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I found the info by using a custom table in a report / resource. However, based upon your initial question, it sounds like you are wanting an alert so you can initiate a restart. If you do a search in the canned alerts for SAM, there is one called VMs with Bad Tools. This would be a good starting point for you. The trigger…

That I do not do. I let our DBAs handle anything SQL related.

You're welcome.

The runtime is calculated by calculating the number of minutes since the last boot, as found in VIM_Hosts.BootTime. Take a look and see if the value updated to reflect your recent reboot.

By virtual appliance, are you referring to the VMAN server or VIM? VMAN is a CentOS appliance that is built from a ova file. The integration to Orion is done via VIM. This is an add on that can easily be integrated into your existing Orion (NPM/SAM) console. It's just a matter of running the installer.

Got'cha. I misunderstood. I thought you were wanting machines that recently rebooted. I don't think you can use the vm.Perfdate because even though a machine may be powered off, VMware will still report it as having 0 performance data (at least for memory). You can verify this by running the following query.…

The way I do it is add the node and then click the Add Related Items button after it's added. But yes, you are correct. Searching for the volume isn't easy. One of the points I made in the Beta forum.

Yes, for SQL you have to license the entire cluster. We have a dedicated SQL farm where we license the respective hosts. I understand that most organizations do not have that luxury.

Just realized I was doing this the hard way. Instead of doing the math, I can just key off of Node Removed events. Thanks for the help. On another note, any way to rename the SQL Server User Experience monitor so I can tell them apart by name?

What have you tried so far? In looking at the options, there is a place to type the log name. Is this what you've already done?

It's the physical cpu count. So if you have a socket with 8 cores, to the ESX environment you have 8 cpus. But you only have to license the socket. 

Got'cha. That's what I was thinking at first and then re-read your question and thought I was looking at it wrong. You are correct that if you apply a new template, you will lose the historical data from the old after removal. You only real solution is to take a look at the differences in the old and new version and edit…

The NodesData table will have the basic info about the devices themselves such as Name, IP address, etc. There are other tables to pull in info such as number of cpus and memory size, OS info, etc. There are several tables that start with AssetInventory. To get statistical data, you will need to dig into each of those…

You don't need to install anything for VMAN to work. You just need to make sure that you are connecting over the correct port (default 443) and that the account you are using has read permissions.

I'm with you know. The problem is due to the fact that by going into the Group Details and editing it, you are actually editing the Group Details View and not just that specific group. So, any changes you make are propagated across anything that uses that view. My suggestion would be to create a TopXX page and do your…

Since you only care about the 1 server, I would start with building an alert to trigger on that server's cpu usage. This would look similar to the following. You would then add the action Execute and External Program under the Trigger Actions. For the path to the program type: APM\SolarWinds.APM.RealTimeProcessPoller.exe…

You're welcome and Thank you. The survey is very relevant to my current role. Most of the applications that we monitor are custom. My unofficial team tame is the Application Performance Monitoring team.

I have only seen the query error when I put in a SWQL filter. But your screenshot does not show one. Another suggestion is to look at what the custom property can be used for (under Custom Properties -> Edit). This is what I have mine set to, which is default.

You can go to Settings - Manage Custom Properties and look for it there. Just check the box next to the name and click View / Edit Values. On a side note, I have noticed that sometimes newly created custom properties do not let you assign them right away. I've had cases where I had to wait a while, sometimes the next day,…

Talked with Solarwinds and found out the issue was a creation problem on my end. There was an pop-up box authentication piece that wasn't being recorded because the site was cached on the back end. We closed all browsers and such and then it allowed us to connect to the site properly.

Glad to help. Typically, when I do capacity planning, I like to go well beyond the 5 days default. So, as you collect more data, you may notice the numbers change a bit.

As a follow up on this. I think the table will work, but I cannot verify at the moment. I have been having database problems since my 6.4 upgrade. Working with support on getting that fixed, so I think this is just another symptom of my problems. My main poller's C drive filled up this weekend due to not being able to…

Have you tried to a SNMPWalk throughout your network? Run it locally from the server to make sure it can connect. Then back it out to a different spot in the network. Repeat until you reach your Solarwinds server. You will of course have to update the SNMP settings for each location you try to run it from.

Have you ensured that you allowed the poller to poll the device in the SNMP settings? With Windows, you not only have to define the community strings, but which devices can collect data.

SAM doesn't give you the details of what occurred. SAM is used for a statistical measure to let you know how many times the event occurred. To get the details of the event log, you would need something like LEM.

For those that may run into the issue. After I went through the manual configuration steps, I noticed that everything was polling except the 3 monitors that are categorized as Custom WMI (SSL Certificate Monitor, Site Log Directory Monitor, and Site Directory Info Monitor). Since I had already manually configured the…

If you look under the Reports in the Web-Based reporting tool (Not the Report Writer on the server) there are some historical reports already created for you. You should be able to modify one of them to filter on just your AB- node name. Let me know if this is what you are looking for.

Can you provide the screenshot of the chart selections also? I've tested several metrics using the same setup that you have and some of them chart and some do not. So, I want to make sure I'm going down the right path.

HA requires the VIP and both pollers to be in the same subnet. Short answer to your question, I am not sure why it matters, but it does. Might be a question for engineering.

Groups aside, your only option that I know of is to do Application Scans as you add in the nodes. You can have it scan each node to see if the specific template is applicable.