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What version of the net-snmp client are you running? There are some known issue with RHEL8 and some of versions. Mostly they seem to cause snmp to crash. 

Please consider bumping this request too. Basic Auth is not enough. SolarWinds API should support OAUTH2 and Bearer Token, and not just basic auth. - Feature Requests - The Orion Platform - THWACK

I have noticed this behavior with restful calls on the api too. They have to point at the primary poller. Its not a new limitation based on my experience. 

Educating the users to change the polling engine if they are manually adding them is probably best. I am not aware of a method to force users to pick a different one. I suspect a an alert with a scripted action to move a node a different poller based on a given custom property and polling engine id would work too.

Swugtember just does not have the same ring. It is probably for the best as I am sure I would not survive either. 

Agreed @JaroslawLadyga that windows firewall settings should be looked at. Consider using wireshark to monitor the traffic from the new polling engine - if the wmi call is refused by the target server, then its definitely firewall/security. There are some collector logs and DCOM errors in windows event logs that show up…

I think I smell a bigger thread and a feature request. I have been concerned about systems that automatically spin up servers and shut them down too. Makes discovery very interesting. At least containers are handled by the container monitoring - besides an ouchy involving perfstack non support (not sure if that is fixed in…

Custom Properties and even Alert Schedules. You can mix properties that you create like - AWS_AlwaysOn: Yes/No - that could be used to determine if a cloud based server should always be available/on and have the alert scope look at that property. In other cases, alerts may ONLY be desirable during a certain timeframe or…

Hmm looks like orion.nodes entity has some of this. Look at the IOSVersion field, then do a similar Case function from the example above. SELECT TOP 1000 NodeID, Caption, NodeDescription, Description, Vendor, IOSVersion, MachineType FROM Orion.Nodes Where machinetype = 'windows 2019 server'

Hmm, this report might not work as I believe that the assetinventory entities have the information, which I think are from SAM, not NPM. But here it is: SELECT ais.NodeID , n.Caption , ais.OSVersion , (CASE ais.OSVersion WHEN '10.0 (Build 20348 Multiprocessor Free)' THEN 'Windows Server 2022 ' WHEN '10.0 (Build 22621…

SAM is not a bad choice actually. It will work until you bring the system down for maintenance. Otherwise - you are correct that an external monitor would be preferable. If you have HCO - spin a single node license instance and have it monitor your production HCO instance main poller/web portal. 

@"dunky2k" Great Tip, that is a simple solution to the problem. Its one I had not thought about, thanks for sharing. Otherwise, I agree that you cannot add a modern dashboard directly to a tab. They modern and classic dashboards are separate, which is killer as I REALLY want to put the KPI widgets natively on classic…

Agreed. I ran into the same issue and renamed the files - reran install and no issues. 

Pure has an API that you may want to leverage also. SRM also leverages the API. There is also SMI-S - but that is more SRM specific. Introducing the Pure1® REST API | Pure Storage Blog

Yeah I dont have a better answer for you. All I can hope, and based on your comment above is that the offline installer will work better. Wondering if there is something with the online installer and 2023.1 downloading slowly. 

I hate to say this but try pausing your anti-virus during the installation. It took hours on a dev box for me. I was using the online installer. 

Came up with something similar, but WISH I HAD READ THIS FIRST. Thank you for posting as this is cleaner than my swql. 

You would need to grab the Offline installer for the 2022.4 GA version. I ran a dev install and noticed it was 2023 also. AND I had some bizarre issues. Ugh. 

Ok, I need to stop working. I am seeing things. The files are there, but the names are off. Here is what I noticed upon closer inspection. Observability-2023.1.0.129-Observability-2023.1.0.129-OrionInstaller1.cab Update: Renamed files (there are 21), clicked on retry, and it completed. FYI: I used the online installer if…

I believe that an old catch phrase applies to the API, any API for that matter. "To err is human, to really foul things up, automation is required." Ditto to the above advice - SWIS API is good to use, just be careful in how you use it. 

Unfortunately for all of us, Network Atlas is on the way out. And orion maps, with no client requirement, makes granting access sooo much easier. @"bshopp" Please find a way to do this in orion maps. It's one of the features that makes atlas too sticky to let go. 

Are there any errors messages coming back on the api page? That will give some clues. Otherwise, postman will help a lot to test and troubleshoot. postman is a third party api dev and testing tool and its free. I recall that the https://manage.office.com/ was deprecated - although I still find references to it on…

To help with this - get the Orion SDK from github. Install the SWQL Studio and connect it to your orion server (main poller usually). Type in a swql query such as "Select top 100 nodeid, caption from orion.nodes" Run the query, then click on edit - copy query as - Curl (cmd). Paste it into notepad. That will give you the…

FYI - The solarwinds api still only uses basic auth. Please add your vote to change that SolarWinds API should support OAUTH2 and Bearer Token, and not just basic auth. - Feature Requests - The Orion Platform - THWACK

You have tried to install a fresh copy downloaded from your solarwinds server to a different system, installed it, and tried to use it?

All I can say is WOW. No, I have not tinkered that deeply, I usually tried to recreate the functionality via swql and deploy as a widget. But this is an amazing look at where tinkering can take you. The main caveat I would remind people - Back up any modified files BEFORE you run any solarwinds hotfix, patch, or run the…

You got it! SWQL Studio is your friend. ALways use it to test, as it gives details if you create a terrible query that wont work. And you will most likely create those on occasion, all of us do. Good luck, and seriously search thwack for swql reports/queries. There is a lot posted here - no reason to reinvent the wheel. If…

You will want to take a look at the Orion SDK and SWQL Studio. Its on github: GitHub - solarwinds/OrionSDK: SDK for the SolarWinds Orion platform, including tools, documentation, and samples in PowerShell, C#, Go, Perl, and Java.. Otherwise, you are absolutely correct that SolarWinds has changed A LOT since…

I agree with @"Seashore". The big thing is to make sure the cluster will meet the performance specs, especially in a shared sql environment. No one has mentioned running it on VM's - but that is not a problem either. The SolarWinds Orion DB runs fine in Always on group on top of VM's, again - make sure it meets the specs.…

My best guess is that you are looking at restoring those files from backup. They might be in the trashbin, but I would not count on it. I stopped using custom dll, folders, anything the solarwinds directories that were not put there by SolarWinds. I got burned once after inheriting a system, that was one too many times.…