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There isn't a native Solarwinds monitor for these but with the SAM module you can use a custom powershell script to check, as discussed here: Monitoring Windows Registry Value -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems * Facebook: Loop1 Systems * Twitter:…

I almost never crack open reportwriter anymore but I would expect that if this report doesn't have the same tabs as the others it is probably because it was set up using custom sql You will have to parse the sql and look for wherever they filtered the datetime and change it in there It would probably look something like…

Yes, under ncm settings there is an option where you can create new configuration types beyond the default running and startup. Im not at at a web console right now so i can't recall the exact name of the screen this setting is on. Add your new type to the list, then edit the device template so that it runs the commands…

Basically those links don't reliably work when using custom SQL/SWQL datasources. You can "kind of" get them to work through various tricks but honestly I find that it becomes a huge time sink to try and get the format to match what it is looking for and once you do it still only lets you generate details link for a single…

This is the report I use, it shows which objects are firing which alerts and how many times in the previous 30 days, but it would be pretty straight forward to change it to just show a count of alerts or whatever arrangement of information makes sense for your purposes. --report on alerts triggered select ac.Name…

Simplest way is just to run a discovery with all 40 devices addresses, also need to give it their snmp and cli info. Once the discovery completes they will all be added to NPM and automatically to NCM as well (unless you changed the option in your NCM settings to not add newly discovered nodes to ncm) then you would go to…

It lives inside the giant block of XML inside orion.alertconfigurations.trigger, but its a bit of a chore to parse the XML and turn it into something easy to read. If you get really motivated you can find it with a few substring() and charindex() functions strung together and some case logic to handle alerts that don't…

The packet loss metric is based on the previous 10 attempts to poll the device, so it will always be a multiple of 10.

not sure if the viewer accepts this kind of regex, but you could try escaping it with a \ or you could just put a wildcard there in place of the comma?

This may help Can I schedule a job in NCM with a script for five minutes each? - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

I'd be figuring out some kind of scheme to just have a script figure this all out for me. Presumably there are some standards in place that allow you to know how a site is laid out in terms of network topology? If those exist then they should be programmable, if not then some standards need to be developed or you are going…

For some reason they made some weird choices with the Volume forecast tables so they don't join up as easily as one would hope in the GUI. This is the custom SWQL query I use for keeping an eye on disk volumes, hopefully you can adjust it for what you need SELECT n.caption as [Node] , v.Caption as [Volume] ,…

I'm confused about the use of a baseline for your total size thresholds. Are your databases not allowed/expected to grow? The baselines don't project growth trends very well, they only look at historical values over the previous week and make estimates about the typical ranges based on the observed values. So eventually…

It has always seemed to me that the groups details page does not allow you to parse any of the built in resources down to just the ones int hat group. On the backend it is basically because being in a group isn't really a property on the node, and all those resources are only set up to filter on the nodes/etc and their…

Yes, you can go to the Settings > Manage Views and make copies of the orion summary page for example, and call them orion summary - jeff, orion summary - bill, etc. Then you go to each user's account and about halfway down you will see the settings for changing which view each user gets when they click on certain things.…

My lazy work around for this is just to leverage the custom query resource with swql and the [_iconfor_] syntax and throw red and green check marks and such next to the lines im interested in with case logic. , CASE WHEN MinutesSinceKeepAlive > 2 THEN '/Orion/images/ActiveAlerts/Serious.png' WHEN MinutesSinceKeepAlive <2…

You might have better luck if you can figure out how to change that whole grid of options into a regular expression. I've never seen any mention of a limit to those rules, but I've also never tried to set anything up with more than maybe 6 or 7 individual rules.

NOC Views automatically rotate through all of the left side tabs in a view. The idea being that you could set up a big monitor and it will display several different screens worth of data without having to scroll/click. If you look around there was a Rock the NOC event on Thwack a while ago with several great examples. Rock…

I'd heard that there is a cap of something like 5000 objects on the map, assuming you don't have more than 5k locations you will most likely to have to switch from putting each node on the map to putting the nodes in a group and then using the script to put those groups on the map. That's the workflow I've used any time I…

The netpath agent has to be installed on a windows machine. To do something like a netpath between network devices your best bet is to look into if your devices support the Cisco IP SLA feature

You can specify the data units and scaling in the web based report writer when you set your columns up -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems * Facebook: Loop1 Systems * Twitter: @Loop1Systems

I've found it's not uncommon for me to have to increase the polling timeouts for vcenter servers, if the poll attempts time out you usually see them turn grey/ unknown. I am on my phone right now and don't have the docs in front of me but I think you can increase the timeout value from the virtualization settings page, if…

A good place to start to understand the nuts and bolts of setting up a nice Orion environment is to check KMSigma​'s blog posts about how he builds his. You can really slap any old vm together in many cases for an environment of that size, but Kevin has spent probably way too much time thinking about what could be…

In addition to what neomatrix1217​ mentioned, I would suggest you will probably just get used to not reading into the events too much, in many cases my clients just ask me to remove them from most the views. Orion generates events for EVERYTHING and it is a fools errand to try and keep after them all. Focus on alerts since…

I don't have DPA loaded up where I am working this week but if you install SWQL studio and query your environment you should be able to find exactly what you need pretty easily Releases · solarwinds/OrionSDK · GitHub Point it at your solarwinds server and look for the section called DPA

Agreed, the only way I have been able to create alerts that aer sensitive to something like the previous 24 hours would be using sql/swql custom alerts.

Adding to what RichardLetts​​ was saying, i often use SQL to create reports for people that give, for example, the percent of business hours where interface utilization is above a threshold value like 90% of capacity, and then add in some charts that show the utilization rates over time so it is easy to see if the higher…

There are multiple potential sources for the serial number field and not all of them apply to every type of device so there is probably some validation you need to do on that. For and NPM or SAM based report the Hardware Health monitor needs to be enabled/working on the node to get the serial number. Hardware health has a…

As far as I can tell LWAP's cannot be filtered based on group/view limitations. You could probably get away with doing it via custom report/custom table options though.

I feel like whoever wrote that must be a very old SQL user, that style of join syntax has been out of fashion for a long while haha. In any case if the GUI doesn't have a variable for the IP on the interface then you can click the insert variable button and at the bottom there is a Custom SQL option, use that and insert it…