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End users who can't or won't read alert messages, and instead email the Solarwinds admin to ask, "Why did I get this alert?"

Most Halloween-worthy would probably be the times (plural!) that several racks' worth of new IBM servers spontaneously shut down (not just hung, actually shut themselves off) within minutes of each other in the middle of the night. I think we attributed it to a power or temperature issue (we had no actual evidence for this…

If "IT Joe" or "IT Joan" shows up in the Thwack store, I will save up all my Thwack points for one. There's got to be a custom packaging company that will produce such a thing.

I'm going to quibble with 14 across. IBM offered magnetic tape storage, which is eminently separable from the read-write hardware, starting with the IBM 727 in 1953. The 727 was used with the IBM 701 and 702 mainframes, both of which were commercially available (marketed primarily to business and scientific customers).

#smoked_angus, I can't find a download link, but I have my Alert Central installer from 2014. Let me know the best way to get it to you.

I would amend this: Let users tag alert actions to either execute automatically OR require approval. For instance, I probably want email notifications to my personal account to send automatically, without approval. I probably want an action that creates an OpsGenie alert to run automatically. However, it would be useful,…

It's a running joke on a lot of forums - someone says "I did X", someone else replies "Pics or it didn't happen!"

Same as dannyfoster87 - I answered the question for the 12th, must have gotten it wrong, but the message that appeared told me I had chosen BNC connectors as my answer, even though that's not the answer I chose.

Week 2 Day 1 question has multiple correct answers, but only allows me to select one. 

Bumping - I'm currently creating a set of UnDPs that includes a date/time stamp that's reported in hex. As it stands, I can't even get the hex string into Solarwinds to parse it later.

Thanks!

How does this differ from the AWS and Azure cloud monitoring capabilities of the 2020.2.x versions?

In addition to Solarwinds products, we use: Nagios and check_mk Traverse (NetVigil) Splunk We're migrating from our Nagios and Traverse monitoring to Solarwinds. Like Jfrazier , one of the things I like about Nagios that Solarwinds doesn't provide is timeperiods. I can apply a timeperiod to a host, a service check, or an…

Thanks, njoylif​. I tried your query, but it too was deemed unacceptable by the parser. Like mine, it seems to be choking on the parentheses and on the comma inside IsNull().

Scrabble. I am old. But sometimes we get crazy and play "no rules" (words in any language spoken by the players OK, proper nouns OK, obscenities encouraged).

SYSADMIN DAY PUZZLE DOWN: 13 DOWN states that the answer is 12 characters, but my 12-character answer in the singular was wrong. If the expected answer is plural, the clue should specify 13 characters.

For self-hosted customers, does this take effect with the most recent release (2024.4), or will it be a later upgrade?

Same problem here. I'll try the hotfix.

Good point. I like the user being able to see the thresholds, whether or not they've been customized. I've called my resource "Volume Space Utilization Thresholds." Thanks!

Wish I could upvote this more than once!

We switched from Alert Central to OpsGenie a while ago. OpsGenie really is a fine product/service that integrates well with Solarwinds. (And no, Solarwinds did not pay me to say that.)

Hi bluefunelemental, Would you mind sharing the code and query you used to create that custom resource? I'd like to incorporate the "Volume Custom Thresholds" item into my own installation. Thanks, Martin ETA: Here's what I came up with. select V.VolumeID AS [_hidden], CASE WHEN FCS.Enabled = 1 THEN 'true' ELSE 'false' END…

Thanks! Looks like that will do what I need.

Thanks!

Update: I thought I could get around this by using a computed column. Here's what I did: * Created a new custom property, DoNotEdit_EffectiveAlertEmail, for Applications. * Created a user-defined SQL Server function, getEffectiveApplicationAlertEmail(), to get the effective email address. * Using T-SQL, replaced the new…

...Knowledge is power. Knowledge is knowing tomatoes are a fruit. Wisdom is not putting tomatoes in a fruit salad. Philosophy is wondering if ketchup is a smoothie.

SWQL includes Log Manager objects in the Orion.OLM namespace: Orion.OLM.AlertMessage Orion.OLM.LogEntry Orion.OLM.LogEntryFieldValue Orion.OLM.LogEntryLevel Orion.OLM.LogEntrySecondarySourceAssignment Orion.OLM.LogEntrySecondarySources Orion.OLM.LogEntryTagAssignment Orion.OLM.LogEntryType Orion.OLM.MessageSources…

Is it possible to create an alert based on the Total Size: Percent Change 24 Hrs performance counter?

Bump

I also like when I go to someone's desk and ask them to repeat the exact things they were doing in order to recreate the problem. When the problem mysteriously fails to reoccur, I explain that my mere presence frightens the system into behaving. I've "fixed" more problems just by showing up...