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For limiting to just the top 10, you can use Select. I'd ditch the "format-table -autosize" on your command because you're not displaying any data, just passing it to a variable. So the new line would look something like this: $ICACtr = get-counter "\\{$IP}\ICA Session(*)\Latency - Last Recorded" | select -ExpandProperty…

- Is there any way to increase the 10 output limit? There is no way to exceed the 10 output pair limit in SAM. The recommended solution would be to break this up across multiple scripts. It's far from ideal, which is why I'd personally recommend using Windows Performance Counters or WMI Monitors. It's certainly laborious,…

I'll double check Monday to see if the Database File Size suggests any hints of issues for this database/disk. I'll also check to see what the thresholds are, because it's showing green on the volume above with a disk queue length of ~3200, I'd have thought that to be excessive myself. I guess the bit that adds to…

Submitted idea request:

We use a similar logic to achieve the same thing. We have 3 sets of alerts, one that looks like this: AlertingGroup is equal to Voice Node Status is equal to Down With a trigger time of 10 minutes. And a second one that looks like this: AlertingGroup is equal to Network Packet Loss is greater than or equal to 50% With a…

Exactly where I was going with my questions

I'd not thought about stuffing the email address into a custom field too, might be handy. Not sure it'd work in our situation though, but definitely one to keep in the back pocket. I'd not realized that variables were available in the other fields too, that alone is useful information.

This particular node is a SQL instance name that is running on top of 2 HP DL585 G7, running HP Insight Manager 9.25.0.0. The actual servers that this instance runs on poll just fine. The other servers are a mix of HP servers (from G1-G8 series), HP BL465c G7 blades, and some flex 10 switches from an HP C7000 blade…

You can change line 13 to read: $f_names = [System.String]::Join('|',$files.Name) This should return just the file names.

Ugh, there was me thinking this was possible. Apparently you cannot use wildcard searches on distinguishedName field, so this option is out. Still poking around. I don't think the user option has the ability to search based on OU directly, so this might not work well.

orioncrack wrote: We have several different alerts for various thresholds since Orion cannot do single volume overrides. I have one for 10%, 5%, 2%, 0% free to catch several different thresholds. That depends on what you mean by single volume overrides. Instead of configuring the alerts to trigger based on a % threshold…

I read the description the same as Leon did, that you can add (or as we probably read it "assign") an application to a group. Now that I think about it, I see what it actually does. It would be a great feature to allow us to assign applications to groups of servers as defined in the group manager. This would allow us to…

Agreed on training videos, along with just playing with it, and asking questions here on Thwack when specific issues or questions arise. 

zbynek.botlo wrote: I was able to create the poller for your table with the correct label and everything seems to work just fine with the provided snmp walk. I'd love to know how you did this. This UnDP export works just fine. So I figured I'd look at the values in the UnDP interface and see if I could figure out exactly…

Unfortunately, creation of custom connectors/tools is not currently supported by LEM. Being that this is a custom log, I am not sure SW support would be able to create a connector for us as they normally do. The only thing custom about it is the name, and the filename. It's still handled by the Windows Eventlog service.…

I was thinking of the PowerShell/WMI route, but with something simple as a task scheduler to just check and alert if the counters got too high. Not sure I'd need an entire instance of Orion running just to poll that, but definitely something to tinker with.

Thanks for the tip. I'll keep an eye out for the enhancements. Which service is responsible for taking the data out of MSMQ and putting it into the database? From looking at the names, I'd figure it would be "SolarWinds Collector Data Processor"? I checked the logs in ProgramData\SolarWinds\ and do see SQL connection…

I had one of our SharePoint folks run it on our platform. He gets data back when running as a farm admin (I think that was the term he used). If I try to execute it, I get the same "SPFarm not found" error, so that'd seem inline with a permissions issue there. It's odd that you're getting "Not Defined" when you switch to a…

Despite copying the web.config doing the same thing as making this change, and the UI also showing this was the value set, for some reason it didn't take, even after the iisreset. So I reverted to the backup copy of the web.config, and manually enabled the authentication, changed the language options, and did another…

A little tip for you, once you've created your alert and it works how you want it to, and you wish to see the actual code behind it, change the "Type of Property to Monitor" from say Volumes, to "Custom SQL Alert", it'll show the final output SQL. Before: After: This isn't exactly the same as your alert, but you can see…

Okay, the "group of groups" was breaking things. This is confusing to me because that's a higher level restriction, and I'd granted explicit permissions to the applications/components. This to me suggests my brain is stuck in an NTFS permissions granting world where most explicit permissions override implicit/least…

Nice demo document. I can't count the number of times we've had that here. It's started with "hey, can you just put a couple of dials showing CPU and application information" to, "can we also include custom links to this reporting tool, and this application, and these other reports".

So I'm absolutely sure I understand what it is you are doing, and what you're trying to achieve, let me see if I understand correctly. You want a script (does it have to be VB?) that looks in a path for files prefixed with XYZ_. When found, it reads inside that file, or files if there are multiples, and looks for an error…

We would also love EMC VPLEX support. VNX support is great, but when VPLEX sits in front of it as a storage virtualization platform, you lose out on the link between host and back end storage.

Just as a random silly question, you have the node set to "external", so it does no polling of the node itself. Could it be because you have it set to "external" it's not picking up the IP address change at the node level because it's not actively trying to find the IP address when it polls? I'm not sure if the options are…

This is a great post. The SQL looks sound. It's a shame this level of filtering has to be done using SQL now, compared to the options that were available in the older thick client. Here is a great write up on how it could be done using the old interface. Time for a feature request I think.

Windows 2012, SQL 2012, SQL 2014 and SolarWinds products Fairly sure the minimum requirement is 2008, so I'd imagine 2008SP3 would be covered. But it might depend on which Orion products you are referring to.

The -filter argument in Get-ChildItem matches any part of the file name. So you can use -filter '*_N.xml' if that is the same extension, otherwise adjust your [string]$filter variable to match what you are looking for. Your script to modify is looking for files created over 20 minutes ago, you can either adjust the code to…

Try clicking on the "Microsoft IIS" link and it'll open the application page. Then click "Edit Application Monitor". Then click on the "Configure Server" button. This should make sure WinRM is configured correctly to allow SAM to talk to it to pull the additional information. The reason some are green is because they're…

Unfortunately the forum software won't let you send DMs unless you're friends, so I've sent over a request so I can send you the MIBs and the snmpwalk data from an IBM DataPower XI50 appliance.