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Agree'd with this ^. I guess this might be seen as some kind of way to add in a distributed work load while also adding in a measure of redundancy, but it feels like a weird use of cloud resources. First of all, if you ever intend to use the on prem SQL server to run the NTA db then it has to be upgraded to 2016. One of…

I think the way you described this was a little hard to track so nobody wanted to jump in. If I'm looking at this correctly then I think the mistake you made is making that block 4x. The part you blanked out is key as well. So you are saying the F5 Device lines are all the same but the F5 virtual servers are explicitly…

Very much this, felt like there has been much more action on the development side in the last 2 years than in the 5 years prior. Hopefully they take that as a lesson this time around.

I would say if anything having a second external instance is significantly more of a pain to manage than just setting your existing instance up to track those things you need. For example if they want to monitor inbound connections you can set up external netpath probes reaching in. Anywhere you could set up another orion…

Solarwinds also offers a variety of cloud monitoring tools that could potentially also fit the bill and might be useful in terms of the SW admin already having a lot on their plate. Maybe just Pingdom would be enough to keep tabs on external visibility. Cloud Performance Monitoring & Management | SolarWinds

The default behavior is what it is, it makes sense with the way some devices report their interface names/aliases but is less clear with others. If you wanted you could write a script to update the interface captions with only the ifname or interfacealias or whatever combinations you think would be best but you might want…

Incorrect, the license model is a little confusing but the number in your npm license is not the total elements allowed, it is the max of nodes, interfaces, and disk volumes. Not in total but in each category. So you can monitor up to 100 nodes, and up to 100 interfaces, and up to 100 volumes. Since the OP specifically…

Pretty sure they posted an update that they dropped the "subscription" model Also I think they added an option to take one exam for 60,000 thwack points if you really want to do it free. Doing all the missions and special events will usually bring in 2-3000 points a month so it is pretty realistic that the effort to get a…

I also just noticed you have your default node statistics interval at 1 minute, that is something that can only work in pretty small environments. What is your polling engine showing for utilization on the All Settings > Polling Engines page?

Use a custom chart resource, this custom swql should work: select i.fullname, i.traffic.inpercentutil, i.traffic.outpercentutil from orion.npm.interfaces i where i.customproperties.myproperty = 1 and nodeid=${nodeid} Obviously set your property to whatever name you want to give it, and if you want bps instead of percent…

Did you do a list resources for the hyper v host? There really isn't much difference between a hyperv host and any other windows server when it comes to disk monitoring

There is nothing in this report that would stop you from creating the same logic in the web based report writer, I try to discourage people from creating new reports in RW since it is a legacy tool at this point and cannot be edited from the web console and if you migrate servers you have to remember to manually copy all…

In that second link i posted above there is a technique for placing groups automatically, assuming the groups reflect a site location. It works very nicely and automates the whole task once you feed it a table full of site names and coordinates.

The way I've always interpreted this was that the reset conditions can only clear alerts that were triggered by the same alert. On my reset conditions I actually clear out all the scope filters and custom properties and everything else and just focus on the specific conditions that would warrant a reset to me. So the…

https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/are-io-latencies-killing-your-performance/

You technically can ignore this error, but it makes the config wizard take a lot longer to complete. Been a while since i had to fix this but I think if you set up an http to https redirect the config wizard can complete successfully without complaining. Probably need to double check that all the right things are set up…

Just in the interest of clarity, netflow does not use a SQL database anymore and hasn't in several years, it uses a database technology called fastbit. 50 GB should be a good starting estimate for 100 devices to hold 30 days, even with "above average" utilization. The Netflow data compresses super effectively and the…

Yep, don't mess with it. It is only used internally and if you edit it one place you then have to edit it in all places and you derive 0 benefits. I cannot tell you how many broken environments I have walked into and immediately noticed inconsistency within the SWISidentifier that resulted in erratic behavior of the…

The drop down does work the way you are assuming, discover on your APE and the nodes will poll from the APE. I think the problem people want addressed is that they don't want their primary server to be the default because they tend to forget to click that button, they'd like to specify a preferred default, or just get…

I believe in the current releases they removed the option to embed objects directly in the email and now they come across as attachments. I know i saw a thread about it a few months back where people complained about the change after their upgrade.

Cannot say how many of my engagements I have to press them on creating a service account BEFORE we start setting things up. "Oh we can just use my creds here for now" is inevitably going to leave you in this position.

I borrows a friend's environment to test, it looks like your syntax works fine there. I copied and pasted exactly what you have here for your string into the Top xx volumes by disk used resource and got the correct results. This was in an NPM 12.3/sam 6.6 environment with all the latest hotfixes.

There is no Out of the box resource for Historical Alerts, I suspect someone may have written a custom SWQL resource for you. If you hit the edit button on that resource can you screenshot what it looks like? If it looks like a big SQL/SWQL query then you probably just need to wrap the timestamp with a tolocal() function.

This is all a limitation of the standard net-snmp daemon, i've known people who heavily modified their net-snmp with extended OID's and others who use ssh scripts to parse the values that they needed, but ultimately there isn't much you can do right now to get AIX's to report the desired volume metrics via snmp. This same…

This thread probably needs to get pushed to NPM

I just checked and it does not appear that ASA tunnels are selectable for group membership or for dependency parents. I imagine that using some sql trickery a workaround could be built, but I havenn't tested this idea out. You would need to create some kind of placeholder node to represent the VPN connection. I'd try…

I wouldn't be surprised if "down" ap's have the same behavior as other metrics elsewhere in Orion, where they just don't get updated anymore and get stuck at whatever value they last polled with. So the AP gets marked down but there is no correlated action in the db to zero out the signal strengths or drop them from the…

I wonder if the charting tool assumes the dates are in UTC and is applying a time zone shift when displaying them in the browser that pushes them to the previous day?

Expanding on this, Microsoft has said they will not be updating their built in SNMP client, since like 2012. So to do windows via SNMP you would need to install a 3rd party tool, or you can install the SolarWinds agent on your hosts as it uses encryption by default.

Ok thanks, I will figure my way around it then.