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I have a script today run via scheduled task that pulls guest VMs from VMan's integration and checks to see if their IPs are managed in NPM. If not, it gets added to a scheduled discovery with import defined. If I can do that much via scripting their API, this can't be a hard request to implement, and it would be a nice…

I am new to NPM, and a near future is task is setting up Alerts in an organized way. This guide gives me a great insight into what I can do to make that implementation smoother.

If the functions make it into the API, SCORCH should have no issues calling them. It can use the SOAP and Rest calls directly

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The group member Availability chart is very popular already here.

Congrats to all!

Today I like netpath best as most of these are basic web applications. I have a few stragglers that run more traditional applications, there I do whatever I can. Are the ports open? Do they reply correctly (I can check a few for specific text replies), can I access any API that should be there? There is no single answer,…

I don't currently have any Syslog sent into Orion so I may have made a mistake and can't test, but maybe the SWQL Alert can help? Choose SQWL alert and node, and use the where statement below and see if that helps. Where Nodes.Syslogs.Message like '%flap%' and Nodes.Syslogs.Message not like '%Gi3/0/23 and port Gi3/0/27%'…

All the info is at: Administrator Guide Specficially for DHCP: Add or edit Windows credentials And DNS is pulled via WMI so its admin rights or you can delegate it: DNS server WMI permissions

If the Cluster templates and AppInsight for SQL isn't enough you cna do more. I use the PowerShell commands for this occasionally, you can also use SQL queries. Here a a few links I had bookmarked for PowerShell examples. Monitoring AlwaysOn Health with PowerShell – Part 1: Basic Cmdlet Overview – SQL Server AlwaysOn Team…

So this is from a custom query widget I added to my network page. You can likely do the SWIS query to the SDK based on the object you want to see. If you have trouble shout at me. SELECT I.InterfaceName AS [Local Interface], CDP.IPAddress AS [IP Address], DeviceId AS Device, DevicePort AS [Remote Interface], (SELECT…

Absolutely the template is called "Distributed File System (DFS)" and its on page 217 of the SAM Template Guide linked to below https://support.solarwinds.com/@api/deki/files/25891/SAM-Template-Guide-6-3-RCDraft.pdf Edit: Here's a screenshot of at least most of what it does.

Do you trust your back ups? Can you live without these apps for the time it takes to restore? Does your staff have the bandwidth to handle the upgrade/ possible restore? If the answer is yes, schedule the update and move forward after reading it over the release notes, supported upgrade paths, and what products work with…

That is it in a nutshell I think. If you have given it SNMP access, a bit more data can be collected. If you give it rights to DHCP it can correlate the Scans and the lease info. It can grab DNS data in addition to the IP. Is there a thing you are trying to do or a problem you are looking to IPAM to solve?

When this happens I do this: http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/4952/IPAM+Scans+Not+Running Also check out this thread: IPAM Scan job Status question

Because I did a search on interface counts and this came up, this was a great time saver. But I needed SWQL not SQL in the end so here are a few things that might help people that need SWQL for Orion widgets, reports, or whatever. This has all devices not monitored with ICMP (which means that devices with 0 interfaces show…

If the curl works when you run it, it may be permissions. Try to define a user to run the command:

From what I can see this is an issue with the order by, I changed the EventTime string to an integer for sorting by getting the minutediff, and left in the EventTime where statement as suggested above, and I think that will work much better. SELECT ToLocal(EventTime) AS Local_Time, Message, MinuteDiff(ToLocal(EventTime),…

My gut says no, but a Powershell monitor could do it.

what access have you been granted, I will config my test account the same way

The items in the link below are the supported IPAM tasks. What are you trying to do? SWIS API to perform IPAM operations - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

So here we have an Internal PKI running on a Microsoft server, and that PKI allows you to request a cert from any windows server and it put it in the right place. Solarwinds will see a website cert and allow you to use it when you run the config wizard. So I would bet that your company also has an internal PKI and somebody…

What would you like on your view? I am building custom views right now for a number of things and am also on 11.5, maybe we can iron out the wrinkles together.

Do you really want to stop monitoring? In my windows I keep it running, but I suppress alert notifications. That way Orion has a record of what happened so I can review it if there are issues post-downtime, and the emails and other notifcation don't go out? I just add a schedule to the alert that disables it during my…

First we should find out what alert is triggering the alerts and either replace or modify it. "High DHCP Scope Usage Monitoring" is a default alert in new installs, and could be the thing you are seeing. In Mange alerts, I'd hit duplicate and edit (and disable) to modify it.Even if the alert is a custom one, you may want…

As long as you have the performance and fault tolerance, the storage should be fine. Watch your disk queue length, and run the AppInsight for SQL if you can on the SW database to see if anything becomes a bottleneck.

Post a screenshot of your alert conditions, maybe I can figure something out.

How many things, and what types of things are you monitoring in Nagios? Lots of templates for SAM have been shared, but there won't be one answer for you.

I am a Pi addict. I have no intention of changing. These 3 are with me at work, the one in back is the one Thwack gave me, it runs an Orion NOC dashboard normally, it just runs a stock OS install set to run the browser in kiosk mode. I had stolen its connection to set up the white one, which is a RetroPie install for my…

My gut says maybe? Its going to be a custom script, and there is a whole SDK about automating that stuff. I included a link to a sample script, I assume that your script would generate an error if it couldn't send, so you can wrap the "send" with a try/catch combo. Its not a lot to go from, but maybe it will give you some…