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On a multi-subnet HA deployment each server would just use their individual IP as their source, there is no VIP moving between them after a failover. They do trigger a DNS update for the virtual hostname when the failover happens, but if DC1SERVER is active then it will source from the IP on DC1SERVER and when DC2SERVER…

The product managers for all of the products are often seen saying that all OOTB alerts for all SolarWinds products are examples or templates that you can use a reference point to get you started, but should be reworked and tailored to you particular situation. Whenever I do a LEM engagement we spend about an hour or two…

I fused together 3-4 reports that I had laying around and came up with this one. selectn.caption as [Server Name],'/Orion/images/StatusIcons/Small-' + n.StatusIcon AS [_IconFor_Server Name],n.detailsurl as [_linkfor_Server Name],IP_address,case when n.cpuload < 0 then 'Not Polled'when n.host.nodeid is not null and…

I came up with this, using SWQL but it wouldn't be hard to adjust to use SQL SELECT n.caption, peak.maxload, (select top 1 datetime from orion.CPULoad cpu2 where cpu2.DateTime> addday(-7,GETUTCDATE()) and cpu2.NodeID=n.nodeid ) as time FROM Orion.Nodes n join (select cpu.nodeid, max(cpu.MaxLoad) as MaxLoad from…

I've often run into quirky things when importing those properties sheets, I always export them to ms dos csv format because i find that always works, where things get weird with various excel formats

So I took this as an opportunity to quickly learn how these new tables are set up... all I can say is I regret that. Getting down to the ACL was pretty straightforward but the way the rules are in the db is not making much sense to me. First of all nothing in SWQL will actually show you the content of the line, so nothing…

There is no built in function in SAM to reboot servers automatically, there is a button you can click on the node details page to send a reboot command but nothing does it automatically. https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Create-a-reboot-Windows-server-alert-action The closest option they give is that…

So snmp get Tables actually always only have a single column, in this case I assume you have checked the box for 3-4 OID's to build that table you have there. You would need to build your alert condition to look for something like status=3 and poller name to whichever custom poller specifically looks for drive status. 

Your code needs to be something like this: $server = <span class="pln" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;color:#303336;">$args</span><span class="pun" style="font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:inherit;color:#303336;">[</span><span class="lit" style="font-style: inherit;…

Your problem is that this is polling a table, and you are using resources geared toward single value pollers. On the view where you had the Custom Poller Status resource add in a Tabular Universal Device Poller and set it to display one of those pollers and you should get something a little more useful. In terms of…

AS400 has fairly limited information available to you via SNMP, which you would monitor the same as any other SNMP based device in Solarwinds. There are a few vendors who have created custom SNMP agents you can install to replace the built in SNMP agent with a more complete one, unfortunately these are not free. The…

Yes you can set up to 10 output pairs in the script, so you can do the pairs you described with 1 component, but you need to report them both under all circumstances or else the monitor will show as beeing unknown, so add the one you aren't using to your if statements with 0 whatever placeholder value. You should probably…

Assuming you need to monitor all 10 of the interfaces on 20 devices then you need 200 licenses at least, ALL interfaces that you collect stats from count, including things such as VLAN's and loopbacks if you choose to monitor them (usually not necessary but if you check the box to monitor them it counts)

This is the SWQL one i use for this, keep in mind that big environments can have a lot of components SELECT n.Caption AS [Node Name] ,n.detailsurl as [_linkfor_Node Name] , '/Orion/images/StatusIcons/Small-' + n.StatusIcon AS [_IconFor_Node Name] ,n.ip_address as [IP Address] ,n.detailsurl as [_linkfor_IP Address] ,c.Name…

It's really hard to pin down because obviously each log file is tracking different kinds of things that can go wrong. If I HAD to pick I'd be looking at something like this list since this is where I've had the most frequent issues over the years, but this is absolutely not comprehensive. BusinessLayerHost.log…

I find that in many cases when you manipulate volumes they actually change their identifier within SNMP/WMI. As far as Solarwinds sees the volume they were watching before no longer exists and now there is a new volume. It would be nice if Solarwinds automatically added new volumes but they have opted not to go that route…

EOC only holds the latest stats, so if your reports include historical data (which i would expect almost all good reports should) then it will not serve to aggregate them. I'd expect the only way to pull this off using Solarwinds tools would be to consolidate those three separate instances into a single instance using…

No you are not missing anything, the active alerts resource does not allow for any filtering. One workaround is to apply a view limitation filtered by that custom property to the whole view instead of filtering each resource on the page, but then you would need to create a separate view for the dev environment. I wrote a…

So if you are familiar with SQL joins it tends to make more sense, but basically when you set up a report in there you have to be very careful about the objects you include in the columns because the report system is basically stringing joins together in whatever way you tell it, regardless of if that join is a good idea.…

I've found this post by airsun to be helpful How to properly configure SNMPv3 in CISCO

Do you have Orion HA installed? The HA module will take control of services to try and keep the system alive.

Netflow as a protocol does not distinguish between versions of cifs. A full service DPI tool would likely be able sniff it out, but I don't think even nbar2 (newer fancier netflow protocol) is looking for cifs versions. You'd probably need something collecting from a span port or network tap.

Not very hard at all, Integrate an Orion Platform product with ServiceNow And once you are integrated you actually need to go in and set up your alert actions for the kinds of things you want tickets opened on, Create a ServiceNow incident

That's not a default view, someone must have added it to your system

I have to admit, I have never built a UDT summary page for any client at all, except to add a custom query widget to search instead of using the built in one (custom query one loads MUCH faster because it doesn't force you to reload a page). UDT info on it's own rarely seems useful to me, it begs to be merged with other…

Set your trigger like this Now, normally when you add a node to Solarwinds it assume that you are giving it a static address, if the device is using DHCP or is supposed to following a DNS entry you need to make sure to set the edit the node and set it similar to this example

my first thought is to make sure that all the same custom properties exist in the new system as the old one, ive definitely had problems before when trying to import alerts that reference properties that don't exist

Might be able to get it to just add them by running a discovery against all those ups ip's. Othewise there tends to be a lag time between new features coming out and anyone getting around to scripting things up around them. I'd just pop open swql studio and look for your node, keep an eye on the pollers table, and then all…

all the credentials info is stored on the credentials table and I think there is also a credentialsettings

Officially it is unsupported to do any changes to the index structure, you are entirely on your own. Outside of official support, I have had many large clients who turned their dba's loose on their instances to squeeze out more performance. Depending on how you use your monitoring tools you definitely can run into…