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Ah well, worth a shot

To get your virtual device information, use this SQL query as the basis for your report: use SolarWindsOrion select nodes.caption, nodes.IP_Address, dbo.VIM_VirtualMachines.IPAddress from dbo.nodes inner join dbo.vim_virtualmachines ON nodes.ip_Address = VIM_VirtualMachines.IPAddress You'll need to add in the relevant…

The main issue we have with trying to advise clients on SQL licensing, is what is and is not deemed as a connection to the database. It's a difficult question for many reasons: * Since sFlow sends data to Orion, what is the 'user' or 'device' which is deemed as the connecting party when the information from the flow is…

Not a problem! Could you post the link to your idea in here also? Save people searching for it

I've had to deploy on Express before now, when a client desperately needed the functionality of Orion, but couldn't afford the SQL licensing. Minimal retention periods and careful node number balancing, but it can work. SL250 level licensing should run OK on it for a fairly long time before the database size limit becomes…

Aye. Go here: Network Performance Monitor Feature Requests Post a new request and post the resulting thread in this one. I for one will up vote it

Tough one, as it's definitely down to user access rights. Could you change the user that the script runs as, temporarily, to one that has higher rights, just to confirm?

I've got to add here that I'm assuming ICMP is permitted on all firewalls between your pollers and your target devices. If could be something as simple as SNMP being allowed, hence you've been able to add the devices to SolarWinds, but ICMP is being blocked.

Yes, from your screenshots it appears there are no discovery profiles saved. With regards to Discoveries, they are used in two ways, generally: * Initial discovery of a new network segment, drastically increasing the speed of getting many new devices into SolarWinds (given known SNMP configurations). * Regular discoveries…

What you could do, is create a new set of alerts for that site, and use the 'Alert Limitation' feature to set the local user to only have access to these alerts All the other views seem to respect the Account Limitation just fine, and hopefully, with the Alert Limitation set on both the new alerts and the user, the 'Last…

Ok, thanks for the clarification. aLTeReGo‌, any chance you could ask the devs to verify if these changes would be officially supported? I'm sure there are many customers who could benefit from the performance gains

No problem I'll try to explain: I believe the format aspect of the variable can help strip out the extraneous decimals, but I can't find the specific format types that are supported. I suggested Integer may help, but I'm not sure if it is a valid type. That would make your variable:…

Cheers alt, helpful as always

It does seem that the templates we have at the moment don't fulfil your requirement. None of them will give you exactly what you need. I'm guessing that these files are outputs from an automated task in one of your apps, and are recycled every five minutes, and you're looking to see if the scheduled task has failed, as if…

Good stuff! Hope that's sorted out your issue, jasonflory​!

Generally, if you run the Configuration Wizard and repair everything, it fixes problems like these. Give that a try. If this doesn't resolve the problem, what are you seeing in the SolarWInds.net logs in event viewer on your primary poller? The log entries should give you a clue as to what is going on. If you could share…

Drat, well it was worth a try. Are you seeing any errors on the database application server around the same time? Perhaps there's something odd going on with the creation of the new records/fields in the database tables.

Glad you got it sorted

What you could do is simply copy the alert you have which points at the group(s), and specify in the alert to only fire if the specific server name matches, rather than creating a new group.

Indeed. Perhaps you've got an idea for a feature request there?

Aha, thanks for that! I'll give that a bash. Does this need to be applied before SAM is installed? In the intervening time I threw my wallet at the screen and picked up VMware Workstation anyway, just in case. How's THAT for testing dedication!

SQL and SWQL are pretty similar. As I know the query works in SWQL, there's no reason that I can see which explains why the filter isn't being accepted

Thanks cjfranca‌, glad to help!

You should be able to set this up as a universal device poller, if you know the OID for the value you need. Make sure you select the 'Keep Historical' setting is set to true, otherwise you'll only keep the most recent polled information in the database.

No problem, good luck with it! Let us know how you get on.

Happy to help mate!

Have you tried running the program in Windows 8 compatibility mode? I don't have NTM installed at the moment, but my laptop is using Windows 10 Pro, so I'd be interested to know if running the program in compatibility mode sorts the problems out

What I'd do is investigate the network topology between the poller and the devices in question. List the devices and run the same checks between the poller and each network device. I expect one of them is going to be causing the problem, whether it be down to a bad cable in a switch or a configuration problem on the…

No problem blood‌. Let us know how you get on!

IF the repair hasn't fixed it, I would collate the diagnostics (run Orion Diagnostics, found in the SolarWinds Orion\Diagnostics and Support) and log a ticket with Support via the Customer Portal. Even if your server team find the problem, at least you've started the ball rolling. You can always close the ticket.