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I patch my Orion OS on patch Tuesday and I have not had a MS patch issue yet.

What I started doing was adding them to a group and then putting groups on maps. Groups Could be dynamic, like ip starts with 192.168.1. for location 1. Then all you put on your maps are groups and you just make sure all your node fall into groups based on dynamic queries. No more editing of maps! yea! (well except when…

I didn't follow your response about the SQL HD stuff, was that directed towards me? I had also noticed that the "last 50" events are slow for my enviroment and I think it is because the clustered index is based on seemingly random incoming data (node ID - who can predict the order of nodes generating events). This will…

or add a ptr record to your dns for each switch. It's name resolution on the receiving server that needs to work. test with ping -a x.x.x.x

Those are great suggestions on combining the tables, but the tables are not under our control - examples are msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory, msdb.dbo.backupmediafamily, and BlackBerry.dbo.ServerConfig The way I am fixing it is by increasing the fill - I don't like it, but it allows me to still report on the rest of the indexes.

Another one I found that I want to disable is the windows event log collection. I already have a SIEM, so I don't need to collect that data in Orion too. I will create those feature requests, but I am glad I asked since you can disable a DB - nice way to keep a consistent feel. Thank you.

Works on mine, 10.1.2 RC on 2008 R2 - maybe it's a bug fix in the works...

when you migrate server, if you change IPs, make sure you update all your access-lists and your SNMP agents to allow the new IP if you change the hostname (or IP), make sure you update the engines table " Update Engines Set ServerName = '<NewServerName>', IP = '<NEW_IP>' where ServerName = '<OLD_Server_Name>' " before you…

I would move your database first. Most of the issues people have are slow database response times due to disk access. The biggest pain point for VMs is the disk. So, just a gut feeling, your problem is likely in the DB, the engine will likely pep up when the DB is moved.

what OS/service pack are you running? It sound's like an OS issue. One thing that is pretty awesome about Solarwinds products (at least for NPM, APM, and NCM), if save the database (or have remote DB), all you have to do is build a new server (say 2008 R2 x64) with the same hostname and IP, then install the software point…

how about: Select Caption From Nodes where not IP_Address in (Select distinct IP from syslog where [DateTime] > DATEADD(HOUR,-48,GETDATE())) and (Hardware_type not in ('CUSTOMER_FIREWALL','SIMPLEDEVICE','WORKSTATION') or Harware_type is null) I don't trust syslog to resolve the hostname, but it can't mess up the IP, but…

The table is indexed on those fields, but good point, it is extra overhead but if you are looking for 48 hours, you could set your polling cycle to be something like 6 hours, then it wouldn't be much of a hit (oh, did you notice you can't post ill preceded by a k, it masks it out as though it is foul language. It makes it…

I don't have a field called "NodeGroup", but the way I do it is: select Caption from nodes where not Caption in ( SELECT distinct [FullName] FROM [NetPerfMon].[dbo].[ContainerMemberSnapshots] where [EntityDisplayName] = 'Node' )

Opened a case (Case# 566271 - Issues Polling HyperV), so far support is a little stumped, but we are working on it.

I sometimes get funky issues like that which has something to due with the IE Enhanced Security Configuration (in add/remove) and zone settings inside IE (but I am not using IE, I am using windows explorder - you gotta love MS and how far the ingrained IE into their OS) The way I get around it is to open a cmd window and…

I upgrade to 10.3.1 recently and I saw my custom fields, but I had to re-set some of my alerts. Where is said Node Status Equal Down actually said Node Status Equal *, I just we though and re-selected down and it was ok.

It could also be because Domain\Administrators is a Domain Local Group, I bet it will need to be a Domain Global or Domain Universal group (type of security like Sean said).

This is what it looks like, but the URL stays they same for all nodes in the WLBS cluster. the FQDN resolves to the VIP and APM ends up only testing against the VIP and it would just look flaky going up and down depending on which node it hits. Which doesn't give me the info I am looking for; if one node had issues, I…

you might need to add a group that is "any" and add the Comments is not equal to printer and add another there that says Comments is empty - it's a weirdness of SQL that if the field is null (because you didn't put anything in it), then it does show up when you say does not contain.

If you poll through vCenter, you can use a view only account.

have you considered creating a custom SQL alert that inner joins the syslog table? Something like: inner join syslog on syslog.NodeID = nodes.NodeID where syslog.DateTime > DATEADD(day, -60, GETDATE()) and [Message] like '%something%' and MessageType = 'blah' Without detail is is hard to give direct answers.

if the recommendation is 107 Polls Per Second, but you have set it to 30PPS, then maybe the server doesn't have the time to do the poll and is always way behind. Maybe I don't understand the PPS setting. My understanding of the terms would be a minimum of (# of Items to Poll) / (Polling interval in Secs)}. If you have 2900…

I copied "Node Details" to "SAN Attached Node Details", added a Custom HTML that included an iFrame to a separate web page I want displayed for my SAN attached Nodes. Then I opened "Account Limitation Builder" fat client on the server and created the option to make a Limitation based on the content of SAN_Attached custom…

no problem, but make sure your SQL guy changes the DB to Simple unless he *knows* without a doubt that he *needs* full. Also, somewhere in SolarWinds documentation, it says they don't support the use of Full and recommends simple. see KB on it.

Thank you for the "why" ("couldn't navigate to %temp%"); I logged off/on and rebooted, still could not get report writer to open. After reading this, I decided to see what %temp% was - C:\users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\3 - the folder "3" was not there, so I just created it, and it works!

This one is suppose to look to see if it has more than two mac addresses discovered on the interface. So that should give you part of what you want. The only other way I could think is to use "sh interfaces trunk" then put a description on each of those that are gig or fast. I can't think of what to do for the portchannel,…

From the way I interpreted how suppression work is more of a full query on the database. I think that suppression with the node name not equal abc is still off, because if the node abc is deleted or re-named, the alert will never fire off because there isn't a node called abc now and you will still get alerts on abc's…

APM Settings, Credential Library.

you could just export the current contents... or just backup the database. SQL to export: SELECT [Containers].Name, ContainerMemberSnapshots.Name FROM [NetPerfMon].[dbo].[ContainerMemberSnapshots] inner join [NetPerfMon].[dbo].[Containers] on [Containers].ContainerID = [ContainerMemberSnapshots].ContainerID

To get it to auto change to last month use this for your datetime: ( DateTime BETWEEN DATEADD(MONTH,-1,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(m,0,GETDATE()),0)) AND DATEADD(s,-1,DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(m,0,GETDATE()),0)) )