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The search and sort options are part of the Table Widget that you can create in a Modern Dashboard. Here is the SolarWinds Lab video for creating them:SolarWinds Lab Episode #93–A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Modern Dashboards on the Orion Platform

CHeck any wpm locations for manual upgrades of the players too. 

Just ran it. The upgrade lasted about an hour with multiple pollers and modules. If you have wpm - you may need to manually stop WPM Browser processes. The installer will stop, tell you which what to stop, then just click retry on the installer. It completed without further issues. Validation so far seems to fine. I will…

@"ashley.heilbronn" You cleared the browser cache again - after the last rebuild? Just doublechecking as browsers never fail to cause issues. Also - Three weeks of leave? Hoping it was for a vacation and that is awesome.

OMG no, i would not create them fresh each time, if it can be avoided. I would definitely consider several dynamic groups or multiple custom properties - then create the reports around each group that you need. You can schedule the report and have it delivered even. Using a modern dashboard - create a table. Enable the…

Which setting? I checked dhcp users group and the account is present in the that group. Still getting the error. I am on orion 2020.2.6 which seems to slightly change how impersonation works, but I am using a domain account in the domain\user format. Thank you.

Yes, one method is in swql with a "where caption IN ('abc','def')" clause , alternatively, you can wildcard it "where caption like '%bc' or caption like '%ef'" Custom properties or node groups can make this much easier to do. THe web reporting has similar capability. You can sort nodes by using caption contains def or make…

I have wpm, and did not run into issues with the upgrade from it - so I don't think WPM 2020.2.6 is a no go. I have a dev system that needs a new fresh install, I will have to see what happens. All I can think if is the usual stuff - .Net issues, windows patches, antivirus exclusions, installation as admin/disabling…

I like the thinking that I saw in the options. It does feel more integrated and streamlined. Can't wait to see how this comes out. 

@"aLTeReGo" - thank you for reminding us of the simplest of solutions. I need to say one thing - I still hate browsers. So far so good on clearing cookies/all data from prior version of Edge from Edge - Chromium. I am guessing that the import process in Edge Chromium did something interesting that may have caused this.…

I have noticed that UAC is enabled on these workstations, but I don't think I can completely disable it. Not sure if I want to do that anymore either. 

I agree with @"daham_bm" and would add the following options. While you are considering a full cloud deployment, are you able to look at a hybrid solution. Are you able to place the primary poller with azure sql or sql vm in azure, and running additional pollers in the three locations? I am assuming that you have…

Can you post any updates on this? 

Have you tried incognito chrome and inprivate edge chromium browser sessions? Oddly that is working in my case. It seems to be something with loadbalancing, as I can hit each web server directly. 

Without more detail, I am only guessing - but are you using the new chromium based Edge browser? 

I agree with @"dunky2k" about the message center. THere are also posts about creating alerts/reports on the audit tables to help track this stuff. You will need to search for the IP address though.

@"stuartdc" When the alert variable is formatted incorrectly or the wrong type, it will display the variable code itself - shown in your example. Sometimes, it does when it fails to retrieve the values - check your db performance if you suspect this. You are on the right track to delete and re-create. One thing I have…

One question - are you monitoring via WinRM or WMI? 

You can do this via the normal web alerts too. See image below, you may want to delete the unmanaged conditions. This works pretty well for me. The trigger action sends an email with the audit message. THe message includes who and what. Here is the variable string that I use: ${N=SwisEntity;M=AuditEventMessage} on…

Cisco and Citrix. EMC storage. 

There is an article about this. https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/How-to-create-a-non-administrator-user-for-SAM-polling?language=en_US . The barebones are there to create your own scripts to limit an account. The problem goes back to how MS implemented security in WMI. One thing to point out, each…

Just an FYI - sql tables may change during any Orion upgrade. This is another reason to use the api/swql - Solarwinds works to maintain them through upgrades. @wluther is correct about the safety features built into swql calls. I have had to quickly fix sql based alerts and reports following a few upgrades. Then I learned…

You will need to look at the API. Most of the reporting needs are available through that and not the website interface. 

The only other information that I have found is a reported issue in github. I am not when it will be addressed. IntelliSense AutoComplete in SWQL Studio Not Working Properly After Upgrade to 3.0.0.290 #264

When you click on Add Node in the Node Management screen, choose External Node. It is the first option under the polling method. Then apply the website/ssl template to that node. 

This is expected behavior for the OOTB alerts. They provide baselines that you can copy and modify to meet your needs. 

That is a keep alive entry in the log file. You are modifying the SQL db and the config wiz has is still running. I ran into that with the 2020.2.1 HF2 upgrade. The sql portion lasted hours, it has to do with your db in particular. That is what I learned from my ticket in December. My advice - let it run. Get a coffee, or…

I am curious to hear what others say, in particular those with larger environments that include multiple modules and scalability servers (ape's and awe's). 

Hello @"vinay.by" I agree. I believe things like the .net changes require rewrites, as do accommodating wmi variations in windows. This question came up recently and I don't recall seeing a specific article about how/when components are upgraded. Thank you Marc

Create an external node, you could name it "Website Monitoring" then assign the template with the https/ssl expiration components (just keep adding them for each site/cert to that template) to that external node.