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nutherswack If you are refering to GSOCK, it doesn't require any connection to your servers, the webapp produces the CSS based on options you select in the GUI then you just copy/paste into the css locally, you could go through the code manually before pasting in if you are concerned about nafarious code being inserted.

nb. I thought I'd edited that page - the tool is now a webapp hosted at Gsock NG v0.0.1 I've now updated the posting Jason referred to above.

4 years later we have some additional options but not a customisable option: Would be great to have some way of displaying dependent on custom fields.

nutherswack You could use a mobile phone or other device outside of your network to access the site then email the css it produces to yourself, no need to access is from your network. Technically the webapp could be run from within your network I suppose but I would imagine hosting javascript based webapps would be harder…

RE: Week 4: Question 18 - This one almost had me because the name doesn't show for me in Edge but does in both IE and Chrome... Everything else appears find but just the name is not there. Not sure if this is a general bug or something with my config...

Inside Edge there is an option to switch to IE, depending how your company is blocking your access to other browsers this might let you switch to old IE:

Thanks @"shuth" 

Thanks both. I logged ticket last week (Case # - 01297645). one person confirmed the cert errors from the diagnostics and said tls is configured on the server not solarwinds (which I know however there are a number of different places where it can be set - i would have thought orion would be using the .net keys which i can…

Have you already linked your WSUS servers to Patch Manager? Is so you can just create a job where you can filter to only which patches you are wishing to apply via the context menu when clicking on 'managed computers' and selecting 'update management wizard'. You can also do the same to single computers through there or…

2 days later and lookin' good! thanks @zdean it would seem that this has resolved our issue. 

@zdean, thanks for sharing. I have applied that change to all our pollers and restarted services for good measure. I will let that soak for a day or-so and let you know whether thats worked for me.

You'd need to do it through SAM, patch manager just handled the patching itself (although you can configure it to run powershell scripts at the start and end of each schedule).

I guess it would but TBH this was a bit of a workaround solution - although I was advised snapshots couldn't be automated through our Vcentre I later discovered that it could indeed be scripted and the solution I outlined above was discontinued in our environment some time ago in favour of native vmware scripts +…

Are you are using the smaller online installer? Have you tried downloading the full offline installer? this will come packaged with all the subinstallers.

are you running as admin with rights to create content in the prog file locations? did it create anything or bomb out strait away? any logs created under C:\ProgramData\Solarwinds\Logs\PM?

any unusual chars in the path (umlauts etc)? 

From first line sounds like its seeing something its not expecting in the db. did the db create ok?

Good luck in whatever you are moving on to!

I thought you requested a count. I'm pretty sure some of the out of the box reports based on events rather than alerthistory might be better suited to your need but if you want to carry on with what i've already given you just add a select from 'message' and 'timestamp' to get access to those fields: SELECT DISTINCT…

are you after something like this: alert name, parent device, alert object and count over past 7 days?

we have a report that generates a count of alerts grouped by the alert type, over a specific number of days, this includes a severity field (by numeric). I didn't write this myself, i think it was one of the prosperon guys, but hopefully this gives you something to start on: SELECT DISTINCT ahv.Name 'Alert Name'…

Yes, 3 passes per WSUS container/group. 1-2 containers per night (this is soon to change as we will be reducing our patching cycle from 1 month to 14 days, so-far tests have done fine doing 7 containers in 1 night). Passes 2 and 3 can install anything not just criticals, the only exclusions are a title containing service…

Looks like mountain time is utc -7 so not the cause. I just checked some of my servers and they all show 3am too for WU Agent, despite the configuration applied to them. I am UTC+1 so this looks like 3am must be some kind of default thats being reported back. 

Where are you located? How many hours off UTC are you?

Just one addition, depending how you structure things, you might need to reapply the container/group/OU selection after overwriting the .xml - you can do this as part of the copy script, by editing the .xml manually or from the GUI console.

Our setup sounds quite similar. We have a primary WSUS and a downstream (the downstream hosted in Asia, the primary in the UK). A single dedicated PM server and we have just under 400 nodes, about 30 of which are on the downstream in Asia. We are entirely on-prem so nothing in the cloud being patched but I do have 2…

Here is the guide for configuring the credentials rings. Make sure the configmgr account is set with a service account that has access https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/patchman/Content/SPMAG_ConfiguringCredentialsandCredentialRings.htm

The UAC prompt is fine, PM is an MMC plugin so if you have UAC enabled you will get that prompt starting it up. When you say you get the same error in configmgr do you mean in the configmgr console or still within the PM console? To be honest it should be using credentials set in PM (i forget exactly what the tab is…

looks like authentication problem to sccm. do the users who are getting this prompt have access to read reports in configmgr

Hi hansons​, how did you get on? I've tested both option 1 and option 2 every way I can think and it works every time. Under the components summary does the statistc change colour or does it remain black (see screenshot below)? One thing to note is that I set the template to poll only every hour by default so you might…