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It's not on the Orion side, meraki hosed up their implementation of their snmp agent. When you walk the devices in snmp regardless of the tool you use the mx 68 is no longer reporting correctly on their first interface, they shifted them all over one place on the rowids. We have a case open with meraki over it.

Ugh, this reminded me of an incident a few years ago when I was much lower in the totem pole and the business I worked at was undergoing a major upgrade of our core business application. We had flown in a team of 6 from the vendor to assist with the cut over to the new version and it was estimated it would take something…

I like that point #1, when I'm helping people set up new Solarwinds environments I sometimes run into people who have had some word come down from above that they were going to invest in monitoring tools, so the buy a bunch of modules. They haven't really sat down to discuss their goals and tried to determine if there are…

Probably, but if you wait for SW to develop the features you want you might be waiting a long time. I upvoted the FR as well, just pointing out that a solution/workaround exists already and is actually pretty fast to learn. Once a coworker showed me the github I was able to cobble together enough powershell (starting from…

EOC doesn't really write anything nor does it have anything significant in it's database, it just retains the basics for the views, user management, and credentials to access the attached Orion instances. As you load each page and widget it queries the relevant Orion instances for just the data that is needed in that…

dont pretend you arent just keeping the automation in your pocket so you can enjoy time away from the keyboard in your rv

Until the devs get around to adding a resource to do this you can always roll your own. Add a custom query resource to the view where you want the search and try this query: SELECT n.Caption, n.IP, n.Vendor, n.MachineType, cc.ChassisName, cc.ChassisSerialNumberString, ep.EntityName, ep.Serial from orion.Nodes n left join…

First time I ever noticed this feature request, but in case anyone needs this I wrote a set of powershell tools to do this. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/NPM-Documents/ViewExporter-ps1/ta-p/519617

You could use concat() to wrap your rows in html formatting tags, then instead of using the custom query resource you would use the custom table resource, give it a custom SWQL datasource, and check the box to allow it to use html. 

As an interim workaround you can add a note to the node when you unmanage it. It would be nice if Solarwinds automated these two steps together but that will have to do until they get around to it.

That seems accurate to me, a significant chunk of clients I've worked with were on PA. Still lots of ASA out there but they are always old, seems like nobody has bought a new ASA in years

I have told SW devs a few times when I get a chance to talk to them that a really powerful feature Orion seems to be missing is a template model for monitored devices. A set of of rules for how to identify which devices fall into the template, and then a bunch of policy settings like should we monitor this thing at all,…

Kind of like metric versus standard bolts on cars. Owners don't care at all one way or another but the mechanics who have to fix them need to be equipped correctly for the job. 

The documentation doesn't explicitly say it, but I see they have an argument available for Owner, which is how orion internally differentiates between modules. All creds end up on that same table across every product except NCM connection settings, which has it's own api separately available commands. Open up the db on…

You can always rename any component, you just have to rename them at the template not on an assigned instance. The scenario you are probably running into is a template with a single monitor, like the OOTB http template, where you have added additional components directly on that instance so they don't exist in the…

Yeah that I would appear to be a typo

I have to second the suggestion to move as much as you can to hard wired connections. I've known many people who burned through every kind of gimmick and wonder cure to fix their wifi when all they really needed to do was shoot an ethernet line across their attic and into the tv/xbox. Suddenly performance is great on the…

I wouldn't expect this to ever happen for "legacy widgets" but I know that several of the newer widgets just auto refresh as fast as data comes in.

Yep, I've pitched this same idea to PM's. I'd even suggested that it doesn't have to be functionally different than an alert, just built up a separate UI for specifically this kind of action logic.

Solarwinds actually has a desktop tool you can download to your workstation that has a similar effect to what you are describing. I haven't used it in a few years but it looks like its still around. https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/SAM/Content/SAM-Desktop-Notification-Tool-sw2221.htm.

@"ecklerwr1" Its a little bit of that, but the key functionality is the whole drop down UI to get the code you need part. Once I saw that stuff in Service Now it was a game changer for me. Makes the API stuff MUCH more accessible to everyone. Several other tools I have touched in the last year also have a similar web based…

I'm on board for this being a native widget, but in the mean time I have been using this custom SQL widget on my app details view that I think helps to fill some of the gap. It has been a bit of a beast to build out all those cases so it might not cover all scenarios but it does for everything I use. It only spells out the…

Since some of the slides pass through pretty quickly you can download the images from the deck here https://github.com/Mesverrum/MyPublicWork/blob/master/Thwack.pptx

good bracket this year, I like it when there is a little drama in a contest

I've always wondered if the in house Internet providers in international spots like Berlin were as cut throat as the ones I worked with in Vegas. Just a couple years ago people were still paying $3000+ to get a t1 in their booth for a weekend.

Thanks for giving some insight into what you've gleaned from your audiences. Helps a lot.

Yeah, since then I had also come across the "order by" solution which also deals with a few other kinds of problems you can sometimes get with the custom query resource. When in doubt, make sure to specify and order by.

They're just going to have to set up a Twitch account for Thwackcamp haha

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