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They are looking for xml files, such as the ones uploaded by @"CourtesyIT" in these posts https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/NCM-Discussions/Everything-DISA-STIGs-for-your-Network/m-p/130792 Keep in mind that he has uploaded newer versions of most of those templates, but the post outlines what to do with them and the…

SELECT n.NodeID, n.IPAddress, n.Caption, n.NodeDescription, n.Description, n.DNS, n.SysName, n.Vendor, n.IOSImage, n.IOSVersion, n.MemoryAvailable, n.MachineType, n.IsServer, n.ChildStatus, n.TotalMemory, n.SNMPVersion, n.Community, n.RWCommunity, n.IP, n.IP_Address, n.NodeName, n.EntityType, n.DisplayName ,…

You might be able to stop the monitoring from keeping the workers up by disabling the http/s tests for the site. All of the IIS metrics are coming back from powershell and WMI calls so it's just the actual page up/down connection tests that are keeping your workers up.

You just fell into the most common trap that catches most new Orion users. You basically can't do anything with groups after you build them. You should always start with populating custom properties since those can be referenced just about everywhere in Orion and then for the few edge cases where you actually need to use…

In a normal situation the asset inventory job runs once a day, I take it you aren't getting updates even after days have passed? Reinstalling the collector service feels a little like your support rep was grasping for straws. It has its own schedule so running discoveries or forcing polls won't affect it.

I had already started making mentions to my team about us upgrading to 2020.2 once it goes GA, this news about performance improvements is always welcome.

You should look into using the SQL User Experience Component, give it credentials with read access to the database, write a query that returns the statistic you need (user counts, for example) and SAM will poll the number as often as you tell it to.

So the method to get swql data into the custom html resources is to use javascript. That's probably kind of overkill for this scenario though. Another trick is to embed html formatting into a custom table resource and then check the box to enable html, similar to how it works in this example,…

If you are using snmp it requires port 161 initiated from the poller into the dmz. Another possibility is that most snmp devices have a white list of allowed hosts that they will respond to, so your new poller needs to be on that list.

This is the relevant documentation https://github.com/solarwinds/OrionSDK/wiki/Alerts#orionalertsuppression

Comment out the and or lines with the search string stuff

add to the where section: and n.vendor not in ('vendor1','vendor2','etc') or if the list is shorter you could go the other way and say vendor in such and such

If there's nothing else that could be on that line you can throw $ on the end sincethat indicates end of the line, alternatively maybe \s+ to indicate that there is a line break or white space after the vlan 1

This is the Custom Query resource with the "search" box checked

Wonder where you got that query? Event 10 is very unlikely to be a node down, and netobject type 'I' indicates that you are looking for an interface event to end your counter. I can't tell you what the exact event id for your up and down events should be because it depends on which modules you installed and how long ago.…

Testing with powershell is pretty meaningless in this context, SW is using WMI so you should test from the same polling engine the node is assigned to, using wbemtest to make it apples to apples. https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Testing-WMI-Connectivity

I was just discussing with a PM the other day how much of a problem the existing permission scheme is for people. They do KNOW how to build granular permission structures, they did it for IPAM. Wish they would take inspiration and apply it to the whole platform.

Most of these would have been replaced by the built in hardware health features these days. Afew of the more granular ones like identifying specific module numbers might still have a use for reporting. In any case to get useful SNMP data from them the servers would need to have the HP Insight Management software running on…

Scratch that, I learned a way to trick the GUI to give my menus the superpower of being adjustable on a per user. The tool doesn't do this (yet?) but if you just rename your custom menu bar as alerts or reports then anything you create will also get added to the user account settings as well The name that shows up in the…

I finally got back around to playing with this a bit more. So as far as I have been able to tell you cant hide the menu bar directly if you create your own custom ones then they show up for everyone. A trick I did find was that if you make changes to the built in Alerts & Activity or the Reports menu then each row you add…

There is a column in the db for a limitationid, but I haven't yet had time to play with it to see what results I got

I'd be holding tight, the web based maps is making pretty good progress toward feature parity with what atlas had, so I wouldn't be building anything too custom or complicated in Atlas these days since I'll just end up wanting to redo them within a year or so.

Paste the whole query into the search box, in the regular box erase all the where conditions.

Try this as a custom query resource, I use it in my environments to check all the credentials being used for nodes in npm and sam --Solarwinds Credential Use SELECT n.caption as [Node] ,n.detailsurl as [_linkfor_Node] ,'/Orion/images/StatusIcons/Small-' + n.StatusIcon AS [_IconFor_Node] ,n.objectsubtype as [Polling Method]…

I like this, but I've lately figured that if I'm sitting down to write custom scripts I may as well do the whole thing in the script. What I mean is I have been writing the scripted SAM monitors with the self healing already built in. If I need to check a list of processes I loop through the list and have an if statement…

The default events retention period is only 30 days, change it under polling settings if you need longer.

Yeah I hear that. In most cases you can still get away with just displaying the noaa .gif weather maps on a dashboard somewhere and avoid all the paying and java scripting. But if these kinds of overlays are imperative then that's kind of where we end up. I feel like the kinds of orgs who would be willing to pay for this…

So I believe from past experience that with these api's the world is sliced into cells and each cell ends up being counted as a separate api call. So when you have the full global map up it might trigger hundreds or into the thousands of calls, and i believe that happens every time you refresh the page or a different user…

There are several articles relating to how to enable winrm to allow you to execute powershell remotely, it is very often disabled or locked down by GPO What is WinRM & How Do You Configure It?…

It only has logic to go back based on minutes, so if you wanted to go back 15 days you would do 21600 minutes ago. I thought about doing a more elaborate searching logic but didn't get around to it. Also I don't know off hand how much of this data is accessible after the details data gets rolled into hourly averages (after…