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Completely undocumented, I've learned to make one-off adjustments when I didn't want to do repetitive work in the GUI, but its murky in there. Your best bet is just to create an example of the alert you want then export it and pick apart the XML. You can definitely use the API to export alerts and import them, and I…

So first of all, does that account that you are trying to use have access to orion web console? It does not matter if it works anywhere else, if it can't access the Orion web console it won't work.

The sysuptime SNMP OID is a 32 bit count of timeticks since the last reboot, around 497 days of uptime that counter rolls over. Orion doesn't keep any kind of secondary table of this information to know if the counter rolled over due to maxing out versus resetting from a reboot. As you know SolarWinds themselves are pretty…

If you customize the page there is a resource called short blank space or tall blank space, once you add those in you can edit them to specify exactly how tall it needs to be. -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems * Facebook: Loop1 Systems * Twitter:…

If I understand your description correctly I think you are seeing the historical averages for that chart. So it's showing the average for that same period of time/day in the previous weeks

Take your report, add in the column for the location (im assuming this is a custom property you are filtering on), delete the node specific name and address columns, then on the availability column there should be an option for data aggregation, set that to average. That should get you the average availability per location.

Good catch, *usually* they refer to elements when talking about NPM monitored objects and components when talking about things we need SAM licenses for. This is the swql query I used to keep tabs on all that stuff, paste it into a Custom Query resource on a dashboard. SELECT e.ServerName, e.IP, e.ServerType,…

Orion has no bar charts that you can use built in. A line chart would be easy though with the custom chart widget or perf stack.

You can use the command line filters in your SAM template to specify each instance of the process. You would add the same component in 3x and add whatever args you need to the command line filter to specifically track each instance separately.

The Success Center really jammed me up the last few weeks in terms of sending clients KB articles that I had bookmarked in the past. Pretty much been rebuilding my handy collection from scratch On the plus side google seems to have finally caught up and is starting to show results from the success center.

So I think there needs to be a more clarity on what "stops working" means in this case so we know what exactly we are looking for. Does that mean the scheduled task fails to complete? I'm assuming the scheduled tasks run those batch files you mention... is there some kind of output from them that we would be watching for…

This should help to get you started, just need to query orion for the object URI that you want to delete and then use the remove-swisobject cmdlet PowerShell · solarwinds/OrionSDK Wiki · GitHub Lots of example code there for a few different methods of interacting with it. -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds…

I've got a swql query I use the the custom query resource for cases like this, select distinct ac.Name as [Alert Name] ,'/Orion/NetPerfMon/ActiveAlertDetails.aspx?NetObject=AAT:'+ToString(AlertObjectID) as [_linkfor_Alert Name] --,ah.Message ,count(ah.message) as [Alert Count 30 days] ,today.[Alert count] as [Alert Count…

Solarwinds is primarily driven by the amount of requests they are seeing from clients. I'd probably start by going through this search and voting up any feature requests that you might find useful. If you have a request that isn't already out there then create a FR and get people to vote it up.…

Would have been a great chance to talk up all the new PA-centric features that have been added in the new releases. Womp Womp

Just brace yourself, sometimes they go smooth and everything is fine, but often times it is a real train wreck, especially with multiple modules. It has gotten better since the older versions and the latest installer has been the most reliable yet for me, but you have a couple steps to get through before you are in the…

So there is no DIY method to monitor unsupported arrays in SRM. If you aren't on the supported list then you just have to vote up feature requests until the SRM devs get a chance to try to add your array. Depending on the details of what you are trying to do and what the array supports it COULD be possible to roll your own…

If you edit a view there's a section at the bottom called view limitations. This basically works the same as account limitations, but only for that view.

Nope, does not currently exist

I don't know why that wouldn't work but this is the syntax I have typically seen/used $Creds = Get-Credential ${CREDENTIAL}

After you edit the node details like location, contact, etc and restart the snmpd service you will need to hit the rediscover button in solarwinds, or wait until it automatically rediscovers. The default interval is every 30 minutes. I would assume that by now that value has updated itself. -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems:…

Basically you have the idea, although I would be looking at setting up a vpn between the sites rather than risking to pass data between an APE and the primary server and SQL database that it would need to be able to touch. I'm just not brave enough to put data from a tool using a potentially privileged service account on…

The event table is the event log. [yoursolarwindsdatabasename].dbo.events Depending on how old your solarwinds environment is the default names would most likely be netperfmon or solarwindsorion

DPA only uses the SA credential once, when you first add the database server. At that time it creates a local service account that has minimal permissions. Have them give you a temporary SA account and they can delete it when you are done.

If you try to deploy an agent on a node that already has an agent for another environment it will be over-written. If you need to monitor a server from two Orion instances you may need to use SNMP/WMI to poll from the test side.

take your query and run it here first to validate if you have a syntax error yourserver/orion/admin/swis.aspx

UNDP pollers all live in the database, so there should be no reason the standby server doesn't collect them. Does your standby have the same snmp access as the primary?

I have a Powershell template i use in SAM to deal with this scenario CPU/MEM Process Snapshot

Hola, You absolutely can open a ticket to get support through the upgrade process, and if you haven't done it before I would recommend it. There are a lot of parts to remember in the process and it helps to have someone to help if you find a problem. Since you have 9k nodes and 14k elements I would be using the Large…

There are several SAM templates in the content exchange for AIX metrics, id start there. Basically I everything beyond the basic system metrics is going to rely on someone who knows what they are looking for to cook up scripts to check.