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Is there a best practice for ESX hosts? Do we need to poll them via both SNMP and the VMware API? The issue we've found is that we poll less infrequently in VMAN due to the size of our environment (15 minute intervals) and at 5 minute intervals in NPM. Is it safe to assume that displayed in the NPM widgets is from SNMP and…

Manual audit it is. Carp.

Ahh, that's the ticket! Thanks for the link to the post from Richard Letts as well. That was exactly the detail I was looking for.

I do. My fingers are trained to always install it that way

Apparently there are some shiny new templates coming out in SAM 6.2 --- but nothing but trial and error currently. 

I've never tried this and it is on the periphery of my skills, but if you stored the auth token as a custom property you should be able to use the POST method and simple add the variable for the custom property into the URL. That feels like a bit of a hack way to do it though. You might be better off doing it via…

Interesting -- we're planning on doing the same thing with our AWEs so I'll be interested to see how things work out for you.

Those are some awesome links. I think I'm just going to cheat and do some manual scaling through Lambda scripts. It'll be the poor man's version of auto-scaling except that I will be shutting down and starting a fixed set of instances in our SolarWinds web cluster. If I get some more play time I might see what I can hack…

HF6 implements those memory leak fixes. Definitely worth getting is applied, even if you applied the buddy drop for HF5.

<reaches for kool-aid> I thought everyone knew that SAM was a given?

I agree with HolyGuacamole that NTA should be part of the mix although the inclusion of DPI monitors in NPM v11 does mean that you have to define exactly what the customer wants to see from application bandwidth. In order of detail it is NPM > NTA > NPM DPI. There are some special design considerations when sizing your…

I think this calls for an incident to opened with Solarwinds support unless Leon Adato or aLTeReGo want to weigh in. The biggest concern I'd have with implementing a possible bug as a production feature is 1) becoming like Microsoft and 2) that it might get fixed in a future release and break any alert. Thanks for the…

Thanks for the feedback, fortunately we have gone through the effort to request the configured profiles for all of the circuits that we monitor. We've added those values to Orion NPM as part of the custom bandwidth settings. Right now, the only time that we can tell if there is a constrained bandwidth scenario is if we get…

Well at least I know not to bang my head against it anymore With SRM, is there a way to view (report or, preferably, widget) the datastore usage and statistics? I've mapped the LUNs to the volumes. Is there a way to show the volume > datastore > LUN?

Hey chrispaap is connecting to the VMAN DB via SWQL supported? I have a team that wants to extract some of the lineage data from VMAN (vCenter > Cluster > Host > Last known host, Host > Datastores, etc.). Wondering if this would be better extracted from the NPM DB when we set up integration. Thoughts?

Hey lukas.cerny when I follow those instructions with VMAN 6.1 I get an error (after the certificate error) about being unable to connect due to basic authentication. Have you been able to do this with VMAN 6.1? I'm using SWQL Studio version 1.9.137.0.

Any idea on the hard numbers for latency between those sites? Are we talking less than 250 ms? 350ms? 500ms?

There are 2 ways to build reports in NPM 11 (and other Orion 2014.2.x supported modules). The old 32-bit Report Writer and the new web-based report writer (/Orion/Reports/Default.aspx). If you make a new report and use a custom SQL query you should get results. If you use with the CASE or WITH TEMP_TAB based queries they…

Interesting. I see the report in VMAN but I don't see the report in the Orion console. I wonder if it is related to the issues we are having in case 800652?

OK. Got this to work and it wasn't a firewall issue. Here's what I did: * Deploying the agent to via the web interface did not work -- or at least it did work but I wasn't able to see any traffic on the SPAN interface and the agent couldn't be edited via the web interface after install.* Removed the sensor from sensor from…

I don't -- in fact, I can't even edit the agent. I did some testing this weekend and suspect some firewall issues. I'm asking the firewall team to look into it for us and will report back.

Bait taken - success! Unfortunately, the DB in question is our Orion DB and the first 3 suggestions (correct me if I'm wrong) are outside of our control. Even 4 and 5 are mostly out of our control except where custom reports, custom SQL alerting (which we do have a good amount of in our environment) and data pulls from…

Correct! We use the 15 minute load average in our environment as that is what our Linux team wants to see whereas the Windows team was OK with the last processor queue length value. I should also mention that we collect stats every 5 minutes and both alerts have a trigger delay built into them. The delay was defined by the…

Looks like this is limited to only CPU & Memory and Mult-CPU pollers currently and there are some limitations on how the data is presented. I expect NPM 12 will have all sorts of magical goodness for pollers, amongst other things.

Holy smokes, how did I not know this already? To quote Leon, "Awesomesauce!"

Oh man! That's it. I was intimidated by the XML and didn't even see the names of the application monitors when I pasted it into Notepad++ Sweet!

First -- wicked query! I'm going to use that all the time now. Unfortunately, I don't think that the APM tables are what I'm looking for in this case. Granted, the APM tables *do* have a place to store the dynamic warning and critical thresholds, but that is for applications. There is a Thresholds table, but it doesn't…

The biggest issue we ran into with launching SSH, RDP, Telnet, etc. from our monitoring environment was our network security. When designed correctly administrative access (console or otherwise) should be limited to a specific VLAN. Before the Engineer's Toolkit integration mentioned by martinstenner and aaswi you had to…

This is awesome! Alas, our VMware architects found what they were looking for elsewhere.

It was only in certain scenarios, although I do find that more and more folks are asking for detailed data analytics and statistical information to help them understand that data that Solarwinds products are giving them. Standard deviation might be an interesting metric to stick into the development roadmap of a whole…