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Most people I've known just set their service account to not expire. If they have an infrequent password rotation policy like once a year they just schedule it and plan on manually updating it, if they have a more frequent rotation then they usually leverage the api since most passwords in Orion can be changed there…

I'm going to discourage you from building this as an alert, just because every place I have ever seen someone set this kind of info up in an alert they get annoyed by all the short term blips and spam it generates. You are much better off using a report to spot check these periodically, on my admin dashboard I have a…

Thanks for pointing this trick out out, I co-opted it and started using this method to replace all the links in my existing collection of custom SWQL as soon as I saw it. Figured I should post back an example so people can see an additional use case for this idea. So I think the default cpu/mem and latency/loss gauges take…

There is no mechanism for that built in. Whenever I have worked with large sets of Atlas diagrams I've just had to rely on map naming conventions to keep things organized. Probably also worth keeping in mind that atlas diagrams are on the way out in favor of the newer Orion web based maps, so if youhave a big collection…

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.