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Good to know, but unfortunately not applicable to this one. To clarify, the AppInsight for IIS monitor was successfully applied to this server before, and worked for a while before suddenly stopping. Thanks for the post though!

Unfortunately I'm still stuck there. I found another thread that said this could be the result of a known UCS API issue, and to try changing the management IP of each FI to something else and back again to correct it. Those actions were completed, but the issue remains. I haven't been able to spend a lot of time on it…

Well the good news for us is that we're primarily using B series blades. I had to take some time off from working on this, but I'll probably start cracking at it again soon. Still looking for any advice from folks who have found their way through the muck. 

Yeah, still not working for us. Our blade names are not actually click-able in the interface. The blades themselves have already been added as single nodes in Solarwinds, but whatever mechanism is supposed to link the nodes to that interface doesn't appear to work.

Good point, Dave. We have a wide range of monitored systems, and there is a chance that such volumes exist elsewhere. (Also on the subject, we're still interested in monitoring memory statistics, but we don't want them treated as volumes.) I checked the table that janene referenced, and perhaps the query would be even…

Was this ever addressed? I just added our first External Nodes, and the custom properties still don't display.

Thanks! That seems to have an odd grouping setting, but it definitely gives me something to work with!

That appears to be a script to unmanage an entire node. I'm trying to unmanage individual databases. I think I'm a little closer, but I hit another wall. I was able to enumerate the databases and list their URI's with this: Get-SwisData $swis "SELECT URI,DisplayName FROM Orion.APM.SqlDatabase WHERE ApplicationID = '999'"…

FWIW, I tried deleting and readding my UCS Manager IP as an ICMP node, polling for UCS. Same thing I got before. It shows the UCS FIs (as switches), with status and they're clickable, and it shows the chassis, also clickable, but none of the individual blades are clickable.

Yeah, I was giving it a shot. Unfortunately, it went nowhere. As far as I can tell, Solarwinds never really flushed-out the API calls required to pull this information. We ended up just polling individual blades as nodes, and we setup a trap-based alert to act on faults generated by either the FI's or the blades,…

Yeah that's what we had to do to stop the security issue in the short-term. I have a case open right now and I'll let everyone know how it turns out.

That's a possibility for cases like this, silverbacksays​, although it's not what happened here (verified by the group creation timestamp). But such an action would likely present this same way, for the exact reasons you specified.

Thanks! That was kinda the way I was leaning. I've lumped a few application monitors together when it makes sense, but completely different functions seem like they should be kept in separate templates. Edit: I'll leave the question open a little longer in case anyone else wants to weigh-in.

Confirmation from Solarwinds Support: To recap in our call, the first portion of the configuration wizard can use either SQL SA or Windows Authentication to connect to the SQL database and create database and user. However, currently the user must be a SQL database user and a feature to use Windows AD is in the works.

I tried changing the action to "Save to disk", but I got the same output (PDF with just the login page). Maybe we're using different versions, but I don't see a "Properties to Execute" option in the Actions tab of the Report Schedule editor. It just lists "Actions to Execute," but there's no option listed for "Report…

That article references earlier versions of Orion, but I did try using my admin creds in the only available credential fields in the scheduled report. No change.

No luck here. Didn't have time to keep cracking at it, but very anxious to see how your case turns out!

Hey Rick, I like your thinking, but I don't think it's an issue with the UnDP waiting to poll. As I understand it, leaving the polling interval blank should default the UnDP to the default polling interval in NPM. Additionally, the UnDP did report the updated status when the disk was reinserted and the RAID was rebuilding.…

I've got a case open for it (#964813). It's been taking a while to get a response, and the initial response I got doesn't seem like it should solve it. I asked them to confirm they had tested this proposed solution, but I have yet to hear back. From support: Development says that they can reproduce this issue. They believe…

You have to configure the CIMC to send traps to Solarwinds, and I'm sure you could use the trap utility if you just wanted some basic reactions. For us, we wanted a Solarwinds alert to be opened when this occurred, so that we could leverage all of the response/notification/tracking that generated alerts give you.

The SQL query goes in the trigger condition of an alert. Example:

This might help. Looks like information about the groups is storage in SQL under the Containers table.

Yeah, the top level is pretty generic, so no blackout required. Let me know if you need more info.

We're not actually grouping by any node property. We're just using the "Manage Groups" functionality to manually organize nodes into groups.

I opened a support case for this. One of the interesting things that came up is that AppInsight for IIS doesn't even appear as an option when listing the resources for the affected node. The support rep couldn't tell me what Solarwinds looks for when populating that option, but you'd think it would just be the IIS server…

That's useful info, but I don't think it quite solves this specific problem. I assume the database doesn't automatically come out of the unmanaged state when it becomes the active, primary copy. This presents a problem when maintenance is performed on the nodes and all the primary copies get juggled around. Bottom line,…

Yeah I ended up doing the same thing, just to get something in there. I'm not thrilled with it though, as I expect this will cause problems when UCSM ownership moves between FIs. Some good news: Solarwinds did get the names of the UCS blades. The bad news is that I can't seem to get the status of the blades. I thought I…

Hey jjaffe​, I found a possible answer to this. It's a little old though. According the following post, there's a bug with the UCS FI that may cause it to stop responding to certain API requests. The poster says that changing the mgmt interface of the FI to something else and back again should fix it. I'm hoping to give…

Thanks, Janene. That definitely changes how the capacity forecast is displayed. I should be have been more clear. I'm really interested in changing the sample period in order to make forecast alerting more accurate. Is there a way to do that?

FYI, this was CRAZY helpful! Tracking down where a specific application credential was linked was driving my nuts!