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Oh, wow -- devil's in the details, isn't it? Sorry about that. We have ours set up like below. I should also point out that this brilliance is care of Leon Adato and it not of my own making. ItmPoolMemberStatus - 1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.2.5.3.2.1.11 ItmPoolMbrStatusAvailState - 1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.2.5.6.2.1.5…

Our SN integration is pretty basic. The biggest challenges we've had are with source data (garbage in/garbage out becomes a huge problem in automation) and automated additions of things like volumes, interfaces, etc. At this point we've separated things into 2 distinct actions. We have a daily script that scrapes the…

Is there a product that you use that does this better? In my years as a monitoring engineer I haven't come across a product that does this well. We use a weekly discovery of all known nodes and then parse out the discovery tables with some simple SQL queries. When then import those discoveries. This process predates the…

Thought I just noticed when checking our message center that the query for the action after is Status is not producing the status. Hmmm.... ${SQL:select CustomPollerStatusTable.Value from CustomPollerStatusTable join CustomPollerAssignment on CustomPollerStatusTable.CustomPollerAssignmentID =…

This is what our F5 alert looks like the following where we are checking on specific pool members: INNER JOIN (select CustomPollerStatusTable.RowID, CustomPollerStatusTable.NodeID, CustomPollerStatusTable.Value from CustomPollerStatusTable INNER JOIN CustomPollers ON (CustomPollerStatusTable.PollerID =…

Whoa, I hadn't even thought about the impacts of SNMP vs WMI polling. Perfect timing though as we are just having an internal discussion around SNMP vs WMI for Windows servers. I think you just added one more tick in the 'WMI as standard' column.

I'm in! Business service management is definitely where we are trending but even a simple use case such as application-level HA monitoring would be in scope. Let me know where and when and I'll make myself available.

If ayegel were running the latest versions of NPM and SAM (and by latest version I mean the RCs) then the new simulate option when building an alert action does a beautiful job of triggering an alert with data that is pretty darned close to an actual alert. (Disclaimer: I have not tested it on this particular alert. All…

IOPS are always an issue in high performance DBs, whether physical or virtualized. You most definitely need to run your DB on multiple spindles (disks) and always, always, run the DB on a RAID 10 disk. Solarwinds published a document and, though it was published 2 years ago, the Best Practices for Managing the Orion…

I 100% agree with you. Larger environments do provide the insight into scaling and we *really* should document a "best practices" whitepaper. (I've been waiting for one of those for years!) Perhaps I should have been more clear about my intent. The separate forum would still be an open forum (as every forum is already) but…

I'll test that as well. Good tip! It is targeting a Windows node but it is passing in ${IP} as one of the arguments so this might be the issue. I'll do the good engineer thing and test one change at a time

I bet the alert is triggering just fine -- and so is the query for the list of processes but its just about the 'when' it executes. Imagine this scenario -- Server is CPU railed with 50 processes in the CPU queue. For arguments sake, lets say that a net of 1 process per second is taken out of the queue. When that query for…

When I worked with support they had me verify that I could get to api.solarwinds.com on port 80 and 443. Just make sure you can get there first.

After a bunch of testing and Wireshark captures that is exactly the conclusion we came to as well. We built a new SAM template with a performance counter monitor and applied it to the nodes in the site in question. When we watched the traffic in Wireshark we saw both SMB and SMB2 packets (filter for (SMB or SMB2) in…

At least you know there is someone who reads the release notes

We don't. All of our integrations are home-grown and/or built on the event management of Netcool Omnibus and Impact.

Leon Adato is right, we do have it working but primary polling engine and DB load have a huge impact on the viability of the results. The node also needs to be able to respond. If it is *too* overloaded you won't get anything back. We are doing a DB upgrade this weekend (SSD-based RAID10 -- woohoo!) and I'll let you know…

You know, I was just thinking about that the other day. I think that ciulei​ and I need to put our heads together and convert this (and the other versions) to SWQL. I'll add it to the to-do list -- but anyone else could jump in to. I won't be offended one bit

I see your problem. In the Win_Processor_Queue_Len template that you built you need to rename the component from 'Performance Counter Monitor' to 'Win_Processor_Queue_Len'. The SQL query is referencing the component name. In SAM, application templates (and when applied to a node, application monitors) are comprised of…

Awesome. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. We are still in the initial scope definition stages. Knowing that the information will be available natively in the Orion DB is huge. We'll definitely defer until the next release. Very excited to see the increased integration, especially if I can layer SRM into the mix.

Thanks for the awesome feedback! Yes, we're fast approaching the idea of "what else can we throw at the DB server?" We are running a beast of a box with a RAID10 SSD array for the data volume, a RAID1 array for logs (also SSD), 768GB RAM, and dual-20 core CPUs (Intel Xeon CPU E5-2660 v2 @ 2.20GHz). If there is more…

We actually just under 100K elements. We do have a plan to exceed 100K and it is built on the back of a rather robust SQL server platform and SSD-based RAID 10 array. Aside from that, everything else is pretty stock -- aside from the 17 polling engines

That was it -- that was the ticket! TFTP downloads work flawlessly -- almost better than the CLI version of the D-Link switches. 

One more reason to get the virtualization team moving to 5.5. Thanks for the confirmation Chris. If you could post the xpath query into your answer above that would close the loop on this question.

We actually do that today with our ServiceNow implementation. ciulei​ did some fun things with the ServiceNow database and some SSIS packages. We've managed to link any node in SolarWinds that has a CI entry in the DB to the sys_id in ServiceNow. We also came up with an ingenious way (if I do say so myself!) of linking our…

Did you try the firmware upgrades as discussed above? I believe that they will work though jchatmon has yet to confirm.

We're just starting down this road of SW to SN integration. Would you be willing to share your code (cleansed of any confidential data of course!) with us? We'd like to leverage the SOAP puts and have been told it is "easy", though that seems like a very relative term. Thanks -- any tidbits would help, Josh

I heard a rumour that DanielleH‌ & mrs.alterego‌ have been discussing a special forum just for those of us with enterprise-scale implementations. Why? Not to be exclusive or elitist but simply because we have problems that are unique to enterprise customers. What happens on a single poller or dual-poller environment…

I'm just really adept at breaking stuff Sometimes I fix it...sometimes I don't. Support is a big help, especially when you get up to the senior and dev levels.

Opened incident 857613 for this issue.