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One thing I didn't like was the lack of load balancing. I read a bunch after I found that out and apparently at one point in time it was possible, but they have changed it up and you are going to have to manually assign nodes to the pollers you want responsible for them. Not a huge deal, and it's easy to do but watch out…

Seems like that's the magic quick fix for everything. Every few months I have to bounce the services, run a query against the database, and then restart the primary poller because reboot alert emails quit getting sent out.

Looks like I'm going to submit a case, the alert still doesn't seem to be working even after all the steps from early on in this thread. Cool. edit: With apologies to SolarWinds, this time the problem was our own fault. There was a problem with the Exchange server I have set as the primary so I didn't get my nightly/early…

I think your timing is about right. I had the problem late last year for the first time based on my post in this thread. I do believe that was right around when I upgraded. I however have not rebooted the primary poller since the last time this happened, so it wasn't a reboot that caused the problem (yet again) for us.

If it were up to me I'd like to be able to pull the web server off the primary poller without having to pay for another license, but it's just not like that unfortunately.

Definitely check firewall config in a case like that. Big mess for me monitoring remote sites and having firewalls opened up to monitor nodes and applications via WMI. Eventually got sorted but was the subject of a lot of phone calls.

Didn't appear to be, however I found a lot of old stuff that then had to be fully qualified because originally it wasn't. Those were fun to track down but this deployment has been in place for many years so there's always a surprise or two lurking.

I did this for an email subject when requested on an alert many nodes could trigger: Alert ${N=Alerting;M=AlertName} on ${N=SwisEntity;M=Node.DisplayName} triggered at ${N=Alerting;M=AlertTriggerTime;F=DateTime} This alert is set to run off of an application monitor, I believe the syntax is slightly different for a…

Has it been rescheduled?

Very cool! Thanks to you for opening that case, and thank you SolarWinds folks for the assist! Going to make an edit to this, too. Been poking around and I'm seeing behavior mentioned a long time ago in the thread where the initial display looks like this: I've got one node that I'm using for testing where I specified…

Interesting. I did just upgrade to 12 but we do updates and not fresh installs here, also on 2012 R2 for us. I didn't think about re-configuring the web server, if I end up with some free time in the future I may give it a shot. Right now I'm cheating a bit after poking around on the message boards, sticking with the…

Hi everyone, A co-worker and I are working on trying to fire this up since it's such a neat feature but we're running into some trouble. When we attempt to access the pages we get this message in SolarWinds: The file '/Orion/GoogleMap/GoogleMap.aspx' has not been pre-compiled, and cannot be requested. The custom object of…

Nice, thanks dude. I think I'll be eventually rolling out one more so I'm going to end up right under 25% of what you manage. The final environment should be a DB, primary, APE 1, APE2, and APE3.

I had a failure with the installer when I tried stacking the pollers during the initial expansion. I figured "screw it" because it was all VMs anyway and just spun up a new VM to be the APE at the main location. Added a little extra processor juice and some memory and the primary handles those duties as well as hosting the…

That's a pretty poor comparison. I've never bought a ticket specifically advertised as "unlimited" rides on "Unlimited Railways" only to be told halfway through my journey I had to buy an "Additional Railway Engine"... so there's that.

Agreed. I had a fun time explaining that "unlimited" did in fact mean "yes, totally limited and expensive to scale".

Originally it was marked urgent. I was at a loss as to what the actual problem was which was why I wanted to involve support. The deal was that the configuration wizard never ran, I found where it had been unpacked and ran it myself today and found the problem. It ended up being a DNS problem with the node at the off-site…

I'm trying to run the installer generated off my primary polling engine on a node I want to be an off-site APE. Installer simply doesn't run. I'm doing everything the exact same as when I set up an APE at the same site as the primary and it's just not working off-site. Same domain, same configuration, just at a different…

You could cheat and make an alert specific to the node, then the service, and then have the state for when an alter is triggered be anything other than up. This page is an awesome cheat sheet for them: pc -- six demon bag So your alert would say: On node X, if service "MSExchangeIS" is in a state other than up - send me an…

You can click the "edit" link over your map, and then from there you can click the "Set location and zoom level" button and then pick where you want the map to be centered. It'll save that for you and you can also set the size of the element in case you can't squeeze it all in at the default height. You can auto-populate…

Quick and easy one for our helpdesk.

I had a similar but different issue, had to re-run the configuration wizard. Try doing that just for the web interface.

Saw this thread and opened up some of mine and I see exactly what you're talking about now. I wonder if there is a way to do this as it would be nice to add a bit of info to the recipients of some of the messages that get generated by my environment.

I'll go ahead and answer my own question now... turns out when you're pointing network discovery at the IPs of the ESX hosts and not the CVMs you get the wrong results. Fancy that. Those two links are still good resources for someone looking to set this all up so hey, this thread isn't a total loss!

I made an application monitor where I pointed that at the services I wanted to monitor, and then based the alert off of the status of the monitor. Application monitor: Alert:

Yes, just add your credentials and make sure the domain networks can both talk to wherever (network/VLAN) your SolarWinds server is.

I haven't been on a vacation in almost ten years. Last time I had a proper vacation I got an awful case of food poisoning and had to fly home two days early. Super relaxing.

What method are you guys trying to poll the servers with? SNMP? WMI? I monitor a pile of 2008 R2 servers and have yet to come across this.

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Try a repair install on the .NET framework? If you still have problems you can uninstall, reboot, reinstall, try report writer again maybe?