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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.

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.

I like the union technique here for getting the totals, hopefully it isn't beating up your DB too bad though with all the string matching and not likes. One way you could improve execution time if it became a problem would be to set a customproperty like 'IncludeInReport' t/f and then run a script to tag all the interfaces…

I believe the scalability guidelines recommend an additional web server for every ~20 or so concurrent users.

Muting the source of the alert seems like a really imprecise way of handling this scenario, as muting it would also prevent that node from triggering any other alerts that it should have in the interim. As an example, node triggers a high CPU alert, your NOC tech escalates and mutes it, the system engineer maybe doesn't…

the 100 license will monitor a max of 100 network interfaces, presumably on 30 switches that might be keep an eye on just the uplinks between them and not much else.

The best to learn how to form you filters is to create one by hand in the GUI and then look it up in the tables and see how it shows up there, in this case the syntax is something like @{ Name = "$city City Node"; Definition = "filter:/Orion.Nodes[CustomProperties.City='Austin' AND Dependency_BreakDown='Edge_Parent']" }…

So this is basically a bad idea, contractors like me end up getting brought in to gut and redo the alerts in environments when they get set up with spammy email schemes like that. If your team needs to know which nodes are down why aren't they just looking at a page in the web console as necessary? If you insist on sending…

Seems a shame that nobody was able to jump on this one for you. This is based on a reworked node downtime query from one of my colleagues, with some minor tweaks i just made it should do what you want. This is set up to work as a swql query resource on a summary page, if you paste this directly into a custom report i can…