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Hi! When did you download the installer? We recently released HF1, which repacked the installer with a fix for this type of issue. Can you confirm which version of the installer you downloaded?

mmcdonaldion wrote: I'm relatively new to using Solarwinds products. I'm having an issue I'm hoping someone can help me out with. I need to find a way to alert when a VMware host fails (purple screens, stops responding, etc) causing the VMs to lose power and migrate to another host. Anyone done this before? Hi! Out of…

Just one question from me - you mentioned that the vCenter is not allowed to be polled is that due to internal policy or inability to poll? I'd love to know more about why it's not allowed in your system.

texexpat wrote: I am new to using Solarwinds. I pushed AppInsight for Exchange out to all my Exchange 2016 servers. I am seeing a lot of good information, but on each Exchange server, IIS is using 100 times the disk space for IIS logs as it did before installing AppInsight. Does AppInsight need these IIS logs in order to…

lorenze wrote: Hello Cool People. I'm fairly new to orion and wanted to monitor a folder in a particular server. This folder has a couple of files that are in different file type. (abc.pem, cde.key, efg.crt ). Can this be achieve using file existence monitor ? How do I be able to set this up. So my end game here is to have…

natetech@yahoo.com wrote:I am hoping that somebody might have experience or insight regarding Orion SAML 2.0.I have been tasked to provide SSO login for Orion.I attempted to follow this guideline: Authenticate Orion Platform users with SAML v2,, however, we are using ForgeRock OpenAM.After setup, I get the following when…

How did your upgrade go?

solai wrote: Hello, I'm in need to export the list of all user accounts created on the SolarWinds console for a security reasons. But Serv-U isn't present. Do we have any other method to extract or pull out the list of user account created..? Your suggestion would be much helpful. Thanks in advance..!! Configured data…

paget76 wrote: Hi all, We are trying to set up a file age monitor for a log file generated by an application. The log file is date-stamped (DDMMMYYYY), and so we need the file age monitor to contain variables in the file path string. I know that it accepts ${IP}, but when I try to use any of the date part variables (${DD},…

monitoringlife wrote: Hello, I have a large environment with a lot of IIS and SQL servers. I currently have 170 'AppInsight for SQL' setup. I know from the 'Scalability Engine Guidelines for SolarWinds products' that an APE should try to stay around 10,000 components. AppInsight for SQL takes up at least 50 for each…

jameslindsay wrote: Is there a way to look back several hours and know what query was running on a SQL host monitored by AppInsight for SQL at a point where it may have been having a problem? We do not have DPA. Would that be a requirement for this use case? What are you looking to solve? Have you considered adding a…

rajesh_dv wrote: I have configured alerts for virtual machine status down or shutdown option, but unable to find reboot option. kindly please help me for getting the virtual machine reboot alerts. Reference this document that I wrote up for the VMAN 8.3 release DEAR VMAN: How do I have better visibility into VMs that are…

1264971 wrote: We have Orion 12.1 and VMAN 7.2. When integrated with IVIM does VMAN sends any type of data to Orion that is being stored to Orion database if not then what type of data VMAN sends to Orion ? Yes when integrated, you'll start to see datastore information and other deeper virtualization metrics stored in the…

monitoringlife wrote: This might be a long post and I apologize in advance. It requires some background on how we implemented alerts and discovered an odd behavior with Orion resetting the alert during database maintenance and immediately re-triggering. Our Volume alerts are fairly standard. Alert if volume percent used is…

sstump2 wrote: Hi All, I am completely new to Solarwinds and would like some help on setting up alerts containing Vb Script. I have been tasked with adding an alert that goes out and reads a .txt file and if it finds the wording "problem connection" in the text, i need the script to list the string that the text is found…

m-milligan wrote: We just upgraded all of our Solarwinds apps to the 2019.4 versions. This morning, what I can only describe as an ad for SCM appeared at the bottom of the browser window as I was working in Solarwinds. I don't need to be reminded that there are other Solarwinds products that we could buy. How can I turn…

Hello! You can definitely change the default credentials. Simply ssh into the appliance & use the "passwd" utility to change the password. UNIX man pages : passwd () You can also add a new user account using the "useradd" utility.

Hello Tyson, Capacity planning results are stored in VIM_CapacityPlanning_ReportResults however, the parsing of the data and doing the aggregation math is a non trivial effort. My recommendation would be to open up a feature request to support capacity planning across multiple clusters Virtualization Manager Feature…

frank.haughton wrote: Hey All, I'm trying to setup the domain security monitor on a Server 2012R2 DC, but it keeps failing to connect. i have been through the Thwack and MS forums to make sure that RPC and WMI work, checked winrm and firewall, but it just refuses to connect, any advise? Are you seeing any issues noted in…

Thank you so much! I will be sure to pass this along to the hardworking teams who made this happen

ferrashoo wrote: We currently run NPM 12.2 and have separate hardware for db (sql 2016) and netflow 4.2. When running the offline upgrade to version 12.3 and netflow 4.3 we got an error stating there was a beta installed. Up to this point, we have not run into any issues upgrading from previous versions of NPM, SAM or…

alexpf wrote: I just ran my first upgrade since upgrading to Windows Server 2016 and SQL 2016 update 1. After the upgrade, I was directed to the My Orion Deployment to update the Additional Pollers and Additional Web Server. The upgrade went smooth. It is a really nice feature. One note is that I had one WPM agent on a…

jaime.reyes wrote: Hello, When adding VMs, what is the recommended method for polling? There are a few choices, but the most appropriate seem to be, ICMP, SNMP and ICMP, and Windows/linux servers and also should poll for vmware be checked since those are VMs in vCenter? Installing the agent vs enabling SNMP? Differences or…

rsa00 wrote: Hi, I´am currently testing the Orion suite (NPM, NTA, SAM, VMAN, DPA). We use VMWare VSAs and HP Store Virtual in our virtual environment. But I don't know how to add the Storage correctly. I tried to add it in VMAN and NPM with SNMP on the iLOs I just get the physical view, no logical objects like LUNs.…

sondang wrote: Hi Everybody, When I am user Report on SolarWinds, In past I can export Report to PDF but now I can't do it When I am used FireFox. If I click to exxport PDF it load very long time and not the Report download When I used IE, I have error like picture but my report have content in web console and not empty…

ahbrook wrote: Hey everyone! Each day brings another step on the process of getting Orion running at my environment. We finally got our service accounts built, which means I can start monitoring nodes. Naturally, the first one I installed was on the Orion App server itself. This went smoothly, until I turned on AppInsight…

angrymelon wrote: Greetings, I've been asked to see if there is a way to collect metrics from IBM MQ. I haven't been able to find any out of the box, or community generated templates, so I'm seeking some input. I found other posts discussing this topic, but wasn't able to apply their suggestions. I'm also trying to avoid…

Prineel wrote: Hi guys, looking for some advice please with regards to deploying SAM for a few hundred servers. Would a mass deployment of agents work better (Agent Initiated) then run Network Discovery in SAM? Once added will the same agent provide QoE stats as well? Thanks The same agent will provide QoE stats as well.…

carlp wrote: Hi All Not too sure I'm putting this question in the correct place, apologies if not. I've just configured cloud infrastructure monitoring for one of our Azure subscriptions. I'm seeing this alert on a number of VMs "Azure Cloud VM is in a Warning or Critical State". Can anyone please tell me why Solarwinds…

sondang wrote: When I read "How to config" of component "Service Status - SNMP", I see component "Service Status - SNMP" when return 4 status of service monitoring like picture but it not mention when service down, component "Service Status - SNMP" will return what status on Web console. Has anyone encountered this case…