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Interface metrics will be found on orion.npm.interfaces. the ncm config stuff is under either cirrus. or ncm. But I don't recall off the top of my head the exact name. I don't believe there is a verb to do a change report, so in your script you'd probably need to do something like pull the most recent config, then pull the…

Orion only shows systems as VM's when it can find them inside a monitored vm host. It can't do that for cloud instances so it just defaults to physical. Basically it's meaningless in this situation. Unfortunate that you can't make it disappear.

If you have more than one poller assigned then it seems likely someone was already mucking around in the DB or API but for normal cases there is nothing about the various cpu and mem pollers that the poller checker does that couldn't be handled from the GUI.

One thing to keep in mind is that your method doesn't really make any effort to distribute the loads across the pollers. Over the years you might add and delete objects in such a way that maybe all your core switches ended up in the same group, and since they have significantly more interfaces than a server it could skew…

Go to YOURSERVER/Orion/APM/Admin/Applications/Default.aspx and group them by application template, look for Windows scheduled tasks and remove them all.

The node details page can only use variables that exist on the nodes database view, since the data you want doesn't exist on that tablet it can't be called from a simple variable like that. You could probably get what you want by using a custom query or custom table widget since those can navigate and pull data from other…

Varies from vendor to vendor, some of them present the bandwidth of aggregate interfaces through the OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.5, others don't. That's where SW looks to determines the speed though.

Edit view 456 and there it's an option to view with tabs. There's only going to be one tab but that's good for now. Go into the database manager and select * from views where viewed in 123,456) Enable table editing, change the viewgroupname and viewgroup on 123 to match 456. Refresh the page and you should be all set with…

Normally they would still be factored in, but unmanaged objects don't get polled so there is no data to add to your averages. If you want to exclude them from the entire report the easy way is just to add the filter condition where unmanaged = false.

I'm imagining that you would just end up doing a log file monitor against wherever your SFTP solution records failed attempts. This is a case I like to punt to the SIEM if one is available, but if no better tool is available this template would generally be able to do the job.…

So every feature you turn on adds to the number of snmp oids that get polled and your device cpu has to try to answer. There are still a few OIDs that can be a bit overwhelming for network gear, usually things related to routing or neighbor topologies because some devices keep track of a lot of relationships. Just try to…

https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/SAM-Discussions/Where-does-WMI-get-the-location-data-on-a-windows-server/td-p/89003 Since location is a polled value if you try to manually set it in the db then it will eventually be overwritten.

First of all is your undp set to keep historical data? If so then you will need to write a sql/swql query that checks against the historical custompollerstatistics tables and just counts the number of rows that are in use grouped by the datetime.

A group details view is not a dashboard. If you change it for one group then it gets changed for all groups. What you should do is go to manage views and create an entirely new dashboard. Then you apply a view limitation to that view and pick the group from the list. Then add all your widgets and they will be filtered to…

At the end of the day the custom properties themselves are pretty low impact, the data on the Nodes page mostly already comes from the same database view. Think about it this way, charting out cpu load for the last 7 days requires looking up about 1000 data points and sorting it from a table that holds potentially millions…

Separate exams for different aspects, i think we are up to 6 different exams available now, NPM, SAM, NTA, NCM, Architecture, Troubleshooting?

Your server needs to be able to reach the feed from Cisco to see EoS data automatically. You can manually set your own EoS dates for an offline system but it will not be automated at all.

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I've worked on this before and generally speaking HBA's do not show up in windows SNMP. If they do show up it is usually just up/down of each port and no other detail, but it really depends on the vendor of the HBA. Since SNMP on Windows has not been supported by Microsoft for several years it is pretty limited and won't…

Monitoring containers in Orion: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/orionplatform/Content/Core-Container-Overview.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqJbGSiLHw4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhgLqIWOJDY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRNrpk6VsPo As far as the "best" way to monitor linux servers, it…

everything to do with alert trigger conditions get embedded in XML on alertconfigurations.trigger. Unfortunately it has been a huge chore up to this point to try to get that XML into anything that is remotely human readable. I can only wish you good luck if you decide to give it a go.

This template was the way I handled that particular issue in my environments. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/SAM-Documents/CPU-MEM-Process-Snapshot/ta-p/528811

Is maximum thread count exposed via the JMX interface? If it is you could make your own component to track it. How do you check the max thread count setting right now?

Category is kind of a special case, it actually isn't a column you can set manually from SWIS because it is automatically calculated based on data that exists on other tables. I always tell everyone to just ignore it because it can't be relied on for very much and you can't really control it, but every few months I see…

So throwing someone to the wolves and having them just figure it out is not uncommon in smaller environments. If that applies to you then don't worry, a small environment doesn't really need too much advanced config to keep the lights on. On the other hand, if you don't have a small environment (for example you have…

I tend to build a lot of rules to automatically assign custom properties. Conditions like IP address starts with 10.1.2. And ( SiteID is null or SiteID = '' ) where the action would be to set the custom property SiteID to Datacenter1. Basically any scenario where I know there is some kind of logical rule or standard. Also…

I will mention that I'm still running 2019.2 HF3 because I had tested and read about various problems in the newer releases that made me feel content to sit where I am until the noise settles down. On the Cisco note, I have converted many companies off Prime and into Orion. You give up some visibility into wifi but pretty…

It's a remove-swisobject, https://github.com/solarwinds/OrionSDK/wiki/PowerShell#remove-swisobject Not every SWIS table in IPAM allows removals, if you are in SWQL studio you can see if any given table allows removals in the bottom left corner.

This article explains the process. https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/How-to-create-a-non-administrator-user-for-SAM-polling I've done it before, the first few steps are pretty simple to do and setting the services permissions seemed to be optional in most cases for me. It does become one of those…

Netflow isn't really a helpful protocol for analyzing errors since it doesn't contain metrics related to error rates, just layer 3 bytes sent and received.