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Well, if the editor didn't smash the URL's my answer would be posted. But no it did not work at the end of the URL, that would result in a login to a 404 error page. But the login worked. The correct answer was to put the login creds first, then an encoded version of the landing url. I'll correct my posts that lost the url…

https://DOMAIN/Orion/Login.aspx?AccountID=Dashboard_User&Password=aAbBcCdDpassword123&ReturnUrl=%2fui%2fmaps%2fviewer%2fMAPS-4b07b80c-fc70-4759-8775-e15b6276e782 That works.

Yeah, that was the first thing I tried to do, but I could only find interface settings.... but I found them now so you helped inspire me to push harder on thresholds. Thresholds are the "wrong" answer, the better answer is to correct the poller so that it does the math using two oid's to derive the correct answer. HOWEVER…

Your post about setting thresholds for interfaces demonstrates my frustration. I'm trying to set a threshold for memory. SolarWinds reports the memory in a unuseful manner. Linux used memory and buffer/cache is being added together. Ideally buffer/cache will use all unused memory, so in an ideal situation this should be…

This is a good response, if I was using the dashboard tool, but I am using Orion Maps. Orion maps allows me to display summary objects, so if the top level map objects are green, the entire environment is green. If there is a problem in a lower system, the operator can drill into the map to see the issues. We are one of…

We upgraded to 2023.3.1 and are now experiencing this issue as well.

So one of the issues we were seeing is different models of Palo's running different software versions, would show different names for the CPU's. SolarWinds treats the CPU's as if they are a pool of resources, when in fact they are each specialized in what role they play, and averaging idle CPU's together with saturated…

Ok, I found a solution!!! If I schedule the report as a PDF, it comes through wrong. But if I schedule it as a excel file it comes through correctly. The key for me was to ignore the previews of the report and not use PDF as the format, because the previewer and PDF tools are not displaying the report the same way the…

That report displays a lot of nodes, but when I tried to select a node to display in each report for comparison, and it doesn't even have my node in the report at all. It is "a" report, but it doesn't have any of my nodes or desired data. Kind of funny, It seems like it is a list of nodes specifically not on my report. My…

I think the issue is what interfaces you are monitoring. When we onboard a node, we let SolarWinds select the active ports. On the screen where it says add interfaces, we do not add any! So only up and running interfaces are added and monitored. THEN once per week we run a network sonar discovery job on each poller,…

I thought I was going to have some real world swql examples to contribute to the community, but I've been schooled that I shouldn't be using joins... So now I must go re-develop my scripts... "properly"... <sigh> Just when you *think* you know something...

I am interested in being a beta reader.

Yeah, when I was monitoring via the servers, I think I was using the IPMI SNMP support, so it only applied to my newer servers, and older servers I had to manage from the OS side, which meant each server was a separate challenge to get working. My new servers all got the IPMI configured for my MAAS server management…

I have solved the temperature question many many times. In one lab, I plot every temperature probe I can find in all of my Cisco switches, and plot them on trending charts, and sometimes apply some calibration factors to them. I HAVE used Avtech units, and I didn't really like them. Another possible strategy is to monitor…

So we have NCM licenses for the firewalls, but it isn't in use. We don't really need to or want to manage firewall configurations in SolarWinds, we actually have a dedicated set of teams systems and processes for that. However if NCM is useful for this, I will investigate that. My current silo in SolarWinds has been to…

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I think the granularity will probably be on a per rule basis per time of day. Some rules may only get hit intermittently a couple times a day while others are almost continuous when stores are open and drop to zero when closed. This is a generic ask from a giant retailer, so every kind use case…

So the solution I found was to use a "threshold = int(i[Status])" in my python code then to use an if to skip iterations with continue. I wanted to avoid pulling the data in swql in the first place, but I can skip what I don't need in python if that is the only way to do it. for i in pollerdata['results']: threshold =…

WITH QUERYSTATS and WITH QUERYPLAN look like great tools I should be using, thanks!

Yes you are correct, that table is the answer to my query. The reason I didn't see that at first is because someone on another team had onboarded something improperly that was stuffing 100,000 entries into that table every cycle, and the "SELECT TOP 1000" exploratory select you get from right clicking a table was not…

Yes, I have an orphaned limitation id=4. I put in a change request, and talked to the dba, looks like I will have to wait at least a week for the approval of the cr, so I'll update this thread and verify the answer then.

I will have to see if I can get clearance access to the admin account, I'm in cybersecurity and anonymous admin accounts are big risks, and will trigger an event that my manager's manager has to answer to... So is this important info worth the notifications and supervision this will require? if this is required for…

I found two ways to alert on an array. Marlie's method is superior as it is more flexible. I simply found array options in the ui, very simple limited options. Now to figure out how to access individual cells of the array next...

Ok, I am able to make a query using your example, and interestingly it seems to work the same as the solution I tried before. I have this code I'm testing with: join Orion.NPM.CustomPollerStatusOnNodeTabular cpt on Nodes.nodeid = cpt.NodeID and cpt.CustomPollerAssignment.CustomPollerOid = '1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.3.1.2' where…

Thanks for the tip there! I will test that and see how that works for me. So I did create an alert that seems to work. It turns out that the first value in the array is one I need to exclude from the alert, so an swql approach that allows me to drill down to the individual values is going to work best I think. So I think…

Makes perfect sense. I simply had not yet done restful polling for telemetry, so it wasn't a method that came to mind. However I /have/ been posting data to rest API's from SolarWinds, so I was half way there.

That's interesting. It is not how *I* would do it, but my developers will likely tell me it is how *they* would...

There is a Net-SNMP tutorial that covers using the Net-SNMP standard linux packlage, and to deploy a mib and build agentx subagents. Also there are python libraries as well, which is going to be useful in containerized applications where deploying net-snmp might not be doable.

So I am still researching this... But so far I think I have found out a little more about how this is to be accomplished. Essentially you need a master agent on a server that listens the SNMP ports and serves up a database of OID's. Then you need to deploy subagents inside of your applications to collect data to feed to…

yes... I was able to get the answer I needed... Here are some of the possible ways to expose the data that I am looking for, as well as some other common data points: Poller Unique Name: ${N=SwisEntity;M=CustomPoller.UniqueName} Poller Display Name: ${N=SwisEntity;M=CustomPollerStatusScalar.DisplayName} Poller Current…

Thanks! But no, that page does not cover inserting variables into trigger actions, only using variables in trigger conditions. I have good trigger conditions, but the goal here is to push variables into trigger actions, it is in the trigger actions where I need specific help.