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  • psf:Write (Professional Write) for DOS!
    in Really understanding the concepts Comment by jprice2 June 2015
  • Ah! This sounds like the way I learned! Started my career as a reporter and editor at a few daily newspapers, then because I got tired of waiting for the tech people to fix my problems, I started getting them to show me how to fix/do things. I became the newsroom tech-guru then finally moved over to the "dark side" full…
    in Really understanding the concepts Comment by jprice2 June 2015
  • Anytime! But I have to admit, I had to look it up to make sure I had the syntax correct! (for got the NOEMS switch!) But do you remember how to configure those old Soundblaster cards in autoexec.bat files? That always took me a couple times to get it working right!
    in Really understanding the concepts Comment by jprice2 June 2015
  • DEVICE=C:\Windows\HIMEM.SYS DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICE=C:\Windows\EMM386.EXE NOEMS Gads! Can't remember how many times I had to that into Config.sys files!
    in Really understanding the concepts Comment by jprice2 June 2015
  • I was made our SolarWinds "expert" and admin about two years ago, but still feel like a newbie compared to most other people here, so count me in: Jeffrey L. Price Network Engineer Calkins Media, Inc. O: 215-949-4137 / M: (267) 294-4117 jprice@calkins.com Bucks County Courier Times buckscountycouriertimes.com The…
    in Are you new(ish) to Orion? We want to speak with you! Comment by jprice2 September 2015
  • This sounds pretty good, but what happens to the custom menus I've already created? On my current second level nav bar, I created links for summary pages for each one of my company's six sites? (See below). Where will they appear? Also will the things I removed (or re-ordered) be maintained during the upgrade? Or will I…
    in Orion UI Refresh: How feedback from users shaped the changes Comment by jprice2 May 2016
  • Thanks, going to try deploying this on one VLAN for as a test this week. I'll let you know how it works.
    in Additional Poller RPC process spiking and killing SAM monitoring Comment by jprice2 October 2015
  • tomasv, thanks for replying. We use Orion to monitor our all our workstations as well as servers, so at any one time we can have between 1/3 and 2/3rds total nodes down. As far as I can tell I don't see any gaps in data collection when svchost spikes CPU/memory useage. Looks like we are still collecting data, just the…
    in Additional Poller RPC process spiking and killing SAM monitoring Comment by jprice2 October 2015
  • I concur. That's the way I do it. I have seven sites scattered across the East Coast I keep track of in Orion. Just created a custom field called "Site" then created the Dynamic group this way: Settings > Manage Groups > Add New Group > Filled in Name and Description, > Next > Add Dynamic Query button > Named the Dynamic…
    in Automated Group Creation - NPM 10.2 Comment by jprice2 June 2015
  • We're having the exact same issue after we just updated to NPM 11.5.2 and SAM 6.2.1 last week, except we have a single server doing all the polling and over 80 percent of our machines use WMI. Every morning we need to kill the svchost.exe process linked to the "RpcSs (Remote Procedure Call)" and "RpcEptMapper (RPC Endpoint…
    in Additional Poller RPC process spiking and killing SAM monitoring Comment by jprice2 October 2015
  • Thought that might have been the case, because when I stumbled across the answer after our old Exchange Server bit the dust, it seemed almost too easy. Although I have to admit, it took me a couple of days to figure out why I still wasn't getting any alerts after I changed the settings in the "Manage SMTP Servers" link.…
    in Change SMTP server in all alerts Comment by jprice2 October 2015
  • I've got the same message on one of my servers and it has NOT been virtualized. When I click the List Resources tab, it will show me all the hardware devices it found (new volumes, etc) and I can select them, and it acts like it imports them when I save the changes, but if I go back later, they are not there again. It's a…
    in Hardware Status Undefined. Comment by jprice2 July 2015
  • Thanks. After poking around some more I found the services running in that troublesome svhost are actually Remote Procedure Call Endpoint Mapper (rpceptmapper) and Remote Procedure Call (rpcss) and not the WMI service. Right now I've stopped all Orion Services to see if I still get that spike, which will then rule out…
    in Additional Poller RPC process spiking and killing SAM monitoring Comment by jprice2 October 2015
  • Thank you ">aLTeReGo! This is exactly what I was looking for!
    in Credentials Used By WMI Nodes Comment by jprice2 December 2015
  • It took me some digging to find the answer to this, but it can be done via the Web interface. This is how I did it. 1) Log into Orion and Click on Settings in Upper Right hand corner. Then when the Settings page loads, look under the REPORTS AND ALERTS section and click on INITIAL ALERTING SETUP and not Manage SMTP…
    in Change SMTP server in all alerts Comment by jprice2 October 2015
  • We just drive our NOC view from our Help Desk operator's PC. It's a Win7, i5 box with 6 gb of ram that we attached a 42" LCD TV to act as a secondary monitor. Then we just open Chrome push it up to that top screen, go to our SolarWinds site and launch the NOC View. That PC rarely gets shut down so it's always up there and…
    in What drives your NOC? Comment by jprice2 June 2015
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