shanlon

some great stuff here, some of it we are doing, some of it we will be doing (thanks for sharing) As part of our decommission process, I have added two custom fields to nodes; Decommission Ticket Number, and Decommission Date. We retain historical data on nodes for 1 year and then remove the node from SW. Great for project…

it's a trap

1. a co-worker deleted the user OU from AD on a Friday evening and didn't tell anyone until the next morning. 2. same co-worker unplugged the tape backup in the middle of a critical server restore and spent the next 4 hours waiting for the job to finish. 3. still the same co-worker instead of reverting to the previous…

Network, you are going to make a lot of people unhappy, even angry when you do not live up to their expectations. I have tried to plan for failures, but as this past World Cup has shown, when there is a run on streaming video, you can only do so much and there is a point that you falter. Sometimes you can't please…

the greatest NT 4 story now follows: In 1999 I was living in NJ and working as a Computer Tech for a regional tech service company. We had contracts with many Fortune 500's to maintain servers, workstations, and networking gear in satellite offices across central and northern NJ. I got a call from one company IT person in…

the excuse given for deleting the user OU was "my dog wanted to go for a walk and her tail hit the keyboard." the dog was blamed for a number of other things too... maybe this person was Les Nessman's cousin.

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so there is no way to archive all the data on a node on the day it's decomm'd and powered off

ok, i just realized the SNMP template is not an out of the box default. Coffee is kicking in...

I have added the "All Alerts this Object can Trigger" resource to a new tab on the "Node" view in my environment, but as Alex Soul has stated, it's a tad bit round the other way. it's great for spot checking, not so great for a deep audit (unless i have some time to kill, like lots of it )

switching from SNMP to WMI will cause me to lose data, correct?

The upgrade is planned for tomorrow morning. I'll report back, fingers and eyes crossed.

logging is enabled, where are the logs?

a possible solution that means downtime... switch databases.

have you restarted the VMan appliance?

PerfMon is showing on average the "6" that Solarwinds is reporting. Glad it's not a Solarwinds issue, wait that means it's an Exchange issue. crap.

i can get the data for each node, but i am not sure how to show the combined data in a single console view.

I looked there, the templates are gone ie: SNMP

is there a way to archive all the data on a node in bulk? the way you provide would be very tedious

according to the screenshot above it is displaying in amps. i'm also trying to figure out how to send an alert in Solarwinds when the current goes over 16 amps. the APC embedded application can do it, but i'd rather have everything under one roof so to speak.

Alert auditing is a must in large environments since things are easily overlooked and critical alerting missed. Manual review won't make clear some triggers that are defined globally. There really should be a way to audit an alert to see what nodes are included or excluded. A recent re-org of the department means…

polling every 2 minutes the status shows as UP - it never shows as going down.

the Solution Admin is a custom field. I have created a report that lists the Node name and the Solution Admin, but I want to email each Solution Admin a listing of nodes they are responsible for... I'm not sure how to parse that without creating 100+ reports for each Solution Admin (over 1000 nodes) and adding to the…

the recommended is SNMP. i have the classic "Data is not available". so i should switch everything to WMI????

Thanks for the great reports, very helpful.

changed from ActionTypeID = '28' to '27' and all is well.

NPM 11.5.2

the "by" field seems to not be displaying the person who unmanaged the node... they all point to me. nope. not true.

super helpful report - need to convert this to a report on all nodes so i can follow up with people who unmanage things for years at a time.

Clipper City Brewing in Baltimore, not North Coast... i spent many a friday after the monthly tape swap at a remote site at the brewery