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Hi, It is not clear exactly what you are looking to achieve. Are you wanting to import custom property values easily to new nodes or are you referring to a monitoring profile i.e. which interfaces, volumes, if CPU/memory should be captured etc.? For Custom Properties, export everything and then use Excel to create your…

There are commandlets in Exchange to collect this level of information: Therefore using a SAM PowerShell script would allow such data to be collected, analysed and alerted on. Reporting Mailbox Folder Sizes with PowerShell

Hi, The AppInsight for Exchange has this functionality as part of its data collection. Therefore configure this template for your Exchange server if you have not already done so and then you will need to create a specific alert for this mailbox name and value. Alternatively, you can create a WQL Query within the SAM…

You will need to provide more details on the requirement for anyone to be able to help. What help desk solution are you using? Have you reviewed all methods for integrating alerting into a 3rd party application? Usually ticketing systems can receive and parse; emails, snmp traps, command line tools etc.

As Peter has said, this indicates that there is likely a Duplex Mismatch on the interfaces in question, with Orion doing its job of reporting performance issues. This has a big impact on performance and you are best to resolve the duplex settings with a hard set configure at each end. The following is an excellent article…

I have been working with clients recently, who have BMC installations. While I have not integrated directly into Remedy, instead going via BMC, which then feeds into Remedy, SNMP Traps are an option, as is the use of MSEND, which can be invoked via the Command Line action. This app sends in RFC 1312 protocol format, which…

This is a good question and one with more than just the one answer I am afraid. There are a number of factors that will influence how this is handled in Orion and therefore the business review needs to take place, but and I stress this, dont be led by the current business process, but use the importance of monitoring and…

Is this a bug that still exists within v10.2.2?

Am installing this week. Let me know if anything particular you would like tested at this stage.

Hi The VBScript action runs on the Orion server and therefore your script must be written with this in mind first of all. If you are wanting to execute this on a remote server then you will need to use something such as PSExec or use PowerShell which has more capabilities. Regarding the permission issues, again you need to…

First port of call would be to run a repair on the installation. Remember this will reset your installation back to pre-service pack, so you will need to reinstall SP4. Make sure you have no Orion related console applications open when you run the installation and that you are running the installer under a local admin…

I do not believe this is currently possible, but will come back if I can find a way to do so. I suggest you add this as a feature request as I can see the benefit of being able to reference such values in the search parameters, whether Regex or plain text.

The fact that your message output in the alert is not showing the variable name (i.e. ${node.city}) suggests the column exists. I am not sure from your post, but have you confirmed that the node you received the error output for has data within the Custom Property fields? The Custom Property variable names in the Advanced…

If you are asking if NCM can run a firmware update when it 'sees' a condition then maybe this will work 1. Firmware upgrade job defined, which would probably be defined in Config Change template 2. A core Orion alert set to look for certain condition: node is up AND firmware = 12.4 AND model = cuz AND site = ABC 3. Action…

The devices should be rediscovered automatically (default every 30 mins) What is the reason you have so many question marks showing on the devices?

Hi, Key things to check: * Firewall if enabled allows incoming connections on port 1433 * That Named Pipes protocol is enabled * you restarted the SQL Server service when you made the initial change and when enabling name pipes protocol The following link is useful: msdn.microsoft.com/.../dd857537(VS.85).aspx

Hi (Note: I did not look at the file) Things you need to do: * Can you ping the devices while RDP'd on to the Orion server (APE if using APE's) * Are you monitoring via SNMP and if so is the SNMP data still correct or do they show as unknown * Check the JobEngine and Data Collector log files in (C:\programdata\SolarWinds)

Hi Gary, There are a number of colour schemes available within the Orion browser interface. These can be selected in the Admin > Color Scheme section. The CSS could also be adjusted by editing the CSS files (be aware you would need to keep these updated when upgrading, rerunning config wizard etc.) to a colour balance that…

Hi, Not all functionality is available within v3, such as the ability to include NCM queries. I would like to use the SWIS Query resource to display information in a Summary page for NCM report data. This is because the NPM Reporting engine would need to have an Advanced SQL query which cross queries to the NCM database,…

We have deployed SolarWinds Orion on servers (VM and Physical) with teamed NIC's and while this works most of the time, we have encountered issues. Some of these were resolved by changing the VM interface type, some with drivers, but I do recall a couple where despite all efforts when the NIC's on the server were teamed…

This is a known problematic function and you will find a number of posts on Thwack from users attempting to change the collation. Going from Latin to Chinese I would say is even less likely to succeed, due to the significant changes inherent in the character sets and order. A skilled DBA may be able to work through each…

Great post rschroeder​ which only serves to encourage users to 'get involved' in this 'lil old community we have. While I don't have as much time to contribute as I would like, anyone has the ability to spend some time for their and others benefit. For the Anglophiles amongst us - "What to ThwackPoints make? Prizes!"

Hi Mez, I am not 100% sure on the question, as the screenshot indicates you are missing a report, however the report exists under the NCM Inventory category and not NCM Audit. Are you missing this report? You indicate it is now a static report. This report is still editable, so I think it may just be a case of you clicking…

If I was advising one of our clients I would suggest that going towards Adatoles suggestion. Putting a small sized license in place if you need regular access to a test lab or each time you want to dev test install a trial version. With both options create a copy of your production database to use as the foundation. Most…

There is certainly conflicting information out there on this subject from SolarWinds. The fact is you must have Full Recovery mode for logging to allow SQL Server to operate in an HA configuration. In some SolarWinds documentation it does clearly state only SIMPLE logging mode is supported, but then there is a KB article…

Hi Juan, Are these switches running in Menu or CLI mode? I ask as I have switches running in Menu mode I need to create a template for and am having trouble identifying the prompt, as the last output after the login is the date/time stamp. If you have created a custom template, could you share in the content portal? thanks

I have not tried this, but if this works in same way as other deletion processes, where a full delete only occurs during the DB maintenance routine, I suggest you do the following: 1. Delete the CP 2. Run the DB Maintenance routine manually or wait until the following day 3. Recreate the CP

With yesterdays release of v10.4 are there numbers available on upper limits on how many groups can be created? I have a couple of customers with a need to create a grouping structure with dependencies in the hundreds, with one approaching 1,000. Before I begin working down this route, it would be good to know if this is…

Where and how are you using this query? This will need to be used on an appropriate page which will have the variable available to use i.e. Node Details page. You do not need to wrap the NodeID in single quotes as that column is an integer in the database, but this should cause an error. Check the InformationServicev3 log…

As has been mentioned, as the web application is still 32-bit, this is a majorly limiting factor in its performance. Whilst the documents state ~20 concurrent users, this really does depend on how often users are loading pages and performing activities in the web interface. Things you can do to improve things: 1. Follow…