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I had this same problem this week as well. I ran a mibwalk on the device and saw similar issues. Seems like the developers at meraki intended for .0 to be interface 1, but that's not how snmp oids work so it's all screwed up.

I do exactly what you describe at the end, appinsight at the listener level, lightweight service monitors at the node level. For tracking things like losing individual cluster members and such I just have some event log monitors and sql error log monitors. If I was working with clients who wanted to get fancy I'd cook up…

Constantly trying to teach people about the benefits of defining custom apps an address groups. Great timely post.

So the way you do multiple ip filtering in NTA is to create an IP Address group, and then just filter against that address group.

If you are using a current release with the separate log database then the process is exactly the same, regardless if you have licenses LA or are using the free version. https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/Success_Center/LA/Content/LA_Getting_Started_Guide.htm If you are using an older version and syslogs/traps are…

Not possible, the additional web servers are functionally identical to the main server web console with no settings to limit them.

The alerting only comes from the primary polling engine. APE's don't trigger alerts and when they go down generally their nodes just stop getting updates, they wouldn't show every node as going down or anything like that, they just get stuck with whatever their last updated data was until the poller comes back. Normally…

Thats an old atlas map, any node that runs ip sla operations has them listed under it as child objects that you can drag out and display.

Unfortunately on that old version the syslog/trap viewer based alerts don't integrate at all with the web console. You can see the events themselves but none of the actions are recorded.

Pretty certain that its true by default for the last couple years, I havent had to manually set it in a long while.

I've never seen any method of filtering the templates for an admin user. @"serena" and I were recently having a conversation around these same kinds of problems with the lack of granular permissions in Orion. Many things are all or nothing in a way that makes life hard when we want to delegate out tasks to others.

Perfstack and all its variants doesn't give any indication of gaps in data, its annoying and has been brought up several times to PM's since perfstack came out. No work around except to use the legacy custom chart widget. With the custom chart you are going to get averaging any time there are more than some hard coded…

In general having simple conditions in the where is more efficient than having lots of OR conditions but you'd have to load thousands of alerts in a big environment to really measure a difference. To your more strategic question about having too many alerts, when you compare the node down alerts at each site are they…

The first argument should be a nodeid, not a caption

The verb is expecting an array but you are passing a single value, this post shows the syntax you need https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/Discussions/Reset-an-alert-via-Powershell-SWIS/m-p/66420

When I've done SW in AWS it was always alongside new server build, so I haven't tried the migration tool. You will want to make sure you pay attention to the sizing recommendations @"tony.johnson" linked to, I've seen many companies try to skimp out on those when migrating and their systems performed terribly until we got…

I don't have the latest release installed right now, in the back of my mind I *think* they may have already set it up in the new version for undp status to contribute to node status, but maybe not. In any case, one work around even on older releases that you can do right now would be to set up an alert that says when…

So when you search interfaces it is only including monitored interfaces. Every result you see in your scenario is potentially something to be deleted from the interfaces table but you will want to get your SQL comfort levels way up before you start deleting (and make sure you have very backups when you try). Back when I…

To have SAM poll externally you would likely want to stand up an additional polling engine in the cloud and build some routing rules where it knows to send external traffic out one interface and communicate with your orion instance through another. On the other hand a much cheaper and simpler to manage option that is still…

Yeah, you would just need to set up the powershell with the correct format. From some quick googling you could get the max timestamp from something like this https://4sysops.com/archives/use-powershell-to-get-last-logon-information/ and just set it up so that if the timestamp is < 60 days ago you give a statistic: 1 else…

This article explains how to change the interval, and indirectly tells you where to check to see what it currently is, looks like its 180 minutes. Would definitely recommend a trap alert. https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Change-the-routing-polling-interval

I've seen a few threads with similar issues, but not seen any resolution. Seems like some people's accounts just can't auth inside the tool and they have to log in and manually grab them from here https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/SAM-Documents/tkb-p/sam-documents/label-name/application%20monitor%20templates

Figured I may as well link the script I wrote to perform the actions wluther described here, posted it several months ago ADDING CUSTOM TABS TO THE TOP LEVEL NAV BAR with the API I've also taken a stab at manipulating the my dashboards area, but so far it has resisted my efforts.

Nope that use case is pretty uncommon and will definitely be a scripted kind of thing.

That widget only refers to the node itself, not children. Not sure about your alert, 1% seems like a really narrow margin though

Doesn't really matter unless you have a poller that's already overloaded. I often see people set up a load balancer address and round robin them around. The LB address is also nice if you decide a few years from now that you don't want to do traps in Orion anymore you can just change the LB settings instead of changing the…

From the look of the error it doesn't like something about the value of the email password setting. If you haven't already tried I'd just null that out and plan on redoing my email password after the fact. Update websettings set settingvalue = NULL where settingname = DefaultEmailPassword

http://solarwinds.github.io/OrionSDK/2019.4/index.html http://solarwinds.github.io/OrionSDK/swagger-ui/#/Verbs/OrionAlertSuppressionResumeAlerts

Not sure what in your environment causes you to be unable to use the centralized upgrade, but for your question about the evals, you will need to install it on every polling engine to have them actually work.

I've kicked the tires a few times over the years and every time I try I always end up finding that account permissions doesn't properly cover all of the available object types. It seems that the default behavior is that if the object CAN be controlled via account/view limitations and your group has no rules about those…