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bsciencefiction.tv​ and I just scored 12K for speaking at the SWUG meeting in Atlanta. Thanks to wabbott​ for making it rain on this Fathers Day weekend.

I'm actually sitting with a couple ServiceNow guys working on a POV environment this morning. It appears that one can map Statuses from Solarwinds to the criticality of incidents in ServiceNow. I can post more info when I've been granted access to the SN console. It's definitely something that would be configured in…

Yes, I was wanting to give them a nice graph with the statistical value on the webpage but I was just getting a flat line. I've been tinkering with the alert and have found that I was returning several statistical values and the one being displayed was just 0. I reworked the script and now I'm getting the correct value.…

....but other great members have been added, no?

Ah, my delete/re-add must have been right at that time. Thanks for clarifying.

How long can it take to receive Thwack store items? I ordered something in May but it still shows "Processing".

The blue mood light means everything is calm. It'll turn red when I get stupid emails. Just kidding...it'd be bright red all the time.

A bluetooth mouse or Giant Umbrella (Lots of advertising space) 

superfly99​ I couldn't find the other post where I saw your response to this so I'll thank you here. Our network guys used the above doc to set up alerting using emails and it has come up that it takes a while to alert. I will definitely look in to the syslog method which like you said is going to be a lot faster and would…

Hey Maria, I'm with bradwalters1128​.I thought I had completed this mission because I have an "EMEA" badge but now it's showing 75% complete. Suggestions?

Hey Maria, on the image above it looks like you are missing one requirement. How would one know which one that is from the list of "Tasks" on this page? Yes, mine looks just like the screenshot and I can't work out which Task I'm missing. Thanks

Turns out that 99.7% of the variables supported elsewhere in Orion do not work when one uses them in the "Arguments" field of a script monitor. I tried a lot of them but not all. Here's the ones I've found so far: ${IP} ${Node.Caption} ${Node.DNS} ${Node.SysName} ${Node.Custom.xxx} #Replace xxx for any Custom Property on a…

If you already have queries that do each of the criteria individually then you should be able to look at the SQL query in "Alert Manager" by changing the "Type of Property to Monitor" drop down to "Custom SQL Alert" and copy/paste the "WHERE" statement in to your SQL tool. If you get the correct result on each query then…

The most common answer seems to be to use the "Schedule Unmanaged Utility" to only monitor at certain times. I'm not a big fan of that method as it leaves your app in maintenance mode for 99% of the day and we all want to see those little green lights. Personally, I like to add the times when the application actually needs…

These links have a lot of good suggestions SCP exam overview - my perspective / Every SCP Question Ever and this one has a couple sample questions SCP_Exam_Prep_Guide.pdf . Hope this helps.

I haven't worked on many perl scripts but when I use Powershell I output the Message and Statistic with a number or description. SAM allows up to 10 different return values. e.g. print "Message.0: $stat\n"; print "Statistic.0: $stat\n"; or print "Message.some_description_here: $stat\n"; print…

I emailed you. Thanks

I haven't done all that much with Views but I know that we would like to see a way to notify users of upcoming changes, outages, etc.. Something like a main View that everyone is directed to first and then they could choose to go to their specific Home page from there. We have not upgraded to NPM12 yet but I recall seeing…

Have a look at the following guide. It should answer all your questions. Rule of thumb is no more than 12K elements per poller but different types of nodes have different amounts of elements so it's tough to say how many nodes. Scalability Engine Guidelines

I would use a component of the type "Process Monitor - SNMP". Create one application and then create a component for each service. With multiple components I would alert when a component goes down and not the application.

I still had the 11.5.3 zip file but the documents are for 11.5.2 so that link above should work for you.

Thanks, that's what I was thinking from the snip-it of documentation that I've read. We're only going to use it for SAN monitoring so we should be good to tell our SAN team that it doesn't require an agent on their systems. Yes?

I started getting this same message a couple days ago too. One day I was importing elements just fine and the next I was getting this message. We did not install any patches or hotfixes or make any other changes. What fixed it for us was simply restarting all services on the core engine using the "Orion Service Manager"…

Check out these links: BGP OSPF and EIGRP Advance Alert Hopefully it helps.

I had a little search around and found the following write-up that may be similar to what you are trying to do: Integrate Google Charts with Solarwinds reports/view, A Pie chart example The example is for pie charts but I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to switch to a table (Visualization: Table | Charts | Google…

My bad. I see what you're saying. I thought you were trying to put the alert and the trigger action together in one event. I can't say I've sent an email that contained a sql query result but it should be possible. If you choose to send an email you could put some HTML code in the body that runs the sql script (I've never…

You shouldn't need the Powershell piece when you're creating component monitors using the SQL User Experience Monitor. Just put the query in the field "Sql query" field but if I remember correctly, the sql query has to be a "Count" and can only return one value. I'm not too familiar with Powershell but if that is a working…

The simplest way I can think of right quick is to make an application monitor with two components to monitor the service. In one component you use the option "Not Running" as the return value and in the other component you return "Down" as the return value. Both will trigger at the same time because they'll be looking at…

When you launch a powershell prompt make sure you are launching the 32-bit one titled "Windows PowerShell (x86)". If you add your modules in the 32-bit powershell your scripts should work.