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Yes, as bluefunelemental states, you don't assign alerts to nodes/groups or any kind of elements. Alerts are rule based in Orion. Much more flexible, although it it takes wrapping your head around it at first. What I do is create two Node Custom Properties, "Alert_ContactNodePrimary" and "Alert_ContactNodeSecondary". I use…

One of my favorite less talked about features is volume thresholds. Yay! No more custom properties. However, custom properties are still more useful because, unless I'm missing something, there isn't an easy way to bulk edit the Volume Thresholds. For example, lets say I have a large group of servers that I want to set the…

So after running into this issue multiple times since my original reply to this post, I've figured out a good best practice for new installs, especially since this issue isn't necessarily limited to just IE 10 but can in fact happen on any browser. User angleo a couple posts above is right, it boils down to not having a…

I doubt there is going to be a way around that. Those are both some very very old versions (NPM is currently on version 11.5.2 and its amazing...). My guess is that the schema changed between those versions for the way Orion stored and/or processed discovery profiles, so there won't be any workaround. You will just need to…

Very old thread I know, but since I'm dealing with something similar I figured I'd add this just in case anyone else came across this when searching like I have. Wild cards are probably a much better way than entering/importing a bunch of IP addresses into a group. Just make a user defined group, then put in objects that…

Did you ever solve this? Same issue here. Patch Manager is installed on Win Server 2012 and we chose to have PM install WSUS for us on the same server, so how in the world did it become different??

Yeah, I would just have it reset after 1 minute is how I did it. And you only need it evaluating every 10 minutes or so. It'll only trigger on nodes where that property is blank, so the first time it triggers it will be a lot, but after that it would only be new nodes or nodes where somebody deleted the custom property…

I don't have access to an Orion server at the moment, but I think I remember this coming up before and it isn't possible. Why that is I don't know, but it has something to do with the way the To:, CC:, and BCC: fields have validation now. Maybe the validation script was written only to resolve regular known variables but…

Having the unique perspective of not being a part of the Solarwinds company but working with approximately 100 different Orion environments a year, I can say that a majority of the issues I've been seeing have been small things. Given the track record of Solarwinds updates (taking the sheer number of products and the…

NPM Doesn't have out-of-the-box Hardware Health Monitoring for servers (it does have it for many popular brands of Networking equipment though, like Cisco, Dell Switches, F5's, Brocades, Juniper, etc...). If you want a strong Hardware Health Monitoring feature then you would need to add their SAM module onto it. SAM is…

I'm having a similar issue with some CradlePoint Routers that contain 4G Modems in them. I scan 112 of them and it says 112 Nodes Discovered, but in the results screen it says 1 Node Discovered... Like you I can manually add these nodes and list resources and do everything you can do with a node in Orion and it all works…

Awesome! I really like the updates. I was aware of the SDK moving to GitHub a long time ago, but I never realized that the newer versions of the SDK were being only released there as well, so I just went from 1.10 to 2.0.50! You may want to edit your original post on the Orion SDK Information Thwack post to point to that.…

I've performed over a dozen 11.5.2 upgrades in many environments since it came out (I'm a Consultant that specializes in SolarWinds) and have found it to be quite stable. A few minor things here and there, but no more or less than you come across with any percentage of software upgrade installs. Just make sure you apply…

For some unknown reason they decided to link interface status and topology data for Network Atlas. So, like rjg5050 stated, if "Connect Now" won't connect both ends of an interface, Network Atlas will not show Utilization metrics. I don't understand why they don't just have the line change color based on the utilization of…

Yeah, I wish it did this out of the box, but it isn't super hard to do. Check out these posts for a few different methods on how to report on nodes that are no longer responding to SNMP: Alert on Nodes that stopped responding to SNMP Noes not responding to SNMP or WMI Another way to go about this is changing all of your…

Sure, here you go! SELECT n.Caption AS Node, n.DetailsUrl AS [_Linkfor_Node], '/Orion/images/StatusIcons/Small-' + n.StatusIcon AS [_Iconfor_Node], TOSTRING(n.AvgResponseTime) + ' ms' AS [Average Response Time] FROM Orion.Nodes n WHERE n.Status NOT IN (0, 2, 9, 12) ORDER BY AvgResponseTime DESC You can of course add to or…

I recently observed this with my latest client and figured out what the problem is. Definitely a bug. When you create an Alert Condition using any of the Threshold choices the alerting engine is querying a threshold table that contains all types of Node thresholds including CPU, PercentLoss, Response Time, and Memory.…

I'm not sure if there is a way to do this currently. I don't know if it is a bug or it works this way on purpose, but Active Alerts resources don't seem to respect View Limitations (and I imagine Account Limitations but I haven't tested this myself). What I've done in the past is create a Custom Query Resource with a…

So this can be done by using the Manage Pollers section. See this post here for more detail: Re: Mass change status and response time polling from ICMP to SNMP?

This functionality is somewhat available now since starting with NPM 11.5 you can now assign custom Node Detail views to individual nodes by editing their properties and setting the detail view desired. It's not automated like the Views by Device Type feature, but it is still very helpful. Another related new feature of…

The new Volume thresholds (I say new because before NPM 11.5, Volume disk space thresholds were only a global setting, now they can be set per Volume) are stored in the Volume Capacity Forecasting tables (for some reason...). So, to access them you have to choose "Volume Capacity Forecast" as the object that you want to…

This is a common problem and can be frustrating to figure out. There is a Thwack post or knowledgebase that has a working fix, but I can't find it right now. What I typically do though is just create a criteria rule with ^! as the regex so that it filters out all comment lines. If there is some reason you want to compare…

Wow... I found it literally seconds after posting this. I was so busy looking in the Orion.APM.Exchange. entity tables that I didn't even notice the little old APM.WindowsEvent entity down at the bottom of the APM section of the SWQL tables... Anyways, there it is if anybody else ever looks right over it a million times…