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Yes, you can choose to stay on the legacy syslog tool if you want. There is a screen during installation that will give you the option to go with the new log viewer or retain legacy for now. For the spoofing question I am validating with the engineering team but I believe we now default to always spoof if you are…

in Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers Comment by jvb November 2019
Yes, it is the same maintenance... You can see the DB Maintenance logs swdebugMaintenance.log from following location: C:\ProgramData\Solarwinds\Logs\Orion

in Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers Comment by jvb November 2019
Yes there is maintenance that occurs on the logs database. However, if your environment is generating anything close to the 1000 events per second that we can ingest, 360 GB would be about right for 5 days of retention... Per the system requirements you will see roughly 100 - 130 GB / Day. LA 2019.4 System Requirements

in Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers Comment by jvb November 2019
Yes, you can still create rules to forward a given message to another location if you need to.

in Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers Comment by jvb November 2019
I sent you a private message to set up some times to discuss.

in Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers Comment by jvb October 2019
The LA DB is separate from the Orion DB so yes you could easily put it on another VM / SQL instance if you like but it can also live in the same instance as the Orion DB too. Yes, LA can forward logs to other systems and Orion has native integrations to Service Now and Solarwinds Service Desk Log forwarding Orion Platform…

in Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers Comment by jvb October 2019
Orion Log Viewer / Log Analyzer can handle 1000 Events per second or about 90 million events per day which is significantly more than Kiwi. However, some people do still use Kiwi as a sort of front end to process and discard events and only send along specific message to Orion for further action. It is really just about…

in Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers Comment by jvb October 2019
Authentication improvements along with certs and proxy support are part of what we are currently working on: WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON FOR WPM (Updated Nov 13, 2019)

in WPM 3.0 IS GENERALLY AVAILABLE! Comment by jvb January 2020
Hi k1gaudineer sorry for the late reply here. For some reason I missed this when it initially posted. We are actually doing some research in to use cases where timeouts occur during a search and it sounds like you have some of those. I would like to speak to you about those as well as get some deeper input from you on the…

in Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers Comment by jvb October 2019
Yes, that is correct. We will support both recorders for the foreseeable future.

in WPM 3.0 IS GENERALLY AVAILABLE! Comment by jvb June 2019
It depends on what you mean by standalone. Orion Log Viewer is an add on that requires at least one of the following modules: NPM, NCM, SAM, VMAN or UDT. However there is a more feature rich paid version Log Analyzer that can be installed as a standalone instance if you want. The nodes you want to collect logs from do have…

in Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers Comment by jvb October 2019
Based on feedback from the beta test cycle and feedback sessions with customers we found that the new recorder reached a functional milestone that was important to put in the hands of all users for production use. We made the decision to ship the new recorder now but continue to include and support the old recorder until…

in WPM 3.0 IS GENERALLY AVAILABLE! Comment by jvb June 2019
Thanks for the input JD... Very useful and as serena mentioned we are looking at application logs as a possible next step for Log Analyzer so I may ping you offline for some additional detail.

in Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers Comment by jvb October 2019
Great! Glad to help! Let me know if there is anything else

in Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers Comment by jvb October 2019
The first screen shot is where you should be looking. That being said, I am trying to piece this together as something doesn't make sense. You said you are only using the basic Log Viewer (you do not have an active license of Log Analyzer) Windows Events are only supported in Log Analyzer LA feature comparison so it is odd…

in Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers Comment by jvb October 2019
OLV can certainly run on the same Orion instance as SAM along with any other Orion modules you have. Collection of flat log files is not supported in the current release but it is something we are considering for possible future releases.

in Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers Comment by jvb September 2019
martian monster We are in the process of reorganizing the documentation to more clearly differentiate Orion Log Viewer from Log Analyzer. Give me just a bit to check on the progress of that effort and I'll ping you. In the meantime is there a short list of things you are trying to do that I could try and point you in the…

in Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers Comment by jvb September 2019
Love this! I frequently have folks ask for a quick primer on how to use the custom script monitors in SAM... Now I can send them this article!

in SAM Script Component Monitors - Everything you need to know Comment by jvb June 2016
For those who may have missed it elsewhere, WPM 2019.4 is now generally available. Web Performance Monitor (WPM) 2019.4 Is Now Generally Available

in WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON FOR WPM (Updated July 15, 2020) Comment by jvb November 2019
The latest beta is available now! Join us in the beta forum: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/thwack-beta.jspa?groupID=1492

in WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON FOR WPM (Updated July 15, 2020) Comment by jvb August 2019
For those who may have missed it elsewhere, WPM 3.0 is now generally available. WPM 3.0 IS GENERALLY AVAILABLE!

in WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON FOR WPM (Updated July 15, 2020) Comment by jvb June 2019
I am checking on this with the team. Not sure if there is any info in the logs or if we need some SQL / SWQL to solve this.

in Where can I find Log Analyzer logs on Orion server? Comment by jvb February 2020
Hi Thomas, We are in the process of drawing Beta 1 to a close. We received lots of excellent feedback and we have been continuing forward with development. Good progress is being made. While we cannot comment on specific dates, as we get closer to a release candidate, we will be reaching out to folks to recruit their…

in WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON FOR WPM (Updated July 15, 2020) Comment by jvb January 2019
For those who might be interested, the first beta for WPM 3.0 is now available: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/thwack-beta.jspa?groupID=1492

in WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON FOR WPM (Updated July 15, 2020) Comment by jvb October 2018
Have you tried cycling the WPM Player services on the location?

in Upgraded to WPM 3.0 and now transactions don't work Comment by jvb October 2019
This line sticks out: time="2018-12-04T19:15:00Z" level=warning msg="There is no valid SAM or VIM license. Polling is skipped." Just to clarify the obvious... You do have a valid SAM or VMAN license applied to this Orion instance, correct?

in Containers question Comment by jvb December 2018
You could do a couple things... One would be to add a custom resource to a page and use a filter to only show certain resources on certain nodes (screen shots below) You may also want to consider looking at Custom Properties to do more logical groupings on your devices. Create a custom property Click Customize Page in the…

in Creating a template, to monitor specific things? Comment by jvb March 2017
That is not possible in the product today. You may want to create a feature request so we can track that and consider it for a future release as well as gauge the interest in such a feature from other customers: Web Performance Monitor (formerly SeUM) Feature Requests

in Can WPM extract data and use comparison operators to create alerts? Comment by jvb September 2019
You may want to look at using Custom Properties to do the logical grouping here. In my experience when it comes to alerting, Custom Properties are easier to use and a little more flexible. Create a custom property

in Newbie questions about monitoring Comment by jvb February 2017
If the node in question has a web based GUI you can enter the URL or IP for that here and then you will be able to click on a link in the node details page taking you directly to the GUI. Basically just a time saver when you need to hop between the monitoring interface in Orion and the actual GUI on the node.

in Web Browse Template in Edit Properties Comment by jvb October 2018