keithjen

Bump! Example of why simply using a "contact" custom property doesn't help. If you want different actions on node down depending on node Priority Custom Property. P1 = Call code to make telephone Call to the On Call engineer (e.g. using XMatters) P2 = Call code to send SMS P3 = Send email Currently this needs 3 alerts all…

Yes, we already use code similar to this to steer emails to the right recipients. What we can't currently do though is choose different trigger actions depending on values. e.g. WHEN Nodes.CustomPropertyName='High' THEN run a program that makes a phone call (e.g. Xmatters) WHEN Nodes.CustomPropertyName='Medium' THEN run a…

We already use macros to change the way alert actions work, but as far as I'm aware, we can't use them to select different actions depending on properties. But I'm by no means an expert. For example if we wanted to something like "if server priority =1 make automated phone call else send email". Currently, we do the above…

I’d like to see the option to use both SNMP and WMI methods. I monitor using SNMP across the board, but I want some of the options that WMI monitoring offers such as an account associated with the node (for service control via Solarwinds etc.) and Disk Performance stats without needing to install “SNMP Informant Standard”…

Please see my post of 8 March 2017. I think this summarises my main issues. I have no problems using custom properties within an action to affect the behaviour of that action. E.G. use CP to derive email addresses for email alerts. What I can't do is use a CP (or other field) to determine which action(s) to perform. If I…

Just noticed that this more or less the same as a request already raised http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/1110

Hi Raul I appreciate the feedback, but we have only just been through a major consolidation exercise in our environment. Reducing hundreds of alert and action definitions to just a few generic specifications that are far easier to manage. We wouldn't want to start adding location or department specific alerts or actions.…

Our database has historical nodes with Custom Props that we now would like to make mandatory, but currently many are empty (a job on my things to do list to populate these). If we edit a node with empty (NULL) mandatory fields, the fields will be populated with the first item in the drop down lists. This is unexpected and…

The "Required Custom Properties" option is now available in 11.5. Great you may think. Users will now have to think about supplying values for all important Custom Property fields when adding a node. Unfortunately this is not the case if the values are supplied via drop down lists, Solarwinds preselects the first item in…

The idea would be to use SNMP for those items that it can efficiently return, & WMI for those that SNMP cannot do natively or accurately (Disk performance & Uptime among others). Also, having both methods defined would associate a valid Windows account with the node. This would mean that Node Management options such as…

This is a great upgrade method. I'm in the middle of upgrading from NPM 12.1 on Windows 2008 to 2020.2 on Windows 2016. I had the same issue as mlotter and a couple of others. i.e.SolarWinds would only allow me to delete the HA Pool unless I made the old Windows 2008 node the active node. Thank goodness for the post from…

Wow. 7 years since this was added & still nothing. 

Hi I think that you misunderstood what I wrote earlier (or more probably I wasn't very clear). I have just tested editing an existing node with an EMPTY (i.e. NULL) mandatory custom property. The field was populated with the first item from the drop down list AND this was saved when I clicked Done. I didn't intend to say…

I would like to see Nutanix IPMI added to the list too.

Just stumbled across this post. Actually bulk changing from SNMP/Agent status polling to ICMP is quite easy. We do it often, especially for agents configured in active mode. Settings->All Settings->Manage Pollers->Solarwinds Native Pollers. Here you will see the 3 "Status & response time" pollers. Just select "Status &…

The user is a local & domain admin and was running scripts with no problems before upgrading Solarwinds (and is used to run component monitor PowerShell scripts with no problems). Solarwinds have confirmed that it's a problem and it will be fixed in a future release.

I doubt that I'll have time to do that any time soon. I have a working work around and I am now working through my queue of other work. As I said, The template works on other servers, so if there are special characters that have crept in there, I would expect it to affect all UNIX flavors.

I've just tried this again and it definitely doesn't work for me on NPM 11.5.2 if you select a "defined user" to run the script.

The script that I captured from the APM_xxxx.pl file is the same as the script in Solarwinds. I compared them with WinMerge. And in fact this copy is the script that I am now using on the HP server. The script is in no way corrupt. I did not just happen catch a script that wasn't affected.The test I ran to capture the…

I'm not sure this is 100% reliable? Take a look at the following query: select count(ip_address) from NodesData where nodesdata.ip_address not in (select ipaddress from NodeIPAddresses) This should return zero right? Because all of the Node IP addresses will be in the NodeIpAddresses table? Wrong! On our system this query…

I agree with all you say re credential use, maybe it will come a future release? As for Powershell, the problem is it just doesn't run Powershell scripts. No errors, just no execution. It was suggested by support that I call the PS script from within vbscript. This also didn't work.

Hi Alex, Thanks for that. I actually I have no problem with the script that monitors automatic services. This is running as a component and picks up the credentials I give it with no problem. It's the script that's triggered by the alert when a service is found to be not running that's the issue. True I could use the same…

I think that AppInsight accesses perfmon directly using ports 135 & 445. You need 135 for WMI in any case, but if you don't also have 445 open, you will have a whole bunch of disk performance components with "Unknown" status. This causes us issues because our firewall team won't open this port for some servers because it…

A few minutes after posting this I found my issue... Typical. Whilst DNS resolution was OK on the poller (APE) to which the monitored server was connected, DNS did not resolve the monitored server on the Additional Web Server. This, I believe is an oversight on Solarwinds part. My APE may be in a DMZ or a completely…

The script is not being executed as root. The point I was trying to make was, regardless of who was running the script, the script itself was not corrupted. It actually ran. I also was not logged in as root when I copied & ran the script. I used the same account as Solarwinds uses on this system.

There is good news & bad news. The good news is the latest version of Solarwinds has the option to run external commands from an alert as a defined user. The bad news is it does not allow you to run Powershell scripts!! Even worse news is that setting the alert service to run as a domain service account no longer causes…

Hi Karedia I think that was a mistake on my part. I originally had a script which took the node name as a parameter, but later I just pulled it from the environment. I've updated the origanal post to reflect this.

Was this ever resolved? I have a similar issue. WBEMTEST working fine from the poller. WMI "gets" from Powershell on the poller working fine. Edit Node in Solarwinds..... test WMI connection fails.

Thanks Rutgerht. I do have this option enabled, however, I also have the option to repeat the alert daily checked. My thinking was that I would want Un-acknowledged alerts emailed daily but no action for Acknowledged alerts. I guess this doesn't work in the way that I thought?

Hi, I’m very new to Solarwinds so apologies if this is a daft request. I would like to create views with multiple limitations: We have many many monitored devices which I have grouped mainly into “Network”, “Server” or “Storage” with a custom property. I have another Custom property that indicates “Production”, “QA” or…