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shuth wrote: I am looking to monitor a log file for particular strings using the out-of-the-box Log Parser (PowerShell) monitor - specifically the "number of newly found strings" component. When I include an = sign in the string, it seems to break the string/regex parser? E.g. I want to search for the string…

ccraddock wrote: I need to upgrade my NPM from 12.3 to 12.4. Our SW deployment currently runs on a Windows server 2012 R2 machine. However, the release notes for 12.4 state that Orion Platform 2018.4 no longer support Server 2012 or Server 2012 R2. I have 2 questions about this: 1) Is Orion Platform 2018.4 the same as NPM…

blackpearl wrote: how to trigger an alert for VMOTION please? Thank you. blackpearl​ I'm happy to let you know that this request is easier than ever in VMAN 8.4, with our currently available release candidate. Check out the new way to fulfill this use case! DEAR VMAN: How do I alert for vMotion? 

pcurtday wrote: Environment: Orion Platform 2017.3.3 SP3 Cloud Monitoring 1.1.0 IPAM 4.6.0 SAM 6.5.0 DPAIM 11.1.0 VMAN 8.1 QoE 2.4 NetPath 1.1.2 NPM 12.2 Problem Description: When adding a node, I am unable to successfully "Test" the credentials within the VMware Polling Settings. After attempting to validate the…

How did your upgrade go? Were you able to migrate and get to NPM 12.4 to take advantage of Centralized Upgrades? Orion Platform 2018.4 Centralized Upgrades Walkthrough

pratikmehta003 wrote: Hi All, Need some assistance. We have been requested to check the parameters that can monitored in Solarwinds for vSAN? This could mean both network part, storage and at virtualization level. I have mentioned the expectations below. Monitor System performance Monitor CPU, Memory utilization Monitor…

hello! I'm curious whether deduplication/compression will be part of your vsan requirements here. we are currently working on this in feature request so any details would be helpful!

121x wrote: Hi All, Looking for some guidance on customizing the existing report for Newly Added VMs to include the person who created them. I can only assume this is possible by somehow extrapolating the information from the tasks list of vcentre, but not sure how to add that into my report. Any guidance or direction…

noisy-conjuror wrote: I checked the previous threads and articles about this, but it works fine for local individual accounts. local accountdomain account Alerts are still firing. This was working before & after the latest upgrade. Rebooting the server brought it back for a little while. Chrome, Firefox, and IE show the…

christopherwalker wrote: When I go through the steps to create an MSI for the agent, it produces an MSI that I am able to successfully install. However, the node never shows up in the console. If I add the same node through the "Add Node" wizard and go to install the agent, it tells me that the agent is already installed…

m-milligan wrote: I have an alert definition that looks for applications whose status has recently escalated from Warning to Critical. Specifically, the alert trigger looks for active alerts on applications where AlertConfigurations.ObjectType = 'Orion.APM.Application'. This alert stopped working when we upgraded our…

ahbrook wrote: Hey everyone! The march of getting production set up continues on. We had to do some patching of our database last night, so I shutdown the Orion app server and left it that way until this morning. Upon restarting the database and then the app server / polling engine, most of our agent-based Windows and…

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rschroeder wrote: It was time to upgrade my NPM environment to a new version. I'd already migrated everything off 2012 to 2016, including moving the SolarWinds Orion database to a new SQL 2016 solution. I downloaded the NAM installer to my Main Instance and ran it. It did all the expected checks, found no problems, and…

rgivens wrote: Does anybody have VMware Site Recovery Manager in there environment. I've plugged in our vCenters into SAM and we have VMware Site Recovery Manager. Now I've got over 100+ machines showing up in our SAM environment as being shutdown because they are the machines in the DR site of site recovery manager. Can…

krisj25 wrote: Will VMAN trigger a datastore low free space alert if the VMs attached to the datastore are allocated over 90% of datastore capacity using thick disk or is the alert triggered when actual stored data (OS, apps, files, etc) reach over 90% This will be triggered based on the actual stored data. The alert…

Thank you for this feedback. I'm tracking your issue under SWA-3375

Even if your license is expired, you have purchased a perpetual license. That means you are entitled to use the version of VMAN that you have maintenance for to monitor your virtual environment up to your license limit. The error that you've provided does not seem related to a license limitation. First thing to check -…

nglynn wrote: So we leverage a whole host of the Office 365 SAM monitors for pulling down Service Health status information. We've recently gotten word from MS that the older service API that all of the SolarWinds Office365 Service Health monitors are leveraging today are going away in Q1. Is SolarWinds already working on…

The 4000 elements would remain assigned to the APE, but would not be polled until the APE is reinstated.

brentbo wrote: Hello Everyone, We've been told by our database folks not to use AppInsight for SQL to monitor the Orion database itself. They believe this creates a problem with database locks. Anyone else use AppInsight for SQL to monitor the Orion db? Any problems? Thanks, Brent The Orion database is a SQL database.…

How did your migration go?

Hi Tony! I'm very interested to hear more about the problems you're trying to solve. A few questions for you: When would your admins want to search ? Would it be in response to some event e.g. a triggered alert? Or perhaps just as part of their daily troubleshooting routine? When they search and filter on the nodes or…

Have you looked at the custom tile widget? It allows you to get a quick summary of status and alerts for a filtered set of entities.

omavel wrote: Hello, I want to add some additional info for my nodes like "uptime" (I have "last boot" on it's Summary page, but this is not enough). The first idea was to create custom WMI query, but I have no APM module installed. As I understood, second way is to make a custom SWQL-query, and I need to add Custom Query…

How did your upgrade go?

Locking this thread in favor of this current 12.3 upgrade feedback thread NPM 12.3 Orion 2018.2 Upgrade Feedback please give us your updated feedback for 12.3 there.

Hi Jonathan, We've done extensive testing, and run several dev assisted upgrades. The offline installer absolutely runs without internet connection. I suspect you're running into something else. Are you interested in participating in our dev assisted upgrade program, where we could join you on a call and see your upgrade?…

superted666 wrote: Were using the "Top-N" widget a lot in our dashboards, and I'd like to: * Be able to select the x-axis scaling (day, week, month etc). We can do this with a performance chart but that only shows a single graph metric, perhaps if that could do multiples then it would be suitable. * Zero the y-axis at 0…

george.henson wrote: The goal is a silent install of NPM and NTA. Using instructions found: Run the SolarWinds Orion Installer in the silent mode - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support I am able to get NPM to install correctly, but adding NTA to the list of modules be included prevents the configuration wizards from…