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Follow up. As soon as the invalid entry was removed from DNS the APM components worked normally.

I have multiple solarwinds servers. One one of them since midnight I am getting similar errors when I go into the node details for any device. I even tried creating a new node details and I get the same results.

As long as it would also have the ability to permanently delete and bypass the recycle I'd be for this as well. 

If you don't want to wait there are ways to accomplish this now. I wrote my own powershell script to do this (but didn't publish due to the amount of customizations done for our organization) but there is another user who wrote one as well. 

When they post that there is a new beta available usually there is a link to register for the beta. You have to have current maintenance to participate. 

I have had problems with this in the past due to an overwhelmed SQL server. I would check your message queues to see if they are backed up. It could be solarwinds is polling but it is waiting on the DB to write the data. Look under message queuing in computer management(Right click on my computer and choose manage) of your…

Ok......so I found my own answer to this by looking at the information directly in the database. The number is in bytes so if I want to set 10GB as my threshold I need to take 10*1024^3 to get that number. Second part of my problem. On the alert email that goes out the teams want to know the actual disk space left…

When you have separate instances there are separate process names. If you look at the list of running processes for SQL you will find that for each instance you should see a process named similar to this MSSQL$Instance1 MSSQL$Instance2 etc. These are the processes tied directly to the instance. If it is just the…

Two things. Interface availability has been added to 10.2 per the release notes...I'm awaiting my change window to allow me to install to utilize this feature myself. See here for more details. Secondly I as well have the need to identify the difference in WAN Interfaces. What I did was to create a custom property simply…

Always post your case # in the forum for the product. Explain your situation. The forums are watched by the various PM which can help draw attention to an issue. I've had similar problems and I've found that this can help. I'm sad to say that it's even necessary but it is what it is.

Just curious but what is your memory utilization on both the SQL server and your SolarWinds server? I'd be very concerned about SQL 4GB will barely handle the OS let alone a DB.

This isn't normal and I would suspect your flux capacitor is misaligned ;) I had these issues quite often due to polling to frequently for the size of our network. You could open a ticket with support to see why this is happening. Now what I would always do to get things back on track was to follow the process laid on on…

Create a view using the component Custom Object Resource which is found under miscellaneous. From here you can add individual components from different nodes creating a view with exactly what you want.

At my previous employer I took a unique approach to doing this. At first I was going the same route you were doing trying to calculate the start stop timing of the alerts. I couldn't figure out a way to do it effectively so I went another route. In my alert I wrote to the event log the following every 30 minutes the…

Every product/company has it's flaws it's how they deal with them that makes them stand out....Thank you both for your involvement in this...hopefully we can see some change in the future.

Yeah this is an issue that has been a problem for me since I started using Solarwinds almost 6 years ago. The inability to recoginize and poll more than 1 IP per device is a major flaw IMHO with the product. I am a big advocate of the product and absolutely love it but this lack of a feature has caused me multiple problems…

I don't believe this is possible. Also I personally believe even if it was possible it would be unwise to do so. Part of what this job does is to "summarize" data. For instance if you have your system set to keep detailed statistics for 7 days, hourly statistics for 30 days, and daily for 6 months. That would mean every…

At my past job working for a managed service provider I can't tell you how many times we would recieve notice to remove a node from monitoring and then end up getting requests for historical data on it that I would be unable to provide. We would sometimes unmanaged for a pre-determined time and then delete it. I like the…

See this thread http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/151291#151291 I did something similar a few years ago. Also the update Orion Server template has a monitor for the directory size built in for these queues.

 I have never done it but theoretically I think it is possible using SNMP traps. If you configured an alert to send an SNMP trap to the solarwinds server you could then write an alert in the Traps Viewer that said if the number of traps recieved is 3 or greater trigger the alert. You would have basically two alerts written…

Awesome!!! I told my boss when we once had an issue with SolarWinds I was wary of putting in an automatic remediation action. I said if SolarWinds can fix itself that's how Skynet started.

The hostname for a device will be the address that is resolved when a reverse lookup is performed on the IP address it is received from. So if the trap is from a Cisco router for instance unless it is specifically configured to send from one address it will use the closest to the destination. A good practice is to hard set…

Clearing the errors on the device is simply clearing the counters...Solarwinds is querying that interface and adding all the errors it detected over a period. Once they are in the database they remain regardless if they have been cleared. I actually prefer this method because it enabled my NOC team to have this information…

Yes basically I tried to take his original concept and proposed it as a feature request to get it built in the code.

Try looking here http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/753/Why+do+my+custom+map+tooltips+show+the+variable+name+instead+of+the+value%3F

Just curious do you have multiple polling engines? If you move a device from one poller to another the node and all interfaces will be removed from one and then re-added to the other. This is how it will present itself in the logs. Just a thought.

Connect Now doesn't use this at all as far as I know. I tend to be extrememly granular in my SNMP locations especially for gear in a data center. Going as far as to specify rack placment and potentially even RU number. You can then include the SNMP location information in say an alert email so that it is formatted in a…

All powershell scripts must output a numeric statistic. The message is optional. A very basic way to do this is to simply return a 0 or 1 (0 being normal 1 being critical) along with your message output. You would need to output in this format. Statistic: Message:

I 100% agree and suffer from the exact same problem in a large enterprise network. I actually have a schedule where our NOC staff select certain discoveries to run every night at 11PM. So on Monday they scan this network, tuesday a different, etc...etc.. Unfortunately even though SolarWinds is growing it is limitations…

First of all NO SW doesn't support multiple IPs on the same device. Many people have complained and it's on their radar but (I personally have been waiting since 2006 when I first installed). There are multiple feature requests for it so feel free to add your comments there (and like to show support) I did the same thing…