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 On the Network tab in the Orion System Manager Settings you can adjust the data portion of the ICMP packet. This may be the difference.

You can see the last logged in on the Account List in the Admin Option of the Orion website. 

 When you add a node to be monitored by Orion you can use virtually any IP Address. The goal is to communicate to the node through SNMP and ICMP. Once you can communicate to the node through SNMP Orion queries the node about a host of different statistics, CPU, memory, NICs, volumes, etc. Select which NICs you want to…

Does Orion support named instance's? If we are talking about named SQL instances - yes. Just specify the named instance in the Orion configuration wizard, i.e., SQLSERVER\Instance.

 Creating custom reports and limiting who sees them is a feature that is available. To do this just create subfolders in the /Program Files/SolarWinds/Orion/Reports directory, move or copy the desired reports into the subfolder, then in the Account Manager (Admin in the website) change the Reports Folder from /Reports to…

 Great idea! If you are using Firefox you could install the Auto Toggle Tabs extension (addons.mozilla.org/.../2668).

What error are you getting when you test the alert using the alert manager? Have you tried enclosing the command in quotes? Example: "D:\Progra~1\Solarwinds\Orion\CustomAlerts\SNMPRS\runme.bat" ${NodeName} Note the NodeName variable is outside of the quotes. Hope this helps.

 It may be worth considering moving your SQL server to a different server vs. moving Orion and modules. That way you can spec and tune your SQL server to address performance bottlenecks that are more common to database servers, i.e. I/O, memory, and CPU. Also, then you will only have to rerun your Orion Configuration…

 What you are wanting is accomplished by nesting the maps. In Map Maker create your lowest level of maps that will contain your network nodes and interfaces. Then create several higher levels of maps, i.e. global, regional, country, etc.- whatever makes sense for your network. Then drag and drop the lower level maps on the…

Hi Eskador, You may want to try the following setup for the Event log Monitor: Example of Event log Monitor: Test Parameters section: Filters section: Event Area: Security Event Type: Security Audit Success Event ID: 560 Event Source: enable * not used. Logged by User: enabled * not used. Exclusions by Event Text: enabled…

1) They reboot these things all the time for patch updates. How do you handle that with alerts? Most of the time these are scheduled at diferent times througout the morning and they don't want paged on an intentional reboot. These are automatic reboots so I'm not sure if I should just shut off the reboot alerts between 1am…

I may not fully understand your question. If you are wanting to embed or nest a map in another map from within the Map Maker you can drag and drop any one of the maps at the top of the list of objects in the left hand frame just as you would any of the network objects. The key point here is valid map objects are monitored…

Alert suppression suppresses the entire alert if the condition is true. What you may want to try is putting custom node poller name = pollername2 and custom node poller status = 2 as a second trigger condition. Ensure that the trigger alert setting is for all the following to apply.

Expand the node in the node tree of the System Manager and see if they are still there (showing as question marks). If so, right-click and delete them. You should not have to do anything directly in the SQL database.

Are there any Certifications in SolarWinds Products? maybe like prometric or any other Certifications Funny you should ask about certifications. We (SolarWinds) are considering plans to offer official SolarWinds certifications. One thoughtis to have a 3rd party proctored exam that tests for general networkknowledge,…

You can do this pretty easily using the Cirrus Policy Reporter. You can get to this through the Reports drop-down menu. Once in the Policy Reporter, from the File menu start the Policy Creation Wizard. It will walk you through creating different rules, policies, and reports to either look for strings or missing strings,…

 Try adding "&dataformat=excel" to the end of the report URL.

Mark, Except in small Orion environments I would not recommend running the polling engine and SQL server on the same box. Too much fighting for resources. Spend time configuring the SQL server for fast I/O. This is especially important if you are collecting NetFlow data. Also split your SQL logs out to a seperate physical…

Brian, Good to see you are on Thwack. You can do what you are asking today with the Orion Report Scheduler (under SolarWinds Orion>Advanced Features). The Report Scheduler asks for a URL which is normally the URL of a report through the Orion website. Nothing is restricting you from using a URL of a graph in the Orion…

 The Orion website is included with the initial polling engine. If you want to split out the website to another server there is a separate webserver engine you can purchase. www.solarwinds.com/.../web_server.aspx