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I don't understand the logic of "Get Output Failed" if that's the expected behavior of Exit 1. Its indicative of an error [in the script]. Regardless I appreciate you explaining this to me. Thank you.

aLTeReGo, Im running SAM 6.22 and I am attempting to monitor drive health of a Windows 2012 R2 server running a LSI controller. MegaRAID Storage Manager 14.05.02.00 is installed and can see all the drives. How do I go about connecting Orion to MSM? Should it appear under List Resources of the node? It does not. Or is it a…

That's exactly what I suspected. Your alerting scope is Groups which doesn't have access to node information. I just tested Group Member which also doesn't have the variables you need. When applying variables you can use the output preview by changing the test object. This will show you which variables will work.

So the new user impersonation function was released that does't work at all. Did anybody test it?

I found the SQL macro requires a FROM statement in order to function correctly. In this context it can be from any table since you are only applying an operator to an alert variable value.

Is there a way to import all guests from VMAN into Orion NPM? This seems like a logical step in the integration process.

I too have wanted some configuration around the volume forecast calculation. I find the forecast is inaccurate on younger volumes and I would like to set a minimum duration. Say 3 months until a calculation is presented. I end up having to explain why the volume is forecasted to be at capacity in negative 15 days because…

I observe the same up/down flapping on the HTTPS monitor. The error for me is always the underlying SSL connection has closed. We've thoroughly debugged this internally and with support even had a level 2 engineer to no resolution (#963355). The problem is consistent and repeatable. To monitor a load balanced website I…

Any TSQL pros out there?

Do the following steps on the target server you are monitoring via WinRm to rip and replace the self signed SolarWinds certificate with your own. This applies to both AppInsight for IIS and Exchange. 1.) winrm delete winrm/config/listener?Address=*+Transport=https 2.) Delete the self signed SolarWinds certificate under…

Turn APM debug on to see what's going on behind the scenes. It might log what it "sees".

Thank you. I think it makes sense to have this resource show all component events that related to the respective application monitor. Sometimes its difficult to see in the past tense which component has caused the application monitor status to change from a visual perspective.

Why would the config wizard need to be run here? The problem and the repair have nothing to do with the database. I try to avoid the config wizard where ever possible because it takes 45 mins to run in my environment.

You can get creative with your Node down and reboot alerts to filter out these nodes. A simple example is to add a custom property to nodes called "DisableNodeAlerts" with a Yes/No value option. You can use this property to filter out nodes that will meet the alert trigger condition.

I gave up on trying to combine external scripting with native functionality and went with a single powershell script that does everything.

There is a free tool that I use called " IIS Crypto" to easily disable ciphers and protocols on any IIS web server. Google it, download it, test disabling the ciphers that you don't want. A reboot may be required after you make changes.

I discovered some odd behavior with log "Microsoft-Windows-DHCPServerEvents/Admin". I could not fetch this log with WMI or RPC like I could with other custom logs. I would get error "The specified channel could not be found. Check channel configuration. No event(s) matched the specificed criteria." I had copied the Log…

Fun fact - UCS monitoring is not compatible with UCS-C240 servers. Hardware health will not be polled.

Can we get this bug fixed already? We've been through 2 or 3 versions of SAM and this bug has not been resolved. Why is this known bug being ignored? Running the service under a different user account does not work for me as I want to use multiple credentials for different systems. Writing the script with the credential in…

You'll get a lot of noise with a trigger condition of NOT up. I prefer to use method 2 because its more explicit and seems more logical to me.

Thank you. I had attempted to use Set-SwisObject before but I must have had the syntax incorrect. This syntax worked for me. (I already have DNS defined so I omitted that parameter from your example) Set-SwisObject $swis $uri -Properties @{DynamicIP=$True}

Is there any way to test the database connection between two remote servers? For example we have 3 servers. A is SAM server B is an app server C is the database server for the app I want to monitor the database connection (ODBC DSN or Alias etc) from server B to C. This doesn't seem possible as the ODBC or SQL monitors…

Yes I can use the SQL monitor but I was hoping to test the actual DSN on the target app server. Is there anyway to test a remote DSN besides a custom script?

Thank you for the clarification. Will MSMQ be phased out in future versions?

For me it did. But SAM 6.3 has a new set of HTTPS/SOAP bugs. Make sure you install HF2 right away as the base 6.3 is buggy and HF1 is a land mine.

I've had this problem for the past year well before SAM 6.2.4. Periodically I'm receiving the same SSL error as you but its only from our load balanced URLs, not the same websites as monitored on the hosting servers. It sounds like your HHTPS monitors target specific servers, is that true? Support's only advice to me was…

Thank you for your help. I had already tried that but cannot get the replacement value to work. Here are 2 more queries in addition to your suggestion that I have tested but have the same result, no replacement value and no row returned. All 3 will execute without error in SSMS but return no rows, only column names. The…

I have a dev system that I can test this method on first. Do you know what tables I need to look at?

Great article. Use ICMP unless its specifically blocked. The only advantage SNMP offers is it acts like a service monitor, which may sound great but you'll get more false positives across your environment.

Dean, Total claims are the same to show the volume of the two runs were identical. The batch job processes the data set until complete. The speed at which it processes is something that is highly tuned and monitored. "Step 4000" is the biggest job that takes the longest of the entire workflow and the one selected for the…