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More like an HA setup where there are two physical devices but only "one" virtual device. We want both of them on the map so we can lay out the physical topology. It's easy enough in Atlas, but i feel like these web gui maps really strip out a lot of functionality for simplicity.

Yeah that could work but way too many hoops for my liking. Thanks for the input!

This would be awesome!

I may just have to go down that route, we have ARM which has the information, but I can't seem to use that data in the way i want to.

I also had a frustrating experience getting my exam scheduled and day off I felt clueless as to how I would take the exam. Had to dig up an email that had a customer support number and they got me through. Since I do solarwinds all day every day the exam wasn't too difficult. Some got-cha type questions and some that felt…

Thanks!

I see Increased Scalability for Additional Performance Engines, but is the recommended limit of Agents still only 500? 

Like so many others said, the politics of the business. 

Link for today's question is broken, but here's a good link. documentation.solarwinds.com/.../scm-correlate-configuration-changes-to-performance-metrics.htm

Can't this cloud that the file get sent to be local to your network under your management? I don't know much about this product, but it is pretty vague about what it does with the file after it "sends it to a remote cloud". But if it's my cloud, then i'm not worried. I would HOPE the local device can figure out the hash…

You can get today's question wrong?! that never happens on a friday and I can't access the URL from work. Boo! 

Gotta be Scooby-Doo. No pet is braver. He may be in a constant state of fear, but he still acts. 

Me three. 

We all cried when Shadow came over that hill saying "Peter, oh I worried about you". 

1. Explain DNS to a VP, it's phone numbers for websites. 2. Without coffee, it'd probably do me some good anyways. 3. End-user password resets on a friday, flaky switch on a monday. 

I'd recommend going to 2025.2, there are some CVEs in 2025.1.1 that get patched in 2025.2 and there are some cool new features in 2025.2. 

You would add WHERE N.PercentMemoryUsed>90 AND n.CustomProperties.CoreProductionSystem = 'True' if the CoreProductionSystem is a yes/no flag. or if it is a string, replace 'True' with the exact verbage. 

I'm trying to understand exactly what is being asked. So you want ServiceNow to reopen a ticket if an alert comes in for the same issue more than once in a 24 hour period, but if it's more than 24 hours then that ticket should be "resolved" and a new ticket should be opened as it's considered a new issue? Do you have an…

I've seen this before with virtualized window servers. Deleting the volume from the Manage Nodes page and re-adding it through the List Resources worked for me in most cases. 

SolarWinds Observability | Add Meraki orchestrators and edge devices

You'll use Dependencies for this. Create a group with all the "child" nodes (nodes you don't want to alert if the parent goes down), and then create a dependency with the Parent set as the router or whichever WAN connecting device you have, and the Child object as the Group you created. Dependencies work by having the…

I think that with a Policy rule you would need to include ALL the interface configurations, so... Interface0/1 description Access Port 802.1x rule1 802.1x rule 2 Interface0/2 description Access Port 802.1x rule1 802.1x rule 2 ... etc. If the policy rule was just for the 802.1x configurations, once it saw it on any…

It could be that the devices went down and came back up within the same polling cycle. How long was the outage? Orion also tries to create dependencies (an important concept in Orion if you're not familiar with it), and if you have Auto-Dependencies enabled, it could be that the devices became Unreachable instead of Down.

Typically you don't need read/write, but if the device already has that configured, then you may have to use that. If you have both read-only and read/write SNMPv3 credentials configured on the device, the SolarWinds Platform may need read/write credentials. For example, read/write privileges may be required by Engineer's…

I would recommend you check out these two docs and have a good understanding of them, and then you'll have an idea of how this is possible and how to make it look good. Navigation Properties - SolarWinds Platform API - The SolarWinds Platform - THWACK Enhancing Custom Query Widgets - SolarWinds Platform API - The…

I wonder if Compliance Report in NCM may help. Have it look for interfaces and suggest or automatically implement a new description based on what you need. May not be flexible enough, but if you have a standard like "all gi0/1 interfaces need to have Description "Monitor" on it", then compliance reports may be helpful for…

Ah dang, I didn't realize this was for the SaaS, I just saw it pop up in the general forums.

Usually if there's a dropdown to select, like Operating System or Vendor, then in the blank field where you would type, it will give you a list of everything it knows for that dropdown type (Like Vendor in the dropdown and then it will give you an autofill list of all the known items in the Vendor column in the DB,…

You may have some luck with this. I don't have access to a SolarWinds instance at the moment, but this should get you most of the way or at least be enough for you to tinker with. SELECT [Nodes].DisplayName , [Nodes].PercentMemoryUsed FROM Orion.Nodes AS [Nodes] # -- a Status of 1 indicates 'Up' (See Orion.StatusInfo for a…

Do you have other devices like this already in your Orion environment? Typically when I've seen SNMPv3 imports fail it is because it is not configured properly on the device itself. If you have another device you can compare it to, that may help, otherwise be sure your network admins are properly configuring SNMPv3 and…