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The advice given is correct for larger installations, which is usually where the DR failover requirement exists anyway and lower powered SQL Servers. The nature of the data being collected and stored by Orion places a heavy I/O load on the SQL Server. Having logging set to Full Recovery only increases this load, and quite…

It is not clear if you have the time period covered, but this will simply be part of the trigger filter using the 'Last Status Change' value. Make sure in the Alert Object setting on Trigger tab you select Interface, so that the Interface variables are available to pass to the Execute NCM Action. Write out your command to…

You can utilise the Custom SQL Variable within the alert variable selector. You will need to use the other variables within the SQL query in order to bring back the correct information which in this case may be the ApplicationID value for the template these component monitors reside. If you only have this assigned to one,…

You do not state how loaded your 5 Orion modules are, but I am taking it you got the 16 core 24GB recommendation from the Multi Module sizing guide. The beauty of VM is the ability to adjust resource assignment easily and therefore you can tune the specification based on actual usage. I suggest to our customers that they…

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I have not come across any problem like this. Do you have any error references to see where and how the server is crashing; at what point does it crash, what aspect of the OS crashes and any error messages etc.

Firedaemon may well do what you need. I have not tried this with any of the toolsets, but have used this for other applications I needed to run as a service and it worked extremely well. http://www.firedaemon.com/ Prosperon Networks - Authorised UK SolarWinds Resellers http://www.prosperon.co.uk

Hi You wont be able to re-create the Manage Subnets & IPS page, as this is simply not a resource that is available for adding to a new page. You are right, the best method to provide subnet information on such a shared (NPM and IPAM) data on a page is to utilise the Custom Query or Custom Table resource. You could make it…

Hi Tim, I can confirm that the Interface Removal function within the API was causing the NodeID to be added to the DeletedNodes table for us. Truncating this table after running the script has ensured that the additional interfaces do not then get removed when the Orion DB Maintenance task processes. We now have a merged…

If you are running Orion version 12.2 or above you wil have AppInsight for ASA, which has 2 predefined alerts for ASA HA alerting: * Failover on ASA Node * High Availability on ASA node is not up

I would recommend you utilise core Orion Custom Properties, rather than the NCM Node Group field, which I would not be surprised was removed eventually. The following is an excerpt from another post on the use of Custom Properties within Config Templates, which should point you in the right direction. CUSTOM PROPERTIES…

Easiest method is to use the Custom table resource 1. Choose Component as the data source object type 2. Configure this to filter to the name of the Application Template name or Component name, whichever works best for you 3. Add the Node name, Component Status and the Component Message values to the table Hope this helps.

Hi If you wanted to have a solution not based on scripts, the eyeShare solution would be perfect fit and give additional benefits such as condition validation before raising a ticket in HP SM. The following resources will show what I mean HP SM Support http://ayehu.com/integration-packs/hp-service-manager-integration/…

Rather annoyingly SolarWinds ommitted the inclusion of a specific threshold value for Volumes, which obviously should be based on current utilisation. Instead they created a threshold value based on Future capacity. However, you may be able to use this threshold setting. zackm​ posted an excellent article on creating…

Hi Main Not quite. The report will be generated on the data points within the database for the metric you are including. Using the unmanage facility simply stops data points from being recorded in the first place and prevents downtime records being created. For example if you had a node availability report for last week…

Great job, really like how you made this turn out.

This error being due to the fact that the server does not have Internet access to update its root certificates. The easiest thing to do is to remove this feature, as it is redundant in this scenario: 1. Goto Add/Remove Programs > Windows Components 2. Untick Update Root Certificates and click next

Moving the database is a straightforward procedure and is already documented in the following resource - www.solarwinds.com/.../MovingYourOrionNPMDatabase.pdf Once the database has been migrated from 1 server to another, you just need to re-run the configuration wizard to connect to the new database source.

Unless you have changed the port used for Syslog reception in either NPM or NCM you can only run one of these at a time, as you can only have one application listening on a network port at a time. The Syslog data is stored within the SQL Database, so you can use SQL Query syntax for searching in the database if the web or…

Hi It is not necessary to use the converted UnDP value, as the report definition will allow you to manipulate the result. In this case if you edit the report format section and click on Advanced for the column you wish to manipulate, you will see an option within the drop down for Display Setting to use data conversion.…

I would raise a case and get someone to have a look. Alternatively and probably easier is to redeploy a new LEM VM appliance. You will need to update your agents if the address is different, but this sounds like a very isolated issue with the database. I have never come across this issue with any of our clients.

In addition - what do you see under Manage > Nodes? I haven't seen an installation where events are showing in Monitor but not in nDepth. This would suggest an issue with node registration or nDepth database. May be necessary to open a case for this.

It is not possible to export Rules or Policies, so the approach will be to export and import the report as a whole. You can then edit that imported report to remove any rules and policies that are not applicable on the new installation. In your installation where you have the Compliance report already built, navigate to…

First thing to check is that your Database is configured to log in Simple mode. Unless you are clustering the SQL Server and using log shipping this only adds overhead to the database and is an unnecessary strain on the high transaction load

It is not possible to change this value in the GUI, but can be done within the raw database - Use with care! However this is more of a procedure issue, where the previous incarnation of the device could be retired by using the Unmanage option and the new device added. I would be interested to know if this value could be…

Hi, Has there been any change to the ability to insert data into the Events table via an SDK CRUD operation? Currently we are doing this via SQL Insert statements, but I would prefer to adopt the SDK for this function. thanks

This may be a case to raise with SW support. This could be for many reasons and the first place to look is in the log files - Windows event logs for service issues and SolarWinds log files to identify the root cause of the service faulting. SolarWinds log files are in C:\ProgramData\SolarWinds\Orion\Logs Look at Alert logs…

First thing to confirm is that LEM is has USB defender enabled for the devices within LEM. Then you need to check to determine if you have an alert which will prevent USB mass storage device usage. The whitelist reference will be within this, assuming you have this defined.

Within the NTA Settings in the admin area, at the bottom you will have your list of nodes and interfaces being monitored. If you have not designated the node & interface to be monitored for Netflow, you can click the edit button and enable it in the following screen. Also in the Netflow Summary page, by default there is a…

Have you had a problem using the Report Scheduler tool which is an application that runs on the Orion server? With this tool you can schedule a report to be emailed at a set time, selecting whichever page you wish to use as the content. Therefore using the above link is straightforward and to get the Top 10 type report,…