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I did have a lovely precis of my career in IT but the late 2025 THWACK upgrade nuked it. My TLDR: been in IT for 40yrs from a fledgling delivery & installation person to field repairs to in-house guru to network engineer to monitoring maverick!

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  • > Is it possible to enable alert when AP's cant broadcast SSID. Not that I know of from within Solarwinds. You might be able to do it from either a SysLog message or from the manufacturers controller. As to the Alert if SSID = 0 you'd need to dig into the Wireless AP tables in SWQL and look to see precisely which fields…
  • Some of our clients are more pedantic and want this level of breakdown
  • That's why I pointed you at the MD Content download page as there are a number of dashes already there. As @"SteveK" points out, changing a dash from 7 to 30 days is easy even I was able to do it in my fledgling SWQL/SQL days (still am a fledgling TBH). > I am not much familiar with SWQL Me either but if you know SQL then…
  • Hi...rather than look for widgets, my suggestion would be to dig into Modern Dashboards. They present information, especially for management level in a much more approachable manner and give them the quick insight they typically need. If you've not created an MD yet, then start with this: All in on Modern Dashboards then…
  • The answer is almost certainly not. You can see the SSID's and you could probably alert if said SSID had zero connections, but does that mean it isn't "working" or is it a completely different issue?
  • We don't do any UPS monitoring but I would expect it to under the node table or one of those under NPM. I find SWQL Studio useful for aspects like this. Install and fire that up and then you can search on terms or parts of. Whilst table names don't directly correlate, they are close enough to give you direction.
  • The answer given by bshopp is as true today as it was when he posted that comment >14yrs ago. Yes, you only use a license per WLC - the Thin APs do not get counted. One caveat - that is so long as you don't start adding the WAPs as nodes in their own right.
  • I just use words instead as I have looked (albeit not very hard) to see if they can be escaped out somehow.
  • We don't have that model, but it's a two step tango to add APs to an Orion Map. Step one is to find your WLC and then hover over it where you will see three dots appear: Step two is to click on 'Show Related Entities' and it will then display all the APs associated to that WLC. Then just drag and drop as with any other…
  • ​ The only current way to do hardware health monitoring of nodes that Solarwinds haven't brought into default support is via UnDPs. There is a feature request here: thwack.solarwinds.com/.../fortigate-hardware-health-support so feel free to up vote it and hopefully one day it will get added. Also, check on the Fortinet…
  • This is the NPM part of the forum and you'd be much better off asking this in the SAM forum: [mention:de87ce885b14491598fc3011ec387ff2:23b05a61c3e5445190d9bfa00453bce4:label=Server%20%26amp%3B%20Application%20Monitor%20%28SAM%29]
  • That's disappointing but also not surprising. They even say that to scripts they write. If you know them, then open a dialogue with your CSM and see if they can dig and provide any assistance. That said, it might be worth sharing the exact query (and re-state the issue) you have but over in…
  • You don't say what version of Solarwinds you are running, but if 2024.1 then there are some rumblings that node pollers and the like are showing some odd behaviour. Bottom line here is that if you can't see anything wrong then opening a case with support is probably the best option.
  • Create a map with Network Atlas or Orion Maps (or indeed both)? Presuming you are just monitoring the WLC and have not added each AP as a node, then for Network Atlas the you need to expand out the WLC and you should see the APs listed as if they were interfaces. For Orion Maps, find the WLC, hover over the node and click…
  • You could try looking in the DB at this table: FROM [dbo].[InterfaceTraffic_CS_Hourly_hist] As a reminder, the amount of history you can get will be based on your retention settings.
  • Yes APEs are supported for HA deployments - I forget the steps now but it was pretty straightforward to do. Our main engine is in HA as are 3 of our APE's and then we have other APE's all standalone.
  • I'll leave that to someone far better versed in SWQL than myself...
  • In which case, just remove the entire WHERE line, you can rem it out by putting - - at the start. As to your SolarWinds version it is at the bottom of every page as well as more details via various other places.
  • Just use the code block on the page you linked. We are running 2023.4.2 and I've just tried it in the Database Manager and it runs just fine once I edited out the section: AND NodeID = '1' So adding that code block to a Custom Report using the 'Advanced Database Query' option will allow you to directly copy/paste that code…
  • It will list the events for the node that you are viewing, assuming you have added a Custom Query widget to a node global view page and not a specific page. Out of interest, what version of SolarWinds are you running? And yes, getting into SWQL will aid you immensely with SolarWinds - it is something I am still very much a…
  • The only way to do that would be to remove this widget and replace it with a Custom SWQL Query widget. Then you can code the widget to show what you want. Here's the code we use in a widget for just that sort of thing - but you would need to edit it to include/exclude specifics. -------------------------------- -- Last 100…
  • I don't know if there is a minimum but .... We have an open case (or did) with Cisco TAC with a similar Netflow issue, and it has been recognised as a bug with the current 'workaround' being to remove and re-add the NetFlow config. We've scripted a job to do this every so many hours.
  • IMO you do not want an alert for a Top 10 anything. An alert should be for a single process, service, node, etc or at best a combination of those for a single node. In preference you should either look at a report or a Modern Dashboard approach - both have a similar approach in that you'd most likely use a custom SWQL…
  • I am also a network engineer Tim and have landed in this role with no SQL or SWQL knowledge. Late in my career I have had to start picking it up. FWIW, the API software (SWQL Studio) can be installed anywhere that can connect to the server. You can also use the provided SolarWinds DB manager, but then you are messing…
  • If you mean via a report, then sure, you can do that. We have a handcrafted report that we run on an ad-hoc basis that looks at last dates on the Run and Startup Config columns. The code you need to use is: SELECT S1.Node ,N.StatusDescription ,N.Status --,S1.DetailsUrl AS [_LinkFor_Node]…
  • The only way I can think of is you're going to have get down and dirty with SWQL Studio. A quick search in our DB shows me Cirrus.NCM_NCMJobs appears to hold all the relevant information. Just right-click the table and click on 'Generate Select Statement' and then run it. Highlight and export the ones you want and…
  • Your screenshot is very poor quality and small so that I can't actually see what the issue is. That said, I'm pretty sure the issue is that SolarWInds don't yet have a native device poller created for the F5 rSeries. So you can do one of a few things... * Wait and hope SolarWInds brings one out in an upcoming release. *…
  • Should have said - after you get the green test ok you must scroll to the bottom and hit submit. You will get a popup asking you to confirm the change to polling. After that, your device should just continue to poll, but now via the new credentials
  • Start with one device and ensure it is monitored via SNMP in the first place - check that by going to 'Edit Properties' for the node. You will see something like this. Bits picked out in red are what you will have been provided by the change engineer. Once the details are entered, then just below that is a 'Test' button.…
  • Device Studio = 'a necessary piece of evil' in my book I hate it with a passion but it does, as you imply, solve issues such as this one and keoki's issue is one of the first things I "fixed" by learning to create our own pollers. Either for whole devices [when I realised SolarWinds will probably never provide said…