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#3 is #1 in my book and has been since I first installed Orion 6 years ago. The forums are filled with posts from myself and others of the complicated workarounds we implement to handle this problem on our own. The other one that I would hope could be done but is not on this list would be the ability to add some copy or…

I went ahead and opened support case # 274151 and uploaded the diagnostics to leapfile.

My biggest thing would be improved discoveries. Currently the only option is daily. We have a very large network. I would stagger our schedule. So let's say for example that I have 21 networks I want to discover. I would schedule 3 each night to occur. It is impossible for me to schedule discoveries now due to this…

This thread should shed some light on this. http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/67780#67780

This is my opinion so please take it as such. As a MSP who utilizes several servers for different clients I hate that Thwack is a default addition to the summary page and the menu bar. Every server I setup I remove it. My Orion servers are to monitor client networks only. Myself and the members of my team can go to the…

You need to go into the actual server. This function isn't available from the web gui.

This can be done today. On the server under the advanced features program folder for orion there is a Unmanage scheduling utility. Allows you to create a scheduled task to unmanage a device for a period of time. I use if for your exact example.

The crazy percentages you are seeing are from the actual database...you don't have to use them you can simply type in your own number like 30 for 30% if you want.

I had a similar issue that I posted about http://thwack.solarwinds.com/thread/49470 and was told it is controlled by the poll for VMware and cannot be disabled. Hardware health monitoring cannot be disabled for VMWare ESX hosts without also disabling "Poll for VMWare". Hardware health is just another metric we collect as…

One thing to check is your alert condition. By default I believe the Node Down alert says to alert when Node Status is not equal to Up. When you have a dependency a node goes into an unreachable state which is not equal to up. You would need to change your conditions to filter out the unreachable status. Not sure if this…

First of all you can change the port you monitor. I monitor multiple SQL servers and I don't think any of them are on 1433. I utilize AD creds but the SQL database will need to be setup to accept them. I choose the same svc account from my drop down that I use for my windows server monitoring. I don't know the answer to…

I used to have multiple licenses of NPM when I worked for a managed service provider. Anything under 250 nodes I used the SQL express for. That being said however I was only running NPM no other modules. 

Please review this thread. http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/15294 I had the same issue and worked with one of their top support members to correct it. If I remember right I only had to add this line to my template to make it work. <Command Name="PRECOMMAND" Value="set cli prompt "%u@%h"" /> Something coming back in the…

Your report is utilizing an average of the combined traffic for the xmt/rcv whereas the chart is showing the individual min/max/average for each xmt and rcv. 

You can edit that resource and add a filter. To simply exclude Physical Memory the filter is VolumeType <> 'RAM' If you would instead like to show only fixed disks you could set the filter to VolumeType = 'Fixed Disk' I would prefer the latter method because you also have Virtual Memory, Memory Buffers and other possible…

Curious to know why Database improvements was stricken from the record. I would think this is something SW would strive for on every release. I have seen numerous issues with deadlocks or poorly written queries (many of which I have replaced with custom resources) that come from the webui. 

I am specifically intrigued by 3 & 5. I am really hoping 3 allows for the ability to ignore all interfaces upon discoveries for servers. We monitor the ports on the switches not both ends so this would be particularly handy to us. Improvements to the DB performance and more efficient queries from the front end are always…

Ask your SQL guy what table is filling up the most? That seems awfully big for only 47 nodes. For instance I have 18000 elements and I'm nowhere near that large of space used. Are you doing SNMP trapping or Syslogging? Those can contain large amounts of text that could easily begin to fill the tables.

Unless something has changed I don't believe this is possible today. I created reports for specific alert types and then put them into different views. However if someone clicks on the alert in my report page it takes them to the unfiltered list you referred to.

I've been trolling a bunch of powershell forums lately for different custom monitors I had to build...I stumbled across this one a few days ago and bookmarked it because I thought I might have a use for it down the road. It compares the local system to time.nist.gov and then outputs the difference in seconds...I'm sure it…

I assume you will have some sort of list of names or IP addresses of the machines being changed? If so do a discovery of those nodes utilizing only the new SNMP string. That would be a pretty simple way to go. You could even rediscover all the nodes with the new strings on a scheduled basis then every morning check the…

Make sure it's in remote execution mode. If it is not the script is actually running on the SolarWinds server and not the remote target.

I agree completely the ignore list needs the ability to be more dynamic.....I would like to take it a step further and also have the discovery add some exclusion rules to it. So if I have 172.16.0.0 in my discovery list I would like to be able to exclude some ranges without having to individually list the ranges or…

Check the report folder assigned to the user under account settings. It is probably set to no reports.

At one point at my previous employer here is how I tackled this. I monitored the Private IP on the serial connection for the carrier side of the circuit. This was done for the exact reason you mentioned checking for a layer 3 issue. I would monitor via ICMP only for each interface and labeled them accordingly. This ensured…

There was a webinar yesterday on an upcoming product SEUM that sounds like a good fit for your question. It's not out yet so there is limited data but I'm sure one of the SW staff can fill you in.

I was thinking the same thing myself during the demo. I figured however even if this isn't accounted for it could easily be accomplished with some type of NAT through the firewall if there aren't any other options.

The built in SQL monitors that can run a query will only capture one value or metric per monitor. That being said I think that you have two potential options. #1 Write a more advanced query that gathers both metrics and then performs whatever math function you require and send that as the output. #2 Using powershell or…

There is an existing feature request for this if you would like to vote on it. http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/1049

From the web gui you can disable all alerts by clicking the top check box and then choosing disable. Go to settings, manage alerts.