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  • Good thought - I think I could make that work but that would mean all the monitored node would have that custom property. Unless there is a way to create a custom property for just one given vendor/platform. The issue would be that as the results change there is no history to chart. This would could be used for alerting…
    in From an API into Orion Comment by saw10 October 2019
  • I am very used to UnDP and have seen Red/Yellow in the forums. Being very new to the Juniper Platform I need to understand what I am "looking at". Thank You for the info
    in Orion and Juniper? Comment by saw10 May 2018
  • Good Information - I am used to gathering Non-Cisco Configs so this should not be an issue. I am not to concerned now about the use of Orion. Thank You for the insight.
    in Orion and Juniper? Comment by saw10 May 2018
  • After a second restart of the server the application now seems to be functioning. Them gremlins !
    in SolarWinds NCM Connector for Cisco SmartAdvisor Comment by saw10 September 2017
  • Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are looking for, so take the following with a grain of salt. We USE the event table extensively. Most all of our alerts trigger to 2 actions 1 – Send an email to the team responsible for the device 2 – Write an event in the event log. The alert reset work the same 1 – Send an email to…
    in Linking an Alert with a NetPerfMon Event Log Comment by saw10 November 2020
  • Thanks for the response - Support is also telling me the same. I am just "worried" that I get the request wrong. We have a VERY tight change control process. And our change windows are limited. So again thank you for the response.
    in vCenter Credential Rights Comment by saw10 March 2017
  • SolarWinds stop developing that product a couple of years ago. We used to have it and dropped it a couple years back. Now with the Orion Maps most, if not all, the "NTM" information is used to create those maps. Not that I would tell anyone what to drop but . . .
    in Is NTM still relevant? Comment by saw10 August 2020
  • I seem to remember that there is a way to when creating a custom poller alert to compare the previous and current polled results.
    in Create an Alert for a Custom Node Poller Value change Comment by saw10 September 2020
  • A couple of years ago I had this same problem and sorted it out. I posted a "paper" on my solution. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/NTA-Documents/Along-the-river-of-data-there-are-streams-and-flows-Packet/ta-p/518956 Have a read and it might be what you are looking for.
    in NetFLow Data to Export Comment by saw10 July 2020
  • Not too sure if this is what you are looking for but may be it will help Set up a multi-column table with custom device poller https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Set-up-a-multi-column-table-with-custom-device-poller?CMPSource=THW&CMP=DIRECT
    in Custom Universal Device Poller - Display results as text/table etc. Comment by saw10 July 2020
  • This could possibly be to the alert being triggered in the past and was not cleared. Check your active alerts, if an alert is active generally is does not re-trigger. You want to look at re-triggering the alert every X hours.
    in ICMP alert Question Comment by saw10 July 2020
  • We use Flow information from devices Globally and they all send to our data centers in North America. We do not have any issues with the collection of flow data. If you are looking for "real time" then this would be an issue. But if you are ok with 100 to 300ms delay (depending your connection latency) then you should be…
    in Netflow from remote sites... Comment by saw10 July 2020
  • Just for testing this type of thing - I chose one device in the device selection of the alert - then set the trigger of the alert to the opposite of the the "real trigger". This will then force the alert to trigger. When done do not forget to turn of the alert. From the trigger actions you should be able to "Execute an…
    in Execute Powershell script from Alert Trigger Comment by saw10 July 2020
  • Not sure if this is of help - But I pull Serial Number and Model as follows ServiceTag FROM APM_HardwareInfo - Serial Number Model FROM APM_HardwareInfo - Model
    in Custom HTML Serial Number Variable Comment by saw10 May 2020
  • I think I must be missing something - I have tried put this into "production" and could not find the directories/files that were given here. I am at 2019.4. Any help or direction would be appreciated Thank You
    in Display Server Name for Multiple Orion Web Servers Comment by saw10 June 2020
  • I have basically the same requirement. I found that most of the Cisco platfroms have an OID for that. MIB NAME: CISCO-NTP-MIB OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.168.1.1.11 NAME: cntpSysSrvStatus DESCRIPTION: "Current state of the NTP server with values coded as follows: 1: server status is unknown 2: server is not running 3: server is…
    in How to check if the clock/ntp is correctly configured and synch'd? Comment by saw10 February 2020
  • Worked with Support and they were able to help. When I created directory I used a space in the name of the directory. "SSL VPN" . I removed the space and all worked as needed.
    in How do I save a report to a shared network location Comment by saw10 May 2020
  • I had an issue of this type and it took away to to get sorted. I posted a doc that might be of help. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/NTA-Documents/Along-the-river-of-data-there-are-streams-and-flows-Packet/ta-p/518956
    in Change Netflow collector Comment by saw10 April 2020
  • There is a "canned" report that shows all alerts for the past 30 days. Not sure but may be could modify for a given node.
    in Triggered Alert investigation by Caption, Alert Name, Message, Object that triggered the alert, etc. Comment by saw10 April 2020
  • We are also using a SQL Cluster with always listening. I have many many issues with this and have an on going case. One thing that my DBA did do was to point the always listening to only one of the two cluster members. This helped big time with "unable to connect to the data base" events in the event logs and response…
    in Question regarding Always on SQL. Performance issues. Comment by saw10 April 2020
  • I use a very simple sql pull. This get me the basics. I try and use the description field, things like "2 mins / >75% / exist 10 mins". poll every 2 mins for greater then 75% and must exist for 10 mins. Again simple but it gets me started. And audit like it too I think I know what you are wanting, a report that has the…
    in Report configured alerts Comment by saw10 April 2020
  • I have had major issues when running upgrades recently - and they were always seem to be with the web site. After many hours of working with support this is what solved the issue Go to the Orion installation folder. The default location is: C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion. -Find and open…
    in NPM Upgrade(s) - Widgets have no data Comment by saw10 April 2020
  • Another thing to note is that NetPath does not work through a proxy.
    in Netpath Service no traffic Comment by saw10 April 2020
  • Just to define a couple of things that I have learned over the years. I know that some of this is very basic but a set of common definitions are needed. And of course I may be totally wrong but this is how I manage my environment. * Monitoring is the state of the element (Node/Interface/Volume). I have found that the…
    in Architecture overview and the alert levels – P1,P2, etc. and their respective thresholds? Comment by saw10 April 2020
  • Had the same sort of issue - I had to make the firewall admins that I needed SNMP to device and not through the device.
    in NCM Management Comment by saw10 May 2020
  • HUGE Thank You We have been wanting this for ages. We use F5 GTM to "balance - least connections - sticky" across all our Additional Web Servers.
    in Display Server Name for Multiple Orion Web Servers Comment by saw10 May 2020
  • Did you get this sorted?
    in Notify if internet connection goes down w/ multiple internet providers Comment by saw10 March 2020
  • Please take this with a grain of salt - There are a couple of questions that would need to be answered - * What is the polling interval for the device? * What is the alert interrogation interval? * Is your alert looking for sustained utilization?* The condition must exist for x time (alert polling) * I use this to avoid…
    in Alert logic, false alert? Comment by saw10 May 2020
  • I think there is a "checkbox" to hide if there is no data. But depends on the widget.
    in How to hide custom table in node summary/vital stats Comment by saw10 April 2020
  • There were two publications Monitoring 101 and 201. Good information https://www.solarwinds.com/-/media/solarwinds/swdc/resources/whitepaper/monitoring-101-ebook.ashx and https://www.solarwinds.com/resources/ebook/monitoring-201 Again good info and place start. The big thing you will need to understand is what your network…
    in Monitoring and Alerting Best Practices Guide Comment by saw10 May 2020
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