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  • I'm a noob at LEM! But that's not Orion. As per the others, if you are a noob, jump on this if you are having any issues or finding particular processes difficult or painful. The UX team are a great group of people who take your feedback and incorporate it into future versions.
    in still looking for noobs! Comment by shuth October 2016
  • The middle of the night maintenance would presumably be the nightly maintenance task that runs at 2:15 AM. You can check the logs for this maintenance task in C:\ProgramData\Solarwinds\Logs\Orion\ Look for the swdebugMaintenance.log file. In regards to the other issues: - Can you elaborate on the DNS mismatch issue? - Can…
    in NPM DNS Mismatch Process Crashing Server Comment by shuth September 2017
  • Is this it?
    in custom properities Comment by shuth March 2012
  • Similar to superfly99, typically WAN ports, uplink/trunk ports, and ports connected to important servers/devices.
    in Which interfaces are you monitoring on your switches? Comment by shuth January 2014
  • I'm not sure if I'm missing something or it's staring me in the face but is there a way to display the EOL/EOS dates on the NCM Node Details or Node Details pages? There is the "End of Support Devices" resource but that shows all of the devices.
    in Give us Feedback on the New End-of-Life Feature Comment by shuth September 2013
  • Hey byrona​, did you ever find a solution for this? I've got the same issue. Of about 80 agents deployed, 22 say the node is down but I'm still getting statistics... * Agents deployed on various servers (Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2) - agent-initiated mode * Using "Agent status" for node status instead of…
    in Agent Node Displayed in a Down Status When Up & Collecting Data Comment by shuth June 2017
  • Nice!
    in Want a sneak peek at some new design ideas for old and well-used features?--Read on! Comment by shuth June 2017
  • As HerrDoktor​ said, turn off all the out-of-the-box alerts. They are meant as examples and you will be flooded with alerts if you leave them on. Start with a small subset of alerts (node down, interface down, hardware warning/critical, etc). There are two options for the interface monitoring: 1. Delete all the interfaces…
    in Getting thousands of alarms from admin up interfaces with nothing connected to them after migration to Solarwinds Comment by shuth June 2019
  • My understanding is there is a limitation in what Meraki makes available in the API and SNMP MIB. As others have mentioned, there is no config to back up for NCM as it's all in the Meraki cloud backend. There is not a huge amount of information available locally from the devices compared to the Meraki dashboard.
    in Do you have Meraki gear? Does Solarwinds do enough with it? What would you like to use Solarwinds for when managing Meraki? Comment by shuth March 2018
  • I'd suggest taking a look at the steps in the following KB article: http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/4009/Migrating+a+Local+or+Remote+Patch+Manager+Database+to+a+Remote+SQL+Server
    in Moved primary database Comment by shuth December 2015
  • It looks to be the same as the Cisco Live backpacks and they experienced the same ripping/stitching issue.
    in ThwackPack Backpack - Repurchase? Comment by shuth October 2014
  • I am also interested in this. This also occurs if I import an email action, the CC: field selects previously used CC: addresses from other alerts instead of remaining blank.
    in Removing Stale Email Addresses Comment by shuth July 2012
  • It also looks like you have some very large values distorting the graph scaling. The scale is up to around 50 million but the most recent statistics are averaging 38. If you changed the zoom level to ignore the first two candlesticks you should see the data you are after.
    in Application Component Detail Chart "Y Axis" Comment by shuth May 2016
  • How is Log Manager licensed? Most log management tools are licensed based on the volume of log data you generate. This requires you to estimate your log volume, costs can rapidly increase if you miscalculate your log volume and you may have to selectively chose which logs to send to your log management tool to stay within…
    in Introducing Log Manager for Orion Comment by shuth November 2018
  • Not sure where to post this as I couldn't find another article. I've installed the latest versions of NPM, NCM, IPAM, SAM, NTA, SRM, VMAN, and WPM on a server today. WPM does NOT work with Windows Authentication. I had to reconfigure the system to use a local SQL account in order to get WPM to work. Every other module was…
    in Windows Authentication & SSL Encryption for Orion Microsoft SQL Database connectivity Comment by shuth November 2017
  • Can confirm the advisor is fixed - it told me to do the step upgrade for NCM 7.4.1 -> 7.5.0 -> 7.5.1 today.
