jayharris

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  • I agree with Deltona, it is best to leave the default pages alone and make copies that you edit. If someone needs a custom view I copy the existing view that is closest to their desired view then adjust the new copy as needed. After it is setup I assign that view as the default in their account. Related to the specific…
    in NPM Summary View Comment by jayharris February 2013
  • This question started me thinking… “more” implies that you have an additional amount of security than you did before you were compliant. So while compliance does imply a minimum level of security, it might not “make you more” secure. That will depend on where the organization started and where it ended up. In the case of…
    in LEM Thoughts of the Week: Does Compliance Actually Make you More Secure? Comment by jayharris March 2014
  • So here is an update on my Windows Server Health monitoring issue: - I have used the troubleshooting guides Bronx pointed me to. That verified WMI and SMNP was functioning correctly on a sampling of the offending nodes. They passed the tests. - I reviewed the SAM admin guide to verify the configuration was correct on the…
    in Windows Server Hardware Health Status Bouncing Comment by jayharris May 2012
  • - Thanks for the links! The troubleshooting guide helped with a different problem I was having with a couple of my VMware nodes, but it did not help with my Windows nodes (WMI is working fine on WMI nodes and SNMP is good on SNMP nodes). I reviewed the SAM admin guide and seems that everything is A-OK based on its…
    in Windows Server Hardware Health Status Bouncing Comment by jayharris May 2012
  • I am no programmer, but as I understand it Miniports are basically driver created subfunctions that a device in Windows has. WAN Miniports usually show up on a network interface for each of the base driver’s supported additional connection techniques over a WAN (PPoE, L2TP, PPTP, Etc.). Since they are not “real” it seems…
    in WAN Miniport? Comment by jayharris March 2013
  • Mark, I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but here is a report I put together. http://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-170697
    in VMWare datastore reports Comment by jayharris March 2013
  • These are the ones that I have seen so far that required manual intervention: Cisco Nexus 5020, N5K-C5020P-BF Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch, End of Sale: 11/27/2012, End of Support: 11/30/2017, http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps9670/eol_c51-709037.html Cisco Nexus 5010, N5K-C5010P-BF Cisco Nexus…
    in Missing or Incorrect EoL/EoS Data Comment by jayharris October 2013
  • Well it has been a week and no one came up with a magic answer I wanted, though I appreciate the answers that I did receive. I guess VMware just does not have the SNMP love. I will take the feedback I got to management and I assume we will use the custom fields. Thanks again!
    in SolarWinds NPM, SNMP, and VMware ESXi 4.1 or 5 Comment by jayharris April 2012
  • I don't have an answer on why your alert is not working but just for reference, my custom attributes show up "automatically". I added a new attribute and it showed up when I reopened the Advanced Alert Manager app. So my vote is that you are experiencing a problem.
    in Custom properties not showing when building alert triggers Comment by jayharris March 2013
  • Consolidating multiple small servers to a new server next week and was asked to recreate some of the reports on the new environment. Report writer reports? Backed up and ready to move! Web-based reports? OUCH!!! Open SQL? Run a Query? Copy and paste from a column to a text file? Rinse & Repeat for all web reports?…
    in The secret lives of web-based reports Comment by jayharris April 2014
  • I have uploaded a 3850 stack and a 3750 stack. Let me know if I can be anymore help.
    in Interested in Better Cisco Switch Stack Monitoring? Comment by jayharris January 2015
  • After trying a few different clients and apps, I have moved to NewsBlur.
    in What is everyone going to use for RSS? Comment by jayharris May 2013
  • I gave the report a shot for you. It works in my environment. SELECT Nodes.NodeID, Nodes.StatusLED, Nodes.Caption, Nodes.CPULoad, Nodes.Vendor FROM Nodes LEFT OUTER JOIN VIM_VirtualMachines ON Nodes.NodeID = VIM_VirtualMachines.NodeID WHERE VIM_VirtualMachines.NodeID IS NULL AND (Nodes.Vendor = 'Windows' OR Nodes.Vendor =…
    in Orion Report to display Physical servers only Comment by jayharris February 2013
  • I am really liking the SAM 5 features with our Dell Hardware. (Thanks SW SAM team!) I saw this topic pop into my email and my brain went "Well of course!" Hardware monitoring for network equipment, that would be great!! (almost all Cisco here so yeah, Cisco hardware please) So put me down for 5th'ed I would think that it…
    in hardware monitoring for network devices? Comment by jayharris April 2012
  • When I tweaked mine to include other SQL type products I had to adjust the View Limitation on the page. To make those changes: * Open the SQL Server page * Click on the Customize Page link on the upper right * Near the bottom of the customize SQL Server Application Summary page, in the View Limitation section, find…
    in How to get SQL servers to show up in the SQL tab of SAM Comment by jayharris April 2013
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