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The following is obviously dumb-dumb server setup 101, but I'd say a majority of my client's have not completed this step on a majority of their servers. Approximately 10% of the servers I see have actually set this, everyone else just leaves it at default: When you say lots of variations in performance metrics I can't…

Did you apply the Hotfix? It fixes that exact issue (amongst several other items). If the issue is still present after installing it then either the fix did not apply properly for some reason (did you run the config wizard after applying the HotFix? This one requires it) or there may actually be something wrong with the…

Ahh! Thank you so much! I must have just not seen this in the plethora of results when I searched the Admin guide for "Component Variables" and whatever other combination I tried. I still feel like when you click on "SolarWinds Variables and Examples > Advanced Alert Engine Variables" there should be a link to all of these…

Hi tdanner, I've seen this issue on a few posts on Thwack and haven't seen anyone post a resolution. I know you've been involved in a few of those posts as well and was wondering if you ever saw and/or figured out a solution to any of them? I have a co-worker that is currently experiencing this and has also seen it in the…

I've worked with multiple clients with a single instance spread across the globe and never seen any adverse effects. Sure there may be a little more latency but I nor the clients found it noticeable most of the time. As long as each site has good stable WAN links and decently fast speed a single instance shouldn't be a…

Good stuff Balki, thanks for your response! So first, I guess the word "basic" wasn't what I really meant. I used it in place of "common" I think, since it is the functionality we've come to expect from that type of resource and I found it surprising that a new module was lacking this. And while I figured there wasn't a…

This is amazing work. I've often thought of an alerting system like this but never actually started to make it due to the limitations of time, since I'm sure this probably took a very long time to develop. Fantastic, this is really very impressive.

There are several customization's for Node Down with Duration. Just search for the term NODE DOWN DURATION in Thwack and you'll get a good amount of results. No need to reinvent the wheel. This post right here is an old Report Writer style report, but you can open it up and view the SQL and see how they did it (although I…

Yes, although there is probably a better value to filter on then LastSystemUpTimePollUtc, since node status is based on ping response, not SNMP response (unless you've set your nodes to base their Status on SNMP, which isn't the default setting).

Here is a SWQL Query that finds Nodes whose Last System UpTime Poll has been unsuccessful for over 60 minutes. Adjust to your liking. As stated in a previous reply, you should get in the habit of using SWQL instead of SQL for any custom reports/alerts (when possible of course) since SolarWinds can and will change the…

Hope you found your answer by now, if not (and for the sake of others that stumble across this thread) here is the place to enter/show SQL for a Web-Based Alert (SWQL is now an option and what you probably should start using since SolarWinds has and will make schema changes to the SQL database and may not always be as nice…

For a discovery scan to filter by machine type it has to connect to the device, query it with SNMP/WMI/VMware API and get the SysObjectOID that Orion uses to lookup the MachineType field in its MIB database. This is already done and easily filtered in Discoveries as it is... When you import a discovery the very first…

I think that he was just using SAM as a main example, but what he says for SAM can be true for the rest of Orion as far as limitations go. Currently if you give a user that has a limitation applied to them Administrator access they can easily just edit their account and remove any limitations given, but without…

Yeah, that looks pretty sweet. I'm curious as to what it is and hope that it ends up being as cool as it sounds.

Sure sure, yeah, I wasn't saying don't customize. You are 1,000% correct in that you will get the most out of Orion if you break out some SWQL/SQL and go to town. It just seemed like he was recreating SNMP/Syslog alerting in the web alerting engine when that tool already existed outside of it. Syslog and Trap alerting is…

As I also stated, they don't give dates. That unfortunately won't happen. When it's ready, Solarwinds will release it. With a constantly updating software product that has so many different modules with so many moving parts it would be way too hard for them to keep high quality updates while also adhering to release dates.…

Yeah, like I said, the Syslog and Traps are going to be integrated into the web alerting engine, but they haven't yet, so until then you will use the Syslog/Trap Viewer application to create the alerts, and you can see the alerts by using either the Syslog page, the Traps page, and/or the Message Center (This is my…

I'm not sure what you mean about requesting a roadmap feature, but that is what this post is about. If you want more detail about what they're working on I don't think you'll get it until its pretty much ready. Just like they're policy of not setting release dates, SolarWinds seem to have a policy of not going into too…

One thing you'll notice with SolarWinds is they never break the promise of a release date because they never make that promise. The best you'll ever get is "soon" and I don't think they are even supposed to say that. You'll know when its close when you see a beta followed by a Release Candidate, other than that you just…

And Better Bulk Editing of labels and objects in Network Atlas as well!!!

I just wish setting a property to Mandatory didn't default to a list value when there is a restricted list. That is not what I had in mind when I saw Mandatory Properties... My thinking was that it would just prevent people from adding a node without filling in all of the properties, not defaulting it to one of my list…

You mean like the web report layout system? That would be sweet.

Really? I can make alerts 10 times faster than the old method. They are super easy now... I'm not sure exactly what you are getting at, but the easiest and fastest way to make alerts is to apply a custom property called Alert_ContactPrimary and Alert_ContactSecondary to all of your nodes. Use them to assign primary and…

Yes! They are so powerful and really could be even more so with a little bit more development. Rule based custom properties (like dynamic queries for groups) would be amazing as well. When the new Alert Action Change a Custom Property Value was add I was excited until I realized that I would have to have a separate alert…

I have to say, I was quite stoked for the Mandatory Custom Properties feature but I am a little disappointed in the way it turned out. Its fine if you don't use Restricted values, but I use (and highly recommend) Restricted values on all Text and Numerical Custom Properties (ones that don't contain unique data of course,…

What browser are you using? Does it do the same thing in other browsers? If so, then there may be an IIS setting on your Primary Orion server that is causing the issue, if not then it may be a browser setting on your local machine that is causing it.

You say regex but from your picture it looks like you are talking about the Orion variables, correct? That was a problem in the earlier days of 11.5 but should be fixed now. I use them all the time but I've never used them where they are mixed in with an email address like you have it. For example, I typically have a…

Have you gone into "Manage Pollers", selected Layer 2 or 3, Clicked "Assign", and then just bulk selected all of the ones that are enabled and chose "Disable" yet? If not that should be the way to do it. Jordan Hume Field Systems Engineer Loop1 Systems, Inc.

Check that you are able to see the OID's found in this knowledgebase article: SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: Wireless OIDs Polled in Orion NPM Just do a SNMP walk and look for these OID's. I think there is actually a poller checker tool somewhere in the Orion install files. You can try that.

To add to wluther's comment, instead of expanding each node and selecting the interfaces, just change the drop-down box at the top of the Manage Nodes table from "Nodes" to "Interfaces". In medium to large environments its critical to find efficient ways to do large bulk editing, and manually expanding each node and…