    in NCM with NPM 11.5.3 > 12.0.1 upgrade Comment by shuth October 2016
  • You can deploy the SolarWinds agent to the domain controllers where it will run as the LOCAL SYSTEM account and collect WMI information. You will need an administrator account for the initial agent installation.
    in Can you monitor Application Services in Orion without Domain Admin rights? Comment by shuth November 2018
  • I just came across the same issue when trying to create a similar set of alerts. As with the OP, it seems intuitive to me that a "not equal to" would include blank fields. We have an interface custom property that can have various strings (WAN, etc). The aim for the alerts is; if the property = WAN and interface goes down…
    in Is this a bug? Blank custom property alert behavior. Comment by shuth July 2012
  • Depending on the query you might need to change the data aggregation to sum. i.e. You might be grabbing the last few hours of discards but it is showing the statistic from each poll and not the sum. It should have done this automatically in the web-based report. Similarly in the legacy Report Writer.
    in Repeated items in report Comment by shuth June 2016
  • Have you have modified the statistics polling interval on the interface properties? I've had some users try to modify the statistics interval by editing the node properties and not the interface properties. Or did you do a global change in the polling settings?
    in Polling Interval Comment by shuth July 2012
  • For VMAN, you should be able to export your dashboard view from the Contents page. Exporting: Click on Explore > Content. Select your Dashboard view and click Export in the top right corner. This will export it as an XML file. Importing: Click on Explore > Content. Click "Import Content..." in the bottom corner, select…
    in Exporting custom views and reports Comment by shuth April 2014
  • In Manage Nodes , you can also use the Group By drop down and select Polling Engine. You will then be able to select a polling engine and see all of the nodes assigned to that particular poller. Select them all and under More Actions, select Change Polling Engine.
    in Polling engines Comment by shuth August 2017
  • The error message does not make it clear, but you do not need to install IPAM on your additional pollers. IPAM only runs on your primary polling engine. I had the exact same question and contacted support to verify (case 443338). The support representative also referenced a previous case (352421) stating that IPAM does not…
    in IPAM poller installation aborts on polling engines Comment by shuth June 2013
  • Thanks Jiri and Tim. I'll look into this again next week and let you know how I go.
    in Policy to detect multiple logging servers? Comment by shuth February 2014
  • You will only get access to the component monitor level variables if you are alerting on the component. If you are using an Application alert, you can use ${N=SwisEntity;M=ApplicationAlert.ComponentsWithProblemsFormatted} as jorich​ mentioned. This variable will list the components with issues under the application…
    in Component Monitor Description in an alert email Comment by shuth November 2016
  • An alternative would be to go back to the All Nodes list and implement custom properties. * Create two custom properties: Region and Site. * Fill in the region/site information for each node (the custom property editor can be used to import a csv to make this quicker). * On the view with the All Nodes resource, edit that…
    in Dynamically grouping nodes with no group assigned Comment by shuth June 2012
  • As rickrocks​ mentioned, the server has a "maximum" number of elements it can poll as the default polling intervals. You can increase the number of elements you monitor by changing the polling intervals (e.g. instead of 2 minutes for status, use 5 minutes. Instead of 10 minutes for statistics, use 15 minutes, etc). You…
    in Polling Comment by shuth August 2016
  • You should be able to poll the multiple OIDs and then add a "Node Tabular Universal Device Poller" resource to the Node Details page. If you click Edit, you should be able to tick/check the checkboxes next to the universal device pollers that you want to display in that single table. For example, I've been playing around…
    in SNMP Tables Comment by shuth July 2012
  • This particular client is running on NPM 12.2. I went through the Orion Core platform release notes and found references to custom chart fixes in Orion 2018.2. It might be related to the first entry. I don't think it is top records as I bumped it up to 100 and it didn't resolve the issue. 00022780, 00032805, 1130747,…
    in Custom chart not showing all data from SWQL query Comment by shuth October 2019
  • I know that engineering is working on it but he's right that updates are glacial. 4.2.0 - Aug 2014 - Added Avaya support 4.2.2 - June 2015 - The only update all year made it compatible with web-based alerting and a few bug fixes VoIP and Network Quality Manager 4.2.2 Release Notes - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and…
    in Next VNQM update???? Comment by shuth September 2016
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