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You can probably pull this off user a SQL user experience monitor. Have him modify the query such that it reports a single count value and put that into the body of the sql query. Set it up with a threshold where it goes critical whenever the count value >0 and then create an alert going to him whenever the component goes…

No need for anything custom or fancy, you can't use percentages out of the box but combined bps is already in the system, just set up an alert like this: -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems * Facebook: Loop1 Systems * Twitter: @Loop1Systems

It can definitely be scripted through the api. I've written several tools that my team uses to do so. I will say that depending on exactly how fancy you want the script to be it can get pretty complex.

Definitely doable, but I hope you are sharp as an html front end dev because none of the tools are going to do it for you. For the solarwinds side just pull everything you need from the api, see this post https://loop1.com/swblog/using-the-rest-api-to-get-the-most-out-of-solarwinds-part-1/

Unknown means that solarwinds was not able to use the given SNMP creds to access the switches. There may be ACL's or who knows what else jamming you up but you need to get that sorted out. Once you do then just run a discovery against those ip addresses and solarwinds will update them to use SNMP for status instead of just…

The events table is only held for 30 days, if you made it a left join you would get the others, and you could do something like use a case statement to turn the rows with null eventtimes into a string saying "more than 30 days" or a similar message.

If it has been more than 30 days since the node was added then it will already have aged out and been deleted from that history.

The secondary member typically has their own unique IP address that we poll, unless something is different with the current versions of ASA. You used to have to set up UNDP pollers to confirm which node was actually answering calls to their shared IP, but the latest versions of NPM have dedicated ASA features that make…

This template generally works for me Certificate Monitor

Unfortunately there is not that level of granularity with the user control. -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems * Facebook: Loop1 Systems * Twitter: @Loop1Systems

Looking at that error, its basically saying the application can't display the error it's experiencing remotely. I wouldn't waste time trying to figure out how to get the error to show up in the GUI, just go directly to the log files for the system and see what errors you are finding there. Probably would want to have a…

To calm down those floods of alerts for remote sites you probably want to set up some dependencies, Define and use dependencies in Orion NPM - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support This technique is a favorite of mine for managing lots of dependencies and not having to mess with the GUI as much, but it requires some…

Can you give a little more detail about the contents of the query, might help to figure out a way to jam it all together? I would probably build a report/custom swql resource that includes the data set you want and instead of using a send email action I would use the email a web page action and point it at that resource.

I haven't used that tool in a while but if you are at the part I think you are then it is not looking for an account in your environment, it is asking for the login you use to access the Cisco Smartnet portal

So I'm going to start by saying the simple answer is basically no, but depending on how much tenacity you have some work arounds could be potentially rigged up. I would say they are all a lot more complex or brittle than I would be willing to spend time on, so I would be focusing on making the case to whoever is standing…

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The resource mentioned above won't get you the graphs though. The way to do this is to create the view and add in 6 custom object resources, then configure them to each of the specific interfaces you want to see. Let me know if you need any more help with setting these up -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds…

It would have to be custom SWQL/SQL, here is a report I wrote in SWQL that shows how often alerts fire for specific objects, it would be possible to rework it to do what you are asking if you narrow it down. --report on alerts triggered select ac.Name…

pratikmehta003​ Depends on the nature of what happened to cause it to be "hung" Unless you have done some customizing in NPM if it is still answering pings it is going to show as being up, if not then it will show as down. You have the option to change nodes to get their status from SNMP if you prefer but that has more…

So for several reasons I prefer to monitor http/s templates by applying them to the node that hosts the page directly. If there's a load balanced VIP or DNS name then I usually make a separate node for that object as well, unless the client has license limits we need to stay under. In some cases I mute or otherwise hide…

I'd almost certainly build a perfstack dashboard for them and add that to a summary view. Once you save any perfstack then you can add it as a widget to any views, the resource will just have the same name as whatever you saved the perfstack as. Then you can click into it and turn on the real time polling for those…

I've done it before, I don't have access to that client environment right now but I'll be there again in 2 weeks and if nobody has weighed in I'll pull up the sample configs. One thing to make sure of is that there is a built in mbeans browser from java called Jconsole, if you can't get this working then Orion is not going…

If you have exported them to a spreadsheet you can just create a column in the spreadsheet with the header being the same as the name of your property and the value for all of them being Compliant-Node Then you import that spreadsheet in, as explained in the second part of this KB:…

Orion has a distinct lack of pie charts, there are only 2 I can think of off the top of my head in the tool natively, and neither of them are customizable in any way. For people who NEED pie charts they usually just end up building javascript in the custom html resource, or we settle on doing it with SWQL queries like this…

Go to the NCM settings > Advanced and turn on session traces and then try to download a config from one of these devices. It creates a log file with a pretty detailed output of what exactly the Solarwinds saw in it's conversation with your device. It's a little dense to understand the first time you look at it, but worst…

WMI is partially encrypted, but IIRC it's just the authentication related details, the queries and responses are plain text. In most cases people do not consider things like the cpu load of a given server to be sensitive information. Portocalypse - WMI Demystified NCM is using telnet or SSH, depending on how you set up…

Hola Adam, I poked at it some, and it looks like nothing gets recorded to audit or events when a report is created, but if you look at [dbo].[ReportDefinitions] there is an owner column that appears to show at least who last edited it, but no timestamps associated with edits.

Solarwinds just uses the underlying SSL settings from your windows box, if your harden your servers against using the insecure ciphers then the application will follow suit Disable unsecure cipher suites for Orion agents - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

Probably the best ones are the solarwinds labs, sometimes a little bit goofy but more often than not they have pretty solid info and demos on good techniques. I can't recommend any in particular because my plane is going to take off soon but hopefully you can find something useful there. SolarWinds Lab

I sometime wonder how I get anything done... Run this inside a Custom Query resource instead of a custom table resource and your life will be much easier. Unless you want to keep this report as an excel, only custom tables can be exported to excel but honestly this type of report doesn't NEED excel... SELECT…