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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…

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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…

Orion multi-module system guidelines - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support The cloud database requirements are described in that doc

You'll need to click select data source, make sure to make a copy of what's already there because you run a good chance of breaking it if you don't know SWQL or SQL well. Actually even when you do, I break my widgets all the time trying to make small changes and forgetting a comma or typing something slightly off. Anyway…

There's not any built in capabilities to do so. In cases like that I typically find it easiest to just set up my own data warehouse and build SSRS reports or similar to pull the data I need from it. Also allows me to keep shorter retention periods in the application so performance is strong for real time stuff and we can…

So if you connect using SWQL studio you can look at the metadata section and find which entities can be acted on with what types of operations

When your charts have data intervals that aren't the same as the polling interval it averages them for the web display, this can be misleading for things like charting min/max values unfortunately. If you made the chart into something like a 24 hour chart with 10 minute intervals you would probably get something that more…

You are correct, IPAM IPNodes are referring to a specific IP as an object, and has no concept of a device using multiple addresses. I want to say in the current versions there isn't even really a relationship defined between nodes in NPM/SAM and IP's in IPAM, but I know I've worked up scripts and custom reports and such to…

None of the information from the trigger conditions is passed to the alert action, you would just need to build a complete sql query from scratch to get the information you want. In this case it should probably be something like (completely winging that as I'm not vpn'ed into the lab right now): SELECT CASE WHEN…

Try this as a custom SWQL query, should get you started on your report. You can add it to a report or a dashboard or whatever. SELECT df.Name as [Filename], df.Size, df.LastModifiedTime, df.Type, df.Orphaned FROM Orion.VIM.DiskFiles df where orphaned = 1

Set up a SAM SQL User Experience Monitor, give it creds that can access the db, voila SQL Server User Experience monitor

I just tested it and everything worked on my system with the variables resolving and updating my CP as expected. I'll show you how i set it up and see if you did anything differently. Here is my message: Here is my action, using the alertmessage variable: And here is the result in the Comment property that contains the…

Within SCM you can tell it to run any powershell script you want and it will just retain the results and you can track them for changes over time, so this could be a pretty decent use case. Out of the box there isn't a profile for tracking users yet, but I bet this would be a good feature request to get added in natively.…

NCM variables do not allow you to parse the config to set variables on the fly. What they can reference are custom properties and the built in existing node characteristics. Looking for list of NCM variables So for your first bit you could probably get away with ${nodecaption} or ${sysname} For the loopback address…

I've never run into an issue, but none of my clients have every had all the unusually long of password strings, I think 15 characters is the max I've personally entered. Should be easy enough to create a couple test accounts in your environment just to confirm. The credentials for all the modules are stored in the same…

andy.reynolds@morgansindall.com​ Are you running the new NPM 12 version? They added business hours capabilities directly into the GUI now so you won't have to rely on writing the SQL. I didn't have time to load up your query to test in my environment but I would recommend giving it a go in the GUI if you are using the…

The GUI doesn't let dynamic filters navigate from the interface to the parent node's properties. It's an annoying thing for sure. The work around I've done is to create a matching assettag custom property on the interfaces, and I use an alert trigger with logic that sets the interface assettag to be the same as the parent…

I guess I should put it out there, just to set the correct expectation, VMAN doesn't have any "auto manage all VM's as nodes" feature anyway. It does collect a baseline set of stats about all vm's that includes cpu load, memory used, and network used but it does not turn them into SAM/NPM nodes unless you click a button on…

World map already changes the color of the pins at a location if the node is down, it goes yellow if some of many at a site is down and red if all the nodes at a site are down. There is a customization I have used to add a weather overlay as well which is kind of nice, but those are the main things it does. Shows where…

With SAM there are no built in components for checking registry keys per se but you could do it by setting up a powershell script component to look it up. Here is some discussion regarding how to pull reg keys in powershell variables - How do I get the value of a registry key and ONLY the value using powershell - Stack…

This may help: Display the status of child objects on maps, and change metric thresholds in SAM - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and S…

I'm a bit confused, am I reading correctly that active port count just returns the total of ports that are up or down and match the naming filters? This query is really extremely complicated compared to what it should be.