rob.hock

Good question- no we haven't stopped with SRs. The issues addressed via hotfix were not critical or widespread, therefore not drivers for a SR. We have many customers that have internal policies dictating they have to upgrade to the latest version of a product within a certain number of days. Forcing these customers to…

Is having active/active a requirement, or could you have a passive standby in the remote location? If you have VMWare in your environment, VMWare SRM (VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager - Data Disaster Recovery for Servers) could be leveraged to set this up fairly easily, and provided DB replication is already configured.

Per user views / refreshes are not implemented at present. What would be the use case? Are these for different NOC users?

Check out this thread (http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/103179#103179) for some good examples on time unit conversion.

If the uptime counter is 32-bit- we could be seeing a counter rollover. This may happen ~500 days should this be the case.

In recent versions, you can simply copy/paste a list of IPs or hostnames into the wizard. In <=9.5, this KB should assist: http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/724/How+do+I+use+a+seed+file+to+discover+devices+and+import+them+into+Orion+NPM%3F

Nick, What further information would you be looking to include in the report?

The missing group and vestigial alerts sound odd. We would probably want support to dig into this: http://www.solarwinds.com/support/

All AD accounts or AD accounts logged into NPM?

Could well be a bug. Perhaps we could try to create another limitation category and assign the report, then assign back to "Default."

There is no hard maximum (except as limited by IIS.) As it is based on utilization we say generally 10-15 under normal usage. If you are expecting a large number of users, it may not be a bad idea to look at an Additional Web Server to handle the front-end load.

David, In terms of status- there is actually a separate status polling interval as well. Default is 120 sec:

Easy way to narrow this down to the condition or the email action would be to create another alert action to (for example) log to event log.

Is this occuring with the new web reports in 10.6, the legacy reports, or both?

Active Alerts can be found under Home-Alerts. However in this case if they are retriggering, we may need to look at the condition. A support case may be the best path here: SolarWinds Customer Support - We're Here to Help

Where are you trying to launch from? Screenshot would be super handy so we can hone in. Also may be useful to check out Gob's post: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-66729

Since we're in a workgroup, let's try: "C:\Program Files\Solarwinds\DameWare Mini Remote Control 9.0\DWRCC.exe" -c: -h: -a:2 -m:server -u:user -p:pass The -a:2 switch uses Encrypted Windows Login

The custom report here may be useful: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/message/123145#123145

DirectLink could be used for this purpose perhaps: http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/en/flarehelp/ncm/content/orionncmagusingdirectlink.htm

Surely, we have canned group reports and the group objects are available to report on.

Stuart, This appears to be a regression against 10.6. Best work around at present is to use a "." We're logging a bug on this at present.

Sure, you could (copy and) edit the alert definition to be more specific ala: For more advanced functionality Custom Properties are very flexible: http://www.solarwinds.com/resources/videos/video-tutorial-managing-custom-properties-in-orion-npm.html

There is nothing overtly wrong with the syntax. Let's try to simplify the conditions by removing the Status and SNMP version evaluations and retesting.

Surely, you could just create a guest account and embed a UN (PW optional) in it. EX: http://orion-server/Orion/login.aspx?AccountID=Guest&Password=

Support for that device will likely involve a sysoid DB update in the next release. Would you perhaps be able to provide device details in this thread: Tell us your "Unknown" devices! ?

This may be of assistance: MS SQL Express 2008 installation issue during eval install

Have you tried the new report scheduler in 10.7 RC?

Typically the location field is polled via SNMP. Perhaps the SNMP location field is not configured on the unknown devices?

Those devices certainly should be populated in the object list. A support ticket may be the best course of action to get it sorted: http://www.solarwinds.com/support/

Easiest thing to do would be create a windows scheduled task running a script with NET STOP and NET START commands to do the service control. Net stop