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Its' up to you what portions of your environment you want to HA. If you only want HA on the Main Polling Engine you can. You don't have to have HA on all your APEs or your database if you don't want to, but you risk having a single point of failure for those elements if you don't. SolarWinds HA only covers their servers,…

You don't assign alerts to nodes. Alerts are a query that checks the database for a specific set of conditions. "All alerts this Object can trigger" was created for Nodes, Interfaces, and Volumes. Things outside of that and custom alerts may not…

You will be storing more information in the database. To estimate how much more you can take a look at the table size of the detail tables and estimate adding another third. To see the table size go to Settings - All Settings - Database Details - Database Statistics and search for detail to show the tables used for detail…

For SWQL alias the table (Orion.Nodes N) you are querying and then you can use SWQL Studio to assist in finding the linked properties. SELECT N.Caption AS [Node Name], N.SysName AS [System Name], N.LastBoot AS [Last Boot Date and Time], N.MachineType AS [Machine Type], N.CustomProperties.Node_Owner AS [Owner] FROM…

I recommend taking a look at the Virtual Classroom learning. On demand and live classes are available included with your maintenance.

Try this for the current month. SELECT TOP 100 N.Caption, N.IP_Address AS [Node IP], NPMI.InBandwidth AS Bandwidth, ROUND(AVG(nps.Inpercentutil), 2) AS AvgTxUtil, ROUND(AVG(nps.Outpercentutil), 2) AS AvgRxUtil, ROUND(MAX(nps.Inpercentutil), 2) AS MaxTxUtil, ROUND(MAX(nps.Outpercentutil), 2) AS MaxRxUtil, N.MachineType,…

Multi-Subnet Deployment is supported using DNS. https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/ha_requirements.htm https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/ha_set_up_ha_pools.htm

If LimitationID1, LimitationID2, LimitationID3 are the same for your both your NOC account and your admin account, not sure where the issue is. Perhaps try creating a completely new user with no limitations and see if the new account can see the same record set as your admin account. 

Review your Account Limitations for the user in Settings - All Settings - Manage Accounts. Check the user or group the user is a part of to make sure there are no restrictions set. Check the Database dbo.Accounts and verify there are no Limitations set on NOC-READONLY. Compare that record against your admin one and find…

Go to Settings > All Settings > Manage Pollers. Search up Status & Response Time ICMP and click assign

Make sure that the SolarWinds High Availability Service is Stopped on the servers before you change the reg key. That way it will not change the key back. If you are still having issues you may need support to help you rebuild HA. My Steps Stop SolarWinds High Availability Service on both servers. (Services.msc) * Check…

Try Resolution 2 - Make sure everything is shutdown on the expected standby server. support.solarwinds.com/.../High-Availability-not-working-after-reboot

I'd restart the the agent. If that still fails then uninstalling and reinstalling the agent. If that still doesn't resolve the issue, collect the logs from the agent and if I couldn't spot the issue from the logs then open a support request and send off the agent logs.

Are you using an agent or SNMP? If it is SNMP make sure you can do an SNMPWalk from the polling engine that is monitoring that server. https://solarwindscore.my.site.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Troubleshoot-connectivity-and-MIB-issues-with-SolarWinds-SNMP-walk-IPv4-only?language=en_US Does that work successfully, and are…

This is a great start to SWQL and SWQL Studio that utilize the API - thwack.solarwinds.com/.../intro-to-swql-studio

You can by following the document @yaquaholic listed - https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/core-network-discovery-using-the-network-sonar-wizard-sw1574.htm - Start by adding in your hostnames and IPs from your spreadsheet / CSV to the IP Addresses portion in Network Sonar Widget.…

For sure, this adds the event message that is related to the event that starts the clock in the Events table. SELECT n.caption AS [Device], -- Device name '/Orion/images/StatusIcons/Small-' + n.StatusIcon AS [_IconFor_Device], -- Status icon n.DetailsUrl AS [_linkfor_Device], -- Link to node details ISNULL(…

Try using the event table to get the start and end dates, this should get you started. SELECT n.caption AS [Device], -- Device name '/Orion/images/StatusIcons/Small-' + n.StatusIcon AS [_IconFor_Device], -- Status icon n.DetailsUrl AS [_linkfor_Device], -- Link to node details ISNULL( TOSTRING(t2.[Down Event]),…

That screenshot shows the last pulled metric for CPU and Memory, which could be in the last 10 minutes or three weeks ago. Using a different widget like The Node Chart - Average CPU Load will show the data over a timeline and will show if the data is current. 

If SNMP cannot poll the devices, it will not collect any other available metrics. This means no CPU, Memory, Volumes, Interface statistics, hardware status, etc. I would use that for justification. Proof could be that the device is showing up in the widget as not getting updated, and perhaps a screenshot showing that the…

If SNMP fails, it will not fully gather the expected metrics when collecting statistics. Your snapshot above does not indicate that SNMP is successfully polling, as evidenced by the failure when you test the SNMP credentials. The SWQL query I referenced shows the LastSystemUpTimePollUTC value from the database, shown in…

Netpath uses a hostname like www.google.com and a port or an IP and port. If you put in a website and the port to that website, it will resolve to that website. If you put in the IP or FQDN of the server and an open port that is not a website, it will resolve to the server. If you have multiple websites with different…

Check out Netpath (included in the platform) or WPM (Web Performance Monitor—separately purchased module) for this functionality. Our use cases usually involve determining whether a user can reach a particular website. Both solutions use an agent to reach a website, and we can put these in places where users are, not where…

I like to create a SolarWinds Health Dashboard and add a custom Query widget that shows me the devices that are not polling successfully. You can use this syntax in that custom query widget. It shows devices that have not updated the Last System Uptime in 60 minutes. SELECT n.Caption AS [Node], n.MachineType, n.DetailsURL…

I don't have an answer to your first question but I can offer a bit of insight into that particular HA issue, this was the work around prerelease that it may be referring to. https://solarwindscore.my.site.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/High-Availability-not-working-after-reboot?language=en_US

This will show you when a node's lastsystemuptimepollutc hasn't been updated which is a great indicator that SNMP is not functioning. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/products/the-solarwinds-platform/f/forum/94928/detect-a-hung-server-nonresponding-state/299932 This is a report that will also show you that condition…

Connect to the MPE not the database server. It looks like you are not able to connect to port 17777 (SWIS). Test to make sure the port is open by opening PowerShell and do a test-netconnection (tnc) against 17777 to make sure that is opened from where you have the SDK installed. Your screenshots are very small and hard to…

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/dpa/content/dpa-upgrade-solarwinds-dpa.htm You can do a direct upgrade from 2021.3 to 2024.2.

Try - SolarWinds Trust Center Security Advisories | CVE-2023-48795 (Last updated: 29-JAN-/2024)

Make sure you are using the SWQL Studio from the SDK to test your queries. (https://github.com/solarwinds/OrionSDK/releases) The advantage is that it will populate the valid properties. As soon as I typed in AND [N].CustomProperties. - A dropdown will appear with the valid custom properties to put in.