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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…

That's basically a bug in the way Cisco reports some fiber interfaces warning thresholds when they aren't in use. What you see in the CLI is not the same as what you get when you query for those thresholds with SNMP, and Solarwinds is working based on what it sees in SNMPunfortunately. It's super annoying and I tend to…

On top of the things you are already looking at I would also check to make sure that there aren't any view limitations that would allow the first router but prevent the second, otherwise it seems like you are covering the bases I would expect.

The manage pollers menu is for 2 specific use cases, replacing the out of the box values for the cpu/mem pollers or the node details. Everything else falls under the UNDP tool. So if you have a device that is not showing CPU load correctly you can use manage pollers to tell solarwinds to poll a different OID to get cpu…

You just need to set up the switches to send their events via syslog or trap to your orion poller. I don't know hp switches but look up their documentation on logging or syslogs.

NTA does not have that kind of bandwidth, the netflow/ipfix protocols don't have any fields that I've seen to list that info so NTA can only work with what it is given. Does NPM display the correct bandwidth for those microwave links or does it just always show their "rated" speed? I don't have one handy to test with but I…

So a common assumption I run into is that availability is based on time, but orion doesn't have much of a sense of time, it doesn't keep an internal clock like that. It just has datapoints for polled data, and the availability % is determined as a percent of the number of times we polled the object. So in a normal day with…

I was a bit bummed too about the lack of LA specific widgets as well, If you post a screenshot of an example of the log parser widget with data in it I could probably cook up a SWQL based replacement.

That SWQL syntax looks remarkably familiar to me In any case, I wrote a SWQL report that uses UNIONS to get around the duplication that you see when you join your nodes to volumes. SELECT n.caption as Node, '/netperfmon/images/vendors/' + n.VendorIcon as [_IconFor_Node], n.DetailsUrl as [_LinkFor_Node], n.ipaddress as…

Normally when I integrate people onto teams or slack we don't need to involve any power shell. See this post https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-189830

There's also a good amount of documentation about this, but it tends to be scattered around. This one gets most of them though: List of NPM, NTA, VNQM MIBs and OIDs used for Polling - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

So there are probably lots of ways to attack this, but this is how I'd make it happen. First, build out a collection of NTA IP Address Groups to label all my subnets that I care about. yourserver/Orion/TrafficAnalysis/Admin/NetflowIPAddressGroupsEdit.aspx?WebId=ManageIpGroups I have lots defined already, building these…

That is the normal behavior, you will notice if you look for the alert that you Ack'ed that it has been acknowledged by you. Since I prefer to put notes on MY ack's instead of the acknowledge url i typically include the link to the alert details url because you can comment and ack from there.

If you already have that detailed information in a spreadsheet or similar format then the easiest thing is to do the discovery to get the nodes into Orion then import the properties on the manage custom properties screen

First step is not to use the legacy Report Writer, that is not the way things have been done for many years. My first guess is that since CPU Count was added relatively recently the legacy tool just doesn't display it correctly and nobody ever back ported it in. Build it in the web based reporting tool and see if you have…

Are you referring to the oracle SQL client for SAM? Last time I installed it it showed as a related download under SAM.

Modifying the groups in any way is an admin only privilege.

You can pass variables from the node into the NCM script, the variable you want is ${Caption} i believe, but there may be some other syntax that I don't remember off the top of my head but there are examples of it in the admin guide.

Sometimes it can be a dangerous game getting too deep into building out custom views per device type. I frequently end up working with clients who had a former solarwinds admin who created a bunch of different views, but each view has such a mix and match of different resources and layouts that it becomes a real pain for…

Once the reset happens it does stop all further trigger actions, or you can stop it while the alert is active by acknowledging

Lem has no option to define a retention period, it holds everything until the disk is full then starts deleting the oldest data to free space as needed. With the way the DB is structured having a lot of old data in there shouldn't really slow it down unless you start running reports and ndepth searches that actually look…

I believe it doesn't show up because the volumes are treated as being their own objects, you'd probably want to add that same widget to the volumes detail view and the interface details views to capture the alerts that would be triggered by those objects.

Correct there is nothing special in the groups structure to designate being "root" technically root level is just all the folders that aren't explicitly nested inside any other folders, its just the leftovers. You could build what you are describing with a group custom property and complex alert condition, or custom…

It is simplest to say that officially solarwinds does not support multi tenancy and it isn't really something the tools are designed to accommodate easily. You can apply account limitations to the users, and each account can have custom restrictions in terms of what subnets they have rights to, but I find that in many…

Nope thats still basically the best way. The alert GUI only lets you alert on specific values that are already being stored in the database, you can't perform math operations on them like counting. The database currently does not track the number of times most events happen during any given time period so the only way to…

The out of the box http monitor shows response time already but it does not track the amount of data being fetched. You can track the data being sent overall with the appinsight for IIS monitor, but it wouldn't tell you the data being used by a specific user or request.

From the look of it I don't think that verb is going to be useful for your purposes. If you want to move a node to a different polling engine then just use the set-swisobject command to change the engineid value. This is a script I wrote a while back to automatically load balance pollers from lowest to highest One thing to…