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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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  • Thanks Sam.
    in SCP NPM Comment by stuartd October 2022
  • Server 2019 - not sure of a specific variant at this stage. I only tried an import yesterday morning so can't comment on export. If I find time I will try again, and try via an APE as well.
    in Importing/Exporting Modern Dashboards Comment by stuartd October 2022
  • Two further comments that may help others after I struggled again this morning to add a JSON. * It might just be me, the way I work or our environment: but I have found that any filename with spaces won't import, so I simply edit the JSON name to remove spaces or add in underscores. This then works every single time... *…
    in Importing/Exporting Modern Dashboards Comment by stuartd October 2022
  • If I'm understanding correctly, you want any of your nodes to be clickable, and when clicked the user is taken to the Node Details page. If so, then you are on the right track, and just need to ensure your initial query has the "Detailsrl" included in the query. For example, we have a widget that we use within our admin…
    in Tool Tips In Modern Dashboards? Comment by stuartd October 2022
  • I concur, as I get this error: and I have no idea what that might mean:) So following as interested in the answer myself.
    in SWQL Modern Dashboard Error Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • I've only seen the popup once - even tried logging out and then back in but can't force it to re-appear. OOI, why hold off until HF1 as 2022.4 looks to be just around the corner. https://thwack.solarwinds.com/product-forums/hybrid-cloud-observability/b/news/posts/dev-assisted-upgrade-2022-q4 - that's for HCO I know, but…
    in Update to 2022.3 pop-up - annoying Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • @"taylorray" suggest you create your own thread.
    in My colleague sees empty reports. Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • Thank you Michael
    in Search for nodes Raw status based on Date and Time Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • [quote userid="37110" url="~/product-forums/the-orion-platform/f/orion-sdk/96481/search-for-nodes-raw-status-based-on-date-and-time"]modify this to search for the date and time.[/quote]In what way are you trying to modify it? As in get the last 24hrs / 7days / etc, or get between certain time constraints, or ...?
    in Search for nodes Raw status based on Date and Time Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • It's possible the original author didn't like you commenting on their post! You'd have to ask them
    in How do I view my scheduled reports? Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • That I don't know
    in Creating SWQL joins using the links in SWQL studio Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • [quote userid="290834" url="~/product-forums/the-orion-platform/f/orion-sdk/96409/creating-swql-joins-using-the-links-in-swql-studio/304324#304324"]So i can't just use NP'S from another table in my query, only those above if there are any of use right?[/quote]To be 100% clear you can use NPs directly associated to the…
    in Creating SWQL joins using the links in SWQL studio Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • Having just looked I can see several pollers listed as for an ISR on THWACK. I've just tried the one second from bottom against one of our ISR's and can report (after leaving it for a polling cycle or two to occur) that it works just fine. Go to install, go to 'manage pollers' > click on the Thwack Community Pollers tab…
    in Cisco ISR showing 98% Memory Used. Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • This is because an ISR is Linux based. You will need to build a poller specifically for this. See my post here: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/product-forums/network-performance-monitor-npm/f/forum/94139/physical-memory-volumes-reporting-incorrectly-for-net-snmp-linux-nodes/298640#298640 that already explains this.
    in Cisco ISR showing 98% Memory Used. Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • If the devices have a similar command structure to Cisco, then you may be able to get away with just duplicating one of the Cisco templates and amending the relevant lines for running and or startup config. I've done this for devices that don't have a startup config in the sense that Cisco does, and essentially duplicated…
    in Backing up Configs and getting inventory from CloudGenix and PRIMASD-WAN (Palo-Alto) Devices Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • I usually use bobmarley's approach when building a new alert, but @"sum_giais" has provided a bit of SWQL code here that will do this for you. I've re-copied it below for ease: SELECT A.Name AS [Alert Name] ,A.LastEdit ,A.CreatedBy ,MAX(AO.LastTriggeredDateTime) AS [Last Triggered] FROM Orion.AlertConfigurations AS A LEFT…
    in Alerts with 0 Child Objects Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • At the top of most (all?) pages in the forum is a search box - it can't be missed. Put your search query in there and the results get returned. I like to shift-click the results so that they open in a new page and keep the results of my search remain 'as is'. Once you start typing your query, you also get options to narrow…
    in How To: Search Forum for related topics? Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • You need to edit the report you want sent to you. Navigate to the 'Schedule Report' section and configure up a schedule of how often you want it sent. Within the schedule is an option to have it eMailed. Of course, this is also dependent on having a configured and working SMTP Server.
