those up from the OS but disks and…

If you want to place a Splunk graph or dashboard element on one of the Solarwinds pages where you are NOT passing anything to it you can use a simple iframe in the Solarwinds Custom HTML resource. Splunk details how to do that here: http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/Developer/3rdParty If you want to customize…

Dal I certianly agree that it would be great if Solarwinds actually had a functional product for syslogs, text logs and traps but with a database based solution I don't know that they will meet the performance, volume, or robust search capibility that splunk offers. It would be great if Solarwinds could write an…

We are also seeing a similar issue after going to APM2 and Orion9sp2. It is now starting to cause timouts on our HTTPS monitors if they poll while the server is at 100% CPU and one or all of the SWJobEngineWorker.exe's are running. We haven't change the number of component monitors since the upgrade but are certianly…

When we purchased PageGate we purchased the commandline/ASCI interface (for integration with alerting), 4 connectors (modems) and then 30 pager licenses. Setup wise it is pretty easy for example for one of our alerts we execute this program from solarwinds alerts: D:\PageGateData\GetAscii\sendpage32.exe all_oncall ALERT…

We haven't had any issues during fail-over of cluster resources. Since we are monitoring resources that are contained in the cluster resource group only they will move with the group. The host-specific information will update when solarwinds polls but it will not effect any other polling. The services and disks move over…

We are looking for a way to monitor data and file movement on our backend databases for each of our customers to replace our older script/trap based monitoring. We have a number of database queries (Oracle & SQL) that will query the status of some process or data condition in our database then return a list of customers…

Do you have the MIBs that you are polling to obtain those stats? It would save a little time digging through a MIB walk to find them. - David

We manage that level of alerting through custom properties that we assign to each of the nodes. While it isn't as clean or as easy as I would like from the alerting standpoint at least using custom properties in my alerts I am able to setup 4 node alerts one for each team in our organization and setup properties to look…

We have been evaulating Splunk as a replacement to the Solarwinds syslogging tools due to their limited functionality. We have a combination of syslogs and text logs from all our systems that we need a way to search, alert, and report off of. It would be great if we could directly integrate alarms from splunk into the…

We have been using PageGate to help manage our paging, it allows us to use both SMTP as well as TAP for our paging. It also made it easier to manage groups of pager recipients as well as managing the possible failure of SMTP communication and failover to TAP over a couple USB modems. Since Orion can run a simple script it…

We run Orion on a SQL2005/Windows Server 2008 Cluster without any issues. Just make sure your shared storage is up the job, some SAN's have issues with Solarwinds due to the large number of small writes. -David

Is your FAS2020 running clustered controllers and are the logs coming twice from only one of the controllers or VIFs or one entry from each head?

We have a number of SQL clusters that we monitor. Basically we add the virtual IP in (Orion will pick up the machine name it is running on) Just rename the resource while keeping the cluster virtual IP and you will be able to monitor that resource regardless of which host it resides on. For us we just monitor the specific…