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In what way can you not set that link to work? Worst case scenario you can hardcode it to any value at all that you want.

I would say that, to me, the best practice is not to assume that you need to use account limitations on most accounts. I build dashboards (which are pretty easy to script out and deploy in bulk) with filters on the views themselves so that a team can see what is related to them, but I rarely bother restricting their actual…

The oids aren't explicitly listed in the database except for custom pollers, UnDP's, and SAM SNMP monitors. Solarwinds publishes in various places lists of the OIDs they poll but they are scattered across a dozen or more documents depending on what modules you have, what features you have enabled, and what type of device…

I'm curious in what way did it "not work" since it will absolutely show you the most recent date that solarwinds knows of for the updates on each windows node on a single line per node.

They are just optional bits that might or might not apply to all users, or really most users. There are cases where upgrades don't go quite right and you may have to manually reinstall the IVIM/Vman integration stuff manually, installing it won't give you any additional capabilities except where your IVIM is currently not…

But NAM already allows unlimited APEs for the network centric modules, did you guys build in a mechanism where NAM apes and SAM apes are incompatible and don't run on the same server?

Yeah, last time I ran the numbers the crossover point where nam or acm became better deals was typically environments with at least 7 apes

Yeah, so far the best way to get users easily modifying their reports at run time that I have seen is to integrate with SSRS and providing them drop downs.

Glad to know you were able to work it out, I've been in airports all day today so I wasn't able to check back in until now. Definitely let me know if you get stuck on anything else, but it sounds like you have a good eye for solving your problems. -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional…

This is the link to the Orion SDK wiki where they show an example of setting a node property using powershell. Moving a node to another engine just requires you to set the engineid to the poller that is still up. I suspect if you dig around on thwack you might find examples of complete scripts that people have written to…

SELECT n.caption as [Node] , v.Caption as [Volume] , round(v.VolumePercentUsed,1) as [Space Used %] ,round(v.volumesize/1073741824,1) as [Total GB] ,round(v.volumespaceavailable/1073741824,1) as [Free GB] ,case when f.DaysToCapacityPeak is null then 'No Forecast' when f.DaysToCapacityPeak<0 then 'Full' when…

This one is probably a good starting point: NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Guided Tour - YouTube

Total bytes transferred on network hardware is reported via SNMP as a counter that is being updated on the device pretty much constantly but the default behavior for solarwinds is to use a 32 bit counter that rolls over after about 4gb, maybe you need 64 bit counters on that device, See this thread and see if that helps…

I would definitely consider it a bug and open a ticket, I've seen in the past at least 3 metrics that vman collected that were inaccurately labelled. I think the memory shares is still showing up incorrectly (shows configured mem in MB instead of the number of shares) last time I tested it.

You can do it in the GUI, so I would not be surprised if it works the same in API built discoveries, as long as it is formatted correctly.

Have you run an snmpwalk on the device yet from the orion poller? Id be curious to see if normal interface errors oids are available.

My experience has been that if one of the nodes is red a failover event will not go as planned, finding out why they are red is still very much a game of hide and seek and the VAST majority of whats on deployment health is unrelated and like you said, many are red herrings

I would say that if you don't want it to turn the db object red then just erase the values from warning and critical on the template, no need to set it to an arbitrarily high value just blank it out. I find that in sam templates, especially the sql one, there are lots of metrics I may want to track for context info but I…

The idea with the baselines is that it will determine the appropriate threshold on a per database basis, so yeah each one would get a different threshold based on the values it had before. Also keep in mind that one you hit the use baselines on a SAM template those values are only calculated that once and will not…

I have a powershell script that does exactly that, check this out I open this up in the powershell IDE, set the discovery name, set the property I want to change and what I want that value to be, execute the whole deal and I'm done. <#------------- CONNECT TO SWIS -------------#> # load the snappin if it's not already…

Correct, Orion is not in any way friendly to multi-tenancy. Wrenching with a hammer

Makes sense, I've had environments where we just set up informational alerts and then I edited all the views so informational alerts don't show, but it was kind of an elaborate scheme.

I figured it out, the OID you are polling returns a table, those duplicate lines you see are one for each interface, sfp, power supply, fan, chassis, card, module, etc, etc on the device. Not sure what exactly cause it to show as if it would return a single value when you tested it against that ASA but on most switches it…

or you can just add the devices as the children of the switch directly. Doing them directly is easy for 4 devices, it becomes a pain when you are building like 1000 dependencies, I like this method of using SQL and some custom properties to just make the computer sort it out for you: Automatic Dependencies Based On Custom…

So I feel like "groups" within solarwinds is basically a trap that a lot of new people fall into. In most cases they are not helpful for alerts and only situationally helpful for organizing the layout/views of things. You should do like sirpaw​ described and create custom propeerties to group up nodes or, better for your…

You may want to be cautious about creating a BUNCH of groups, it can cause a serious performance hit to your instance. It depends on the particulars of your environment and hardware, but I find that once you get into the 400+ groups range you can start to measure/feel the difference in many views, I've seen clients with…

APE license is basically just a one shot deal, you buy an ape and it will mirror all the modules on your primary server. As far as sizing the server itself goes, the official SW docs say it should have exactly the same resources as the primary. Real world experience indicates that you probably won't load the APE nearly as…

4.4 moved the NTA database back into SQL, but requires you to have SQL 2016 or newer as it relies on a feature that wasn't available before then. You can technically run the NTA database in the same SQL server as Orion, but in most environments they are both extremely resource hungry databases and you are pretty likely to…

In simple, there is not a built in alert action that does an unmanage, but there are other solutions. When these systems come online is there some kind of trigger? Does a technician boot them up or are they spinning up and down automatically via some sort of scripted automation? There are several ways to approach this…

When you are at the screen you show in this screenshot and you click on "Custom Poller Current..." that should get you the current statistics, which in this case SHOULD be the DNS server. I don't have a Node Custom poller set up in my lab to show you a screenshot right now, but it should be easy to spot from there. -Marc…