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So my NOC style Dashboards don't have keyboards or mice. That goes a long way. I set my browser to Kiosk mode too. IE has a Kiosk mode also, but I am a chrome guy. Start chrome in Kiosk mode with: chrome.exe –kiosk http:// [enter URL here] When combined with the NOC style page, you get a full screen dashboard that flips…

Think of this as the Orion-ification of Kiwi (which does not go away). Not a SIEM like LEM, but good for correlating the syslog for operational tasks into your other Orion monitoring. If you signed up they will send you links to a recording and other materials.

bluefunelemental has the best advice, go here: GitHub - solarwinds/OrionSDK: SDK for the SolarWinds Orion platform, including tools, documentation, and samples in Powe…

To have Orion build the relationships using the ports and destinations used by processes, yes. 

Excellent dash!

For things that aren't ready for us out of the box, most of the AIX monitors use the Linux/Unix Script component. We use all sorts of different script to get it done, bash, pearl, whatever is needed, and use the SSH credentials assigned by the template. We also use sudo (actaully dzdo from centrify), but don't have any…

If you migrated to Log Analyzer, you should see it there, but I don't think that was forced. Http<s>://server/ui/orionlog/logviewer/now/1hours/0/syslog

I don't want to sound like I don't want to assist, but this type of thing is best fixed by support.

What "thing" triggers the alert (see screenshot for here I want you to look)? I can likely map it out there once I get that.

In the screenshot below I set mine to warning not critical since I wanted to validate that the correct hosts would show. But if you grab the status from the virtual host table it will give you what you want.

I havent', but if you don't find anyone who has done it, don't be afraid to try it yourself, and if you run into stumbling blocks, feel free to ask and @ me.

So there isn't anything built in to translate that for you. The good news is most things are pretty easy. Do you have anything that will tell you what you have configured in Arcsite? Feel free to @ me or direct message me. I did about a 500 servers last winter and have some insights. A lot will depend on what existing…

Excellent! 

So I wasn't quite sure, but I think 'IsTest ' and 'IsWorkstation' are custom properties on your install, but if not, shout at me. SELECT N.Caption as DisplayName, N.StatusDescription as [Status] FROM Orion.Nodes N WHERE (N.Status = 2) AND (n.CustomProperties.IsTest = 'False') AND (n.CustomProperties.IsWorkstation =…

Check with sales, or set up a 30 day trial to see it in action, but here is what I think. I think the Node, disk, and interface are each an element in your situation for the NPM license. So if you had 332 devices, with 1 disk and 0 interfaces you wanted stats from, that would be 664 elements. You might be able to get the…

You can set which engine will poll for each subnet scan. I believe that one will always be used. 

My understanding is that NTA always gets installed with NPM (but I could be wrong). You can use additional polling engines to take flow data though. 

What you see is based on what you have installed and what api you connect to, the screen shot below is the dialog's to my sign in to SWQL studio. v2 and v3 will have some differences between them even on the same install, but mostly its all the same. Typically the SDK installs are very quick an painless, so don't be afraid…

I wholeheartedly agree! Captions shouldn't be FQDN's. I may update the clean up script I have been using to leverage what some of what you did, and personally, I like to have a report of what needs cleaned up, with a copy of the clean up script next to it. I do this for lots of stuff, interfaces, disk clean up, etc. It…

OK, bear with me, I think I get what you want, but I am also new to VNMQ, I have call managers in but no gateways yet. I have had Orion for years. If I were building a report, I would start with filtering like this for MOS. Then I would grab the columns I care about after you add the custom table. And you will likely want…

I think I need more coffee, I was trying to say that for people who upload it, they will need to alter the report or add the properties

I Love the report, you made need to update it for custom properties that you use, or add the missing ones (and use them)

I use the Custom HTML widget. You can use standard html formatting and basic CSS.

Whether its 2 alerts or 2 actions, either/both with time restrictions, I can see the concern. Remember that notes in the alert or the ticket go back and forth, and you can clear the alert and the ticket will close. Basically Orion keeps the link going for the duration, polling every few minutes so it snot like sending an…

I think there is a feature request for if/then for actions in an alert to do what you are talking about. However, if you can be clever you might not need that. If you can build the statements in the email from variables then you avoid needing the logic. Personally I descibe the alert at the bottom of the email ( can be…

The official replacement is a "webview" https://developer.chrome.com/apps/app_external But I haven't tried it. If I get time today I will poke at it. Definitely not as simple.

Do you have Ram monitored as a Disk? Did you set the disk/volume alerts to on trigger on fixed disk?

Is Orion going to be on the other side of the firewall from what it monitors? For instance DNS, Orion will resolve server names to IPs. Is the DNS server on the otherside of the firewall? If you just want to monitor servers beyond the firewall, then all you need is SNMP 161 to poll it (v3 ideally), 162 if you want the…

I had a shared SQL box with loads of little DBs for lots of app, on three instances for that server and the same thing happened. I choose not to use AppInsight for SQL with it. I got some stats out of other SAM templates for SQL and some from DPA. I wish I had a better suggestion, but I don't.

Maybe a SQL guru will chime in, but I personally would call support if possible. That said, I would start be ensuring I had one back up I could use going forward in case I make things worse not better. Then I would make sure that SQL can mount my DB if not, I actually don't know if I would try to rescue it. I might give up…