sturdyerde · IT Solutions Team Lead / Microsoft PowerShell MVP · ✭✭✭✭✭

A great place to start would be in the Orion SDK board and the Orion SDK repository on GitHub. The GitHub repo includes schema documentation for each version of the Orion platform. See http://solarwinds.github.io/OrionSDK/. 

Couple of thoughts/questions to consider. The thread "Has anybody ever gotten WMI to work without admin credentials" has several solutions that do work. SolarWinds has a document somewhere. InfraSight Labs has a relevant guide for how to do this as well (link taken from the above thread). Let us know here if you have any…

FYI, to submit a feature request that other members can vote on, post in this board: https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/NPM-Feature-Requests/idb-p/npm-feature-requests Regarding this one, are you suggesting that modern dashboards be shared by default instead of private?

Sounds like a good case for support, but is also worth mentioning that a lot of odd web site behavior is often resolved by simply re-running the configuration wizard for the web site. As an aside, here's a big +1 for configuring SSL for your site. 

You would need to drop each individual hardware element onto the map (not ideal, right?) OR have the health status for each ESX node rollup from its child components' status. See the following page in Orion documentation for more information: * Status Rollup Mode - the links listed below are all shown on the left-hand…

Yes, it is possible. * Edit your alert configuration and skip to the trigger actions page of the wizard. * Edit the action that sends your notification emails. * Expand the Execution settings * Enable the checkbox for "repeat this action every X minutes until the alert is acknowledged" * Set it to "Repeat this action…

I think it may also relate to the fact that in a virtual environment you are most likely using SAN storage, where disk redundancy is already set at the pool or array levels. A lot of different factors (technical or personnel) may limit options around how disk redundancy is configured.

Side note: with a little bit of work, you can create a PowerShell script monitor to poll the UAG API. PowerShell should be fine with either data type.

If you're using the Windows PowerShell script monitor, do you have it set to run the script locally (using PS Remoting within the script) or on the remote endpoint? What is the error that you are getting?

What is your goal with this script? Are you trying to log which users are logged on a VM? Are you trying to log and alert if a specific account is logged onto a VM, or are you trying to log and alert if a specific number of users are logged onto a VM?

If the "peer" (the repo) is rejecting your connection with an SSL error, my first guess might be that it requires a newer version of TLS (probably at least 1.2) than your client is using. Just a guess without seeing the logs, though!

That is definitely a logical perspective if the group only contains objects of the same type in the same role. However, I think groups are also used more broadly by some people. Just for an example, some people use groups to show all physical devices at a site location. If the status indicator of this group were to stay…

Less than 25, but more than 0!

You'll find flash cards for a lot of the exams here on BrainScape. (Thanks, @"mrxinu"!)

I'm not aware of any flash card resources for the Architecture and Design exam yet, but @"mrxinu" has begun a nice catalog of cards for other SCP exams. Check them out here on BrainScape. Maybe you can work together to create the first set, which would probably be just as helpful for yourself as review would be! Good luck!

The "Allow IIS Action Rights" allows the user to start/stop/restart an IIS site or application pool from the application details page in Orion SAM.

Here's my script to import a list of IPs from a CSV file, perform a reverse lookup, and add the hostname to the CSV: $csv = "IPAddresses.csv" #The key colums in this example are 'SourceIP' and 'HostName' $addresses = Import-Csv -Path $csv $addresses | foreach-object -parallel { $ip = $_.SourceIP $_.Hostname =…

Yes? Is there an Orion question, or just sharing a useful script? Fun side note! I wrote a similar script myself recently, and found that I could make it run faster when using PowerShell 7 by making use of $array | foreach-object -parallel so it could perform multiple lookups simultaneously.

Fantastic points! It's always good for admins/users to know the intent behind documentation, or the "why" because it may reveal cases where the rule may have acceptable exceptions.

My immediate thought would be that there is no good way to do this, but it would be worth clarifying what you actually want to monitor. Are you looking to monitor "who" for requests to specific domain names; are you looking to just gather a list of client users/devices that are making DNS queries in your environment? For…

You can do it!

Try sending an email to: certification at solarwinds.com.

I'm with you! If not a way to monitor specific scheduled tasks, at least the ability to ignore things like CreateExplorerShellUnelevatedTask, as you mentioned!

Interesting approach. Do you have a 1:1 alert:action ratio, or close to it? I've tried to generalize actions as much as possible by using custom properties for recipients and by putting the specific message in the alert itself. There are times when this isn't perfect, but overall, it results in a much simpler list of…

You have a few options to take a shot at now. If you want to get started on one of those, I'd be happy to offer feedback on any places that you get stuck.

Just noticed that I missed a hypen in front of the "-Count" parameter. Fixed my original reply.

My first suspicion is that something else is disabling that service. Possibly a configuration management task or a group policy preference?

You may be able to create an alert configuration like this one, which would give you flexiblity to match based on VLAN or any other custom property. Then, use the action to dynamically assign a node to the proper polling engine.

Could it have been datastore or virtual datastore latency? Do you also use SRM? PerfStack might be a helpful place to look at this problem.