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The Serivce and Counters app monitor pulls the stats via perfom stats as per my first reply but you said that you didn't want to pull the perfmon stats Well, I'm glad you got what you needed anyway...

You could make your own app monitor to directly query the SCOM database via either a custom query or a powershell monitor but it'd probably be more resource hungry than just polling the stats directly from the DC's.

Hi Yuquaholic, I tried this and it returns only admin accounts for me - can you explain the '[LastLogin] >= GETUTCDATE()' logic. Isn't getutcdate just the current date/time? Would it be possible to use SWQL to take the lastlogon for each user from the orion.accounts table then compare against the latest logoff event in the…

FYI: I just took an example report and compared an exported xml of it against the definition field in the database and they are near identical, including the tabbed formatting so presumably you could create a report using the following SWQL, save it as CSV then use powershell or whatever you prefer to export each row into…

Instructions on implimenting Exchange App Insight app monitor can be found starting page 117 of this guide: http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/apm/docs/SAMAppInsightGuide.pdf

jrouviere Looks like you beat me to 'add reply' button :-)

FYI: I've just updated the Folder Statistics template to include an additional component to list how many seconds have passed since the folder specified was modified. Just create an alert to look for this component reading anything over 7200 (2 hours).

Seems obvious now I see it, was driving me crazy - I was able to test-WSman so all configured OK on the servers, the monitor worked fine on one poller, just not the new one, even running the script manually from the second poller to the servers worked fine so I just couldn't see where it was failing... now I know it was…

Thanks, yes, I realised a few minutes before your reply and was logging in to close my post before anyone noticed it ...too late 

mprobus - Any tips? I just booked for next week and I'm going into this pretty blind.

nb. I had to also override NULL and enter a dummy end date too in SWA_InstallationSession table before it acknowledged the job was no longer in progress.

I added a note to the download page this morning but Thwack are holding my post back pending moderator approval for some reason so thought I'd better post it here: It was brought to my attention this morning that Virus Total gives a result of 20 fails out of 70. Before investigating the reason a researcher had already…

I'm in the final stages of testing my app that will allow anyone to easily theme Solarwinds pages via GUI, including the ability to share theme projects once you've made them. You can choose dark or light theme as a base then tweak everything as you please. Give me another week or-so and I should have this avialable.

What sort of response is that???... I actually got an update to my ticket today offering to do further testing with me.

Thats just to add an entry to the netperfmon event logs, you can ignore that one:

Its been driving me nuts for days. I'm not very good at all with SQL/SWQL. I need to somehow compare [CustomPollerStatusScalar].[Status] with the last entry in the [dbo].[CustomPollerStatistics] history table but just don’t know how to lookup the last bit - I guess it will also have to have a join from…

Brilliant work, thank you!

I expect my homepage is very different to others but I found this was the most friendly way for people to access everything. Having lots of data scared a lot of people so I use tabs to the left to break things down:

Maintenance mode stops monitoring a node whilst mute continues to monitor but simply silences any alerting. Also worth noting is that if you maintain group membership or app monitors dynamically these may get dropped when putting into maintenance mode thus appearing to be new members when coming back out of maintenance…

Can you post a snip of what you are seeing. Is it all charts? If so, are they new or old style charts?

Ooh, my name in lights :-) Thanks all, looking forward to being a part of the club.

Create a web report and for the datasource use 'Event', advance selector and specify message -> is equal to -> [your alert message]. Create a table entering event time and node. Expand the event time settings and use the data aggregation type of 'count'. Add the event time for the time based setting. Group by 'node' You…

At Christmas last year our office decided to have a decorating competition so I did what I do best and decorated Orion :-) I replaced the usual server objects with Christmas present boxes and trees, alert icons replaced with colour changing ball-balls. I edited the css to string xmas lights across all window blocks, holly…

I use NOC views extensively - here are 4 of our screens that rotate NOC views

Open a powershell terminal on your poller and enter the following: Test-WSMan [DNS name or IP of the target] (eg. Test-WSMan 192.168.1.2) Do you get 4 lines of clean output or do you see any errors? If you see errors WinRM isn't correctly configured. If this test passes, make sure you are using the 'remote host' execution…

I wrote a post with step-by-step on creating alerting on drives specifying either percentage remaining or file size remaining (in bytes) using only a single alert: Disk Space Alerting Using a Variety of Threshold Types You set a default value then can manually modify on a drive-by-drive basis using drop downs.

I do this using a selector so the server owners can choose percentage or disk space and also added some failovers incase they don't configure their servers properly. I also added an exclusion so people not have individual drives montored:

You have to enable it first per view. Edit the page and flag the enable field: After which you'll get the option at the top right:

Dev's are aparently working on a patch: Solarwinds Service CPU Spike. The title is about CPU but like yourself I'm finding RAM is getting maxed out and server owners are just disabling the agent on their boxes so I'm looking forward to a fix ASAP. Another post also states devs are working on a fix: SolarWinds Agent using…

I wrote a powershell script for my company with a GUI front end that does exactly this, monitoring an external gmail account to make sure it's receiving an email every 15 minutes and sends an email to a DL depending on the time/date the alert occurs. However I've not got around to moving it over to Solarwinds yet. If you…