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Sorted it. After speaking with support I used the separate 'Network Configuration Manager Licensing applet and this resolved the issue. EDIT: Additional info: The most recent version of the license manager (v3.0.0.604 for all you fact fans!) showed the status of my NCM license. One more reason for me to remember to update…

Try setting up a VMware user within the ESXi software. It's likely you need to use credentials which work with VMware, rather than your local domain credentials.

If you give your nodes a custom property for 'Location' (or whatever suits), you can build exceptions into alerts for this property. For example you could have a "Nodes that are Down" alert, but you don't want to see alerts for nodes that are in London. So you assign all London nodes the "Location" custom property value of…

The Web Reporter allows you to add multiple, distinct, sections to a single report. In the first section, configure your report for the graphical interface traffic data, then, when you're back at the report designer page, click the 'Add Section' button beneath first section. Then, add a new data source that grabs the the…

Create a custom property in the nodes table called 'Sub_Customer' (or whatever takes your fancy). Assign this value to all that customer's nodes, then populate it with the relevant sub-customer details. Once done, go into the custom limitation builder and create a new limitation based on the new custom property. Using this…

For the physical server, if you run 'whoami' from the command line, you'll see your username, which will be proceeded by the domain name. For example "yourdomain\yourusername". That will tell you what domain your SolarWinds server is connected too, or rather what domain your user account belongs too. Generally, these will…

First thing I would try is running the SolarWinds Configuration Manager, and repair everything. Nine times out of ten, this will resolve missing/corrupted file links.

The first thing to do is create an account which is limited to a single node (assuming you want to see the server details as well as being able to look at the application installed on it). The following steps assume you're logged in as a user with Admin rights. * Go to Settings (top right hand corner of the Orion web…

What you could do, is add a 'Custom HTTP' resource to the top of their views, and link that to their corporate logo, as displayed on their website. Added bonus is that image load bandwidth will be charged to the partners Have a look: Hidden Gem: The Custom HTML Resource It's the closest you're going to get without serious…

That's a bit worrying Is this the only endpoint which exhibits this behaviour when you try to expand it? You could run a packet tracer (Wireshark etc) pointing at the device that is pushing data to it, see if you can get an IP address that way, but from NTA I'm not sure why this would be happening, I've certainly not come…

Nicely done egberto.zanon@surrey.ca​ Kudos on both the secure handling of credentials, and the great use of comments in your code! +1 internets to you, sir!

Have a look at this: http://www.matrikonopc.com/opc-drivers/2441/index.aspx Perhaps these guys could help? The above link looks like it provides a method of linking OPC-enabled systems with SolarWinds products.

HolyGuacamole‌ has provided one solution. There is another... If you are running a trial, and want to see what you can get out of SNMP-based monitoring, you could read up on how to reset the CentOS root admin password, as that is what the appliance is built on. I won't say any more than that, but please note that this…

Have you tried re-running the website portion of the config manager? It should repair the website if there's anything missing. Failing that, you can tell it to create a new website rather than the default "use current website" option when prompted. This should sort it out.

The only way I could think of is by using a SQL Alert, but looking at the Advanced Alert Manager (none of the instances I support are on NPM 11.5.x yet, so no web alerts for me), I had a look at this for you, but I can only select NTA CBQoS Class Map as the trigger query. Based on this, I'm,not sure if it is possible.

Hey powerblade​ (great nick, btw!). Have you tried using the Account Limitation Builder, to enable an account limitation for your custom property "site"? If you do this, you can use the value of this custom property to limit which nodes an Orion user can see when they log in. For example, if you were to set the user…

Hey egrijuc‌ I think you'll be needing a combination of both IP Address Manager and Network Configuration Manager for this. IPAM only deals with maintaining the list of addresses you have available, not actively divvying them out. That'd be done by your Cisco DHCP or equivalent. In this example you would add your Cisco…

Have you tried using the Atlas to replicate map? You should be able to export it to Visio, and from there export to PDF?

Have you tested SMTP connectivity from the NCM server (assume you've integrated it with your Primary Poller?) and the mail relay, and confirmed that the relay is accepting the connection? Note: By relay I mean whatever you're pointing your NCM notifications at

Hey fahadahmedsyed‌, Looks like you're going to need both Network Performance Monitor and Network Traffic Analyzer. What I would do is download the evaluation versions of both, install them, and see what you get. NPM will give you the availability, compute usage and interface utilization for your devices, whilst NTA will…

One piece of guidance I'd give you is to never edit the built in templates. Copy them first, rename them to something suitable, and then work on the copy. That way, if you make a mistake somewhere, you haven't FUBAR'd the origin template, just the copy, and you can copy it again and have another go . Since the new name can…

You might be looking at a log monitor, where you are specifically looking for a given EventID/text in the local application logs.If you can find out what is logged when the defs are out of date, you can construct a template to look for it. The application template "Errors in Application Log" should suit this purpose.

It's not really something that can be calculated with regards to live impact, as factors such as poller compute resource, network bandwidth available and so on will all feed in to what your pollers can handle. In NPM, the theoretical limit for the number of elements is officially 8,000 (from the Quick Start Guide), but 12K…

Hey Leny, What version of NPM are you running? Are you using the GUI report scheduler, or the one that is part of the web reports on the Orion website?

Try creating a custom chart, then choosing 'specific objects' as the selection method. Under 'available custom node pollers' select which custom pollers you want and go from there

Hey tscrip‌, What version of NPM are you using, and is this an alert crafted in the web alert manager (new in NPM 11.5) or the now legacy GUI Advanced Alert Manager? My first thought is that you're using NPM 11.5, and I believe you need to use SWQL, rather than SQL for it to work.

Hey sja​, The first thing you'd need to do is define a Compliance Rule. This will be tricky, since you're not searching for a static text, so you're likely to need to use some form of Regex rather than a simple match. Once you've created the rule, you can then add this to a new Policy Report, and from there have that…

My first guess, since it's all servers, would be to check the account that is being used for WMI polling. I suspect the password has changed/expired and that'd causing the problem. You'll need to change them in AD, then change them in the relevant WMI credential in SOlarWInds settings.

Thanks guys for all the responses, much appreciated! I marked Leon's response as correct, as he got in there first. Maybe next time, aLT

Are you using AppInsight for SQL yet in your environment? That would give you much more, *ahem* insight into your databases As you have SAM, you have access to this already and it's relatively simply to set up.