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All of those widgets are related to the QoE feature, do you use that on these netops devices? If no then that explains why there's no data. https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/QoE-DPI

Nodes show as unknown vendor when they are only being pinged. To change them you need to set the node to have some additional polling capability such as SNMP or WMI or the Agent working on them.

This article gives the best official explanation of how to make a non-admin user for Orion purposes. https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/How-to-create-a-non-administrator-user-for-SAM-polling Basically running as a non-admin user is possible, but its kind of a lot of work and you'll find that various…

Some where around 2019.2 or so they added the option to create custom properties for virtual machines, even if they aren't managed nodes in NPM/SAM. Just create a comments property for VM's and you should be good.

You'll probably have better luck at the RMM forum, https://success.solarwindsmsp.com/ Solarwinds Orion and Solarwinds MSP products don't have much overlap.

Fairly certain that nodes get into that category simply by having some kind of routing poller turned on, basically if SW detects the OID's for a routing protocol like BGP or EIGRP then they say its a router. In practice that will probably include lots of l3 switches and potentially other types of devices so it is more a…

That node being in that category indicates that VNQM has picked that node up for something or another. Definitely won't be under SAM settings.

I've run into issues with consuming all available database connection pools before, the default is 1000, after which they have a timer where they basically start to release after 2 ish minutes. The way I worked around it at the time was updating my database connection setting to have 10k allowed in the pool , which…

There is an option for command line filters on the process monitors, you would include file path stuff in there, its just a simple string match from what I have tried.

Windows generates events for reboots, set up a sam monitor for eventid 1074 or 6008. Might be others but those are the ones I'm familiar with.

https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/What-object-IDs-OIDs-does-the-Orion-Platform-poll-for-network-topology-information This is the bulk of it, NPM tries all the OID's listed there to see various ways that things can be connected together and then starts trying to build up the "map" that it uses for auto…

WPM basically works with the data that the client browser would have, so its mostly html as rendered on the client computer.

Have you checked if the F5 VPN reports on that info via SNMP? You could potentially set up a custom UNDP poller for the OID's if they are available. Otherwise it may need to be a REST poller, which is available via the current SAM release.

2020.2 has widgets update in real time https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/The-Orion-Platform-Documents/Orion-Platform-2020-2-Release-Candidate-Modern-Dashboards/ta-p/586258

Your script doesn't have a statistic. All sam script monitors require statistic outputs. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/Geek-Speak-Blogs/The-Basics-of-PowerShell-part-3/ba-p/434046&ved=2ahUKEwjr-bGvw9roAhWNsp4KHdzEBKEQFjAAegQIBRAC&usg=AOvVaw3PpsxmC0r-COhL7-c2_Hwl

The quick solution is just to edit the widget and change it from top 5 to a higher number. I go top 25 on many of my details widgets

How would you identify that without solarwinds. I've not looked into it before but is there a command line function or powershell script that would even tell us which process are associated with each CPU?

With CP in place Alerts seems like the next big target I'd be chasing

In the alert history table an event type of 2 is an automated clear and an 8 is a manual cleared alert. I have a report that does exactly what you describe that I can dig up tomorrow

It's been discussed with the PM, but at this moment VMAN doesn't collect notes or tags from vcenter. I've known people who wanted to get fancy and built their own integrations between orion and vcenter that synced tags with custom properties but that's the only way at this point.

You have to edit the permissions of the service account so that it cannot see those hosts.

As long as the parent node has that value set it should work.

There are a lot of ways to approach this, it depends on your jobs specifically. Do you run the jobs with a central tool that provides some kind of error/success response? Might be able to query that tool or check a log file for errors. Is it good enough to just go based on the last updated timestamp of a file in the…

Replied to this same question on /r/Solarwinds/, but from the things you describe it seems to me like you might not even have NPM installed. Those are the behaviors I would associate with a SAM only installation, not being able to see interfaces under list resources from SNMP based devices and not having the UNDP tool…

So in order to add info about a specific detailed object to a summary page you usually will end up wanting to using the custom table or custom chart widgets. There are lots of widgets that kind of do the job for specific use cases here and there, but they custom table can basically cover anything you need, so I rarely…

I just looked through the templates and I don't see one specifically for 2016, but there is the 2012 failover cluster template. In most cases when they don't make a newer one it's because the older one still works, so I'd try that out first.…

It's more than likely down due to the license being expired. When they can't verify licensing the APE's stop some of their services.

This is a good first step toward the manager of managers, happy to see it

A few ways that this could theoretically be done, do they just want you to send a json payload to them when alerts trigger/reset so they can just include that data in their tool, or are they also hoping to be able to send data back such as updating alert notes and acknowledging from their system? Solarwinds API is very…

Go here YOURSERVER/Orion/APM/Admin/MonitorLibrary/AppFinder/SelectMonitorType.aspx then follow the rest of your KB.