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Yes. First get the SDK (with examples and documentation) Powershell: GitHub - solarwinds/OrionSDK: SDK for the SolarWinds Orion platform, including tools, documentation, and samples in PowerShell, C#, Go, Perl, and Java. Python: GitHub - solarwinds/orionsdk-python: Python client for interacting with the SolarWinds Orion…

Have you tried to increase the timeout interval? NCM Test Failed. Timeout warning when testing credentials (solarwinds.com) 

Are these pulling data from SAM certificate monitors? If you have more details I might have answers. Right now I do a few types of reports, one is data from something like this: How to Monitor an SSL Certificate and Create an Alert in SAM When There Are X Days Before Expiration (solarwinds.com) That I have a '90 days left'…

It always depends on your database server, your other Orion products and their retention, and how many calls you get. I find that I can't push it past 90 days or the reporting is very painful. But, I say try it, and if you need to you can trim it back. Also consider storing reports for archiving, I don't know what you need…

In that example the Round(n, p) function is really useful to format output it consistently. Many of my reports set 'p' to 0 so there only integers displayed. 

How do you have it configured? Did you ask it to ignore errors? 

I agree, there are example of using the API here on Thwack, and take a look at the links below for some resources with samples. Powershell SDK: GitHub - solarwinds/OrionSDK: SDK for the SolarWinds Orion platform, including tools, documentation, and samples in PowerShell, C#, Go, Perl, and Java. Python SDK GitHub -…

Lots of good posts on this on Thwack, most here: (+) Orion SDK - The Orion Platform - THWACK (solarwinds.com) If you don't have the SDK: https://github.com/solarwinds/OrionSDK install it to get the PowerShell module and SWQL studio. Maybe a video will help: (+) (Episode #86) Orion SDK 101: Intro to PowerShell and the Orion…

I think you should be able to upgrade Upgrade older versions of Orion Platform products (solarwinds.com) 

SAM itself can't but I'd bet you can do a SAML login via PowerShell, so the check can be done via the script. 

So you definitely do want to move beyond simple up down once you have that taken care of. I will say that for every app its going to look a little different, but the big check is the response time of the pages that you are checking, and maybe try to hit an API to pull data. Some of my systems we retrieve a batch of…

@"jerrysInge" is on the right track. It should be safe for you to put this on online by re-enabling the NICs and starting services. Then run windows updates, and then all the Orion ones with the update page. There is an offline installer you can download if you want to update Orion first. I would consider Orion updates as…

I would use the powershell script monitor personally. 

You can run and monitor things solely in the cloud with SolarWinds tools like Orion. What specifically do you want them to support? 

Yes, this alert covers that in my environment. If you want to scope it down to machine types or discovery types, that would just require another condition.

You might need to update your SDK, the code below will give you a version. (Get-Module -Name SwisPowerShell).version If its not updated, do that: Releases · solarwinds/OrionSDK · GitHub I recently found that connection issues got better after getting on the newest version after Orion updates. 

Does this help? https://thwack.solarwinds.com/content-exchange/the-orion-platform/m/alerts/2877 If not what else are you looking for?

I first saw this and thought, well that has to be built in... Nope. This would be a great feature request, filtering this widget makes sense @"gadbekr" Lucky we can use a Custom Query Widget to bridge the gap. The SWQL query I came up with is: SELECT [AI].CreatedOn as [Opened Date], [AI].IncidentNumber as [Incident],…

Take a look at: https://oriondemo.solarwinds.com/ It will make more sense. But IPs aren't logical or physical, I think you mean network interfaces, and it does handle both hardware and software based types. Dig into the devices that are like what you have and take a look. 

What products do you have? Assuming you have VMan (look for it in the line at the bottom of the page of your Orion site) you can build a report of VM's and the Hosts they are currently on, then send or save it daily. I uploaded a very simple one at: (+) VMware Inventory Report - Reports - The Orion Platform - THWACK…

So this sounds like something you should open a ticket with Support for: Customer Portal Login | SolarWinds Thwack is a community forum, and we can help with a lot, but this sounds broken. Definitely don't wait for other users to figure this out, get SolarWinds support on it. Now if I saw this on my system, the first thing…

not to my knowledge, I think its create and then the status follows. You could get fancy and send REST API calls to Service now to update information since you have the incident number, but I haven't tried it

It can take a while for the content to get everywhere it needs to be, it might show up soon. However, you can start it with the offline installer, and if you have other polling engines or web consoles, check the upgrade page after the primary finishes. In my experience that works well. 

My best guess is the number of completed polls is divided by the number of polls that should have been completed. 

Without anything collecting information on the remote nodes, nodes won't change status. And from the point of view of the polling engine for the nodes, are they actually down if you lose a link? They may not be. You did mention HA, do you have a polling engine at a different site that should be taking the work with the…

All of the script components in SAM read the output to the host. You can have 10 items per component, each with a statistic and a message. Here's an example I stole out of a PowerShell script component for a SaaS application. Write-host "Message.Ping: Ping to $server" Write-host "Statistic.Ping: $Ping" Write-Host…

Orion and most of its competitors are fairly agnostic when it comes to what you monitor. If the devices puts the information you care about into a standard format for monitoring, like SNMP or WMI then assuming your tools have the credentials/authorization to pull the information you can get it. Now if you want to monitor…

I can say that it works on 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019 without editing the template. If bypassing the variable for IP works, then I say don't fight it, just use it manually set. 

No new database for NCM. 

No you can't ping or tracert, Netpath is TCP based (checking traffic to a IP and port), but it does capture lost packets for that traffic. Also most people make a Netpath map once every 10 minutes, it can be lower, but its a lot of work sometimes. Its also really good at solving what happens to traffic outside your…