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OMG!!! I always overlook things like this. THANK YOU!!!!

@"kishore574" The labs KMSigma posted are really good at showing the basics of dashboards. Start out simple and learn and grow. Those the the three labs I have watched a few times and made notes to start my voyage onto new and exciting Dashboards. 

Yes - this was turned into a bit of a learning exercise. 

I figured I would come in here and close the loop. Issue 2 - I removed the LDAP information and removed the groups and added them back and things are working. Yaay! Issue 1 - The Identity Team is working on a new tool to automate account creation. They were deploying Administrative accounts with this tool before going live…

Support just came back with - LDAP is turned on. You only have to configure advanced LDAP authentication if the Orion server is not a member of the domain of the individual/group users who can access the web console. If the Orion server is a member of the same domain as with the users, there's no need to turn on LDAP.…

This is all the documentation I can find right now https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/core-enable-ldap-authentication.htm

Does anyone know if Orion can support different AD Groups? I had four groups setup right now - Admins, User, Viewer, Executive Review and right now only the Admins work but no new Admins work. Support has me going around in circles and are sending me things I have done and checked over. Thanks!

I have setup an Executive Review group with limited access and have my regular account in that one and it does not work. I tried in different browsers and also with different users and no go. 

Are you talking about the Solarwinds service account I use for monitoring? I just did the AD check and test with the Solarwinds service account and it did work.

It still works!!!!

Thanks! I will give that a try and/or open a ticket with support. It looks like my AD auth for Solarwinds is not working with anything new. 

I had no idea that existed and it looks like it will be going web based in the future. Thanks!!!

Oh yeah. Once I started working with this it made sense. Thanks!

Thank you. I will have a look and see if this helps. 

Do you have a link of how to do this? I feel like a complete newbie again with all these questions.

Wow that sounds really amazing and builds off something Kevin posted that I found this morning - https://thwack.solarwinds.com/resources/thwack-command-center/solarwinds-thwack-mvps/f/forum/25799/video-use-custom-properties-to-filter-a-widget-resource'

Ok thanks. That is kind of what I figured but just wanted to check to see if there were any other magic tricks lol. 

I had a little time to play so I was editing one of my dashboards and now I really see what you did here. I hopefully will get some additional time to dig into this. Thank you again!

THANK YOU!!! @"jm_sysadmin". I will look at this later when I go back into learning/teaching/figuring out dashboards and SWQL. I am sure I will have more question. This is going to give me a great place to start and look at how things are setup. Woohoo!

I have been looking for this exact query. THANK YOU!!!

This is great but I am just a bit confused at how the custom properties are used in the query. I tried to set this up in my test area and it did not like the query. Is the custom property Business_Region or is it EMEA? Thanks!!!

Wow. This was really helpful I have this same problem and figured it was something with the node. Thanks!

If you have Server and Application Monitor (SAM) there are some built in templates to monitor Solarwinds Services as an option.

And not just your standard SQL servers

I worked with Christopher and he was able to get me in but I had to use the Solarwinds local account to get into SWQL studio. Not sure why it is not accepting my domain login. I had an issue like this years ago with Network Atlas so not sure if they are related. Thanks! -Dave

It has been probably over a year since I have tried to connect. I get these options to login as -

I am using my domain admin account that I use to do things in Orion. I bet that is the incorrect account lol

So I found the widgets but is there some way to figure out what or how it is pulling its information so I can customize? 

Ahhhhhhhhh thanks. The DBA team likes instances with wait times and we are trying to organize by Prod / Test boxes and the different business units. I can setup a dashboard with a group but the data was not showing up correctly in some of the widgets. This looks like a bit of a fun rabbit hole. Thank you!!

I do like that one as well and have used some if it to setup dashboards but I thought Lab #93 gives you a good basic example of creating a dashboard. Heck they are all very informative!!!