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Were any changes made to the NPM 2014 system on Saturday the 5th? It looks like it was exactly the same until then and then it suddenly went down and stayed down. Looks like something fishy to me. I'd check the audit logs in Orion for any changes to custom bandwidth, interface settings, or web console settings. Also, I'd…

You are correct jkcy in that nulling out the threshold will keep the component from displaying a warning/critical status on the web console. What I typically do is only set my alerts to alert when a component\application is Down or Critical, I don't ever alert on Warnings. So, if you do the same then you can still set…

So far there are only two new features of 11.6. 11.5 was pretty unique since there were literally TONS of new features. While SolarWinds does constantly innovate their products, I have never seen so many new features in a single release as there was in 11.5. More features meant more bugs though. I highly doubt you will see…

Use WMI whenever possible for Windows servers. WMI gives you superior volume, process, and service monitoring, as well as doesn't require any special configuration of the SNMP service (WMI is usually enabled by default on Windows servers). If for some reason you can't use WMI, try the new agent instead. It requires an…

I will have to respectfully disagree with you ecklerwr1. As a consultant I've worked with over a hundred different Orion environments all across the country, dozens of which have pollers at remote locations writing back to their SQL servers over all kinds of WAN links (MPLS, P2P, VPN, etc...) and have never had any…

Yes, that will work, but keep in mind that will only show you nodes that have custom pollers assigned to them. If all of your nodes have a custom poller assigned, then good, otherwise, you'll want something a bit more comprehensive. I have a SWQL query (I'm surprised support told you to use SQL when SWQL is really the way…

There is a way to label custom properties automatically now (which, by the way, custom properties should be the primary way that you group and organize nodes, not Groups, which seems counter-intuitive, but in Orion Groups aren't very useful as an organizational tool since they cannot be accessed in very many areas of the…

Other than the DB edit mentioned by neomatrix1217 (which is also just a workaround if you think about it) there isn't a way to do this. It must be a limitation of the application (since obviously the SQL table allows the characters). Other than making a feature request and waiting for SolarWinds to allow this the SQL…

No problem. I created a Query for another client on Friday that just so happened to have needed a very similar thing to what yours was, his though needed all alerts for objects in a certain group, so I've still got to edit the query a bit to have it work for you. But in the meantime you can get the SWQL studio installed on…

I'm trying to do the exact same thing right here. I'm SQL/SWQL competent, but I can't picture how to do this in my head right now. Can you post an example of how you accomplished this? Thanks, Jordan

That is on the high side. I wouldn't say the 250ms is a hard and fast rule as I've seen it surpassed without any negative effects, but 550ms is pretty high. Do you have any locations in between the two you could put the SQL server and/or a polling engine?

The ^ symbol means "begins with" in regex. So ^2015 means ignore any line that starts with 2015, not that only contains 2015. Remember, NCM will ignore an entire line where a match occurs, so if a line contains 2015 and you tell it to match on 2015 then that entire line would be ignored, but may I ask why you are trying to…

Definitely weird though, I only use Chrome to browse Orion and I've not seen that issue, so it is certainly not typical behavior. Are you on the newest version of your Orion modules with all hotfixes installed? I remember either Chrome and/or Firefox had some weird issues with NPM 10.7 and 11.0. Not the issue you are…

Old post here, I know, but I'm trying to get alerting setup on a Mirrored database for a client and there isn't an option in the Alert Manager (I even checked the 11.5 Web Alerting Engine and don't see anything). I know I can write a custom SQL query to alert on it and I know alerting on the Event ID is also an option, but…

Great, thanks! At least I know I wasn't mis-configuring something wrong all this time! I searched everywhere trying to find other posts with the same issue and couldn't find it. You said it is a known bug, is there somewhere that known bugs are kept that I could have searched and found this issue, or is it just something…

I recently had a client with the same configuration and could not find a workaround myself. Hopefully SolarWinds will address this quickly as it seems like it would be a pretty easy thing to allow for (like how in SAM you can simply null out thresholds for component monitors).

If you think about it, that is exactly what their Web Report Writer and Legacy Report Writer are, SQL Creation GUI's with an application layer for formatting on top of it. In the Legacy Report Writer you can even see the SQL underneath the report after you created it by going to "View > Show SQL" (or something like that. I…

You don't need root access... Since the files are going to be in the root of a Windows Share, all you need to do is setup the share to allow "Everyone" Read/Write access. That's all. And of course, as user blackpa pointed out put the actual items from inside of the folder into the root, not the entire directory itself as…

Is that truly the root of the share? Also, do you have "Everybody" listed in the share permissions? What about the NTFS permissions? Any access lists in there that might be preventing it?

Old post, I know, but is there any plan to make this kind of chart available for other resources? I know you can put multiple items on a custom chart now, but it gets pretty messy. Its not nearly as slick as the multi chart.

Upgrade. Upgrade ASAP. 11.5, while chock full of awesome new features, is nowhere near as stable as 11.5.2. The experience that Ryan is having above is atypical and is probably indicative of a problem somewhere that I'm sure will get fixed by support. I've done dozens of upgrades to 11.5.2 for many clients across many…

Yeah, I was afraid that was the answer. So basically until a verb is actually created in the API that will do all of the background things that changing it in the GUI does there isn't really a way to do this, correct? One option of course is to delete all of the nodes and re-add them, but then you would lose any SAM App…

I know this is an old post, but I ran across it while researching a similar issue with a client and felt like I needed to add this in in case somebody else has a similar issue in the future. The HP Proliant Support Pack has not been updated by HP since 2012. They now include the files in their HP Service Pack for Proliant.…

So you're saying account limitations work? Any reason you would know of why View Limitations don't work then?

Good news: The Windows services templates have Multi-Edit. Bad News: Multi-Edit has been either intentionally or unintentionally removed in SAM 6.2 from all of the AppInsight templates/monitors. Very frustrating. I have seen this across every install I've done so far (probably about 10 in the last couple of weeks). It is…

I use variables all the time... Even before the hotfix. Assuming I know what you are talking about of course since I'm not sure what you mean by having to result to direct DB editing to modify or create new alerts. The only problem there was with variables was with the ${DefaultEmailSenderName} in the Name field for the…

This is absolutely perfect tdanner! You even put some PowerShell examples which helps me a lot. It would be amazing if every verb was documented this way (I know, big project, but you probably have an intern or two you could get to do the grunt work and just have you edit it at the end to fill in any blanks and fix any…

Orion already does this. This has to do with your settings and will do the exact same thing in Orion as in your Cacti chart (although the design will obviously look a bit different. Also, you are comparing a step chart in Orion to a line type chart in Cacti). For Orion to do this you have to make sure the sample intervals…

Yes, I LOVE the new Custom Property editor and the fact that we can add filters and extra columns to the view to help filter down to the objects we want to bulk edit. What I don't like is the following: - No ability to use custom properties from other object types to filter on - For example: - When trying to filter…

You seem to be in the know about the load balancer. I have a client who has a High Availability setup with their Avaya Call Managers. We can see the CDR records coming in from the procr's VIP, but we are monitoring the two physical Call Manger servers in VNQM. Solarwinds solution is to simply add the VIP of the Procr in as…