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So the web based reports don't really do well with identifying the absence of something,but its pretty easy if you use a custom swql source for your report. Create web-based reports using SWQL in Orion platform - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support select n.caption, n.vendor, a.name from orion.nodes n left join…

Each time you apply a template to a node it creates a new instance which you can customize, go to the application on each server and there is an Edit Application button, click that and there is an option to disable any components you want.

Custom Table does not support any of those fun things unfortunately. I think I saw a bug on the forum a while back where the Solarwinds devs were aware of the issue that ${nodeid} should be failing their syntax check on the custom table resource but wasn't.

What kind of view are you on when you are seeing that error? Macros like ${Nodeid} don't work on summary views because they aren't associated with particular nodes. If you try to build a custom table on a node details view it has a check box to use the current object as the data source, which is functionally the same as…

Looking at these I would be curious, is your events table unusually large? Has the database maintenance been running successfully? There was a bug running around a bit ago where certain conditions would cause people to have a crazy amount of noise in their events table, I wonder if some variation on that issue is what's…

I don't have a stack switch handy to test on, but if you are finding that this alert works for servers and not switches it could be that stacks are storing their loads on a different table. Can you search the cpumultiload view for the nodeid of one of your stacks to confirm it shows up in there? Also, it might be a more…

Is it just random devices all over or are there a few common culprits? I just ask because if its completely random then it will probably be a lot harder to pin down. I'd expect you are probably on the right trail, snmp itself is not really that complicated. Like you said, you review the captures and can see pretty clearly…

You can just go to the trigger actions tab of the alert and click the insert variable button and it will display the list of all the variables that are available for that object type. I don't know that anyone has compiled this info in any kind of master list, given that there would be tens of thousands of them to search…

How frequently is this template running? The GUi would show you the last polled value, the test is right now. Might have to force a poll or wait until the next interval to see the updated stats on the GUI.

Not to derail you completely from what you are working on using Atlas, as that is still probably the easiest way to accomplish what you are looking at, you can direct java queries toward the following address /Orion/Services/Information.asmx/Query where you would use JSON formatting something like this {query:'SELECT Name…

Have you tried other browsers? I have set up the SWF dashboard stuff for clients using the new UI and not had the problem you describe.

One of the actions you can take in the alert engine is to change node status. You can set up the trigger conditions to be based on anything in the database so triggering a custom status from a custom poller is definitely doable. Take a look at the alert actions and let me know if you need any specific assistance with…

Depending on which version you were running before you may have been bit by this new security feature that they enabled a while ago. Were you just displaying Orion data on your intranet inside an iframe?…

I think you are coming at this from the wrong end. Don't exclude this component from your alert, adjust the threshold for it on the application monitor or template. If you are alerting at the Application level you wouldn't be able to filter it the way you want, you need to alert on Components and then you can filter them…

1 You can filter out the memory stats by limiting the datasource to volumetype like 'fixed%' 2 There is already a days til full calculated by Orion, but it is stored in a section of the database that the GUI doesnt let you easily link in the reports. Pulling those in with the GUI would probably be easiest if you make a…

The restriction only applies to property names that are equal to, not contains because they can jam up the SQL having column names that duplicate existing parts of orion or are the same as SQL functions. Probably not the cause of your bug.

There are a lot of ways to do this. In all cases you would want to apply account limitations to filter them to only see nodes that are intended for their consumption. The specifics of how you set up that limitation are up to your organization. You could set them up based on dynamic queries in groups, aka if the node names…

Are you monitoring vlan 1 as an interface in NPM? Are you seeing any notices in the NTA events indicating that you are receiving traffic from any unknown interfaces/nodes?

Not as part of a WMI query. You could wrap those WMI queries in some powershell and create additional layers of logic that way.

From poking at this in the past it seemed to me that it to get the port count it just looks at the interface type and captures everything that was not virtual, so physical or unknowns if the device doesn't utilize the relevant SNMP OIDs. As far as the available goes, I want to say it is calculated at the time of the…

There is an out of the box alert that does this

I will say I've had a lot more difficult getting custom SWQL variables to show compared to SQL, you might try that, just for a bit of validation. I also avoid using the legacy variable formats like "{$nodename}" and instead always use the insert variable button to the the newer variable formats (the ones with…

Don't think it shows up anywhere in the GUI driven report builder but this SWQL query will get you the raw data for all the baselines for Nodes, Interfaces, and Volumes. You can filter it out from here and get exactly what you need. SELECT TOP 1000 NodeID, EntityType, InstanceId, MetricId, MetricName, InstanceCaption,…

Syncing things up across multiple instances and capturing the nodes, child objects, sam templates, template over rides, custom properties, alerts, views, groups is not something that comes out concisely. I've done it many times for clients in the past but it typically involved 10-20 days of professional services to figure…

See this KB Unable to load VMAN on the Orion Web Console - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

Yes it does use WMI locally, you probably want to open a ticket with support so they can investigate your specific situation to fix the problem. 

I always push my clients toward a model where all email based alerts should be actionable. If there is warm and fuzzy stuff then I try to consolidate those into reports or dashboards. Once a shift someone can review all the objects at once that have hit the warning type thresholds in the previous day or whatever, see how…

Go to Settings > Manage Pollers then check the box for energywise and go to +Assign, from there you can control which devices it is on and off for. Same for hardware health.

Looking at that naming convention this is a member of a SQL cluster, i dont recall the details but I've had to hunt around a bit to find the correct address to monitor clusters with before. There are several IP's you might have to try adding as nodes, off the top of my head I think there could be a windows individual…

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