    in How do I view my scheduled reports? Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • At present there is no formal approach from SolarWinds to delivering training for SWQL. Technically the SDK is not a SolarWInds "product" and they don't directly support it, even though IMO they ought to. Companies like Loop1 and Prosperon do public training that can cover some of the bases. See Orion 301 Training provided…
    in SDK and SWQL training Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • Take a look at @"sum_giais" reply to your other post - it will be the same basic approach. Build the SWQL query and then wrap it in Java - not being a coder I can't help you at all on that side.
    in How to use java to obtain link topology information from solarwinds？ Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • Why would you want to have a separate DB for NPM and NCM? It probably is possible but the whole point is to have them integrated. If you really want to go that way then you'd need to query that via support and/or your customer manager.
    in NPM NCM Integration Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • @"taylorray" you keep making comments rather than starting your own threads. You request doesn't even come close to being similar to the original requestors. Sorry, but I don't know the answer for you but if you re-post as your own thread then you might stand a better chance of getting a reply. To do so, navigate to the…
    in NPM NCM Integration Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • You can only "implicit" JOIN direct to any listed navigation property [NPs] that is listed under the table you are starting from. You can also connect to any other NP that the directly listed NP's have access to. An example... Orion.Node has AccessPoints (or Orion.Packages.Wireless.AccessPoints) as its first NP. If you…
    in Creating SWQL joins using the links in SWQL studio Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • Not sure about the netflow side, but you could use a custom property (CP) on your internet accessible nodes and then include that within the report logic. So create a node CP and call it Internet_Access (or whatever you prefer) and set it to a Y/N. Then change the CP on all nodes that can to Yes or True.
    in Is there a report on nodes with internet access? Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • I was gutted I couldn't make the London SWUG, but personal reasons (fostering) meant I couldn't justify leaving my wife for two days. So I should have added - and sticking with your example, the bit you use to do the join AlertActive is outside of any brackets and this is your key JOIN word. The bit in brackets is the…
    in Creating SWQL joins using the links in SWQL studio Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • I encourage you to read Kevin's response and follow the post he's linked. Just know, that even after having several very clever folks telling me, it took me a good while to finally see the light - so to speak. In your example you could do this: FROM Orion.Nodes AS nodes Then anywhere you wanted to insert something from…
    in Creating SWQL joins using the links in SWQL studio Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • If you have the skill set you could certainly script this. The way I do it is one of two ways: * export the relevant CPs from the donor node and then reimport to the new node - name and IP changes have to b made... or 2. Go into CP Manager and copy / paste between the donor and recipient nodes. This one relies on a…
    in Copy Custom Properties from another node Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • I'm not aware of a means to do this, and have just had a quick scoot through SWQL Studio and can't see anything obvious. I can find an answer for when a scheduled job last ran, but not one for reports per se and certainly not for one when it was last viewed.
    in How to determine how often reports are viewed? Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • You may need to build your own UnDP if there's nothing in the resources. This might help: https://www.circitor.fr/Mibs/Html/A/AlphaPowerSystem-MIB.php 
    in Universal device poller for an Alpha FMX1100 Comment by stuartd September 2022
  • Update to 2022.3 and it will have it. See: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/orionplatform/content/release_notes/solarwinds_platform_2022-3_release_notes.htm 
    in Solarwinds will support sha256 and above authentication method in snmp while adding node? Comment by stuartd September 2022
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