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Yeah, you could pull those messages using some sql trickery in the message body. You'd add a custom sql variable to your message and the body of it would be something similar to the method discussed in this thread sql select in alert message body Basically, custom sql variables can only return a single "cell" of data, but…

As far as how to represent the overall availability of a service or multiple services and servers, just use groups. You can combine any number of different types of objects together into them and and get an overall status to display. As far as how to represent the colors and such, I would be doing that entirely in the…

The only correction I would make to your chart is that volume statistics (capacity/used/iops) are on a 15 minute timer by default

For a good while now it has been possible to set nodes/volumes/interfaces/components to have their own thresholds that over ride the global thresholds, so you can just use alert logic trigger that just says If <MetricWeNeed> is critical = true This allows you to write simple rules that can easily adjust thresholds to be…

add a custom query widget to a summary dashboard, edit that widget, paste the query into the box and submit it.

Yeah the easiest way to make that happen would probably be to make sure the banners all had the same names, then you can update the same property for every resource where the name is maintenance banner, then you can do the bulk edit in one go very easily.

Sounds about right, also keep in mind that when you stand up a fresh install you get 30 days before you need to bother with any licensing, so hopefully they get their stuff together before your 30 days so you don't have any interruptions.

I've seen the select row x query method before, a classic solution to a common problem. The more "elegant" way I've seen to solve this problem is to convert your query back to SQL and use the FOR XML PATH function there to string it all together with some line breaks to make Orion think it was a single row/cell but it…

Those web based alert managers generate session specific info, I imagine that their proxy was breaking their session in some way which jams everything up. I know with F5's for example there are some session persistence settings I have had to play with before to ensure that i don't get shuffled to another AWS in the middle…

Just a heads up, in case it isn't obvious, after you do the db edits you can't touch anything in the GUI relating the the view limitations for any tab on the view or it will undo the db changes. I've used this technique with clients in the past and despite clear warning not to touch it a few months later I get an email…

Not sure, i personally avoid the agents wherever possible because I feel like they just give me a lot of extra headaches that aren't worth the few benefits. I know that in a traditional discovery I always found I had better luck trying to keep it so I got less than 1000 devices at a time responding because I have had…

Technically using WMI uses more CPU/bandwidth than SNMP, but we are normally talking about pretty trivial differences in most cases and if the stats you want are only available in SNMP it pretty much forces the decision anyway. SNMP vs WMI polling - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support On the other hand, the agent…

Paste a screenshot of the widget and filter screen where you are trying to use this. There is a wide range of widgets that have been added over the years and annoyingly they are not all consistent in how they use the filters. Some of them are plain SQL, some are swql, some are SWQL but the code of the widget itself changes…

At a glance this is what I could find. SolarWinds Service Desk vs Web Help Desk - 2019 Feature and Pricing Comparison Also, Frequently Asked Questions | Support FAQ | Service Desk Help Desk Ticketing Software - Asset Management | SolarWinds Part of the trouble comparing feature sets between products is that superficially…

They only acquired Samanage like a month or two ago, honestly I was a bit surprised they were able to flip it into their catalog so quickly, but being SaaS they may have just needed to rebrand some logos and pick up right where it was. I would expect that unless you are ready for a forklift service desk replacement you may…

Did you end up speaking with cobrien about this? He is the product manager for NPM and would possibly be able to put all the pieces together for you to work on this with solar winds instead of having to guess and try to reverse engineer the whole thing.

As you probably picked up by now the custom table resource doesn't support the iconfor_ and linkfor_ syntax, you can only use them with the resource called Custom Query. I work in SWQL all day so I prefer that because it gives me a lot of control over presentation, but just using a custom table and for each column where it…

so you want to exclude messages that contain orionsw? This should work Select TOP 30 nodes.NodCaption, nodes.AgentIP, audit.DateTime, audit.Message FROM NCM_RTNAudit audit JOIN NCM_Nodes nodes on nodes.nodeid=audit.nodeid Where audit.message not like '%orionsw%' ORDER BY CONVERT (DateTime, DateTime) DESC

I was suggesting you build your reports completely from scratch in SSRS, there's not existing tool to directly take orion web based reports and migrate them to anything external. There is a trick where you can see the actual back end SQL of your reports with one of the orion diagnostic tools, Hubble, but it's kind of a…

select currentvalue from settings where settingid like 'dbm-defragmentation-enabled%'

For the most part yes, there are a few pieces of Orion that seem to be missing from group limitations such as Virtual Hosts and such if they are not being monitored as nodes, or storage objects from SRM, but overall the effect is to make it so you only see objects and child objects within the specified group. I do want to…

So patch manager piggybacks strongly on what is already going on in WSUS. I don't believe there would be anything different for the process you describe than if you were writing your scripting based on just a pure WSUS environment. I can't say I know anyone who has done an example of what you describe but regardless of the…

Yeah the settings menu is tied to being an admin, anything you do to try and break it for them would break it for all admins.

You need to build your topology maps in the Network Atlas tool on the Orion server, then what most people do is name the map with the same name as the groups and follow the instructions in this post: Custom Maps for Group Details Page

You should point it at the primary orion application server, not the db directly. -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems * Facebook: Loop1 Systems * Twitter: @Loop1Systems

I don't think such documentation has been created yet, you will have to build your own comparison to translate RDS to Azure requirements. If you are migrating an existing platform you might use the Azure DTU calculating tool to benchmark what you have now to assess how many DTU equivalent you need to order from Azure.…

I always put a space at the start of my alert names to know they are mine, also bumps them top the top.

turn it into a count(*)?

That lab is 12.1 right now but I've used similar methods in the past and had the same results. Are you sure your variables are correct in the message itself? I've also seen some cases where newly created variables don't populate initially and a server reboot or configuration wizard sometimes clears that up.

I use IE pretty often since I wouldn't bother to install browsers on other people's servers, and don't have the problem you describe so I don't think it is an IE specific thing, but hard to say. I'd suggest opening a ticket