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Will be very interesting to see what components and resources take the longest to load on our NPM homepages....might help for a faster load to remove slower resources to another page.

I cannot state how big the sustained thresholds is for our environment. We have to do all of this now using "trickery" in delaying an alert. Problem with that is it doesn't stop SolarWinds from showing the device as red or prevent the entry in the event log. Being able to keep all of this out of the event log and make our…

This is a great point. Just yesterday I had 3 side by side graphs showing the message queues for my polling engine. Poller 1 had 1 item in queue and the graph went all the way to the top, Poller 2 had 150 in queue and the graph went all the way to the top, Poller 3 had 16,000 items in queue (and I'm still trying to figure…

Probably could do that with a local powershell script. Query all 4 servers....return a 1 as long as it's running on at least one server. In the message text output list the server name it's actually running on. Not pretty but would accomplish your goals.

Great point...I had three interns on my team at my last org....all three were brought on full time after the internship

LOL.

Mav, Thanks I already use that template and it does provide some valid helpful data...the concern is if say the server itself goes down none of that matters. Need a separate mechanism.

Great point Peter. Even though there are many customers that don't use syslog or SNMP they are a staple of any well rounded network management product and should not be dismissed.

Indeed they are but acknowledging alerts will always be a function within Orion so it still should be improved upon.

I agree with this feature request but in the interim you might be able to modify this. I wrote a template that would allow me to do the check from a different server than Orion. It's powershell based so you should easily be able to change the logic. Powershell TCP Port Status

I have written a custom powershell script that is doing some of this for me. It is checking the queues to see if they are passing traffic. The script runs hourly to check our queues and sends an email if any queue is over 2000. This is all that it is doing for me right now. I wrote it because thre weeks ago one of my…

For those that haven't seen but are still following this thread...this has been announced in the 5.5 beta....cant' wait! 

This post makes too much sense it has my vote.

Now this isn't an alert but a report that our NOC uses that I created sometime back Frequent Events Last 7 Days It can easily be modified to show whatever interval you need (I use 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days) to catch events that continually occur. I keep it on our NOC watch page so they can easily see it. Makes it simple to…

Just throwing this out there...I would contact support on the trap service not stopping. I have never seen that issue on an version of SW that I have ran.

As a workaround. Machine Type is something that can be controlled via a device poller. If the default OID we poll for machine type does not contain the relevant information you can create a poller and point it to a different OID that does. Create pollers in Device Studio for NPM (solarwinds.com)

Bronx the logic would be say we have a server where we are doing basic system monitoring but now actual services. The CPU on that box is normally pretty low. If the CPU spikes to 90% for an extended period of time we would want to know what is causing the spike. I don't know about other users but my goal has always been…

I've used a similar model. However we have found that especially with SAM it's not always all or nothing...the node can be polling but perhaps some apps (not all) might not be. I ended up writing custom queries for nodes not polled in x amount of time, volumes, interfaces, apps, WPM transactions, etc. Quite cumbersome but…

Please Please Please tell me more about packet analysis. We are currently POC appliances from other vendors for solutions in this space. 

Just so everyone is aware SolarWinds has reached out to me as the original requester to step them through the issues and enhancements we would like to see. I will reread through this thread and try to cover as much of this during my meeting as possible. 

I have long asked why this isn't available. Volumes are an element just like Nodes/Interfaces so why are they left off of this list. We use dedicated volumes for Page files. So they get discovered and then I have to go delete them. I've had to resort to doing this via SQL which is not something that your garden variety…

Not sure why this thread was never updated but I just went to download something in the portal and I now see I can select just one component for download instead of the entire package. Great job SW perhaps someone should mark this as complete? 

Ughh...really...that was much harder than I thought.

I have done nothing with mine other than stream my XBOX one to it which is fantastic. I had one minor issue with a sound driver but that was easily correctable.

Great...I had to write three rules today that had to go near the top...over 150 clicks each to move them up.

It should also control the WPM service on the players. It would be nice to have a one stop shop for all. Makes it simpler if you have to take down your primary you wouldn't have to log into every box. With 4 pollers and 3 players thats 7 systems I have to RDP into just to stop/start services.

Missed out on the sneak peek...is this a rebranding/relaunch of the IP SLA monitor product already offered?

Correct. The goal for this request is to simply silence any alerts but still collect all data. This way you can see when maintenance actually ended and know how the maintenance impacted the device/application etc.

I like what I see there as well. That being said the need may still exist for the old layout as well as I know I personally have several pages created exclusively for executive summary reports. I'd have to have all content loaded on the page to have the report scheduler send them out.

I have participated in several of these sessions over the last few years. I have seen feedback that I have given make it's way into the product line. I have created feature requests and had PMs contact me to ask if their plans for implementation met the requirements of the request I have submitted. I started in this field…