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This is more a general web hosting question than an orion specific one, but i've seen this done in many environments. You create a cert on your domain's issuing server for the hostname or web address that you want your users to connect to, include any necessary subject alternate names, load that cert to the Orion web…

This thread might help, it mentions a few queries and links to other threads with similar goals. thwack.solarwinds.com/.../alert-history---cleared-time - Marc Netterfield * Loop1: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * My GitHub: Mesverrum

I think there are a few questions in this. When you say make things more efficient, in what regard? The computational load of processing flows is kind of light, in the big picture of all the things the collector servers do. The hard part is primarily on the db side, writing new data in and then pulling it out to display…

There are a few ways you could approach this. It is possible via the NCM API to execute a script on demand, so its possible that you could use an alert condition to execute the script against the node when its status changes from down to up. Depending on how complex your scenario is it might be easier to do any more…

Well at least those logs confirm that you aren't being blocked along the way. Have you contacted Dell support to confirm the settings are correct? 

Generally the flow with SAM is that I would find a server that runs the service I want to monitor and create a template from that. Then apply the template to any other servers that I know also run that process. Getting deeper into the weeds you can also set up groups based on a dynamic rule and have SAM templates get…

might need to open a support case then, i havent actually had IPAM in like 5 years so I can't confirm myself

Like @"Seashore" said this comes up pretty often but unfortunately its not possible with the way Orion alert logic works. I think this request comes up so often because some tools have a flow where you create an alert and then have to assign it to individual entities or apply alert policies that map things in a direct…

So the ingress controller is not exactly relevant to SW, that's a part of the cluster building thats going to happen where your thanos lives (im kind of assuming its a k8s deployment somewhere), essentially the ingress controller is their load balancer. Since http2 is backward compatible and mostly the same as http1.1…

Those tools you listed are all essentially part of the core platform installation. The things that could be missing are any things that someone would have installed via some method beside the Orion platform installer, so some kind of common examples I can think of that might exist out there would be things like pieces from…

I can't say it is the BEST way, but when I had this exact problem in the past I added a tab of custom html widgets to my node details view and uploaded all my images to the server that hosted my website inside the same directory where the rest of the web assets lived and named the image files to line up with the site codes…

12 hours is the Interval for the configuration polling, it is very cpu intensive, and most of the data collected during is rarely changed. That's why they only do it twice a day. Here's a feature request from a while back about making it easier to find the setting to change it.…

Looking at the Swagger for that endpoint I think you just needed to wrap your CIDR as a string solarwinds.github.io/.../

Yes this is definitely doable, but I don't have a powershell script handy to show you this specific kind of change. Someone else might, or youll just have to hammer it out in your environment.

Since SW themselves have not released an official integration with Prime (and you shouldn't expect them to do so given that Prime was a competitor, and is now EOL) it would be a fairly significant task to cook up your own integration. If I was going to go down that road I expect it would involve using the SAM API monitors…

I ran Orion in AWS and then in GCP in my previous role for a few years. The document is correct about just needing the 4 ports, but it is only addressing the communications between the APE and primary server. If your SAM target nodes are back on-prem then you would need to handle those ports basically one by one, depending…

Is this something that really needs to be an alert rather than a report? I've always found that the node reboot was basically noise because it literally can't trigger unless the node is back up and reporting in again. If there are apps running that needed manual intervention I'd be hearing about that from SAM monitors.

From past experience I can say this definitely worked for me when I used it for a customer environment around 2018. I was in contact with them often for about a year and nobody ever had a problem related to this scenario. I will mention that this client got a similar response as you did, officially I wouldn't call it a…

Could you create a group and throw the app servers in that? If the app servers are clustered I tend to think of them as an aggregate entity anyway, rather than getting too focused on each discrete node.

Could you create a group and throw the app servers in that? If the app servers are clustered I tend to think of them as an aggregate entity anyway, rather than getting too focused on each discrete node.

So the ncm scripting capabilities are not a full language, essentially they can't perform math and string manipulations like that and they can't perform logic in flight, like you can't run a command, parse the response and then use that result in the script. The work around that you can do is to pre calculate that sort of…

I created this Sam component a few years back which does what you are asking. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/content-exchange/server-application-monitor/m/application-monitor-templates/1313 The thing to keep in mind is if you don't start collecting the cpu/mem until after an alert has already triggered then you often run…

Very common mistake with Orion is to get focused on groups early on. What you need to do is tag the interfaces with a custom property first, then use that property as the key for all your groups/alerts/dashboards. For example you could very easily just add a T/F property called "Failover" to interfaces and set it true for…

That widget depends on data collected from IPAM, if you don't run both modules I don't believe it will do anything.

In the past I have gone pretty heavy into the side of using SAM powershell monitors and had a model I used for getting past the issues like the one raised above about not being able to "list all the cifs." The way I would do it is to set things up was that I would generally have a template with 3 components. Component1 was…

You mention that you are already logged in but the links give you a directlink. What I expect here is the url you bookmark is probably not exactly the same as the one in your emails, such as having http://myOrionserver/ in one and myOrionserver.domain.com/ on the other, so the browser doesn't consider it to be the same…

Generally I recommend you don't monitor ports that don't have permanent infrastructure attached to the other end. If you really want to keep them in Orion then you need to enable all those interfaces to be displayed as "unplugged" documentation.solarwinds.com/.../npm-setting-interface-management-states-sw668.htm

Those audit events are only retained for 30 days by default, i'd guess the missing ones have aged their audit events out already.

There is a scalability engine installer package you download from the Settings > Pollers page. When you run that package it starts with a prompt asking if this is going to be an APE, HA server, free sam or vman poller, maybe other options by now. You just pick which one you need and it installs the appropriate feature set.

I've written code to do this in the past. Since those tables are not directly able to be edited you have to edit them in SQL. As an admin you can shoot SQL commands in through the SDK/API through a verb under the Orion.Reporting, ExecuteSQL As to the use case around creating and editing templates and app instances via API,…