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No problem Arani, happy to help! The way it works is a user is assigned a view. The view will only display nodes which match the restrictions that both the view AND the user account has been assigned. With regards to setting up accounts, the way I look at it is this: Before you create a user, think about what they need to…

Not a problem at all, kyeap89​! Hope support to solve this for you. The evaluation license having expired may be the crux of the issue, but lets see what they say. Keep us posted!

Just for clarity, this is what I was referring to above: If you go to http://oriondemo.solarwinds.com and find a windows server under Manage Nodes, check the 'Asset Inventory' tab. This should give you the same information you see on your system.

Sure, I was referring to the connection between NPM and VMAN. You may have completed the integration, and what ports you have open were enough to complete that step, but there might be some missing that is stopping the data from being displayed in Orion correctly. You need: TCP 17778: For communication with the Orion…

If you're polling your nodes via SNMP, try switching to WMI (if they are Windows servers, and if WMI is an option for you). WMI will give you more info from Windows servers. That said, you're already seeing the information in SolarWinds. Perhaps it's the config of the report table? Are there any filters applied to the…

Aye, that's a bit of a conundrum, 200 amendments would be a bit of a mission! That said, to quote Hudson from Aliens "it's the only way to be sure" currently, as far as I'm aware anyway. Maybe log a ticket with support, see if they have some other way to mass amend alerts. If they do come up with some way of sorting it,…

What you need to do is analyse which nodes have not responded to SNMP since you changed the IP address. If you have the web reports in your version, constructing this report will give you the information you need to pinpoint which devices need their SNMP modified: 1. Click 'Reports' under the Home tab (default menu…

NPM thresholds pertain to the node, i.e. the device that you are polling. These thresholds are for the OVERALL CPU/Memory utilization of the device itself. SAM thresholds seen in the application templates pertain to the individual APPLICATION COMPONENT(S) you have chosen to monitor on the parent server. If you want the…

Hey caleyjay7​. You make a fair comment re: how this scans, at a casual glance. But, given the cost of a subscription when compared with the maintenance renewal costs of the lower tier Orion modules, I'd say this is a pretty poor attempt at a cash grab, if it indeed is one (which I do not think it is, incidentally). Also,…

Glad to be of assistance mate

That's right powerblade​. If you were to go down that path, then the users would only be able to see site A details, and site B would be hidden. Does the user in question work in a NOC? What you could do is have two users. One which has visibility of up/down of every node, for use on a wallboard (no NCM permissions). And…

Hey fahadahmedsyed‌ To answer your questions: * Best practice is to install NPM on one server, and have an additional server with SQL server installed ready, to house the main SolarWinds Orion database. So two servers, just for NPM and it's database. Your network devices will need to be configured to allow SNMP queries…

Hey pratikmehta003​ If a device supports SNMP, then it is possible that you can create a custom poller for any OID in the SolarWinds MIB database. As mesverrum​ correctly stated, if you device is responding to ICMP pings, then by default SolarWinds will report the device as 'UP', donated by a green pip next to it's name in…

Glad you got it sorted. Have a good one

No problem cyberlynk‌. Happy to help

If you have SAM, you can use the HTTP monitor template to test any URL. If you're only looking to test if SolarWinds can ping the the website, just add it as a node, polling via ICMP. As long as your pollers have access to the internet (and a suitable DNS server) this should work. If DNS is a problem, just put the site's…

In this instance, you'd set the special reset conditions as prawij‌ mentioned to reset when node X or node Y have status equal to UP. Effectively you reverse the logic of the trigger conditions and apply that to the reset conditions.

Well, straight off the bat, there appears to be something amiss with the connection between your web console and your database. The last database update should be in seconds, not minutes. First thing to try would be to check the health of your Orion database, and confirm you are not experiencing disk space problems with…

No problem. Glad you got it fixed krcourser​

Ah. the infamous web alert manager. Sadly all the instances I support are running 11.0.1. I'm waiting on positive vibes from the community before I upgrade to SR 11.5.1, so I haven't got 11.5 in front of me to walk you through it. However, thanks to oriondemo.solarwinds.com, I can see what you see, and can help: Next field…

Correct. It's a one trick pony, the $(Default). You do not need to add the 'Node.' at the start of the variable. Since the alert knows you're alerting on nodes, if you just use $(CustomerName), it should take it as it will look for a property called $(CustomerName) linked to the node.

Hey serena​ I know I can reach out and have a chat with the relevant people about my views, but sometimes boucing a group of ideas around a brain trust helps, as it did when we had our first MVP calls on this I only meant to highlight that having another such discussion may help once more, as we MVPeeps have had the chance…

No worries tigger2​! Glad to be of assistance

I think we're starting to see the down side to the 'all your eggs in one basket' model. When you take into account that the most recent version of NTA splits off the Flow database, you can see that over time the Orion DB is getting to the point where it's just too popular a party for everyone to attend in one hall. So,…

My advice here would be to contact support. As you have a genuine need for this kind of alert, they will be able to tell you definitively if it is possible. If you do contact support, please update this thread with the response

Now that really does look awesome! Perhaps a sneak preview at the London SWUG in November?

No worries. The versions I'm running are newer that yours, so I can't really test it for you I'm afraid Hope you get it sorted!

Nicely done. That was going to be my next suggestion Glad it's sorted!

No problem jonchill​. Happy to help!

Ok. did the alert in question occur after the node was renamed, or is this an old alert, which is still visible in the console? If the alert was triggered previously, it's likely the alerts table had the old hostname populated. If it is a brand new alert, triggered after the node was renamed, then you may have uncovered a…