robert777 · Solarwinds Engineer · ✭✭✭✭✭

stuck with an older IT ticketing system, plus a lot of older systems with some teams getting creative using Excel, etc. I'm actually amazed at what people have managed to do with Excel.

Need to use all the resources more.

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In the survey, the 'yes I learned a lot' button appeared to be disabled. I finally had to select 'I learned very little' just to move on.

Yep, not just one source. All over the place.

Thwack.

They knew what would happen with AI back in the 60's 

I heard something from an individual who has been at my current organization for several years. A previous map had a different "aspect ratio" that displayed the map in a more elongated format. Current map I guess has an aspect ratio of 4:3 which displays as a square. Previous map (now lost) had an aspect ratio of 16:9…

While I'm here blabbing on might as well ask a related question. Easy enough for me to find the kind of map 'starter' I need out on the Internet. Can I use any picture of a map for my SolarWinds Intelligent Map background? Some special format required? How to import an external starter map into SolarWinds? Any good…

Greetings. More information that relates to this question. I guess a previous map filled up the screen nicely in display-on-the-big-screen mode. I'm told the current (not well liked) map uses a 4:3 aspect ratio which I guess means a square map. Previously the site used a map with a 16:9 aspect ratio which apparently means…

Ok. Thanks.

Greetings. I chased this one down with SolarWinds Support. The condition described is a documented bug: Case # 01855923 - selected data tiles do not populate in AppInsight for SQL: "Top 10 Databases by Active User Connections" "Top 10 Expensive Queries by CPU Time" "Top 10 Clustered Indexes by Fragmentation" Reported in…

Aha! Thank you thank you thank you. I will open a ticket with Support and see what they have to say. I will post results.

Thank you!

I did find a resolution. Crazy thing: the 'NodeID' field in both NCM.Nodes and NCM.EntityPhysical tables configured as some kind of GUID datatype. This datatype it seems contains some non-printable characters what do not work well with JOINS. To solve this I set up sub-queries in the FROM clause of my data source and CAST…

Aha! SPACEBAR!! Hold down the spacebar, then use the mouse to pan across the screen. Problem solved. I learned something today.

Thank you! Yep, good information. I appreciate the answer.

Thank you! This is great information. Both answers are golden. Yep, actually I've picked around quite a bit in DPA the last few months, so all of the navigation described is familiar to me. In the past for some reason a lot of our AppInsight SQL and DPA monitoring was set up to run on the SQL 'sa' account (before my time).…

One thought about upgrades. Recommended before starting an upgrade: * Run the Configuration Wizard on all Polling and Web Servers.* * Verify nightly Database Maintenance finishes without errors: Settings >> All Settings >> Details >> Database Details >> Database Maintenance Statistics. * Make sure Windows Servers (polling…

Thank you @"Lofstrand" ! Marking your response as answer.

Thanks for your reply. I worked with SolarWinds support on this. Your thoughts are exactly correct. Modifying the Engines table to flag the intended APE as an 'Additional' poller does not make it an APE. Words to live by. However, it does enable the ability to Delete the 'intended APE rouge main poller' under My…

Thank you!

Closing this inquiry. 1. we were able to get the VxRail enclosure service tag numbers by modifying a VMWare ARIA report (ARIA = VMWare management system). 2. I dug around in the VMWare API documentation and was not able to find anything that might be turned into a SolarWinds Universal Device Poller. Our main VMWare…

Wondering... do you monitor Linux servers with SolarWinds Agent, SNMP, other? Do you have credentials for an SSH login to the Linux servers? I'm not sure if SolarWinds has an out-of-box component monitor for Linux reboots. Your solution might involve writing a Bash script to track reboots. Anyone in the community feel free…

You might use the SAM component Windows Event Log monitor to track the reboot message ID in the Windows Event Log (I think the System log). Then use component properties to put the component into Critical health state if the component fires 3 times in 15 minutes. Alert on Critical health state for that component. Cheers.

Good Day. I'm not an expert in VMWare monitoring. But I have some experience working with the VxRails. VxRails are enclosures that contain 'sleds', that is, plug-in servers ('server on a card'). The VxRail enclosures mount a flavor of PostGRE SQL internally. In general you would poll the VxRail enclosures similar to a…

Cool! I would encourage you to take the information provided in this thread and submit to the Thwack moderators as a technical document. I have not been able to find this kind of information on Thwack. My thoughts this should be highlighted as a banner article for the community. Thanks.

Thanks! Marking this as answer. All great information. Looking at the SolarWinds AppInsight for Main Polling Engine >> FULL DIRECTORY PATH it appears that the path is different for the RabbitMQ folder size and the Collector Queues folder size. So, it appears that these are in some way different. If anyone in the community…

Hi All. After testing a lot of possible solutions the best/fastest/easiest method appears to be parsing the JSON export file with PowerShell into columns and rows (CSV). I'm still refining the process. Once I get a workflow solidified I plan to post a technical document here on Thwack detailing how to turn a JSON rules…

Found it! Under Modify Table >> add field ("+") >> field selector defaults to Node >> drop down and find... Custom Node Poller Cheers.