jangliss

I'm excited. You guys have been knocking the ball out the park with some of these additions. 5.5 introduced some much needed features, and it's made a lot of folks happy around my office (especially that mount point monitoring). I'm looking forward to the new features coming up too. Threshold recommendations could be a…

Great work! Spam filtering is a nightmare of a task, and I don't envy you folks for having to deal with it.

I'm looking forward to the agent support, AppInsight for IIS, and the web based Alert Manager. I'm curious on the app stack integration, I know some folks here that'd like to see the whole infrastructure documented to give a good view of performance.

The Christmas string lights are an interesting touch

I wish I could say I was joking when I took this screen shot... Unfortunately I'm not.

Definitely looking forward to the Exchange stuff. Our dev team will be happy with JSON support, as well as the task scheduler monitors. Looking forward to the new features!

Security should be part of the fundamental design of a product, custom application, web site, etc. When security becomes an afterthought, or something you tack on at the end, there will always be security issues such as SQL injections.

These are all ideas on building fault tolerant applications. By reducing the single points of failure, you also increase the ability to handle failures on specific components. In your example, feature A being broken on server A, but not server B means you can handle the issue on server A without impacting user perception.…

Storage as ecklerwr1 mentioned. Along those lines also: - Data Retention: How long does that login data need to be kept? What about the inventory change history? What about image information? How often does a cleanup need to be run (daily/weekly/monthly)? - Data Backup: How long do backups need to be kept around? Do they…

bluefunelemental, I hadn't really thought about that, or even if Atlas can do dynamic queries... That's an interesting and intriguing idea!

When creating the subnet in IPAM, there is a VLAN ID field, they can be set there. If you're importing your subnets from a DHCP scope, you can still edit the information, just remember to use the edit option on the subnet level, not inside the subnet.

I still have it on my server, but I'm not sure if that's because it's part of the install that has been upgraded multiple times over the years, or if it's just not been taken away.

I've always been impressed with some people's ability to draw very usable network and topology diagrams in Visio. I can never get the lines to sit right, and usually end up with a big rats nest at the end. This one isn't as bad as some of the others I have drawn, here is an overview of our Lync topology as we were building…

I did a quick skim of similar issues ,and didn't find anything specifically called out except one post that had 2 different issues. One of the resolutions was using the "Sharepoint Management Shell". This suggests to me that the shell that is launched from that specific command imports and loads additional modules and…

What happens when you drill into that database? What other items on the database page are showing up? Are you using a DAG? Is the database on the node that is not the preferred server? We see a similar status on our environment, but it shows green in different places, making some of the UI a little hard to get your head…

Right, that's my point... Step 1-3 are in the node detail view, step 4 isn't, with no instructions on the transition to go somewhere else. If you're following along, you might be confused (as I was) and go to the "Application" view instead of the "All Applications". This is why I think there is a step missing between 3 and…

One thing I've noticed is that the sample script is not validating any return data, and it has: $ErrorActionPreference = "silentlycontinue"; at the top. This will result in any errors being quietly suppressed, and as you're not validating stuff came back for any of the commands it might not have stuff to pass further down…

Never late to correct my code. Thanks for the observations. I've corrected it now.

One issue, as zackm mentioned is NodeID. It's ambiguous because of the 2 tables having the same column name. The other is in the where clause. I'm not sure if it's the screen shot, but it looks like it says dv.F5_Pools.AvailabilityState = 3. dv is a table alias to F5_Device_V, but it looks like you might have meant to…

Is the share actually created as "D:" or just "D"? I'm not sure you can create a windows share with : in them. What I'd suggest is trying to make a new share on the server such as directly to the subfolder with the files, and use that share name. Make sure to grant the account that you're using to access with the necessary…

2 random thoughts, the first is that the service is seeing a box prompting to accept the EULA, the second is that for some reason, the \\ are being escaped, or treated differently. I'd try changing the execution of psshutdown to include the -accepteula argument, like this: c:\utils\psshutdown.exe -accepteula -f -k -t 30 -u…

A follow up to this thread, AD doesn't have an OU attribute on user objects, or any objects that I'm aware of. This means that trying to restrict the scope down to specific OUs won't work if you're trying to search a collection of them. The search base is where you have to limit which OUs you are working with, and AD/LDAP…

This is because trusted_connection uses the already established connection/authentication and passes tokens that were already established as part of the account's sign in. You cannot pass values in when using trusted_connection for user/pass. If you need to use Windows credentials, you'll need to change the agent to be…

Then the break down is in the "All Applications" resource. In my lab, which is a clean install of SAM/NPM, after checking the box to enable the Exchange monitoring, you are taken back to the "Node Details" page. On this page, I do not have an "All Applications" resource. I do have "Applications" and "Application Health…

Drive letters with $ after are usually admin type shares that have restricted access just to administrators. Is the account you're using an admin on the remote server? Can you create a new share pointed straight to "SubFolder" and see if that works? I'm always hesitant to use the drive shares, especially as it introduces…

I must be doing something wrong then... Checked the box for Microsoft Exchange Server under "List Resources" Scrolled down and clicked on the Exchange application object, and was greeted with this: After a short period of time, I was then presented with: I'm not sure if this is what grahambird1980 was seeing which lead him…

I was going based on this doc (sub section "node variables"), which doesn't reference using ${node.....} Interestingly enough, the examples use variables that are not defined, so it looks like maybe the documentation is out of date. Unfortunately there is no "variable helper" when using the external application function,…

Was there supposed to be a response in here? I see only whitespace. Don't forget, if the above answered the question, to mark it as answered, then other people can see it's been resolved, or track down answers better.

Which version of SAM are you using? They changed the variable format relatively recently. The above format is the new style, but the old alerting style uses much shorter styles. Do you manage your alerts via the SolarWinds web console? If so, go to the alert you're trying to edit, go to the trigger actions, select your…

The -include '*.*' can be changed to -include '*.OLD'