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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

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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…

What is your detailed data retention setting? The first think that I would expect to skew your numbers is the weekly roll up, since it doesn't look like you are doing any kind of weighting in your query to reflect the number of polls in each hourly/daily time slice.

I'd guess a ports/firewall issue, they check in and show up on the web console immediately once the install completes. This KB discusses troubleshooting the agents Success Center

I have been playing with a custom html resource to do some javascript charts and this is the relevant part I use to pull data in from the information service, you can basically point any swql at it and it will give you a JSON response. var params = JSON.stringify({query:'select n.caption, n.CPULoadHistory.AvgLoad from…

Not with anything native to Solarwinds, many of the default resources in Orion are painfully inefficient with white space. I've seen people whip up custom dashboarding integrations with javascript or SQL Reporting Services to get around it but its a lot of work. Here is a clunky example a friend of mine helped me to do of…

You can make up as many rules as you like and key them into whatever data you have in LEM and then you map the rule to an email template, and you can create as many email templates as you need under the manage groups section (don't ask me why, but that's where email templates live). FIM isn't going to be reading the…

There are examples of how to do these steps with Powershell in the github OrionSDK/Samples/PowerShell at master · solarwinds/OrionSDK · GitHub

You are trying to join on eventid, you should be joining on ev.NetObjectID I don't have the sdk open in front of me but you should also ensure that the netobjecttype is orion.volumes or v: I can't recall exactly how that table looks from memory.

You won't really be able to do aggregates and detailed node data in a single resource, but you could do a report with more than one widget on them, summarized values at the time and detailed info below. I don't believe they surface this stuff in the GUI report builder, so you will probably need custom SQL/SWQL. Don't have…

Meraki SNMP support is famously terrible, they were very late to even begin to add it to their products and it is still super spotty so some things you would expect don't work, or if they do work it's being done in a way nobody else does it and that makes life hard for monitoring. Any time you have trouble with meraki…

https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/scp-npm-exam-guide Its basically just a matter of reading the admin guide and having some familiarity with the product.

a colleague of mine mentioned he saw that the syntax of some of the sam alert variables changed in this release, you could be running into that. In which case the old copy wouldn't fix your issue, you'd just need to figure out what variables need to be swapped in. An upgrade normally shouldn't change any verbiage unless…

These factors are not explicitly a Patch manager issue, you can play with the settings that microsoft makes available to you but PM doesn't itself directly control things like reboot behaviors associated with the windows update agent. This thread discusses the problems you are having.…

I think the most efficient way to address this would be to use the unmanage scheduler utility on the main orion server to just stop polling the device during the maintenance window. You can make reports that are filtered to specific time ranges but then it would be filtering all the applications in the report the same way…

Make sure you have a custom property that tags which nodes belong in each region. I'll call mine "Region" for example's sake. Add a custom chart widget to a view, probably want to filter it to nodes where region is not blank. On the section where it wants to know what stats you need to track find the node availability % In…

None of the out of the box resources will include that info, but you should be able to create a custom table of transactions and include all the columns you are talking about.

To get around that issue I created a custom query that does the job and you can set as many lines as you like, you can also make it searchable which is nice. SELECT o.AlertConfigurations.Name AS [ALERT NAME] ,'/Orion/NetPerfMon/ActiveAlertDetails.aspx?NetObject=AAT:' + ToString(o.AlertObjectID) AS [_LinkFor_ALERT NAME]…

I'm a bit confused, this screenshot shows several real and virtual interfaces. What are you expecting to see differently?

Solarwinds NTA is tied directly to NPM and snmp interface indexes, without those you are kind of stuck. There are methods people have rigged up to get around this but they are usually kind of complicated to deal with, not sure if you want to go down that road.

I haven't tested this yet, but have you checked if the events table records anything for status changes? I find in almost all cases it is much more practical to look for an event in the history than to try and parse every data point in the historical data.