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The cause of this is, as madhavan said, is IIS will "flow" IIS settings through to sub folders/applications. I'm assuming you have your new application/virtual folder in a different location outside of the SolarWinds directory. If that's the case, you can use the following in the web.config to clear all the imported…

I thought I'd closed out my own thoughts on this one after uncovering a solution. Despite a system wide execution policy being defined on the server to allow scripts to run (Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned), this was still not working when executed as a service. This could be due to elevated security due to it being a…

The output format should be: Message.Index: text Statistic.Index: 123 "Index" doesn't have to be numeric either, it can be text. So you could have: Message.DNS1: 1.1.1.1 Statistic.DNS1: 1 Messge.DNS2: 8.8.8.8 Statistic.DNS2: 1 One gotcha with dynamic lengths is the potential for the number of results returned to be…

I'm assuming this is being used within SAM. SAM has an expectation of 1 required field, and 1 optional field. The required field is 'Statistic' and the optional is message. You can have up to 10 statistic values, and this is what SAM will use for alerting, and plotting graphs. You probably want to adjust your output to…

I'm assuming you mean this one? Based on the notes, the file name cannot have a space in it, which means your command will fail immediately. That said, you could try this to see if it works: "C:\logfile$(Get-Date -Format 'yyyy-mm-dd').log",error,match,2 The types of quotes might be important. I'd also verify your syntax,…

Very nifty, cool team you have

Is this when you click "List Resources"? If so, no, it doesn't mean it's not polling, it just means that to save calls to the server it'll look at resources (cpu, memory, number of disks, network interfaces, applications, routing protocols, etc) that it has already collected. Each page for a resource usually has a small…

I'm also getting non-stop nag messages about wanting to install the Solarwinds toolset api , even when I copied the file to the correct directory and entered my admin credentials. As soon as I navigate away from the page, it nags me again about wanting permissions to install it . I'm sure UAC is part of this problem. I'm…

There should already be a built in alert for this event "AppInsight for Exchange: Warn me when database failover occurs". The alert might need tweaking as it's looking at a diff of a timestamp and expecting the value to be 0, if you're polling every 5 minutes then your check would have to occur at the same time the…

I shot myself in the foot with a script the other day and got this too. The "down" status is and exit code that is returned from the script. "Down" is not supported on scripts, only up (0), warning (2), critical (3). Is the script you're running a custom script? Look for any signs of an exit statement. Feel free to paste…

1. I'd think that entirely depends on which components you are referring to. For example, the service status components are goign to use WMI to see if the windows service is running, where as the "RPC Requests" will be using WMI to query the Exchange performance counters. Other statistics will be monitored the same way.…

You can absolutely do that, in fact, that's generally recommended. We have all our MS SQL clusters setup in that fashion. We add the IP address for the cluster group, and make sure the name stays as the cluster group name at the end, for example VPSQL001. If you set it up like that, Solarwinds won't care where which node…

The first thing I'd do is look at what the actual test is. What's it doing? What's the outcome it is expecting? Is it an HTTP monitor? Is it a custom monitor? Can you tie the alerts to load issue on the server? What about on the Solarwinds server itself? What about network issues?

While johndunn1970 is freaking amazing, and I do like mharvey visio diagrams too (and used similar in the past), I find them both to be harder to maintain if you end up swapping gear around. I went with a really simple "rack" layout. I basically coloured some cells in Excel, took a screen shot, saved it as a JPG and then…

As thulsey​ suggested, it can be accomplished in several ways. I don't think there are any templates pre-built for this because it's likely to be very specific to the environment you are working in. For example, PowerShell you could use Invoke-WebRequest to make a call to the website to fetch the content, and -match to…

Without details on the script, it might be a little hard to understand what exactly is going on. The fact you're having to launch the script as admin suggests it might be triggering some UAC rule that wants elevated access. What's the error you get when you run it without admin access? Is it your own custom script? Can we…

Before I spend some time bashing something together, what version of SAM are you using? The latest version has AppInsight for Exchange, and store monitoring is part of the many features available. Otherwise I can probably throw something together over the weekend.

Depending on the website, you might not need to do anything special. How does the website work? Do you need to login? Is there anything special on the page you can use for an achor? What's the website output (html/xml/soap/json/etc)? I don't believe there is anything built in other than simple string matches, so you'd…

You are probably after dependencies. By defining a group (remote hosts), and making it dependent on a router, SolarWinds will understand that the hosts behind the router are not "down" but are now "unreachable". This is a different alerting criteria. More details on dependencies can be found here.

Along with the suggestions by Jfrazier and HolyGuacamole, have you verified that it is really importing all the modules from the powershell profile? A quick and dirty test would be to have one profile import be something like: write-host 'Message.0: Test' write-host 'Statistic.0: 0' Then run a test script, see if it picks…

What is it you are looking to see? How do you have IIS setup for the applications under the main site? Does it have it's own Application Pool? Or is it part of the same application pool from the main site?

Both of the solutions given so far would work. I've done something similar using some PowerShell (but not in SAM) scripting that doesn't require breaking out extra logging, or any third party components. Assuming the machine you are testing against is a Windows box, something like this should work: $date =…

My first question would be to check if the auto-configure option works? It took me a little bit to figure out where to find it, but if you add the AppInsight to the host, then edit the application, you have a button to configure it...I wrote up a quick blog post on it the other day.…

Do you have examples of components that are alerting? Are they your own component monitors, or are you using the ones pre-shipped? A lot of the application/component monitors have pre-set values based on recommendations, from Microsoft for example. When these get exceeded, the component will obviously go into a…

If you're using SAM/NPM to do the alerting, you'd have to differentiate the servers/nodes in some fashion, and create alerts for each email contact/group based on those conditions (you can do that by simply duplicating the existing alert, and changing the options). A common way to handle that would be a custom property on…

I see it on one of ours too. I stumbled across the KB article as well when I went looking to understand what it is/was, and why it was alerting. Definitely interesting that Microsoft say not to use it...

I don't officially know, but I believe it's .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0, which is the sysObjectID. This refers to another OID, which should be the reference to the provider. An example result would look like this: C:\usr\bin>snmpget.exe -c TESTCOMMUNITY -v 2c TESTBOX .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.2.0 SNMPv2-MIB::sysObjectID.0 = OID:…

Can you create a screen shot of the alert you are trying to configure?

I don't have any experience handling this type of format. That said, any start to solving a problem is identifying how to get at the data. From a quick search ISO 8583 is a transaction record for credit/debit transactions. What is it about that format you're looking to monitor? What platform is it on? How do you get to the…

To start, you have the output parts backwards, it should be Message.Health and Statistic.Health. Or, if it's just the one part, you can ditch the .Health on the end, SolarWinds is happy with either. This is likely the reason you're getting the "Not Defined". The second issue you have is that you are not doing anything if…