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No. I abuse, err, inform our NOC in other ways You know where to find me when I can help by wielding my half-frozen opinion with impunity!

Check page 23 http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/ScalabilityEngineGuidelines.pdf It actually says the upper limit is 300ms but that degradation can happen around 200ms depending on the utilization. To me that reads "Don't exceed 200ms"

There is power in that Invoke-Command cmdlet. (As I am discovering for myself!) Invoke-Command actually allows multiple concurrent cmdlets to be executed on a remote computer instead of running through a list of computers sequentially. That, in addition to solving some interesting credential issues with local commands, WMI…

Just the variable references -- they aren't being resolved to a value. A few examples below. Datastore is the SwisEntity Datastore total latency for IL0210PV_App_02_ ABC_6285_LUN003 in ${N=SwisEntity;M=Clusters.Name} on ${N=SwisEntity;M=Clusters.DataCenter.VCenter.Name} is 17.01 ms Datastore usage for Cluster…

Ahh yes -- it looks like I am going to have to finally learn SQL query language, eh? Here's what I have so far, but it doesn't appear to be working. I throws an error -- see the text below. Select Nodes.NodeID AS NetObjectID, Nodes.Caption AS Name FROM Nodes WHERE ( (Interfaces.I_Maint_End > getdate()) AND…

Alex, a lot of folks use something as simple as a custom property on the node (or interface or volume) along the lines of n_Mute. It is a simply binary value (yes/no). The key is updating your alert logic to check for n_Mute = No or, if you want to be extra careful, do an n_Mute <> Yes (this captures all non-yes values…

Found that the registry key in the linked article above was set to 1 -- changed to 0 and will need to schedule a reboot of the server to test. Getting closer!

Good call! Mandatory custom properties should be added to my list of "things I want to see in Solarwinds products"

I agree with sean.boylan@synchronoss.com that it would be nice to have all of that information in a single console. That said, *if* you have designed your monitoring environment correctly you should have a very minimal attack footprint for any exploits that arise. Just sayin'.

Yeah, I've been digging into that in the past hour or so. Definitely looks like the OIDs aren't being returned. Now the question is -- how do I extract the data from that tool into a report?

No -- that's the strange part. It's not that data collection has failed but that the statistics aren't being populated. If I do a List Resources on the box it shows CPU & Memory as an option but it isn't populating stats in the CPULoad view. Very strange. My guess is some sort of malformed OID or OID value. Failed…

Thanks for the suggestion. We do leverage scheduled discoveries but we don't do it for adding new devices -- we leverage the SDK and some automated processes to add nodes. We do our scheduled scans to try and capture elements (volumes and interfaces) that we missed adding, especially after nodes have been around for a…

The question has to be asked then (before adatole​ does) -- has the calculation for Linux memory utilization changed at all? With the capacity to get more "correct" memory stats via free, top, /proc/meminfo, etc. it would seem that the time was ripe to change the default memory widget. I ask only because I am starting to…

Yikes! An hourly SNMP services restart will mimic a server reboot in the node details section. Check the Last Boot line of the node you are running this service restart on and let me know if my assumptions are correct.

Although we have not proven it conclusively, we believe that it is a firmware issue with the IBM X Series servers. We are working with a client to verify with the X3550's. We have a working server running BIOS GFE143AUS-1.13. GFE141AUS-1.12 and GFE136AUS-1.09 do not appear to work. If I were you, I'd start by checking the…

Thanks for the awesome tip. This single tips moves forward one of those nagging "need to do" items and should save our operations team a tonne of work. Huge help -- thanks! Josh

I took a look at the website during our initial research and, aside from the poor grammar and spelling mistakes, I didn't see a lot that caught my eye. Can you provide some experience with using ServiceNow's CMDB as an authoritative source for Solarwinds? Can you do single module integration (ie NPM) or does eyeShare allow…

Nice -- I had no idea it was that simple. That said -- it makes me wonder how many times we are going to have to do this.

Thanks for the cross-post. I don't think I would have thought to query for 'data resolution' -- glad to see the two posts are now linked together.

Was this ever addressed, or was it acknowleged by SolarWinds? I'm having the same problem on a Linux box using the latest/greatest NPM (v10.0) I'd like to build a custom poller and/or configure a SNMP trap for an actual reboot, but I'd still get erroneous messages into the events screen. Any suggestions would be helpful -…

Apparently great minds think alike!

I definitely concur with keeping the Orion-integrated components on the same server. NPM, SAM, NTA, NCM all cohabitate well. While the Netflow Storage Server can be virtualized keep an eye on the disk and CPU requirements. If you start moving a lot of Netflow data slow storage or constrained CPU will cause problems. As for…

I feel like I can get away with it in this case because I am comparing a value that was computed and written to a custom property against the same computed value (or expected computed value). If they aren't exactly the same then I would want to know about it and make sure it was investigated. Plus, my need to have things…

We're definitely starting to leverage PowerShell wherever possible. The deprecation of SNMP support in Server 2012 (in the same article by aLTeReGo on SAM as linked to above) was a compelling argument to start the transition. PowerShell's Invoke-Command cmdlet that allows you to multi-thread commands on the a series of…

Thanks for the query. I haven't yet opened a case but it is definitely on my list of things to do. I don't like to delete from the DB directly whenever possible as you never know what things should be deleted to coincide with my updates. Better to use the API and make sure all the things happen in the proper order.

Just waiting on the DBAs to configure this for me. (I should really learn how to do this myself!) Either way, I'll let you know what I find (and post both the stored procedure and SQL query for FYI) Thanks for the heads up.

The latest release notes are misleading. http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/srm/docs/releasenotes/releasenotes.htm‌ They state that the SRM module should not be installed on the existing infrastructure. Which one is correct? (I pretty sure I know the answer but I just want to confirm!)

Thanks Lubo. I'll check with the client and see. As for manual mapping, see my thoughts on that process - . I'll definitely go through the effort if I have to but automated is so much better, right

There are a tonne of feature goodies tucked away in Orion 2015 depending on the modules installed. One of our unexpected wins was duplex mismatch detection. Imagine my surprise when I was scrolling through the active alerts and saw that a recently installed site had a duplex mismatch on the firewall LAN and switch uplink…

An interesting tidbit on our side. We found that there were both node config (ie snmpd.conf did have the new polling engine listed as an authorized SNMP server) and firewall issues (wrong protocols permitted for certain ports like 161 and 22) that seemed to help resolve this issue once remediated. The former more than the…