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Shalin, with the new orion installer there is only one file to run for NCM on the main poller. Did the new Orion installer simplify later upgrades for you? Was it more clear what to do and which file to run?

Tony's right, additional context would be helpful.

For anyone who chooses to share their log processing rules that they've created for VMware events, I'm happy to give you THWACK points if you post a screenshot or share here in this thread!

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val57 wrote: Hi, I have to setup Orion 12.1 on our network which consists of Juniper firewall cisco switch and esxi host, what are the prerequisites to make the automatic pull as effective as possible, I will setup NPM, NTA and NCM. Network Performance Monitor Getting Started Guide

dkohler wrote: I'm trying to create a powershell monitor, to read a log file and look for a word. Script is as so: $Lines = Get-Content -path "C:\Windows\tracing\logfile.log" foreach ($Line in $Lines){ if ($Line -like "*Successful*"){$Health = "good"} } I get this error when testing the script: Get-Content : Cannot find…

did you run into this again in any other upgrade past this one?

stevenstadel wrote: Our vulnerability vendor has identified the _Solarwinds_Zero_Configuration certificate that is installed when we setup AppInsight for IIS monitoring is using SHA-1 which they consider to be a weak hashing algorithm. 1. What would be the best way to ensure that SHA-1 is not used for new AppInsight for…

A few posts that might help Preparing For Your Next Orion Upgrade - Deprecation & Other Things You Need To Know New Installer Upgrade Experience

wholesome_admin wrote: Hello! I'm new to Solarwinds, so please feel encouraged to point out if I'm going about this in a stupid way. TL;DR, how can I bulk update the Script Arguments for ~400 applied monitors to include the custom property tag "${Node.Custom.SITE}"? Currently, we have a monitor template that's applied to…

Did you run into this again with upgrades past 12.0.1 ?

You can spruce up the primary, and the APE installer will pull all the necessary bits it needs from the main poller.

sploy wrote: Let me start with the environment this incident has happened: Orion Platform: 2019.2 HF2 SAM: 6.9.1 So, what started out to be a fix on our issue related to Group members NOT being assigned to an application template has started another issue of a different behavior. This fix to our initial concern was to do…

brunty wrote: in VMAN resources in the Orion Web Console > Virtual Cluster Details there's a "DRS vMotion Rate". Mine is "4". I'm interested to know: Four what? and per how long? and if I can graph it. (this cluster does about 600 DRS vmotions a day). Many thanks Hi Ian, This reflects the vmotion rate found off of your…

Stacking apes does not require installation, it's handled through licenses. Simply add the licenses to the relevant scalability engine or the main poller and it's stacked.

amrita1690 wrote: Hi All, In our environment we had been polling hardware data from Vcenter into SAM(6.4) using CIM protocol. But as we've upgraded SAM to 6.6, we couldn't find the option in the Virtualization setting to poll via vcenter or via ESX Directly. Instead now we are getting poling method options as VMAN Orion…

jmyers wrote: Good day everyone, I have been asked to refine some of the monitoring windows we use on our network, specifically domain controllers and Hyper visors. I feel the out of box view for hypervisors are fine, but need to generate a specific one for our domain controllers since we have 24 of them across our…

smatuschek wrote: We have component monitors for our O365 licenses, however I've been asked to create a daily report that lists the change in the number of assigned licenses (License count at first poll of the day minus license count at last poll of day). Min/Max is not an accurate representation when the consumed licenses…

davej150 wrote: We have a message informing us that "Virtualization Manager v6 - Evaluation" will be expiring in 27 days on Jun 8. The funny thing is, our SolarWinds server is new and the application suite was downloaded and installed 3 days ago (on 5/10/19). The version of Virtualization Manager installed and licensed is…

patriot wrote: I know that the limit for SAM components for a single polling engines is 10,000, but which number for SAM components is the one to keep an eye on? You can see a total number on the License Details page. There is another much larger number listed for each polling engine on the "Total Elements per poller" page…

Sean this is great stuff! Just checking, is this to handle ephemeral nodes that are no longer active in Azure from Orion ?

lanadmingeek wrote: When moving off the appliance and into the integrated version of VMAN in Orion can you move your custom dashboards from the appliance? I have one that lists all the running vm's by OS version. Each widget is a different OS version in our environment. Marc is absolutely right there is no migration of…

hpstech wrote:I've had two failed patching attempts of the September Windows 2016 update with a customer's 12.2 environment. Opened a support ticket and was told to upgrade. Case # XXXXXX - KB4516044 causes the Orion services to crash every few minutes. The tech asked me if KB4516044 installed .NET 4.8 - does this make any…

koushikkr wrote: Hi, I am looking for help is monitoring Windows log file in a path (not Windows Event Log) to monitor for strings and alert on them from SAM. Thanks Koushik. Hi, have you taken a look at our file monitoring components? See our template reference guide here: Files

jono11 wrote: Hi, We are using VMAN 8.2 integrated into Orion with a couple other products. I created an alert that triggers when there are more than two snapshots on a VM due to an issue this creates. Regardless of when the snapshots occur the alert seems to come out at around 8PM at night. This is not helpful. It seems…

So how did your upgrade go?

rushcoil wrote: Hello folks. We use both Government and Commercial Cloud. I see there are Advanced Configuration settings where I could point to Government: But then I would break Commercial Cloud monitoring. Is there any known way that we can point to both Azure Gov and Azure Commercial? Thank you! You currently would…

Thanks for bringing this up. We'll be looking into solutions for this!

NTA will be upgraded alongside your other Orion products. However, NTA has a fastbit database that will require a separate upgrade installer which is available in your customer portal. STM is a bit separate from SRM, STM is a different solution that is deployed separately whereas SRM is part of the Orion platform. How do…

gareth.armstrong wrote: Hi everyone, We have in the last 12 months migrated a lot of servers from an old VMWare environment to a new one, and as part of that we've set up solarwinds to monitor the new hosting environment. We set up around 100 nodes. As we migrated data on to the nodes, the volume sizes on a lot of these…