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We have upgraded to 2020.2.1 and as soon as we did the powershells cripts which errored when going to 2020.2 started working as expected. So i would say that the upgrade has resovled the issue.

Exactly, thats my understanding of it. If you use the linux agent it is free as part of SAM and can monitor volumes, CPU memory up/down etc. as soon as you build an application template ad deploy to a server it will consume SAM licence.

it normally wil mention on the node management page under the status column which threshold has been breached. if you cant see it there i believe you can click on that node and then drill down into it. The on that page you can check the values being captured manually. Or you can click on the 'vital stats' page on the left…

For both i believe you would get as out of the box for both licences so it doesnt really matter. I think Volume monitoring is done as part of the core product. So should i dont think the alerting and monitoring of volumes would cause any issue for either licence.

Hi, using those instructions you can pull the agent from the solarwinds repo. it will ask for root access when doing the isntall and thena s part of that install a service account for the agent. so as long as your account or another has root access on the server in question you can use that. this can then be put into a…

Hi, I am not sure why you would want to use ICMP instead of the agent status, the agent comms are more secure. What you could do is upadte the polling method for all nodes in the Nodes table of the orion database to accomplish this. i am also fairly sure you might be able to do this via powershell using the SWIS API as…

You can use the parameter in the command line when you build the alert. i believe it will be: ${ComponentID} if you build the trigger condition scope in an alert to look at the component type of 9 - this will set it to only windows service monitors. you can then add in things for the component name for ServiceX etc.

Morning - you can absolutely install SAM on the same server as the one with NPM and would recommend you do this in your instance. jsut down load the SAM installer from the customer portal. when you install that it will detect that you have NPM installed and will add sam to the same system. Some precautions below with…

Hi, I will try to answer you're questions in order: 1: Yes these will have their own warning and critical thresholds which can be overriden by editing each node or by changing the global settings through the all settings menu. I tend to build 2 alerts for memory, cpu etc one which has a trigger condition for where warning…

Hi, In my opinion i tend to keep it, but reconfigure the warning and critical thresholds in line with what my DBA's advise. obviosuly they can allocate large chunks of memory for SQL jsut to consume, however they will also be aware that if other processes are running it could indicate a performance issue. I think changing…

Hi, You can either do this from the VMware level which will tell you the disk space of the vm's. My preferred approach to this on 2020.2 is to use to volume monitoring on each specific servers as i find it easier to set granular thresholds for each filesystem that gets detected on Linux VM's. Then when i build my alerts i…

Hi, When i have added Oracle database Monitoring using the SAM template before you will need to update the connection string for each of the databases and reference the instance as part of the template.I imagine youd then be able to deploy different templates for each database instance even though they are on the same node…

Hi, I have logged a support case. i had some customer powershell monitoring checking a file. when i upgraded they started failing as soon as the upgrade was complete. Theyd been healthy since before that for many months. my script runs locally on the app server as a windows service account and connects to a remote file…

Hi Bob, i think you have the idea for point 1, thats how it is implemented. for 2 - i would set up a component monitor alert looking at the HTTP monitor on whichever particular server. then when you check the windows service monitor component for that specific server you will see in the url what the component ID is for the…

Hi Brandon, Yes you check check this by going down to the node after you have scheduled the maintenance and then under the node details page it does actually say something like: 'schedule maintenance for ServerA on **date and time scheduled**. i think you can also check this in the nodedetails table in the application…

Hi, I am not an expert with Perl, but i think this highlights the issue: sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file in your script the single quotes have copied in incorrectly so ti isn't executing correctly. I would edit that script and change those…

@"aLTeReGo" The changes look great. Do you know if this now means that we can create simple alerts for Volume using the warning and critical conditions. I know this is something which has been difficult to do in the past and needed to alert on "Volume Capacity Forecasting" to leverage the warning and critical conditions?

sounds like you need to re-run your configuration wizard to point it to the new database following the move to the new sql server. Have you carried out this step? 

I think i found out what the issue was. i think it was related to the a rule on the firewall. I did an azure trial of SAM in the azure marketplace, entered int he exact same details and it worked first time. 

I think that it may be to, but you may need to browse the mbeans to find the correct counter. Out of the box SAM has a glassfhsih JMX template so by looking at that you can see how theya re configured and see if you can get what you need. the url for it is here to show you what i can monitor out of the box:…

We are using the out of the box templates for Oracle. You just need to install the Oracle drivers on the main solarwinds application server which you can get from the portal and make sure that you have the connection details and it can run oracle queries against that oracle db. You can then create an alert which says if…