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This reminds me of the horror stories in trying to help my brother use his PC. To compound the problem, he lives out of state, and would frequently call me asking for computer related assistance. Some of those support calls where SO painful that a trip to the dentist for a root canal would have been a less painful…

- Thank you redundant hardware for allowing me those extra hours of sleep while you recover from events that would have previously gotten me up at 3AM - Thank you Industrial IOT for making my job unique and varied and for providing the need to monitor equipment that nobody has ever heard of. - Thank you EqualLogic storage…

This one dates back to the mid 90's - in the good ole' DOS days. I was working for a very large bank, and provided support for users across the state. Training of any kind was frowned upon, and rarely budgeted, so we had buildings full of people trying to figure out how to make their PC and software work. One of these…

What I am trying NOT to do is to have to install and run multiple different systems to do monitoring. Dell, HP, Cisco, IBM. Four brands constitute the majority of servers, with HP and Dell in the front. For my money, I would infinitely rather be able to centralize the polling of this information within solar winds,

For me, one of the greatest SysAdmin moments happened almost a decade ago. I was working for a municipality with a staff of about 2800. At that time, all of our HR and Finance data was running on Informix on HP-UX. I was adding redundancy to our HP RX8600 server by adding two cells, i.e. 'blades' for RISC9000. Or rather…

I should have felt guilty for doing this, but somehow, it just felt so right. Believe it or not, I did not embellish the story. This is pretty much exactly what happened.

If you disable the alert altogether, do you continue to get alert console notifications? I suspect that another rule may be what is creating the alerts, but without an understanding of your configuration, it is difficult to be sure. it may be the fastest way to resolve your issue is to open a ticket with Solarwinds…

In my case, it is a customer requirement. We are providing monitoring services for a variety of equipment, and passing all notifications through Solarwinds simplifies the management of a complex alerting environment. Many of the facilities we monitor are extremely remote - and the only reliable alerting is POTS.

Hmmm. I would suggest reviewing all of your alert rules. It may be that one of the default rules, or a copy of one is set to still write to the event log. If you disable the email rule, do alerts continue to appear? that would be a good indicator that something else is writing to the alert log

Have you checked to make sure that there are no NetPerfMon Event Log triggers (as below). These could exist on copies of an alert. I briefly tested some alerts with only an email trigger, and no console alerts were created unless there was a NetPerfMon trigger as well. Delete the NetPerfMon entry, and test to see if you…

Traditionally, these IOT environments are highly segregated and fire-walled and kept separate even from traditional IT networks because of the risk. These environments have manual overrides as well in the event of failure. To add to the complication, these environments often consist of dozens or even hundreds of remote…

I agree also. the colors scheme is too bland and washed with too much white space. It looks like the screen was hung out in the sun too long, and all the colors faded. If I don't actively scan for problems, it's all too easy to miss them. 

The screenshot came from the Virtualization Summary -ESX Host Detail Summary - Current Hardware Health. Each drive that the host can communicate with is displayed, along with some sort of location ID. Drive 0:7 in my screen shot tells me that this is the first of 8 drives. Figuring out which slot/bay etc. corresponds to…

I'm just starting down this road - looks like we either use an email-to-voice service or develop something in house. I found the following code snipet that might do the trick - but I haven't begun to try and implement as of yet. https://sysadminman.net/blog/2010/e-mail-to-voice-call-with-asterisk-postfix-and-cepstral-1010…

On On your Orion Web Console - Go to SETTINGS - ALL SETTINGS Then, under ALERTS and REPORTS, select MANAGE ALERTS Find the alert you wish to use. The search box on the far right can help quickly find the alert you are looking for. If this is an out-of-the-box alert, select DUPLICATE & EDIT. Name the alert. Be sure it is…