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Serv U was primarily designed as a GUI driven tool. Notably you can see in the docs they specify that to access the admin interface you would launch it in Gnome or KDE or access the web interface. I'm sure if someone was motivated enough you could reverse engineer the settings and admin it from SSH and a bunch of shell…

SQL components do allow a string message optionally, you just have to structure your query so the first row, first column is the statistic and the second column is the message. I do this pretty much any time i use a SQL monitor. There is also a trick where you can use the SQL option FOR XML PATH to take a whole table of…

I always tell my clients that I have had more downtime from fixing split brain scenarios for clients than I've ever seen from actual single server failures. Worst case I can fix a broken single instance pretty quick, often before any users realize anything happened. Fixing a problem and then sorting out all the reg keys…

Probably the only person who could make any headway in debugging this, the author Leon Adato, has long since left SolarWinds since he last published that guide. You are probably just going to have to figure this out on your end. MY best guess is maybe you missed something around step 2-5 in configuring your router.

Discovery will never remove things, it only adds objects. If these devices are new setting up the automatic import should keep you from bringing in that extra stuff you dont need, but if they have already been added it wont remove them.

It's the events retention period in polling settings IIRC documentation.solarwinds.com/.../core-polling-settings.htm

This kb explains how to migrate a database and replae all the IP and DNS names of the polling engines, i do this process often. documentation.solarwinds.com/.../migrate_solarwinds_to_a_new_server_with_a_new_ip_and_hostname.htm

You got it, default alert historical retention is 30 days.

So the kind of stuff you are talking about would be pretty well impossible for someone to add to the system without getting SolarWinds devs on board to incorporate it natively in the platform. Without their involvement whatever you cook up will be kind of a clunky add on that's going to be a fair bit of work for the…

This is the section from the admin guide on custom CPU pollers. You'd be looking for a table with 4 rows of distinct CPU data documentation.solarwinds.com/.../core-creating-device-studio-pollers-sw2534.htm

This is the section from the admin guide on custom CPU pollers. You'd be looking for a table with 4 rows of distinct CPU data documentation.solarwinds.com/.../core-creating-device-studio-pollers-sw2534.htm

Lots of network appliances don't actually report their number of CPU's in SNMP. If you do an SNMP walk against this device and find an OID that returns the correct number of CPU's you can modify the CPU poller to have Orion display that number instead, but like I said it's also quite possible that fortigate just doesn't…

So to be accurate, are you doing an upgrade with the same database or are you standing up a completely separate instance/database for the new version? If you are upgrading you don't have to do anything special. If you are standing up a new environment unfortunately an export import process won't actually work anyway,…

Given the various timing schedules it is really hard to actually get a notification out in under a minute. Without getting into some clunky work arounds and hacky solutions you are working with: Minimum SAM template polling interval is 60 seconds. Minimum Alert trigger check is 15 seconds. Processing time to actually get a…

The NCM scripting is so limiting it can be really frustrating to work around, and if you are going to need to run an external script anyway to complete the process you want I would recommend actually doing the whole thing via scripting. Its just amazingly easier to populate the variables and everything with…

I was trying to find out if SQL server even supports non authenticated connections, and as far as I can tell that's not a thing that exists, unless your DBA's know a trick I've not run into. I don't work in locked down networks like that very often.

@deltona So based on the docs I would say the SQL Sentry way to do this is not too different. The monitoring service is pretty much the same idea as an APE would be in Orion, and it only uses 1433 to connect back to the database you use for your monitoring data.

The other way to go at it, which is what I always do because it is easier for me to validate the conditions are correct, would be to make a custom SQL/SWQL alert.

The normal triggers implicitly assume that you are looking for a single object that meets all the conditions. So you can't create a node poller alert that has two different node poller names. The OOTB way for dealing with this is to scroll to the bottom of the page and enable complex conditions. One condition will be for…

Sometimes you can think of blank custom properties as a to do list. Not sure your role in that organization, but if there is a gap in documentation its potentially a good project to plug those holes, but we all know documentation is like that last thing most companies actually allocate time to actually get done.

I always pause alert actions when im about to restart my environment for upgrades or similar major events. It's pretty common for there to be a bunch of incorrect alerts trigger if the system is offline for a while.

Whoops, missed that this is in sql entry forum. I'm curious if your dbas have a non credential method of authenticating clients to the db's in this environment. I could only find varieties of user/pass connections when I was looking. I'll double check the sentry docs tonight when I get a chance

I'm going to go ahead and remind everyone in this thread that anyone on the HCO license gets quad stacked pollers by default. So, assuming you give the server enough CPU and RAM you can now poll 48000 elements per polling engine but it needs a lot of horsepower to actually do it. In my old environment my quad stacked APE's…

If you are curious you can query the device on OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.99.1.1.1.5 with an snmp walk. The enumeration codes are ok: 1 unavailable: 2 nonoperational: 3

This is a super common old problem. Solarwinds just asks the devices over SNMP what the status of the sensor is. All the logic for why it is Critical lives in the head of a software dev that worked at the hardware vendor many years ago and nobody has ever fixed it. If you run show environment commands on the device the CLI…

To me the easiest solution for a secure area would be to install an APE inside it. Then you only have to open the ports for the APE to talk to the MPE. Inter-poller communication uses a cert for encryption, so no creds passing back and forth. It's not just one port, but it is a fairly well defined…

Based on their docs I expect you still have the connection URL hard coded to the old and would need to update this in the v fire configs port www.alemba.help/.../connector for solarwinds.htm

That widget is frequently incorrect, i never trust it with any of my clients and generally just remove it because I can't let them look at misleading/wrong information.

Taking what you have here and combining it with some examples from way back in the day, this should work but I didn't test it Custom SWQL Query Questions SELECT n.Caption AS [Node Name] , n.Status , n.IPAddress , n.StatusDescription AS [Status Description] , n.DetailsURL AS [Node Details URL] , n.MachineType AS [Vendor…

I can answer your question about the domain account expiring, it wont impact anything. The account used to deploy the software initially is simply used to install the software the one time, so it has to be an admin. Maybe there is some combination of permissions for a less than admin account to install software in Windows,…