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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…

It is? Thats news to me.

Have you tried ${Caption} ? the way you are using @hostname would seem to be trying to call a hostname that would have been given at the prompts before running the script, and I'm assuming you just want NCM to just automatically use the name from whatever node you are executing against.

So it sounds like it's happening basically right away when you turn on Orion? That tells me its probably not part of the connection profiles in NCM because those are only used with the jobs run, normally once a day. Other places you might have entered your creds would be the ASA or Nexus credential field under the edit…

I wrote a script not long ago that was trying to bulk deploy dashboards for a bunch of locations, and ultimately I had no success with the add to group verb. What I ended up doing was just creating all my tabs using the clone view command against a template and then using update operations to manually define all the…

What is the polling interval for the nodes and interfaces? The default is just to do the basic response test every 2 minutes, stats like cpu/mem get every 10 minutes, interfaces are 9 minutes, and volumes are 15 minutes. /Orion/Admin/PollingSettings.aspx Keep in mind that even if the default values here are normal someone…

Looks like you just need to make statistics: into statistic:

Looks legit to me at a glance

Yep, definitely doable. As long as your edge router has its BGP neighbors being monitored (would see it under List Resources for that device) then you can set up an alert that has the trigger condition along the lines of "if such and such neighbor goes down from the edge router" then the action is to launch an NCM action,…

You don't need to compile anything for solarwinds mibs. They already have that in their database, just use the Universal Device Poller tool on the Orion server to set up any custom pollers you need. See this KB article Create a Universal Device Poller (UnDP) - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

Not available out of the box, and any custom integration of it at this time would be extremely DIY. As far as I have found the only companies that offer an off the shelf product that does telemetry are all subscription SaaS cloud based.

Setting up a Scheduled Discovery is intended to allow for this, Discover your network using SolarWinds NPM - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

This document explains where Orion gets info from What OIDs are polled for F5 statistics? - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

So just to be clear you are wanting to have this query generate a link to a perfstack that has node CPU, and the max cpu utilization of two components that are on that node? Probably easier if you start at the node and then branch out from there, this query will only work if the node has a both the java.exe and poseidon…

You are correct, using the GUI driven alert logic you can only reference values that are sitting in the database, so you can't do anything like add or manipulate values/dates etc through the options in the drop downs. 

Not specifically a Solarwinds question, but these two documents should give you what you need to learn. There is nothing particularly unique about connecting to Orion compared to any other MSSQL database. Tutorial: Connect to on-premises data in SQL Server - Power BI | Microsoft Docs SQL Server Analysis Services live data…

I think this report is probably the closest to what you are asking for, It has a nice vertical layout showing each node, and the interfaces/volumes/apps on it and some metrics about the child objects. It could be expanded to cover all your requests but so far I haven't been motivated enough to put the time in on it. I've…

I've seen it done a few ways, some people prefer to just make the master application template and disable components on the servers where they don't apply, with this model you just have to make sure you go to each instance of the application and adjust it. Other people make multiple more specific templates, as in…

Pulling this off takes a pretty massive amount of expertise in the parameters associated with all the resources you want to use. To the best of my knowledge SWQL doesnt seem to have an equivalent to the resourcesettings table in the database so you would have to go to the SQL to learn what fields are available for each…

The QoE sensor is not going to give you that info, it is just a measurement of approximate end user waits, a symptom not a cause. You would presumably also have the SAM Appinsight for IIS template running on that server which should have performance metrics for almost anything in IIS and hopefully that gives you a clue.…

Netflow as a protocol only knows what is on the packet header, so if your packet is going to the proxy then netflow will only show what the packets actually had on them. As above you can use a transparent proxy so the packets actually have the header info for their real destination but otherwise the tool just shows you…