keoki · Senior Systems Engineer · ✭✭✭✭✭

Yeah, I gotta say, this month's contests are un-engaging. In both this and the crossword you are tripped up right out of the gate, rendering both contests over before they get going good. Not a fan.

The modern dashboards should be a set of widgets for the regular dashboards. The regular dashboards should be able to display widgets from all dashboard/map/report types. We should not have different types of dashboards, only different widgets to put on the dashboards. And the modern dashboards seemed very constrained and…

I'm on 2013.x moving to 2024.1 unless we see a 2024.2 first. So it is great news that this is implemented, but where does that leave us with transforms derived from values in a table poller? Any linux based system has a memory reporting issue, 90% of my network assets before I start counting linux servers use linux and…

YUP!

Mine came with an attached PDF. The PDF was small, but some environments may quarantine emails with attachments.

I have too many back packs.... Got another one for Christmas.... It's nice but I won't use it <shrug>. I shopped all the rewards, and the vac-insulated mug was the only thing I saw that I wanted. Mebby I'll buy another next year if they still have some.

Looking forward to meeting y'all... I live in the Austin area, so I've not got too far to travel. I normally pay no attention to these shows, but this one is in my back yard. This will be my first SWUG. So will there be session streams posted online after the conference? I ask because I see one or two times I will be…

and uninstall won't even launch...... GREAT!

The mission shortcut was fun... Got through the install, in the middle of a config step I got a call, so I paused. When I got back the config screen had timed out and I was kicked out to the login screen. Admin creds don't work, so no way back in to complete setup.

My mug arrived today!

Yeah, I registered first, got permission last as well...but I'm required to take so many hours of work related training each year so it is easy to justify the time.

BINGO!!! I Win!!

So day 4 is just "ha" with a submit button. Looks broken.

I passed 8000 points and got the mug!

So how do I get tech support for removing a broken package from a web help desk demo? If you don't finish the configuration in a timely manner you get locked out and can't uninstall. This just started costing money.

yes, I have the same issue.

In a crossword, you get to try an answer and see if it fits. In this contest the first time you put in a wrong answer you are done. There was no warning that answers were unchangable, this is COMPLETELY unlike any crossword in the real world. If you are going to do something like that you must make sure the user understand…

A facility to support reporting telemetry from custom applications we are building on the network.

Good call! Yeah, in the past when someone changed DNS for a node in SolarWinds, we had manually entered the name. So I had never seen SolarWinds update from DNS before. This time we are integrating nodes in another country, and after onboarding, the names were changed to comply with existing naming conventions. So this is…

So "scan for UCS" is an option in two places. I think there is no "scan" for UCS, I think UCS cannot be detected. If you set "scan for UCS" what it seems to do is hard code the node for UCS. To remove that you have to re-add the node without deleting it. When you re-ad it select the same poller engine used before. It will…

turns out there are two scan for UCS options, one was not selected the other was selected sometime later. I updated my post.

ok, it turns out this was an erroir caused by a human. The Cisco UCS detection is not done by snmp, it is done by selecting the UCS credentials. And that cannot be unselected, but you can work around it with a forced "i'm having problems" re-add. The bug I called out was not a bug. it is a feature ;). 

This will find them: SELECT NodeID, Caption, NodeDescription, Description, Vendor, SysObjectID, MachineType, EngineID FROM Orion.Nodes WHERE MachineType LIKE '%UCS%'

Ouch! 2 days ago I had one node doing this, yesterday I found a second. Now I'm wondering if there are more... Looking for a way to easily find them, manage nodes search does not include machine type in it's search, so I'll probably have to use swql...

Edited... human error and a feature. no bug. I saw this same feature with a Palo Alto firewall, that was suddenly changed to a Cisco UCS by someone selecting "poll for ucs". That is a one-way setting. I repaired it by going to add a node, SolarWinds complained it was already monitored. I selected the option to re-add it…

Ok, I found time to complete this. 3 queries give me slightly more data than I was getting from Orion Maps, so if my web guys can turn it into something useful we will be in good shape. Monitored Interface state for one node: SELECT [Nodes].IPAddress ,[Nodes].ObjectSubType ,[Nodes].Caption AS [Name]…

This gives me 66% of what I need. I adjusted the swql to meet my needs of course, but the table columns made all the difference for me. The remaining 33% I need are the chips, fans, power supplies, and other monitored components.

So I ended up running it as two queries, one for the volumes and one for the interfaces. I'm guessing that the chip temperatures and other random things are in their own table, I'll have to go track those down. Because I share my two SolarWinds systems with other departments, I'm using a lot of custom properties for…

This looks like a promising starting point. it times out for me, but I need to work on it a bit to make it run faster. I'll use it as inspiration and see what I can do to tune it for my needs. I'll post back when I get something I like.

The encoded url was in the url bar on the 404 page. I remember from my SWQL API work how to work with encoded swql, so I saw what was trying to happen... So I just hacked the url and my first guess was successful. Almost like I know what I'm doing. Almost. But now I'm hitting the wall on actually using this. I want to use…