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We will never see a perfect monitoring product - SolarWinds has hundreds of bugs and nuances that we have to live with. I find it hilarious though that people are getting intoxicated with the cloud solutions out there - they can't even touch SolarWinds yet. But one will come along that's not a giant buggy mess of .NET…

SolarWinds would need to be re-architected in hundreds of ways to provided automated management similar to SCOM. It won't happen anytime soon. So in the meantime you have the glorious wonders of AppStack.

Hmmm. I need that too.

No.

It's going to be ugly when I tell a new customer is not is not possible. They just spent a ton of $ and I'm going to look friggin' silly. Ugh.

Fancy new features like AppStack? Yep. Would much rather have basic rudimentary SNMP/Sylog alert functionality. A new client of mine is sure to blow a gasket when I tell them we can't do something so simple.

The lack of dynamic discovery has always been quite troubling to explain to our clients, PMs and Managers when disks fill that were unmonitored.

Whats happens when all 200 SQL servers are monitored? Again, SQL AppInsight inflexibility is painfully apparent in multiple posts on Thwack, and a complete rewrite of the entire 'product' is needed allowing granular overrides, like SCOM.

How do you remove these dead volumes? We've had to remove and re-add the entire node. Painful. Disregard - I found it - Manage Nodes. Delete dead volumes. Fun times!

Yeah. You were spoiled. SCOM is "set it and forget it." SAM is, well, SAM. I think it's ironic that today one of our larger clients had missing disks in key production servers and I checked them off. It's nauseating that if you own 5000 servers and someone across the world that manages servers but doesn't manage SolarWinds…

Correct. You cannot target classes like you did in SCOM. So if you create a monitor that targets all SQL servers l, future servers added to monitoring will never know about the monitor. You must manage all of it statically. People don't understand this kind of thing. It's like I'm the Jew trying to convince Muslims to…

I don't think we'll ever truly know.

Yes, my mom was reading thru this post and noticed the who're and her eyebrow raised. Not sure if that's an actual word ...

I'll trade you 100 AppStacks for one NetPath.

"As it stands now, I have to add each service manually and create the template manually. And I cannot add the template to a group, because there are no variable checks to allow the template to find them." If only we had automation for SAM object discovery like that other tool out there...........My biggest gripe.

Not once have you ever been able to prove me wrong on any of my quotes that you troll me with. I love knowing that because it drives you bonkers.

Been saying it for years. SolarWinds needs dynamic automated discovery and management of associated objects. Same way other products do it.

"And how do you expect anyone to know what you wanted it to be? This is like saying "I went into the shop and I didn't find what I was looking for - can you help?" ... can you?" Wow, just wow....

I am not implying it's s secret, Krish. It was a joke, un chiste. If you see my screenshot earlier in your thread I am looking for the same. I do not see it in report writer. Thanks

Indeed he is! He speaks truth which hurts some non-technical folks.

The Linux agent for SCOM collects and alerts automagically on disk, privileged security login events, daemon/services, CPU, memory and so and so on. It had disk iNode monitoring solidly since the 2007 version. The SCOM agent for Linux does so much out of the box that it's sad when people say 'but SCOM doesn't do Linux!' It…

Its a secret.

Josh- Yes. SCOM fully automates the management of ALL disks, applications, clusters, certificates, IIS sites, SQL instances. We don't have to lay a finger on changed volumes. SolarWinds does not do any such things for you. You MUST explicitly tell it what, where and how. The 'apply a template to a group' answer I…

Another bug with Unmanaged mode...we go through this every maintenance window where our engineers have to rediscover nodes that went into an Unknown status because they were put into Unmanaged Mode.. This bug is been discussed in other threads and is a killer for large shops that have to put many hosts into Unmanaged Mode.…

I don't see it in Report Writer. Hmm....Go figure.

Noapers.

I have it pulling the data with just specifying Mou%, but need it for Fixed as well. Trying different queries but I'm lost with SQL. (n.Customer LIKE 'Customer') AND (v.VolumeType IN ('Mou%','Fix%') AND (n.Vendor IN ('Windows','VMware Inc','net-snmp','Linux'))

SolarWinds has become so fragmented and buggy. But monitoring is a dirty business. If only we could have a more streamlined approach and product. SolarWinds is so damn heavy. And by heavy I mean thousands of pieces and parts and thousands of disparate log files and so many possible points of error. It's like SCCM. A…

Thanks, for some reason I'm getting "Error: A query to the SolarWinds Information Service failed." Getting this when I attempted and with your new post replacing Microsoft with "MyCompany". Will keep trying. I suspect I need to comment out your optional CustomProperties but still sort of lost in my old age.

No, it won't. They do not believe in Automation. It's been issue for 15 years. It's not going to change anytime soon. Hate to be the most downright negative guy here but this problem represents other huge deficiencies. Again, shareholders, management and product managers have no interest in this problem. That's why you…