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Someone who knows SQL/SWQL better than I may be able to help but initial thoughts are it would need a whole bunch of nested queries and I'm not sure of the syntax. The following SWQL will give you the node names, IP, current usage, and average usage for last 30 days. I may have borked my dates with TOLOCAL but it looks…

Alert templates seem to work fine for cat and dog module.

The Last XX Audit Events and Last 10/25 Audit Events resource already filters to the specific node - at least, it does in my environment ?

You can change the retention settings from the Setup -> System Properties. Change the "Days to Retain Raw Performance Data" and "Days to Retain Performance Data Hourly Rollups" values. Raw data is retained for the length of the first value. The system also generates hourly data that is an average of the values of the…

squinsey will have more info as he mentioned the following to me but I believe the agent auto-update size has also increased massively in this version because it has all of the features enabled by default (NetPath, etc). So rather than a 25 MB or so installer, it's 100 MB? Looking at the manual installer on my system, it…

There is a thread titled "What we are working on for NTA after 3.9" ( ) and it mentions they are looking to add support for VMware virtual switches. I don't what the ETA/timeframe is though Mav Turner wrote:Now that NTA 3.9 is out the door here are the things we are working on next.Support for receiving flows from VMware…

You have mentioned the Views by Device Type selections are correct. Can you also confirm your account is set to view by device type under your account settings? If this is set to ESX Host Details then the system will ignore the "by Device Type" options.

There is an Orion Core Hot Fix 1 included in the 10.5 download zip (and on the customer portal) that adds the check boxes back in. Just need to copy/overwrite the existing chart javascript file (no service restarted needed). SolarWinds Orion Core (Orion Core 2013.1) version 2013.1 Hotfix 1 This hotfix addresses a charting…

You can use Windows Authentication to connect to the SQL server during the Configuration Wizard (the step before you select the database and user details). This lets you use your Windows account to specify the SolarWinds database and account. SolarWinds itself can still only use a SQL account (not Windows account) to…

You can use something like below: SELECT n.Caption, n.IP_Address, n.CustomProperties.City FROM Orion.Nodes n WHERE n.NodeID NOT IN ( SELECT NodeID FROM Orion.NPM.CustomPollerAssignment ) AND n.CustomProperties.Department = 'blah' Replace the custom property fields as appropriate. If you remove the last line with the "AND…

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The NPM SL500 allows you to monitor 500 nodes (devices) and 500 interfaces and 500 volumes. This allows up to 1500 elements total but only 500 of each. The NPM SL2000 allows you to monitor 2000 nodes, 2000 interfaces, and 2000 volumes. You can have up to 6000 elements but only 2000 of each element (node/interface/volume).…

I'm making the following assumptions here: - The old NPM is using the old database structure (Node details in Node table) - Latest version of NPM is 11.5.2 using the new database structure (Node details in NodeData table) - You are using the list of old IP addresses in a Sonar Discovery in the new NPM but only seeing IP…

I'll swing back to this in the next day or so but first thought is HA in the DR is overkill. If something goes wrong in live, you failover to the HA server. If something goes wrong in the live environment that knocks out the entire HA pool, then you failover to the DR site. You would have to be really unlucky to then have…

The others have pretty much covered it all. 1. Search could do with some improvement (e.g. only include answered threads). 2. "Recent Content"/"Recent Activity" sections on the front page. This is useful to see if anyone is having issues and to discover new ways of doings things with the modules but... a) I'd like to…

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You can do this from the web GUI as well. I've used Country as an example in my lab but the same methodology applies to any other custom property. Note: The instructions below are taken from using the Custom Properties Editor but you can do the same from the Manage Nodes screen as well. * Click on Settings and then Manage…

Short version: At system defaults, a device can be down for 2-4 minutes before being detected Long version: See wall of text below. As Rob above mentioned, there are separate polling intervals for status, statistics and rediscovery. The status polling interval is how often the server will check the status, availability,…

I think a Config Change Template would do what you need to do. Take a look at A Few Tips and Tricks When Creating NCM Config Change Templates and More Automation in NCM: Usage of Variables and Custom Properties in Command Scripts and Config Change Templates You should be able to insert the @ ContextNode variable as the…

Wow, thanks for the help all! I'm visiting the client next week and I hope to try out some of these alerts then. With regards to the support case, the devs are now looking through some of the VC++ install logs. They can see problems in the logs with the VC++ redist installation failing during the agent update and the agent…

Hi Pankaj, I haven't had a lot of experience with Volume monitoring/alerting but I believe the following might help you. Any additional drives (F, G, etc) should trigger the alert if they go above 85%, and it should exclude the physical/virtual memory if you are monitoring those volumes on that node. I'm fairly certain the…

With the Windows Event Log monitor, make sure all the following fields are correct: * The Custom Log to Monitor matches the name under Applications and Services Logs tree * Match Definition is Custom and the Event ID is set to Match only specific IDs and the ID is entered * Event Type should match the error level or set to…

I went through the compatibility charts (NPM product compatibility chart - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support ) and came up with the following upgrade as the advisor couldn't make a path. You might be able to skip a couple of these steps but the below path should work. This will get you to the latest versions not…

You're going to need to upgrade all of the modules (and with a lot of step-upgrades) to get to the latest version. Did the Product Upgrade Advisor spit out the steps (if you deselect the server OS)? I input your versions and it said it was too complex! I can probably work it out manually if it didn't provide a path. Orion…

Unfortunately I haven't seen the above so I'm not sure what would be causing it. Please let us know how you go with support in case it does occur.

Same issue. They re-released 4.2.4 so I installed that but it didn't fix the issue. Opening a case this afternoon.

One possible workaround is to install the SMTP Server feature on your Windows server. Configure SolarWinds to email itself (127.0.0.1) and configure the SMTP feature to act as a relay sending email to your actual email server. The amount of retries, connection timeouts, etc can be configured on the SMTP relay. Depending on…