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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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  • Firstly, you will likley have to create a Universal Devcie Poller for the relevant OID. Then once you see the data for that coming through you'd have to build it into an alert - on this aspect it very much depends on what version of Solarwinds you are running. On older versions you could use the Trap Manager to monitor…
  • As a further query, how do I do a search query across multiple tables... Say dbo.Nodes and dbo.Interafces
  • The only way to achieve this is to enable monitoring of the interfaces. You could, if you don't want to actually alert on them, utilise a custom property called, for example, ALERT and the options are Yes or No.Then in your alerting logic you would have to ensure any interface based alert includes a line of "IF ALERT =…
  • First question has to be what version of Orion are you running? I ask because most of what you want is not available in Orion Maps on anything before the current RC which is 2020.2. This version has made huge leaps and bounds forward - though I have yet to try it personally I have been in a few discussions with the product…
    in Maps Comment by stuartd May 2020
  • In the end I had to log a ticket with support. Don't you just love it when support then put out thinly veiled snark which says "go learn about the product better" or "use THWACK" ... which, as I pointed out, is not a replacement for tech support as a company should never rely on their customers to provide it. Though this…
  • Spotted this after I'd asked a similar query - this does the job wonderfully for this d/b inept bod Thanks.
  • May as well add my BUMP / voice to this thread. I too need Solarwinds to shift into gear and officially recognise these devices as a default. Add to that HPE devices as well as we currently we have a need to accurately monitor >1000 HPE devices and >500 Aruba switches and associated APs along with their WLCs, AMPs, etc…
  • Anybody? if not I'll ask support.
  • Not sure which of you to reply to so will go with one post The actual current trigger condition is: But this would become: But even if I do a separate alert I still get the "this alert would immediately trigger xxx" - and it is this that has me concerned, not the actual alert logic or creating triggers, etc. Also, my…
  • I know your post is a couple of years old now but as new'ish users to Solarwinds we have just seen somethign similar. We have one client that is setup to have scheduled reports run for the hours of 07:00 to 19:00 for their 50+ sites. After DST wnet back its usual hour in October every single report "auto-adjusted" (can't…
  • So, to answer my own query... after much poking it appears that if I go to 'add a manually defined OID' I then need to add a .1 to the end to get a result back. Simple, I guess, once you know.
  • Ahhh bottoms. I still can't work this out. Let me expand on my original post and see if I'm just being dumb I'm in trigger actions sections of building an alert. I am executing an external program ... it's a batch file we run that feeds the output ov variables %1 through %8 into another system for generating Incidents from…
  • As an aside, I have now responded to the map update question linked above as I was told, this morning, that we upgarded last night so have had a play.
  • As an update... If I delete and "re-connect" one of these links and then save it shows up in NPM. As above though, I don't want to have to re-check every map
  • Arghh - as ever, sods law dictates I find a solution after I post For benefit of all: Success Center [How to create a Web-Based report for a Universal Device Poller (UnDP) on the Orion Platform]
  • Having being told, literally this morning, that we upgarded to the latest version last night I have had a play this morning. So, eMail has been sent with sample map, but will break out our "needs" below as well. * Add manual bits of information associated to nodes – so i.e. ‘add label’ * We need to be able to rename /…
  • So to complete this and close it down. Turns out there was nothing wrong with Solarwinds, this time and the issue came down to an 'iffy' SFP in stack member 6 of the 7 switches. Once that was exchanged the list resources completed (albeit slowly due to the size [7 x 48ports]). Thanks for the replies.
  • Typically - after asking the question I have now found this: Intro to API, SDK & SWQL This looks to be a great starter for 10 - anything else I could use / read / etc ?
  • Thank you - very useful. The max number was more a hypothetical one as I have no plans to mass apply UnDPs but as with most things we are finding out a lot of info about Solarwinds after we deployed it.
  • Still tinkering and tryign to understand this. So I narrowed down the view in message centre to just Vendors = Aruba and suddenly I can see the Test_AP alerts. The two IPs at the end are the two controllers the device is seen on - which will be the other bit of funwhen configuring up an alert. So, is the reason perhaps I'm…
  • Giving this topic a kick as it is now about to become critical to us. So, does any one else have these and have found a way to show / monitor the stack aspect of them in a simialr manner to the Cico stacks? Some model numbers are: H3C 5130's FlexNetwork 5130's
  • The alert is not the issue unless by trying somethign else I get what we need. Anyway I'm alerting as per the first thread linked ... i.e. hastate -- is not eqaul to -- active The isue is finding a variable in the trigger action to report that to our incident tool.