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You can force a poll from inside the VMAN appliance under the setup tab at the top there is a tab to the left with the collection schedules (can't remember the exact name and don't have access to my appliance ATM). There are performance metrics that are collected every 10 minutes by default and there are what they call…

If I recall correctly you can't duplicate one that is already in use (which is dumb i know), so you just have to create a new one from scratch and define all the oids yourself.

Its possible to build a list, but it probably might not be that helpful since you would still need to go to your manage nodes screen and check the boxes for all of them if you want to change them in bulk instead of one at a time. Assuming that all nodes need to end up with the same set of credentials then selecting all…

To add to what joe.tran said, Last Booted falls under detailed SNMP/WMI statistics in terms of polling intervals, so by default that value is only polled once every 10 minutes, but your machine will normally be pinged every 2 minutes for up/down status, so it is very easy to have a scenario where a machine goes down, sw…

I believe the values for those report timestamps are stored in the db with UTC timestamps, and they just convert them to display in server time in the GUI. Can you confirm that this would line up with what you are observing?

In order to trust it you have to understand how it gets the info it presents. In the default settings the node forecast calculations are based on the polled data over the last 7 days. In many cases making a change to either your system resources or workloads over that time would basically invalidate the forecast for that…

The simplest test is to try to access that server by https://serverip:1311 If you are able to get the website to load and can log into it then thats a fairly good indicator that solarwinds will be able to get the hardware health, if they don't load your openmanage software has some kind of issue and may need a service…

From looking that over is the web console trying to adjust for the user's time zone, or maybe just servertime versus the db being in utc.

One point to add to that, those numbers do not take into consideration the new nta database. It hasn't really been out long enough for any clients I know of to get a feel for how much space it will be using and the documentation regarding the database size requirements seems to not have been updated yet so I'm not sure if…

To clarify aLTeReGo​'s comment, there is no option to publish/display reports directly on the dashboards the way you would with report writer based reports. You can use custom table/chart resources to recreate the same content as what you have in the report but it does require that you do the work again for each page you…

Nothing has changed in the appinsight template lately. There's nothing specific in the appinsight template to correlate AG stuff yet, I've been rolling my own sql scripts as a separate template on my nodes and listeners and I use the info from that to spin up some other templates with scripts. The whole thing is very…

It all ends up on the same view as the rest of the component statistics, Orion.APM.ChartEvidence2 if you are using swql or [dbo].[APM_ChartEvidence2] in sql, join it to the components table to filter on names and such. -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems…

Those values come from the hardware vendor themselves when you query the device, it varies from one to another but there is an OID you call to see what the thresholds should be: Hardware health OIDS - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

Depending on how you are collecting those temperatures, if they are using built in hardware health then it is under manage hardware sensors, then you would do some kind of filtering/grouping to get the ones you need to change all in the view and edit them all at once. Otherwise if you are using UNDP to collect the temps it…

Do you have a view limitation applied to the dashboard?

Best way to be sure when it comes to traps is to set up packet captures on the sending and receiving ends and see what data is showing up. I've never had a case where my data was successfully arriving and the tool didn't work.

Adding on to this, The main purpose I find for neighbor scanning is when you have nodes that do not respond to ping your gateway router will still know that they are out there so checking with the router is a good way to double check that open IP's really are open. The trouble is that hitting a router and asking it about…

Since you are using hostnames instead of IP the query could be a little more complicated, I'd do Select sysname, objectsubtype from orion.nodes My big concern is always that hostnames tend to be less consistent than IP's

There was a bug for a while where disabled sensors will get enabled again on their own. Haven't tried to check it in the latest release, but I would suggest you keep an eye on those and make sure they stay disabled

Indeed, Loop1 does specialize in Solarwinds professional services, support, consultations and class based training. We're headquartered out of Austin, but our engineers are scattered all over the US and Ireland. I like to think our team is pretty awesome, but I can admit I am probably biased since I'm on the team. Some…

Using the gui you can can find the datapoints you are looking for under Node - Response Time History.

In cases like this where if you are going to go through all the trouble to do the data source completely in sql I feel like you are better served by just creating the whole table as a Custom Query in SWQL. They are a little bit faster to manipulate and set up than the Custom Table resource, and don't have the added…

No answers because it can't be done in any user friendly way. It's fairly easy to get a report that breaks down everything except the trigger and reset conditions. Those are stored as xml in the database and I have yetto come across anyone who has any good tricks for parsing them back into something that is really human…

You won't get anywhere just by tweaking the url, as the filters are a property of the view object itself not a component of the url. It is very possible to script up view creation though with the API. I have a script I use for building app dashboards in regular orion where I build a template view an then clone it as many…

Keep in mind that for NTA's purposes an "application" is just a port that it sees traffic on, if you want to be more granular you can also specify source and destination IP's but it is not something like a firewall packet inspector that is using heuristics to figure out what is going on between the end points. If you set…

Netpath would work directly node to node if you install the netpath agent on the nodes.

The custom alert variables were designed to display a single value, not an array of values. There is a workaround though, using the sql variable and an option called for xml path where SQL takes the array of values and crunches then into a big chunk of xml that happens to display the way we want inside email clients. I…

As long as you review them all it can be helpful, but it doesn't have the intelligence to handle things like alternate failover paths or SDN/SDWAN etc and it can be a real pain to lose one of your paths and then realize that Solarwinds has stopped polling everything downstream without even realizing you can still reach the…

There's nothing to add, the VIM software is already part of the normal APE package. This free VMAN ape is just a stripped down version of the software you would already have.

Yeah nobody that I'm aware of has assembled a "boot camp" type cram session around just the SCP stuff, but if you are familiar with the tools and have read the admin guides there isn't really a lot of crazy stuff in the exams. The general Orion training courses at Loop1 have recently been reworked and cover the majority of…