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For those curious on this thread - had meeting with Jiri Cvachovec going over NCM type items, including a 'show and tell' I am very much looking forward to the "official" announcements on NCM-next! Jiri is also setting a conference up for some other items, not related to NCM directly, but would be outstanding feature set.

Jiri Cvachovec Will be happy to participate with you -- let me know when you would like.

Well, here is a little bit to help you, perhaps. Keeping in mind what Leon Adato points out - Polling load is highly dependent upon What you are polling, and how. These are all values from one of the currently running SolarWinds installs. Lots of networking gear (route switch firewall) with application monitors, Medium…

Alter - OP was looking at possibility that the audit trail you show was NOT being populated out when the node was removed somehow. Tis why we were not going that route automatically. Now...should that prove true: A node is deleted and there is no audit trail, would start looking at 1)Other ways nodes might be removed. aka…

Yes, you can email reports to people.

Enjoy!

I don't mind sharing. Just too bad I cannot remember what installation I actually put that on to get the exact code But, few minutes on notepad, something like this should work out as a starting point. Should be pretty straight forward to add in additional service checks. $target1 = "<primary IP address>" $target2 =…

If that is the requirement, you may be trying to approach it in the wrong direction. "Polling" - is used by most performance managers to collect stats and conditions. As you pointed out, this is 'at the time of the poll' Common facility used to provide more "real-time" status for error conditions, which is what I would…

Well, not in the manner you are speaking directly. You can stand up an additional poller, using that IP address. Enable Solarwinds Trap service on that machine, as well as shift part of your polling load over there. If you are going to do quite a few traps - would limit the polling load on it though. Traps and syslog can…

The other way is to create an alert that compares the utilization over the last (for example) hour, vs the average utilization over the least 1 or 2 weeks. From there, calculate your delta, and alert if the delta is above a certain percentage. 

Just one of several ways you can use the scripts. 

Might want to read any instructions or such on that script. The first problem -this script is expecting you to supply two inputs - arg1 and arg2. Hostname, and a valid snmp community string. So, that top line, instead of perl ${SCRIPT} arg1 arg2 should read something like perl ${SCRIPT} some.host public

Bit of confusion here - NCM will use whatever connection profile you set to download configs, config change templates, etc. In the case of the screen shot above, that would be telnet. (I would prefer to use SSH, but that is the same area) So, if you are getting connection refused - first make sure you can telnet / ssh into…

ntp server (?!(10.1.1.1|10.1.1.2)).* or ntp server (?!10.1.1.(1|2)).*

bcooper - You are on the right path. The logic is a bit of a bear. So, you are looking for things that should NOT be there with the "not'ed" statement. So, this logic should be Alert if string IS FOUND. No need for the Advanced config search block, just do the routine one (uncheck the Advanced Config Search Block) put that…

Correct. If you are SQL aware, you can make these conditions on the web as a "test policy" Then RDP to your NCM server, open the policy, and it will show you the SQL "Where" statement that is being used. p.s. - If anyone IS in front of machines and can verify what I am saying, please do! Working from memory a bit.

Alex Slv Other potential option is if you have the "App Monitor 1" SQL server as a Linked server on the Orion SQL server. Then you can be a bit more elegant, by calling the values from the "App 1" server as a subselect, then perform you caculation as the main select.

Put this in a Linux monitor: #!/bin/bash Value=`who | cut -f1 -d " " | sort | uniq | wc -l` echo "\nStatistic: $Value"; echo "\nMessage: This is your value" Obviously you can change the \nMessage to whatever pleases you. Note that before the who and after the -l is the back ticks.

jm89 You could copy the predefined templates, and remove the extraneous components you do not want from your copy. As well as duplicating some of the components in the "new" template if that suits you. As far as the neat tidy table, Altergeo is right. You *could* recreate all that same information with SAM, however,…

Zack is right,that will be somewhat expensive query. You could cut down the time/cost a little using a custom property. For example, a custom node property of "IncludeInReportX" Then instead of using the n.ip_address in (<ip addresses list>) you can use n.IncludeInReportX = '1'

ttl; The items here will mainly help you if you are doing one (or both, as I did) of the following: 1) Merging NPM and NCM servers 2) Going from NCM operations on your Primary (Core) server that is colocated NPM/NCM server to using your polling engines to perform NCM operations. The main drive for all this work, which is…

tezt You type it really loud?

Compliance Policy itself will not do this. It's method is to check the configuration files that you give it. In this case, Cisco running configs. Not to execute commands and tests responses. That is the purpose of other modules in SolarWinds. These configurations files (speaking for Cisco devices only) are downloaded when…

Tis okay Vinay BY - I was typing similar to yours - seen mcam's reply. *sigh* backspace...clear text..... <chuckle>

I am guessing the marketing folks will not like "DeadPool" much

Report issues like this - one trouble-shooting hint that may help. Log into your core server as the account who will be running the report. Likely some service account? Paste the URL into IE browser (and yes...use IE, not firefox or chrome. The Report function uses IE) and see how it opens up there. Have been able to find…

I quipped once about implementing self-remediation with SolarWinds, but had to disable it. It kept removing my login from all the firewalls.

Two possible things: 1) Ensure you are actually sending syslog over from at least one device. 2)Open the syslog viewer (RDP to your primary NPM server, then Start, All Programs, SolarWinds Orion, Syslog and SNMP Traps = Syslog Viewer. From that application, look under View - Alerts Rules and Filters. Ensure you do not have…

I like it Leon. Plagiarizing for my instances! eerrr... I mean, copy/paste... eerrr...availing myself of your good idea. Okay - none of that sounds good. Doing what all of us do anyway. Thanks!

I have not set this up, but perhaps an easier way would be to count the number of entries in the dbo.DeletedNodes table? The only time there is an entry is when a node is deleted, and before the SolarWinds maintenance run, which will clean it out. That way - any 'count' value greater than 0 triggers. Curious - what do you…