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Are you able to temporarily give it rights, or just dbcreator? I dont think I used SA for mine (sorry been several years now), we only gave it dbcreator.

Have you tried letting the installer create the databases (and also setting the permissions that way)?

I made an post on this a while back I can't find but there is some complexity with this. There is also a feature request. The alert scope you want is 'capacity forecasting' The variables are called 'level1/2' or 'critical value / warning value' depending on which one your working with.

allowed bi-directional?

If you just need to spot check you can see it from SAM setting and looking at the 'assigned to' field, which can display all the nodes. A quick query can display them as well (just replace with the desired application name). SELECT NodeName, N.Applications.DisplayName FROM Orion.Nodes N WHERE N.Applications.DisplayName…

Might be worth whitelisting the URLS then working from there on what was blocking it.

Not sure about the agent, but you can extend SNMP to pull in extra information, then pull that in via custom poller/device template.

Only thing I can think of it saying disabled right after creation is if your doing 'execute an external program' you have to manually approve/enable those now for security (after the 2023.2 versions) Approve alert actions executing a script

For your last part about auditing changes, there was a recent post that had had to query out of message center and a query for a custom dashboard.

Most uses use the alert engine to set properties. Using the Orion Alerting Engine to Assign Custom Properties.

I'd tackle this in another direction if possible. Why does the user have to be logged in (assuming interactive session?) for the report to work? I'd set the application up with a service so it can start on boot or as called.

Is the node also unknown? If not try running list resources and making sure the volume is present. You might need to remove and re-add.

Thanks for the feedback thread. I also had both your issues (Errors During Upgrade to 2023.2). The maintenance is a bug (but please confirm with support tho). How big is your environment? I am also around the 5 hour mark for most upgrades (plus any issues).

Not sure which vendor your using, most of them will have 3+ IP/DNS addresses. Node1, node2, cluster/HP. I would monitor all 3 (or at least the physical nodes). Some vendors only expose the cluster IP (but should expose an OID to poll the individual health, which node your running on, etc.). Is that possible in your setup?…

Tabular tables are hard to work with (at least the SNMP custom pollers one). Been a few months from the last one I had to do so I don't remember the exact steps I have to do to get these to display the way I like. I don't remember there being a way to reorder the columns, I think it goes on the table index.

yep, SD-WAN here as well. Found a few interesting behaviors when there is multi-wan or route mapping in place. Credit where its due as well to some well designed networks that failover great and NetPath/WPM caught it when traffic re-routed to a slower link.

NetPath which you have, and WPM are my go to's. If that fails a full blown APM like AppOptics (from SW) / App Dynamics / Dynatrace / New Relic / ETC. can tell you a LOT about the performance and the specific user session. Personal aside. The only issue with (NetPath/WPM) is that people generally tend to put these in server…

To clarify, are you trying to add a resource to the SolarWinds webpage for alert details view? Or add extra payload to your alert execution, EX: email/team/service-now/webhook? The format "${N=SwisEntity;M=NodeID}" is only used by the alert engines actions (trigger/reset).

Some dashboard assets let you put a filter, some don't. If they don't, you can set a filter at the dashboard level, via a view limitation. 

Thinking it would be easier to skip the group entirely and just query the node and application you want (I personally dont like dealing with groups unless I have to, they don't link to other useful tables as well (ex: for Alerts or dashboards). Orion.APM.Application links directly to the node table, so it should be fairly…

Are you looking to monitor Openshift with SolarWinds, or send Openshifts alerts to SW who relays them to your ITSM tool? Found a feature request for Openshift. What I have done is integrate my monitoring tools (2-8 depending on client) to an ITSM. Then the ITSM handles prioritization and call outs. If you want to integrate…

Whats the end result you are trying to accomplish? 

Yep and I do the same for my CA roots and recommend it to my clients. 

Also interested to see what the community comes up with. Worse case you can use the alert engine to query out your devices, and use it to set a new custom property you can seed to the group dynamic query (if it requires a value) 

I hear you from a compliance/security perspective. Personal aside If you have access to login to get the logs you have far bigger issues than someone getting intel from log files, I'd push back.

Duplicate thread of Disabling username and password.

Forgot about the newer tool that SW released that combs the logs files for things. Orion Insights.

Duplicate thread of Teams Alerting Question.

Honestly, I open support tickets. HA can be complicated, I've seen all sorts of issues over the years (from disk performance, to having to manually tune the settings). 

scrub? Like analyze or delete? Notepad++ is always a favorite if you can install software or on a route-able network to your pollers and can access them, else its just notepad. If you have the budget I'd highly recommend a centralized log source (SolarWinds sells one). Humio has a free option (community edition) for…