stuartd · Senior Dogsbody · ✭✭✭✭✭

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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  • You need to submit FR's in the right location. It would also work better if you expand on your requirements and reasons for wanting this, and if feasible any screenshots that could help your argument. For NPM that would be here: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/product-forums/network-performance-monitor-npm/i/feature-requests
  • Good job, but can you also copy the actual code into your replies to make life easier for anyone else that wants to copy this? You should be able to edit and then insert / code.
  • All services running? No firewalls in the way, including windows? AV exclusions applied to SolarWinds directories? Without any detail I can only suggest ballpark ideas - might be worth raising a ticket with support.
  • I don't have a specific answer, but lots of documented issues with folks on 2022.4.x and that includes our main deployment. Consider upgrading to 2023.x (I believe .2 is now a RC so maybe wait a week or two to get the GA), as they have fixed a ton of issues introduced by 2022.4.x
  • We don't have any of these devices so can't directly answer, but it would help matters if you set the view to be aligned to the type of node. Currently your view type is set to ASA (which I'm sure you know is a firewall). From the node tab click 'edit properties' and then find the "View Type" which is near the top and set…
  • I may be misunderstanding your need, but would performance analyser not do what you need? I realise it isn't a widget per se, but you can save the perf stack and come back to it at any point to see what's what.
  • Cool - so you have your answer now? If not, please re-ask as I clearly missed something.
  • I feel your pain ... for my part I simply don't really understand what NPM can do in terms of Azure monitoring. I keep trying to look at it, but as so few of our clients use (AIUI) non-native Azure setups, then I can't even begin to start playing with the idea of monitoring 'something'. All of that to say, I don't have an…
  • Hi ... You said your first query gives the results correctly, so what is it that you want THWACK to possibly help with?
  • Can you clarify what you mean by corruption? And have you opened a support case yet? If not, I would.
  • You've started me off on another line of my dislikes about OMs. If I untick auto-generated connections, but leave manually created connections then any connection I manually create (that could be auto-created) does not show. Which, for me, completely destroys the purpose of these two checkboxes. Take this simple map (names…
    in orion map Comment by stuartd March 2023
  • Ah yes, so I did understand you. Fiddly, time consuming, etc but doable. [quote userid="156264" url="~/product-forums/network-performance-monitor-npm/f/forum/98287/orion-map/309473#309473"]I'll take curved arrows first though, please![/quote]I'll extend that and say curved lines - the arrows I can take or leave :)
    in orion map Comment by stuartd March 2023
  • I sit corrected... and hadn't considered your approach as a "fix". If I read that correctly you have created an interface object and then linked that to the other side. So are the 'core' nodes actual live icons, or just a picture? Still, there ought to be an option to simply tick a box (per map if needs be) that says "show…
    in orion map Comment by stuartd March 2023
  • What do you have so far?
  • If I understand, you are saying the above works but you want to exclude certain alerts with certain words in the message column??? In our case, if I run this and want to exclude our Heartbeat alert, then line 2 would look like this: message not like '%Heartbeat%' You don't need the < > and it just confuses SQL, so it…
  • Not 100% sure this will fix it, but the first thing I'd do is get rid of this line: If it's disabled, then it won't alert, so for me this would just confuse the system (it certainly gives me pause to try and unpick it) And then I'd look at combining the remaining two statements into a single (AND) statement a la: I don't…
  • Depends on what you mean by "integrate". Out of the box you should be able to monitor it via ICMP and if configured via SNMP for interfaces. Beyond that, it's going to be a lot of building Universal Device Pollers (aka UnDP) for specific OIDs. Here's a starter for…
  • This request sounds very much like time to dust off the "Universal Device Pollers" tool, which can be found under "SolarWinds Orion" menu entry, on you pollers. You will need to identify the OIDs that will gather the info you need, and then build the UnDP from that. If you've never looked at them before they can appear…
  • I remain unconvinced by the suitability of Orion Maps, and sadly nesting of maps is one such area that remains to be implemented. The second issue, which if I read you correctly, is showing all links and again, OM defaults to the same behaviour as Network Atlas in that by default all links appear as a single line. Though…
    in orion map Comment by stuartd March 2023
  • [quote userid="296096" url="~/product-forums/network-performance-monitor-npm/f/forum/98316/add-custom-property-to-swql"]Custom property name would be CloudTeamDevice = 'Yes'[/quote]@"bobmarley" is on the money, but be aware that sometimes a Yes in SWQL is the same as a 1, so you might just need to amend the query…
  • Pretty sure it can't be done at present so definitely one for a "Feature Request".
  • Have permissions changed on the server via a GPO or Windows firewall recently? We had this the other day in one of our deployments, and it turns out that very few people have relevant admin level access to restart the service. Once the server team "fixed" that we got netperfmon running straightaway. Only difference is this…
  • Hi .. you can certainly run scripts via the NCM Jobs menu entry. Create a new job and on the first screen change the 'job type' to: What I can't help with is your specific case and I also don't know how "flexible" scripts are for you to do your conditional approach. But this…
  • Sounds to me like you've hit a bug with the modern view for custom properties. I'm not a fan of it and always switch to legacy view and so have never come across this issue. Maybe log a support call if you prefer the new view ? [quote userid="297912"…
  • I hate looking for navigational properties - I can never find the ones I need and yet there they are. It's like a word blindness thing. Good spot and shout @"christopher.t.jones123"
  • I can do you a SWQL query without the polling engine as I can't see anyway (quickly) to join that info in. SELECT aa.AlertActiveID, aa.Uri, aa.AlertObjectID, n.IP_Address, n.Caption FROM Orion.AlertActive AS AA JOIN Orion.Nodes AS N ON aa.AlertObjectID=n.NodeID Consider it a starter for 10 
  • I don't have a direct answer, but I have found that in my early SolarWinds days I was almost certainly misunderstanding the logic. The second thing I discovered, was that for whatever reason, the GUI logic builder seems to have a limitation on the number of logic blocks. I fairly early on discovered that if I click that…
  • I think all of us are in the same boat but the end user wants us to know when APs go down, so they ultimately have more "importance" than a switch. Even though logically you/I care more about the switch. So we have custom properties and one such is Priority2 / 3 / 4 / etc and we have APs on a different level to switches.…
  • This is not an answer, but maybe a pointer at how to move forward. I have come across this and it is always the end system that needs amending. As proof, ask if you can temporarily use SNMP v2 and if a walk works and finds the "hidden" OIDs then it is down to the remote end config. This will be some form of mismatch on the…
  • When I saw the heading I had high hopes that PSI's draconian approach to 'moderating' the exams, and their bizarre set of 'violations' were being relaxed. But no That said, what I don't know is if you are like Cisco (for example) where passing any other SCP exam automatically renews/extends any current SCP's one might have?