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Even a simple command line tool to report the status of all Orion services running on that node would be ideal and would allow for further wrapping up in home-made scripts

This is one of the most (potentially) useful things I've seen SolarWinds do to date with Orion. Adding in the end user experience on top of a component view has been a goal of our for a long time. We've built similar maps like this before, manually, but this appears more automated? The challenge with any of these "map"…

Yup - would second that. We're a big Xen house here but also use VMware. A lot of shops appear to be using a 2 vendor strategy when it comes to virtualisation.

Would love to see AppInsight for Oracle added to the list

Aha! Ok - now I get it. And so to create a GUID in Powershell, I use this: $uniqueid = [GUID]::NewGuid().ToString() ... and replace the last <UniqueID> in the template with that string and now I can upload the new template my script creates!

So I've been playing with this for a few days now and I what I found is this: - If I export a template from Orion, change the <Name> field and <UniqueID> field at the bottom of the XML, then try to import again, I get the error. - If I export a template from Orion, change the <Name> field only then try to import again, it…

Yup +1 on this. It seems typical of the SQL environment to have failed jobs. Our DBAs have a similar approach to this - mostly they're not overly concerned. Would be nice to decide whether or not to have the status of this component roll up to the instance.

Thanks - we are indeed using AppInsight, but only for prod systems. Our DBAs want something a bit more lightweight for test/dev databases that they don't care as much about. Tried updating the <Name> field to something unique to each template and also the <UniqueID> field to something unique to each template but still the…

Yup sure thing - feature request is here: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/4350

BINGO! Works first time when I set all 3 values (CPULoad, MemoryUsed and PerectMemoryUsed) manually to -2. Been banging my head against this all day! Thanks for entering the bug reports - I think both should cover it. Cheers, Barry

Yeah - we have 10.2.1 and we're also having this issue with the MSMQ queues on an additional poller. So also interested if this has been resolved with 10.2.2 Anyone?

Cant seem to reproduce it - issue may have been transient and gone away after a reboot. I hate those kind of issues because its very hard to pin it down to a particular cause. Will post again if I see it return...

Ah yes, we're using None for encryption and Negotiate for the auth method.

Aha! The plot thickens. Ok, so any ETA on when the new SDK will be available? In the meantime I've examined the pollers that are created when a node is added via the GUI and I've replicated those same pollers for a node added via the SDK. Still doesn't seem to want to populate any of the SNMP data though even after issuing…

Thanks for the reply. A few points in response then: > I'm not sure which component was a turn off for your DBAs, but the most common one I have heard is about indexes for which a configurable option was introduced in v6.1.1 Yeah, certainly our DBAs wanted more control than that. But its a step in the right direction I…

Yes, we looked at the ex-Confio tool and we'll probably circle back and do so again once the component level monitoring is in place. What we found was it was great at identifying performance bottlenecks but our main focus at the moment was just looking at plain old availability of the main components. Using Confio/DPA to…

Thanks PavelSuchy - yeah I managed to figure that much out. So now I can get it to populate the F5 Device Details resource, but the other resources for List of Nodes, List of Pools and List of Virtual servers don't seem to populate for some reason. Our F5 devices details are: 11.2.1 build 807.0. I wonder are we on an older…

Nice - yup. Will give that a go and see if it keeps the DBAs happy.

Hi Rob - wondering if there's any update on this FR? ie: the ability to show link utilization on manually drawn links with Network Atlas?

Uploaded a copy to the content exchange - COPY OF GOLDEN-TEMPLATE-Q-SQL SERVER 2005-2008 PERFORMANCE (SQL).APM-TEMPLATE

Spot on Mike - worked like a charm. I also created another method using the SDK. There's an example of how to use a delete object method in there that was easy enough to script. One thing though - I do see a lot of usage information for these volumes in the VolumesUsage_daily, VolumesUsage_Hourly tables in the database.…

Yeah, the one thing I forgot to mention is that we're not going to be using FoE. We have it, but from what we've seen, it's not going to work to clone a machine in location A and restore that clone in location B. Plays havoc with the unique idenfication of machines with other agents etc, not to mention there's some 3000…

Ahhh - shame. Time for me to put in a feature request then!

Hi Tim, Tried pasting in the URL manually. Throws an error page in Orion with the following details: Unexpected Website Error Specified cast is not valid. Details of the error are here: Time: 02/07/2012 17:13:20.7631 Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 Pipeline: Integrated User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT…

Tom - yes, these are slight modifications on the scripts in the SDK documents. Doesn't seem to matter if I add pollers or not (i've tried several including the 5 listed in the add node example on page 23) - the tooltip details don't populate. To prove that it's not a poller thing, I added an ICMP node manually in the GUI…

Hi - yup I've opened a call with support - case ID 619788. I don't see an option to specify the encryption method in the template - this is LDAP as opposed to LDAPS we're trying to test, so not sure if that's relevant? What I am seeing is that when it does fail, it's always 5mins later that it will start working again.…

Hmmm ok - that doesn't do much for redundancy. If one of my polling engines dies, I'd effectively lose all the traps from some of my devices in that case. There's got to be a better way? Also wouldn't that mean I'd have to match up the polling engines to devices for trap destinations? We move devices around to different…

So just in case it helps anyone else, our Oracle DBAs produced the following query that looks at table space usage and returns the % of free space left, followed by the table name and also takes autoextend into account. WITH FREES1 AS (select tablespace_name, sum(bytes)/1024/1024 VAL from dba_free_space group by…

Hi Tim - NPM is 10.2. Yes, the contents of the pollers table is odd. It looks as if the only poller type that is listed for the script added node is Poller_HT, which is exactly what my script is doing, as per the SDK documentation. For the node added via the GUI, there's different entries: N.Details.SNMP.Generic…

1. That works a treat - thanks for that. 2. Yup - I've seen how to add an interface in the SDK.pdf. So this leads to another question - what does Orion regard as the primary address for a device (say a server)? Is it the details containted in the Orion.nodes -> IPAddress value? Or is it the interface object related to the…