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This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thanks so much borgan​ and sean.martinez​! Regards, Keith

That's what it was. I went back to your code, but ran PowerShell ISE as an Administrator and it worked. I was able to disable and enable the alerts using your script. Thank you!!!

Appears that I have this working and I believe it's been working for some time now. NPM version is 12.0.1. UCS version is 2.2(5b) If I remember correctly, all that was needed was to insert the UCS credentials when adding UCS Manager as a node.

Makes sense. Although the company I work for is really small and virtualization has been an extreme plus for them.I doubt we have a 2nd physical server available to become the "watchdog", but we are standing up some equipment in a colo soon that might give us the flexibility of monitoring from the outside looking in with a…

Thanks for the reply Matt. I will try to configure NCM as a stand alone first and down the line will try to integrate it especially if you can come up with that documentation. Regards, Keith

Similar to something like Netbeez?

Not to be rude, but we have LEM and I just don't use it at this point. I went through the integrations and have our firewalls, switches, DCs, etc all sending syslogs to it, however, it's just not intuitive. The only other SIEM product I worked with in the past was IBM QRadar and although it was a beast to manage, it seemed…

Ran into an issue today where we noticed our NPM 11.5.3 instance was no longer polling correctly. I followed your fix actions and it's working again. Thanks for this! Starting to get hard to trust NPM. It seems to have a different problem every week.

Verbatim of how you put it in. I now know based on your reply that you did not assume anything for the connection and that i must set that up myself!

I wish there was a better way to sanitize these SNMP walks other than manually by hand. There is a lot of info I don't feel comfortable sharing like public IP, community strings, serial number, hostname, contact info, etc. Might be a good idea for someone who's into that sort of thing!

Bump. Anyone have any experience dealing with something like this? If not, I'm going to open a case with SW...

I believe I have the new Application Template and Windows Event Log Monitor configured correctly, but configuring the alerts seems to be a bit trickier... I still can't find the right trigger condition.

We ran into some problems late last week. Apparently, Verizon discontinued their TAP service on February 2nd so we can no longer use the modem to send texts to our Verizon Wireless cell phones. We now have to rely on our Exchange servers and the Internet. With that being said, having a physical instance of NPM is not so…

Really great post! We aren't staffed 24x7 so the help desk idea is out but I agree that they would be instrumental in helping to monitor during off hours. As I mentioned in one of my replies above, today, we are using Notepager Pro on our old physical deployment of NPM. However, if we decide to go virtual, this would no…

We are currently using Notepager Pro to trigger SMS/Text alerts from our old NPM server. My concern is if we go virtual, we lose this ability. I've heard about the Failover Engine (FoE), however it's a separate license in addition to another set of licenses for a secondary Orion server and I'm not quite sure if all of this…

What you had previously sounds exactly like where I'm trying to direct this ship. I'd like to have NPM/NCM/SAM on the same VM in our production cluster, while the SQL cluster is currently virtual. We have lots of redundancy built in from the network-compute-storage. Nexus 5Ks with vPC as the core DC switches with at least…

Thanks for the quick response. What made you decide to stay physical? Was your virtual environment already fully utilized? Storage space an issue? What happens if your physical server goes down? What do you have monitoring it? Regards, Keih

This. Whenever we have to reboot a single device or an isolated group of devices, we changed our custom property of alert_muted to yes for all of them and we do not receive the e-mails. This should help get you started: TIPS & TRICKS: Stop the madness! Avoiding alerts but continuing to pull statistics.

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, our license is for NCM 7.0 so it looks like I may have to build it as stand alone for now, blow it away later when we are ready to integrate and then build it again. At least I'll have some experience installing it by then!

Hello! Yes, I've looked up what netconsole is and what is needed, but I just wondered if LEM would be able to read those messages. Doesn't seem like they are much different from typical syslogs. I do currently have a case open with SW to create connectors for KEMP, but that's still in the process so I guess I'll need to…

Thanks for the reply RichardLetts​! Please see the following screenshots. I'd like for it show me the text enumerations, not the number values.

Interestingly enough, the 5525-Xs show up as ASAs in NPM, they just aren't recognized as ASAs in NCM when trying to download the config. I'm running 9.8(2) for what it's worth and NPM 12.1 Regards, Keith

If I knew, I would certainly look deeper. Event logs said this: SMSvcHost 4.0.0.0 and Service Controlmanager (SolarWinds Orion Module Engine) both had errors within 30 seconds of each other and that was essentially it. No issues that I know of with the DB.

Precisely, I have not seen any alerts during the 2 times that this has happened for our switches, firewalls, or non-agent nodes. The devices are managed.

Sounds simple. I have never done any of that so I'm got some learning to do. Thanks aLTeReGo‌

Adding this link for anyone who sees this and wants to try and reverse engineer the code. Great examples of what is happening: https://github.com/solarwinds/OrionSDK/wiki/PowerShell

Just tried this, it appears there's an error with line 4 after the -Properties switch. Set-SwisObject : The credentials supplied to the package were not recognized At C:\Scripts\Enable-PagerDutyAlerts.ps1:4 char:11 + $alerts | Set-SwisObject $swis -Properties @{Enabled=$true} +…

Wow this is so simple, yet I was so far off. I had just gotten to the point of playing with and connecting to the Orion server via PowerShell on my desktop before seeing this reply. Thank you so much!

This is VERY helpful, thank you Deltona​!

Thanks for the reply d09h. I actually looked at that before I posted this and I don't believe it's what I'm looking for. It doesn't actually list the OIDs that are being polled. For now, I just did a packet capture on the firewall and used Wireshark to discover all of the OIDs, but it was tedious and I'm hoping for a…