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If you have SAM you just have to have vmware credentials and it grabs the hardware health from the vmware api, this is from one of the ESX hosts on the oriondemo website. If you only have NPM server hardware info is not available. -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN:…

Node discovery normally uses net-snmp for linux systems, so just set that up per the man page. On the SAM side it is common to need ssh access but the level of permissions required depends 100% on the commands you want to run in your scripts. Alternatively you can use the linux agent, which will create its own local…

Most likely I believe that installing docker creates a new network interface (used internally for Docker) on the device with the different hostname and network parameters and the agent messages are being associated with that interface instead of the one you are expecting. This is not too different from the case where a…

Nothing built in would maintain a sustained connection, the polling engines generally want to test for something immediate then kill their connection and move on to the next thing we need them to poll. Do you own the web server? Are there any records in the web logs recording the start and end of user sessions?

When you check system uptime how are you checking it, within solarwinds or by logging into the device? There are known issues with several types of devices where they report their "uptime" through indirect measures such as how long the snmp service has been running, also the snmp uptime counter rolls over after about 2…

Except in the cases where Solarwinds corporate builds a custom integration you will find that NPM isn't going to do much for you for interacting with an API, but you can build up almost any integration you can dream up using SAM. So I'd be focusing on learning what kinds of scripts you can put together to collect whatever…

If you are new to NCM the far easiest way to do this would be to just do a job with a script, since the CLI for changing passwords should be identical for the majority of your devices, and you wouldn't need to do any case by case logic so the CCT is just making a simple task into something more complicated. To give you my…

This is a basic kb on whipping an interface bandwidth report, Create basic report for Interface Usage in NPM - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support Once you get familiar with the UI and how the data is arranged you can get much more elaborate than that. Orion normally tracks total/tx/rx bytes, bps, packets, errors,…

Instead of alerting on an application you need to alert on a component, I don't recall the exact name of it but the component message is one of the variables you can include in the email. In most cases the best strategy with Orion alerting is to choose the most granular object you can and alert on that because if you…

I would expect those are being added to the event log as part of an alert that has an action to write the status to the npm event log. The statuses are not being formatted so it is spitting out the raw status codes. Not sure why this would change specifically alongside the upgrade as i haven't seen this in my environments…

If you are relying on a undp for the info you will probably need custom swql/sql to correlate a particular rowid on this undo table to the same row on a poller that collects names for each ap. On a plane now but if you post the oid you use I can probably tell you the oid for the names.

Haven't built it out to do this before, but to pull this off (assuming the application doesn't just choke on it) you'll probably need to be making changes on orion.nodes, orion.nodesettings, and orion.pollers at the very least. Check all those tables for a node currently on ICMP, change it to snmpv3, figure out all the…

The variable is ${N=SwisEntity;M=ComponentAlert. WindowsEventMessages} Viewing Event Log Data, SAM Question

Caption is first created when the node is added to orion, if you are using SNMP/WMI/Agent to poll then it should be the same as system name. If polling doesn't yield a sysname then solarwinds does a dns lookup for the address and sets the caption to the fqdn, if nothing comes back from dns then it just uses the IP address.…

Assuming you have a large enough license you would just want to monitor all interfaces and everything that isn't an uplink or permanent connection should have the flag for "unpluggable" set to true. Now you have full visibility and only get notified on down interfaces for the ones you hadn't tagged as unpluggable. The…

If you hit the edit button on map resource of the group details view there is the box at the top where you pick a map, but look a little lower down and there is a map name format thing where you can pick from a few choices, i want to say they are {ID} {Name} and one other. If you select one of those then for each group it…

These will probably help, b asically anything on the NCM nodes table in the database can be called as a variable in the scripts, they mention ${agentIP} but I want to say just plain ${ipaddress} is also one. Looking for list of NCM variables Advanced network config change template commands

Do you mean Node details view? If you create a map and assign it to the details view it would show the same map for all nodes which is not usually the goal. All nodes should already have the auto-generated map for themselves as a tab on the left

Depends on what you mean by monitoring the mapped drive, but the answer is basically yes. As a general rule, you should be monitoring those drives on the file server where the live, in which case it is just a normal local drive to that server. There is also a built int SAM template called "Windows File Share Availability"…

When I was given the reigns of my first Solarwinds deployment I was also told to get our documentation under control for an environment with about 300 servers and a network of 1000 switches (although most of those switches we only needed to ping for up/down thankfully) I worked on it intermittently learning as I went and…

The way nodes get marked down already gives a lot of room for minor packet loss, it is probably important to understand exactly how that process works if you aren't familiar. Solarwinds pings a node, if it gets a response the node is up and it waits until the next polling cycle to ping again. If it gets no answer to the…

This is a fundamental issue with SQL, not really a bug per se, you just have to know how to work around it. in SQL a null (which is being displayed as "None" in the GUI in your screenshot) is not able to be compared to any actual values. So in DB terms, if you said NULL != 'reynolds' it would always report false, thats…

That sounds like someone who got burned on a call and is gun shy about a tech they aren't familiar with. I mean to be honest any time you do anything to the DB I guess you could claim that you "risk corruption" but a properly set up SQL AG is not going to be significantly more risky than a regular SQL instance. When in…

Use the Microsoft WBEMTest tool to test and see what you get when you try to connect to the server via WMI. Testing WMI Connectivity - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support Beyond confirming if there really is a problem with WMI, you should just troubleshoot it as per MS docs, WMI Troubleshooting (Windows) If WMI…

I think you are mistaken, in the current release there are verbs to create an SNMPv3 credential Orion.Credential | Orion SDK Schemas​. When you want to add a node right now there are two methods in common usage, the one I recommend is just to have your script build a discovery. In the GUI running a discovery for each new…

In relation to SAM specifically, that module already has this kind of alerting logic built into the component thresholds. The only limiting factor in your request is that the tool doesn't let you use more than 60 polls in a set, so to do a 24 hour period I had to spread the polls out to once every 30 minutes, which ends up…

I think you actually need to add them to * ROLE_LEM_CONTACTS The ROLE_LEM_CONTACTS group is only used for email notification in rules. Users added to this group do not have login rights. Set up Active Directory authentication in LEM - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

This process could be managed through an interaction with the API, but the default UI wouldn't have this capability. I can definitely see how I could do this in powershell since thats how I usually interact with the API. Basically build a little scripted "interface Property filler" with prompts like "enter CID", ...,…

Yes, that is it for windows monitoring. It's also possible to narrow the allowed range of WMI ports if you don't want to punch a hole quite that large in your firewalls. Setting Up a Fixed Port for WMI - Windows applications | Microsoft Docs ICMP needs to work between the polling engine and all nodes 135 from polling…

I just wanted to point out the case logic for your severity levels is wrong. WHEN o.AlertConfigurations.Severity = 2 THEN '/Orion/images/ActiveAlerts/Critical.png' WHEN o.AlertConfigurations.Severity = 3 THEN '/Orion/images/ActiveAlerts/Serious.png' WHEN o.AlertConfigurations.Severity = 1 THEN…