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When you set up the NCM config backup jobs you can define what it is comparing to, normally it should be "last downloaded config of the same type" but I expect you will find it has something else selected on yours. -Marc Netterfield Loop1 Systems: SolarWinds Training and Professional Services * LinkedIN: Loop1 Systems *…

Looks like me like its returning a null, you need to edit it to return a 0 when no files are found that match the criteria.

I think the term you are looking for is called "Disk Seconds Per Transfer" in Orion, as in how long it takes on average to complete disk operations? Also, this is only available for nodes being polled with WMI or the agent. SNMP does not provide this info.

So step one, I don't bother using atlas for geographic maps at all, the worldwide map resource is perfectly fine for that kind of stuff, and once you build out all your locations you can save shots of it zoomed in to the various regions you care about so don't bother hunting google images and stuff. I hated how much time I…

I guess depending you network structure, if you monitored the branch router via an address that's on the far side of all those connections it would give you the desired effect wouldn't it? As in something like this: / x.x.x.1 WAN IP ~~~ x.x.x.2 WAN IP \ Orion --> a.a.a.1 DC local network -- DatacenterRouter -- y.y.y.1 WAN…

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For number two the easiest way is that you would need a javascript dev or similar to just build you a custom html resource that can communicate back and forth with Jira. It's definitely doable, but since the vast majority of Orion admins are not front end devs I haven't seen anyone build it yet.

If it were me I'd probably go with option 1, although keep in mind that switching back and forth like this requires that you have both your eval and prod systems running exactly the same versions or things could get ugly, but that really applies to all scenarios. I'd definitely avoid option 3 as I just don't like the idea…

So the first thing that you want to keep in mind is that when Orion a poll it doesn't Mark the node down immediately it goes into the polling mode and put it into warning. When's the note is in warning it has to miss everything for 2 minutes before it marks that is down so anytime Orien tells you a notice down it's already…

NTA doesn't run into limitations based directly on the amount of bandwidth your connections have, it works based on the amount of individual conversations that are going across the monitored interfaces, which is measured in flows per second. There are a handful of flow calculators you can try out online but it is really…

It depends on which modules you are using and which features, but the specifics are documented in the admin guides for every module A pretty typical minimum for server monitoring would be as shown here: How to create a non-administrator user for SAM polling - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support IPAM adds in some…

There is a known bug with certain cisco firmwares where they report certain sensors with incorrect warning thresholds when you poll it in SNMP, but the CLI shows everything as normal. This looks like that. There are lots of threads about the issue on the forums of every snmp based monitoring tool I've ever seen. You could…

Might help if you showed what you have so far?

There's no command in the api to save a config to your machine. You can trigger ncm to download a config and then you can pull up that config and then you would code it up on your end to save that response to the specified directory. I don't usually work in python but in powershell I often have used the command…

Did these firewalls have changes that weren't committed to the startup config? Solarwinds determines up/down based solely on pings except when you have specified to use another method on the particular node, so you pretty clearly have something in the pipe blocking ICMP between your polling server and the nodes. Traceroute…

I've never seen it done, I imagine it could be possible to copy the aspx of the custom resource and modify it if you are familiar with coding that sort of thing.

Break it into two tables on the report, first is Kitty Servers and their installed Software and second is just Kitty Servers with Windows Updates. The Software inventory and Windows update information are stored in separate database tables, and if you know SQL then you may be able to see why allowing the users to just join…

The short answer is no, WPM only simulates IE (although they say they are working on expanding this), and it uses whatever the connection speed of your playback server is. So unless you cooked up some way to throttle the network resources available to your playback server that's basically out.

Most likely the Storage Manager that you have is basically an old version that's minimally supported now. It has since been replaced by SRM (storage resource monitor) https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Differences-between-SRM-Orion-and-SRM-Profiler Basically you just install SRM on your Orion instance,…

Percent availability is basically any time they polled and the application was not down. What down means depends on your application template and the individual components within it. The overall application inherits the worst status of any component, so if you have a service running over the specified memory threshold it…

Not sure if the behavior was different before because I never really noticed it either, but can second that I was deleting interfaces with a client right running 12.5 right after it dropped and we encountered the same thing with the system choking after 1000 operations, doesn't matter if you are doing them in the GUI or…

I use this report every day, it goes in the Custom Chart resource using a custom SWQL data source, the data series should be Emails, time column is Date, Data grouping is Name, time period is Once a day, looks best with a stacked column chart type. select count(message) as [Emails] ,datetrunc('day',timestamp) as [date]…

In an MSP situation id be seriously looking at the SDK as a way to turn repetitive and time consuming tasks into scripts that run automatically. With most of my clients I set them up so that they build a base dashboard template, then the script iterates through all the unique values of custom property and creates a clone…

Modifying a report I already had that counts the number of times a particular alert has happened, you would just need to change the alert name on row 25 in your environment to match the one you are hoping to filtering on, I used '%is down%' in my lab example --report on alerts triggered select…

Rather than mucking around in the DB if you are having a hard time sorting it out you can just build a report via the web interface that exports these stats to excel. Build a report table, when it asks you for datasource just set it to find the counters you are interested in by name Then build the report with the columns…

The common net-snmp service in most linux distro's doesn't include that info natively, you have to extend it and set up a custom poller in Orion to check whatever value you set in the extended tables. This is discussed in this previous post: How Can I poll the OS version for Linux Servers? An alternative that may be…

Assuming you are using the web based report writer then select the table, click the column, there is a data unit option that is most likely set to auto, switch it to the unit you would prefer. I almost always standardize my reports away from auto because I find it easier to scroll through big lists where all rows are using…

I'd probably run the faster system for the DB, SQL does multithreading to some extent but the most painful parts in Orion tend to be when a task tied to a single thread runs long. The pollers normally run a ton of concurrent instances of their worker processes and would be better suited to the higher processors counts.

Simple answer is no. I'm sure if someone got to digging around in there they might figure out something like a custom sql or javascript or modifying the .net files to have case logic and manipulate the display based on whatever conditions, but short of that kind of thing, the columns are standard across everything on the…

No, the summary view is not changed by custom properties. You will end up wanting to set up custom properties that reflect any kind of way you would want to divide up or group the nodes/interfacesin your network, especially for reporting. I know in my environment I use about a dozen custom properties to reflect things like…