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The report scheduler doesn't keep any reports. All it does is run a job that logs into the website takes a snapshot of the database and then emails it out. The report templates are the reports created in the Report Writer but the data is stored in the database. If you ran out of disk space, then the issue is more than…

The only options you have in terms of monitoring would be to remove the polling for errors and discards and topology. The topology is on the node level, while the errors would be on the interface level. Just do a list resources on the node and de-select these options. Outside of these, there wouldn't be anything to remove.…

Rob, This is possible. The first thing you'd want to do, if you haven't done this already is setup a custom property for region. This can be done in the website under settings and manage custom properties. Once you have this added and populated, you can go into your report in the Report Writer, and in the Select Fields add…

Using a none is the negative equivalent for any, if one of the criteria is still met it could fire off. Change the condition group to not all, which will ensure that if any of those conditions are met, the alert will not trigger. Basically take the logic you would have for including and reverse it for excluding in terms of…

You might need to add ${CRLF} to the script to add in the second enter command to confirm the file. regards, Matthew Harvey

EOC has it's own menu bars independent than what NPM has. This is by design to allow for access to see the information from the multiple Orion servers, and to see the different type of information. You'd have to go into the role you assigned that EOC user and specify what the role is able to see in terms of menu options.…

Create a specific Summary page as the users' homepage. On this page add the Network Map resource. As an admin edit the resource and select he specific map you wish to use. As users log in they will see this map. Just note, if the user has the rights to customize the page, they could change the map for everyone who sees…

There is no way to install this on your workstation, it is bound to the server. As rstoney00 points out though, SolarWinds is working on moving alerts to the web in the upcoming NPM v12 release.

The problem you are going to run into is that the additional polling engines may run into issues writing/communicating with the SQL database after the primary has been upgrade. This will be due to schema changes against the database that are done with the upgrade upon running the configuration wizard. You'll have to…

You can actually acknowledge alerts via a smartphone without the need for a third party app. In the alert message, you would want to include the ${AcknowledgeURL} variable that gets sent to the smartphone. The engineer can then go to the link that the variable will give and acknowledge the alert. Regards, Matthew Harvey…

Due to how the SolarWinds software licensing loads, the software is not going to allow you to run another 30 day eval after you have already run a 30 eval on the same server short of reloading the server. The other option would be to load them on another server.

I've seen something like this before, and what was happening then is that the system was adding a hidden condition for these alerts that was causing the issue. I'm not quite sure what the fix was, just make sure both your conditions are from the custom node poller selection options. If so, I'd either try recreating the…

No, the windows app has to be installed on the same server running NCM. There isn't a separate installer just for the windows app. You should still be able to do anything you need within the web console, though.

If you are referring to SolarWinds Virtualization Manager aka VMan, then no, it's a virtual appliance. It has to be stood up as it's own server on an ESX host. There is an integration you can setup through the Orion web console, but they can't be installed on the same server.

There's no edit ability to be able to add in more data. Unfortunately it's built to be very limited. Having said that, you can add more data to the map itself via labels. You can right-click on a device on the map, choose add label, then edit the label and use a variable similar to what you'd use in Advanced Alerts. If you…

If you are looking for items that have not had something in Notification then you want where Notification IS NULL If there were values that have been blanked out then you want where Notification = ' ' to denote an empty space. From what you have above then more than likely the IS NULL is what you are looking for.

This is something that should get you started in the right direction: select NPM_NV_WL_APS.AP_Name as AP_Name, Count(NPM_NV_WL_CLIENTS.ID) as Client_Count, Datepart(minute, NPM_NV_WL_APS.LastUpdate)/5 as Interval From NPM_NV_WL_CLIENTS Join NPM_NV_WL_APS on NPM_NV_WL_APS.NodeID = NPM_NV_WL_APS.NodeID Where…

As long as you get the .bak file that would be the database, then yes. You'd just need to do a bit of tweaking afterwards that should be in the guide that rob.hock listed out. As well, when you have SQL installed on the DB server, you will need to, or have your DBAs, create a dbo account that can be assigned to the…

I don't think there is a way to do that at the moment. The per node threshold is merely for the website on when it shows the value in yellow or red, but does not carry over to the alerting.

The has changed condition option is specifically built for node reboot and node IOS changes. That condition cannot be used for other alerts unfortunately. This is why the alert is not working. What you would need to do is change the status polling on the interface from 120 seconds to says 30 seconds to detect this faster…

I would change the condition from contains to Does Not Contain and then add a condition for Vendor is equal to Windows. This should list out all your Windows servers without the application installed at least as far as SolarWinds knows.

There may be an issue if the IP address changes. You'd need to set the node to dynamic in order to allow SolarWinds to pick up the new IP. Otherwise, it should be fine. We've been doing a virtual migration for some time without issue. Another item you may run into is to remove hardware polling in SolarWinds prior to this…

One thing we've tended to use in an instance of node down is something like the following. ${NodeName} became unresponsive at ${AlertTriggerTime} and is now reporting as ${status}. Please try to connect to ${IP_Address} to verify if the device is truly down. Please reach out to ${Department} for further assistance if the…

Are you seeing it in the app on the server? I'd imagine it's pulling up either an orphaned assignment, or orphaned poller. I'd look at but the custompollers and custompollerassignment tables to see if there are assignments in that table for a poller that doesn't exist. There is also a Universal Device Poller log on the…

Usually I have to refresh when I see this or I see it when I am replying to a thread that moved into another forum while I was editing it. I've seen this more though in the past couple of days forcing a page refresh than I had prior.

I have the same issue with hardware sensors. I believe it's due to the fact that the sensor is no longer showing as problematic, the system has a hard time binding the variables and pulling values. 

If you go to page 35 and 36, the guide below should aide you in configuring your firewall. http://digitalscepter.com/wp-content/uploads/PAN-Guides/Palo-Alto-4.1_Administrators_Guide.pdf

All of that is saved in the database, so there's nothing to move. Now if you have custom report writer reports, then those would need to be migrated to the new server. They would be in \Program Files x86\SolarWinds\Orion\Reports. 

This is true for alerts that occur during that timeframe, however if something was in a triggered state during that and then reset after, it may still send the reset. I've seen that before.

Rather than alerting on the application status, which as you've seen causes an email per component, or service, I'd recommend alerting on the component status. Set the name of the components uniquely, then configure if the component status is equal to down, and your application template name. This way you get one alert…