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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…

1 - The netflow storage doesn't really have a lot of configurations that you would need to do to it. The main question mark being how fast are the physical disks that support the drive you use for storing it? See these relevant lines from the NTA DB FAQ in the documentation website Q: What are IOPS requirements for NTA…

Easy to do if you understand sql/swql Create an alert and change the first box on the trigger page to Custom SWQL Alert Second box should be Group Lower box that you can type into should say join (select count(Name) as [Total], containerid FROM Orion.ContainerMembers group by containerid) t on…

There is a resource for the Node Details view called Universal Device Poller Status, if you add this to the view it will show the current value of every UNDP except the ones that are tables, presumably that should display what you need.

Id have to see in the GUI where you selected this start datetime from, but it obviously isn't the start of what you are looking for so just remove it from the report and it will clear up the duplicates. The likely cause of your discrepancy is that is that the SNMP counter for this stuff is a 32 bit value counting the…

I crawled through the database and everywhere i thought to look autoselection shows up as -1 and there's nothing that seems indicate which one it should be using. It almost makes me want to turn on session traces and see if the auto detection nodes are testing every possible credential every time a job runs until one…

The inbound/outbound thing depends on what commands your switches/firewall support. The better gear allows you to do in and out on a single interface. If you are using hardware that only allows inbound then you do have to monitor every interface on the device to get a complete picture of all the data moving around. In…

On the NTA settings page there is an option near the bottom for database settings that includes the retention period. In terms of how it impacts things, the netflow database holds everything at 1 minute granularity for the full retention period, if you triple the period you triple the size of that database. If you run a…

The polling intervals are all handled server side by the job scheduler, Solarwinds doesn't even know if the computer restarted until the next time it polls. -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems * Facebook: Loop1 Systems * Twitter: @Loop1Systems

Did some googling and it looks like there are a few projects that port snmp to android, once you have it running on your scanners then there's not much difference between them and any other Linux based node. Depending what you want to see you might need to extend the snmp oids, which I haven't attempted on android but…

I'm surprised nobody has brought up that NTA by default is set to do 95th percentile top talker filtering. As in it doesn't even bother to store the data for the last small percentage of flow data it receives. There is a serious benefit to performance as well as database size to doing this, see this KB Top talker…