jporgand

I think today's question is incorrectly phrased as a negative.

If you consider the SW server untrustworthy & are going to rebuild it as a result, unless you've been very careful with the permissions you've assigned it then you probably need to consider most of your environment untrustworthy & rebuild it too. I don't think you're necessarily accomplishing anything meaningful by doing a…

Hello ekis - runs fine from a console on the solarwinds server (under the same account the poller uses). At a bit of a loss.

is this still the best method to achieve this result?

Regarding exit codes, you state: Only when something terrible happens in the script should you use exit 1. And by terrible, i mean something in the script breaks. Is that the correct philosophy to take? If something in the script breaks then I would think that a more appropriate exit status to return would be 4+ (i.e.…

When creating a component monitor you select the credentials to be used. If your nodes are monitored by an account with admin privileges then "Inherit from node" is probably appropriate. Otherwise select some saved credentials which will have the appropriate privileges - if none of the current ones are appropriate then you…

I don't know if there's a generic method one can use - if a service is running with normal resource consumption & reporting its status as healthy, then unless you perform an action that actually utilises it how are you to know? A custom script monitor that performs an action utilising the service might be the way to go. If…

try ${N=SwisEntity;M=ComponentAlert.ComponentMessage} some more discussion here -Use Powershell script monitor message and statistic in an alert