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You can set up a discovery, check the box on the second screen where it asks if it should update agents. The only limitation right now is you'd have to add all fixed disks, discovery doesn't allow you to do things like "only add c or d drivers but ignore any others"

Fastest way in the GUI is a report with a custom chart, or a custom table if you prefer to export the raw data out to another tool. Something where you set the data source to be components where the name = "Your agent" and then add in the columns for cpu load to the chart. Initially it would give you a separate row for…

Wouldn't you be able to declare the services array, and then add in arg(0), arg(1), and arg(2) ? would probably have to build in some error checking to validate how many args are actually being used and such.

No need to monitor each host, point at vcenter with API credentials and it will populate the necessary info for the hosts under the vcenter, including hardware sensors and such. If you do set up SNMP on the hosts directly it adds the ability to monitor the local storage and specific NICS.

I usually build myself a home view called SW Admin and have a collection of reports I've built up over the years that track these kinds of things for me. I'll upload some of them tomorrow but the first thing on the page is a chart showing the polling loads on each server so I can watch for balancing issues, I've never…

For the most part the storage metrics being collected are wrapped around iops/throughput/latency. Out of the box, assuming you have all the relevant licenses, Orion would be monitoring the write latency (shows as disk sec per transfer)and queue depth of all volumes at the monitored OS level for any system using WMI or the…

Something like that would require a script based monitor I suspect. You'd need to write a script to parse out the necessary info and just output that as a statistic. If the log file is coming from Windows servers then you'd need to do it in powershell, Linux probably perl. Are you familiar with either?

You would probably want to set up a User Defined Group that contains those ip's, then just edit your rules to only trigger on events where the source machine is not in that list. These links should help you with some of that Get started with user-defined groups Create Rules in Your SolarWinds Log & Event Manager Console -…

There nothing in the software to facilitate that at this time, would need to create it as a feature request. In the interim you could report from the secondary using something like SSRS.

This is the custom query I use for that scenario, shows devices that are pinging as up but snmp/wmi/agent have stopped working for at least 20 minutes. select n.caption as [Node] ,n.detailsurl as [_linkfor_Node] ,'/Orion/images/StatusIcons/Small-' + n.StatusIcon AS [_IconFor_Node] ,n.ip_address as [IP Address]…

The Web reporting tool does not, to the best of my knowledge, allow you to create custom data columns that aren't already in the database without creating the source from custom sql/swql. If there is already a field in the db you can select it, if you need to modify the data in some way then you have to change the…

SAM has server warranty end dates for a few brands of servers, but nothing I'm aware of tracks actual hardware life cycles. Wouldn't be too hard to cook something up using custom properties if you had a data source with the hardware life cycle info.

None of those, the topology mapping is not instant, and often takes a significant amount of "post processing" that has to be done by hand, no api or programmatic capability exists. There is no capability to live data beyond re-running the discovery that created the map initially.

You can make it so a user only has access to groups using their account restrictions, but they will lose access and visibility into any other nodes. You do not have the option to, for example, say a user can see all nodes but only admin some of them. See this part of the admin guide Restrict user access to network areas by…

It can be done, but it isn't easy unless you are pretty familiar with SQL and VERY familiar with solarwinds. You'd be working with the views, resources, and resourceproperties tables Pretty straightforward, views lets you know which view you are working with (probably what you will be filtering on) then join the resources…

You probably wouldn't use the Groups feature in orion to do this, but yes you can modify the polling interval from the manage nodes screen and use whatever criteria you can come up with to group them all up and just check all their boxes before you hit the edit properties button.

you would just need 2 separate alerts, the action repeat intervals don't have any conditional logic you can apply to them.

NTM has no API or similar capabilities.

Interface is a child object on a node, specifically it is a network port. Sometimes they are physical interfaces and others are logical/virtual Switch A = Node Switch A Eth0/1 = Interface Switch A VLAN100 = Interface -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems *…

Unfortunately the windows cpu poller is a point in time measurement, as opposed the the way you would see the 5 min running avg in linux. You can check more often and set your alert trigger condition to require longer waits but unfortunately the metric is going to be what it is. A couple years ago I tried to script up a…

Generally, when Solarwinds gets anything wrong on your Node Details you will need to set up a custom poller, they have a video explaining how to set them up here: Create Custom Pollers in SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) - Videos | SolarWinds One of the things the video doesn't explain as well is how to find…

What you describe is not the typical or expected behavior. I see you mention disabling the alerts and then enabling them again after the edit, that will definitely re-trigger them, but it sounds like you weren't doing that before. so I'm not sure what else might be causing everything to re-fire.

To put it simply, that information isn't available through the gui driven report builder. If custom sql reporting isn't your kind of thing, then I just got into a habit of setting up my http/s components with the name of the site and port as the component name.

Outside of the maintenance all the products will continue to work fine, but you cannot activate a newer version than what was out while your maintenance was active. So you will want to build your new server with the offline installer using the versions that are out now instead of using the online installer which will…

In short, yes. Connect now is a pretty complex beast taking info from several different places and trying to match it all up. Typically I have best luck when I am monitoring the interfaces in NPM on both sides of the connection. -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN:…

From what I can tell most forms of traceroute and similar tools do not "see" load balancers, which makes sense given that the job of the load balancer is typically to make itself completely transparent to the end user trying to connect to the website. I would expect it is similar for Netpath as I've never seen a LB show up…

As long as you installed the Netflow module on your APE you are all set to start collecting inbound flows, assuming you are running a recent version of the installer then it would have been installed automatically when you set up the APE to begin with. Netflow is licensed to match your NPM license, so if those routers and…

They work, there were just some minor syntax problems, Here you go SELECT Count(*) as TOTAL,(SELECT Count(*) as UP FROM Orion.Nodes Where Status = 1) as UP,(SELECT Count(*) as DOWN FROM Orion.Nodes Where Status = 2) as DOWN,(SELECT Count(*) as UNMANAGED FROM Orion.Nodes Where Status = 9) as UNMANAGED,(SELECT Count(*) as…

Way back in the stone age back before core orion had a mute button (2017 ish?) to do maintenance modes we had to use custom properties and just added logic to our alerts to check if the property was set to true.

If you know sql you should be able to translate it to swql pretty painlessly. The biggest change is that the table names are not 100% identical so you have to map those across (connect to swql studio and it's really easy to see the equivalent tables in most cases) and certain more advanced sql functions may not exist in…