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BTSpaul As Stephane mentioned previously, you can also use %capture[1]% but if you've used it you know that it only displays the event's long description. Seems strange that you can filter on Event Type and ID in the Event Log Monitor but you can't retrieve them in a Content Generator. Solarwinds: Another one for the…

Came across this blog entry from another software company. SolarWinds, take note -- this is how to create a roadmap with substantial features that customers are crying out for, and then delivering it in record time.

SolarWinds support have reproduced this issue and have logged a bug. Thankfully the issue only lasted one day (the first day of daylight saving) and then came right after that. I've asked them to check that they also have the correct rule for when daylight saving ends.

I think we all thought SolarWinds had finally fixed this one in 10.0. According to the release notes: * Australia and New Zealand Daylight savings times now acknowledged in Maintenance Schedules and Reports. But, incredibly, I'm still seeing the maintenance schedule issue in 10.0.1. I've logged yet another support case (#…

That's the same problem I've discovered. I have a case logged (# 86923) which is assigned to Chris Foley. He's successfully reproduced the problem and has passed it over to the developers for further investigation. Rgds, Simon

Hi Brandon Thanks for your response and for introducing yourself. * Yes, Chris Foley has been in touch and I've now forwarded him examples showing how graphs and reports aren't taking our daylight saving into account. * I look forward to that. * Thanks for sharing your view on why the IPM/WUG gap is growing. That makes…

We're running IPM 9.05 and we're currently in the extended daylight saving period that was added in our country a year or two ago. This week I was wondering why reports, graphs, scheduled maintenance, etc. seemed off -- then I realised that we're still seeing all the same daylight saving issues that were supposedly fixed…

Hi Peter Thanks again. Rgds, Simon

No worries. It's worth getting right. So under Configuration > System Settings > Email Delivery you have your Exchange server specified for sending emails via SMTP. Then on your round trip monitor under 'Test Parameters', you specify the Exchange server again, leave the TCP port as 110 and create a credential that can sign…

Hi Peter Thanks very much. This worked first time! I just needed to add the country code to the beginning of the phone number to bring it up to 10 digits. One small question. Does ipMonitor drop special characters likes square brackets when sending an SMS? I noticed these are missing from the received SMS message. Rgds,…

You can try posting a new question, but I honestly think your requirements are at odds with each other. On the monitoring scale of seriousness, at the low end you may be thinking that monitoring is a useful thing to have, you don't necessarily want an alert on your phone in the middle of the night, and you're happy to host…

@binuani, we looked at SpiceWorks but it is missing a critical feature for us - SMS alerting via a GSM modem (see http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/128463-sending-sms-alerts-using-at-commands).

You're too late, Chris. We already bought ipMonitor a couple of months ago! The reason I'm comparing products is that I split my weeks between two companies: one is a recent ipMonitor convert (previously no monitoring solution) and the other a medium-term WUG customer (previously HP OV NNM, but the annual maintenance bill…

Managed to sort this out. Had to change our default email alert (Alert A) to include monitors instead of devices. All monitors are included except for the sysUpTime monitors that are included in the new alert (Alert B). To make this easy to manage I've used SmartGroups. Alert A has a SmartGroup that includes all monitors…

Wouldn't it be great though if ipMonitor suggested SmartMonitors for monitoring the up/down status of all of your device's interfaces when you scan it?

Thanks legend.

Hi Peter Wow. That certainly takes the guesswork out of regexs. Thanks very much. Simon

Hi Chris Thanks for the explanation. That makes perfect sense. Glad that other SmartGroups work fine with alerts. Rgds, Simon

Hi all Would anyone please care to share how they've structured their ipMonitor 9 alerts, actions, groups, devices and monitors to give flexible alerting? Please see the example scenario I give earlier in this thread -- I also mention a possible solution but to me it seems ugly. I would love to know if you've come up with…

Peter's suggestion of using the round trip email monitor has a lot of merit. It just takes some getting your head around and setting up right. You can have IPM send a test email to an external email address (say, Gmail) via your Exchange server and out via your SMTP gateway. You configure the Gmail account to automatically…

Good question, but very hard to find an answer (especially with the hardware platform and OS being renamed every few years!). Bear in mind that although the system may track the temperature, that doesn't necessarily mean it exposes it via SNMP. IBM have an AS/400 SNMP Redbook but it is 11 years old and doesn't mention…

This doesn't address the numerous other places within IPM where the device name is not displayed (read my earlier posts within this thread for at least four examples). Aaron Smith acknowledged the issues in this thread on Nov 6th, said he would enter them in the system and meet with dev to address them. Can someone from…

Aaron: Thanks very much. petroleum: Your suggestion is good for the Devices view but unfortunately doesn't work for the Dashboard view, as shown above.

I think my regex is okay. It works okay in a SmartGroup. Interestingly the RegEx Wizard isn't available on a sub-string replace. Is that saying the regexs aren't supported in search/replace even though the admin guide says they are?

Peter, thanks for the informative reply.

drcheeves Please see this thread which discusses the issue of IPM v10 no longer displaying the device name in various places. Rgds, Simon

what is V2Ping? V2P stands for Virtual-to-Physical. It's when you migrate your virtual server back to a physical box. It's the opposite of P2V (Physical-to-Virtual), which is the usual direction. do i just need to attach a modem to the ipmonitor server and ipmonitor can send an alert or text message straight to my mobile…

Hi Chris Thanks. That worked a treat for the 'About' screen, which now shows unlimited monitors. However the License Management portal still says Registered Licenses: 0, Unregistered Licenses: 1. Do you know what's happening there? Have I missed a step? BTW Customer Services got back to me. They have a somewhat different…

Thanks Chris. Rgds, Simon

Hi Peter Thanks for your reply. What is the model of your modem? MTCBA-G-F1 Are there any other utilities (or drivers!) on the box that use the modem? No modem drivers are installed. The modem is attached to COM1. Device Manager shows 'Intel(R) Active Management Technology - SOL' on COM3. There's a swag of business-related…