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I run into this once in a while in client environments, usually bouncing the services or running a configuration wizard on the primary server forces it to catch up with the latest properties list. I thought they addressed it in recent versions because I haven't had the problem in about a year.

There is currently no streamlined automatic failover/ha for the NTA database. The application part of NTA has absolutely has to be installed on the same server as NPM, it can't be run standalone. You also need to set up an additional separate server for the NTA database, it does not use SQL so it cannot live in the same DB…

I ran into this behavior last week also, haven't had a chance to try and identify the cause.

Nice, I'm surprised I missed the announcement of this new resource in Orion. I've been playing with the tiles in EOC for a bit and the biggest hurdle I had run into there with them was that I can build one tile, and that's good, and I can build 10 tiles and that's a little tedious, but then my clients see the view I put…

Presumably because there is something preventing you from reaching the switch with SNMP. Can you putty from the orion server to that switch's IP? Can you telnet from the orion server to the switch on port 161?

So what's going on is that your SAM script is setting the status but it's not populating all the other tables that would normally be populated when polling a node. Can't you just report based on the availability of the SAM script and basically get the same results?

Typically this is due to running an old firmware or version of OMSA, see mention here http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/f/4494/t/19440792 https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=83704

When they show up like that in Atlas it means the node/object that they used to be got deleted from the database. Deleted objects are purged every night when the maintenance runs at 2:15 am so unless the change just happened you are pretty unlikely to be able to find out what it used to be. If you hover over the object it…

The trick to doing this is to not select a specific map on the details page, you should be using the selection that says ${name} and then just save the map you want to show up with exactly the same name as the group, Orion will display whatever map it finds with a correlating name if one exists.

If it were my environment I'd pull the history on that undp poller to see what values were in the database (assumes you have "keep historical" checked on that undp). Normally there are no entries at all on a missed poll so there is nothing for the alert engine to act on and I wouldn't expect a message. I also think it is a…

The answer i heard on this is that the new streamlined installer basically replaced to UA, run it and it will let you know your upgrade path. 

Can be hard to pin them down after the fact in larger environments, that's why I always try to include a "This message generate by ${N=Alerting;M=AlertName}" in the body somewhere In any case, what I would do is look through the alerthistory table in the database and try to correlate those messages to timestamps or the…

in cases where you are doing a small enough deployment that you don't want to stand up a separate SQL server I would suggest you at least split the db drives off. Something like a drive for Windows system stuff, one for the Orion and SQL applications, one for SQL DB, one for NTA DB. Something like 4 vcpu and 16 gb of ram…

The way the logic works on table pollers is that it evaluates each row of the poller table separately, so the rule you have there would alert any time 10.0.1.24 is in any table poller at all. It doesn't check the whole table for those two values as a set. You could probably get away with specifying the rowid that currently…

When you add a subnet there is a check box for "disable automatic scanning" and as long as you don't check that (or don't have it globally disabled in the ipam settings) it should attempt to scan right away. Individual subnets > Global scan settings >

Those datasets are pulling swql queries, swql is 95% the same as sql so almost any method you find online for filtering SQL time sets would apply similarly. You node availability query already has a last 1 day filter applied with the getdate()-1 part See the SWQL function list here SWQL Functions · solarwinds/OrionSDK Wiki…

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I work as a consultant so I don't get to own any of the environments for more than a few weeks at a time but this is what I normally see: 1.) how does your company handle auto scaling groups in AWS? When orion scans a cloud instance it will see the new server and automatically pick it up as a Cloud VM, but the question is…

I'd open a ticket, seems like there was something bugged in that user account creation. Have you tried just creating a totally new one with a different name?

The default resources have some limitations to the filtering they can do and don't have the capability to just bounce around all over the database (those thresholds you want are on another table). If you are willing to get comfortable with SWQL you could set up a custom query like this to get a similar result but you would…

NPM 12.3 Release Notes - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support ^ That covers the new features, there are several of them. As for bugs, comparing 12.2 to 12.3 in most environments I would say 12.3 uses measurably more CPU, so if you were near the limits on 12.2 you are probably going to be hurting with 12.3. Also the…

Credentials is where all the creds live, but there are a ton of use cases that determine which joins need to be made to get them accurately reflected. I have this custom swql query that does most the leg work if you have SAM, you should be able to modify it to what you need. If you don't have SAM or don't need it for this…

This is a known issue with using SNMP since it uses a 32 bit integer and truncates the excess characters when it sends them to Orion. There are workarounds involving making changes to snmpd but given the number of other issues that exist with net-snmp I would suggest you try the recently released Orion agent for Linux and…

See this documentation Alerts · solarwinds/OrionSDK Wiki · GitHub

The SAM Solaris stuff mostly just uses SSH based scripts to collect data

amhuerta110212​ In order to work toward limiting the size of your NTA database you need to adjust the retention settings from the web console. Log in and go to Settings> NTA Settings> Database Settings and look at the number of days you have for the retention period. You should also be able to see the current size of the…

Nope, the severity is hard coded into the alert. The other common spot where it would be nice to have things be a bit more flexible is the alert trigger times, x must be true for y minutes. Unfortunately both of them are static and cannot be changed without creating a new alert. I have to admit, I have been subscribing to…

The alert definitions are all in XML, so there is no existing function to report on them in a human readable format. The best work around I have seen in the past was to go to the last page of the edit alert screen where they display all the trigger/reset conditions and action and just copy and paste that into the alert…

Solarwinds only gets new information about where a VM lives during the configuration collection, so you basically only get 2 datapoints 12 hours apart each day for VM locations. If you want it to be more accurate about the time of a move you can increase the frequency of your collections, keeping in mind that will also put…

sandeep.bansal29​ NPM doesn't use that credential area for CUCM, that is for UCS blade servers, leave it unchecked for this one. VNQM is the Solarwinds module that interacts with the Call Manager. If you go to the settings in that module you should be able to find the button to add it. -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems:…