shaun_9999

I have finally come to the conclusion of all of my problems. Networks forgot to add domains to allow solarwinds to communication to the respective nodes/domains.

Isn't it shocking what you can pick up from in two months? This doesn't even seem that complex anymore.

Good morning. I do indeed have a SAM module. My apologies for not getting back sooner to people - I have just been busy (like everyone) with a million other things and our entire estate has just gone down due to a netscaler issue.

How do you do that?

We're still using 2012. I have a change implemented in place for an upgrade to r2. I don't think it's the back end. It doesn't seem like a backend problem. It appears IMHO more of a front-end/website issue. But I could be horribly wrong.

Not yet. I am raising a change to go from 2012 to 2012 r2 this week.

After doing a little research yesterday I managed to find the answers I was looking for thank you.

Just another update. After adding and removing the node yesterday, I now cannot monitor anything on it (the server) due to the node being in an unknown state.

With regards to other nodes/other applications. I did a test on another server and the server in question. I was able to add other SAM's and they produced an up/down state (depending on what I added. I added one up and one down on two servers.) When you say logging, are you referring to the logging within solarwinds, or…

I'm guessing that the lack of caffeine isn't the same. I understood why people have coffee and sugar every morning. it's like smack for kids. You could get addicted to coffee it's that magical.

That's dumb and stupid. Ok, WMI polls fine and then says successful. but still comes with a 'unknown' which is weird....This was when I changed from SNMP to WMI.

I found it, it's part of the database.

Where would that be located? I checked C:\ProgramData\SolarWinds\Logs\Orion and couldn't find that folder.

I installed both, I thought of that first.

Yep - solarwinds picked it up on the front end, but not the back. It didn't do it on the database.

I have kinda figured it out. I don't like how solarwinds have done clusters. Both SQL and non-SQL. I would like them to maybe invest a little more time within clusters, such as getting them monitored and built correctly. Having three nodes within solarwinds seems a little ill thought out. Why can't they have them build and…

So this is the config I had: I had two servers: one was active, one was passive. Both were in a HA cluster and it failed over and worked fine. Now, after building this environment and making sure it worked and then presenting this to my manager, he said 'it's good, but we don't need it yet'. This is fine. I still needed…

Having a play, I discovered the following and it's respective action: - Repairing all of solarwinds. This produces no positive results. I still had a corrupted solarwinds and was having issues connecting to the web front end. - Removing solarwinds, the database and then the VIP and reinstalling. NB - I could have done this…

So speaking to networks, it appears that ACL's and some firewalls (d'oh! to myself) were not opened. I did a poll with both WMI and SNMP and polled about 150 nodes, which is over half the missing nodes. Though I have about 50 ish nodes that cannot communicate via SNMP/WMI for some reason. Some are on the same VLAN as ones…

I can ping the servers. Incidentally, I still don't know what networks did. I did a little on the f/w config, all of the GPO, and pretty much everything else, but I didn't touch the ACL as I haven't ever done that in a real-life environment. They have always used SNMP for monitoring (minus switches/ect) but it's always…

There's no real purpose to them. They have nothing save solarwinds and SQL.

Nope. Though one of the databases became corrupt and I had to rebuild the database. It seems everything is fine, save the dozen or so nodes that were initially playing up. If traffic is being sent to every node apart from a choice few then I don't think it will be the firewall. I wonder if this requires a call to…

I wonder if it's solarwinds. We received the alerts the last few minutes, but the last time it polled was 150 minutes ago. So I am wondering if it's either the SQL script that is the issue of solarwinds itself.

I'm/we are getting the 'page cannot be displayed' I am 99% sure, but is the site up and running?

That didn't work. I ran it Friday afternoon (just the web interface) and it is still the same. I thought it would be because we are migrating servers from one site to another, but as I am logging on to box itself, I think I can rule that out.

It appears that it is what I will need to use. Weird thing is I have ZERO idea how the other person who managed solarwinds to get it working. Maybe he installed the Oracle client installer on a different directory, but I can't find an instance of Oracle installer anywhere on the server. I would check to see how it's…

From a look at the NMP polling I can tell you the following: How many sites are you looking at? - Three sites (atm I am only looking at one site at a time) How many nodes at each site? As a rough estimate: Site 1 (in house) 280 site 2 (80 miles away) 160 Site 3 (20 miles away) 200 Is your SW Orion installed on the OS…

I am thinking, rather than have one server monitoring, I would like a machine at each site to do this. Plus, also, should you have a failover, you will always be monitoring.

Thank you for getting back to me. My apologies for the lack of detail, I have very little experience in monitoring and even less in solarwinds. I am using google and thwack at the moment to try and understand everything. 1 - Number of devices: About 400 devices 2 - Devices located: One site is located about 80 miles away,…

TBH I haven't touched any real language since my college/uni days and that was PHP/C++ and other languages that my job never uses. But that was about a decade ago. So my best attempts at trying to even recall how to write a script and MS KB articles was the best I had. Ergo, why you thought it was so massively complex and…