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

You are reusing $names and $hostnames incorrectly in a few places. Try this: $names = get-content "C:\hostnames.txt" foreach ($name in $names) { if (Test-Connection -ComputerName $name -Count 1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) { write-host "$name is up" -ForegroundColor Green } else { write-host "$name is down"…

Do you want to just put the numbers into the ticket, or are you trying to actually include a graphic / graphical chart?

You can also create an "alert" configuration that logs the information whenever a VM changes to unmanaged in VMAN...although, I have to think this is already audited somewhere and just needs to be pulled in a report.

Are you referring to NPM tasks being performed through the SWIS API, or to API monitoring that is performed through SAM?

When you unmanage a node, it will re-manage the node if you chose a schedule to do so. It is possible to unmanage without specifying a date/time to re-manage.

What kind of failure were you seeing? A "network timeout", "connection failed", or "access denied"? Did you move to a new polling engine as well, or only replace your Orion SQL Server?

But back to your question, the DHCP user experience monitor "tests how long it takes a DHCP server to respond to a DHCP request." So you'll need to check to see if the response is taking longer than expected or if your polling engine simply isn't getting a response at all. A lack of response might indicate that a firewall…

* Gulp * Sorry for changing the subject, but you're running DHCP on a domain controller?

Hey, @"itengineer", I made a proof of concept for you to try! Here is a PowerShell script that you can download and run locally to test, then put into a SAM template if you'd like. Download from here: https://github.com/SturdyErde/Get-RiskyProcesses It's pretty well documented within, but start by looking at the…

How comfortable are you with PowerShell? I'm sure a script could pull those values and report/alert on them. Still, when you say quotas...if you're talking about user-specific quotas, I'm not exactly sure how you would effectively report on per-user quotas in SAM unless you could monitor the Windows event logs for an event…

Interesting fix. Can't say that I like the thought of having to do that, but nice to know there may at least be a workaround. I wonder if this might work for one of my alerts that never sends the 'reset' emails.

It's a good idea to consider the out of the box alerts as a suggested starting point. It's a lot of work, but worthwhile to create your own alert configurations to produce the results that you want. You can use the 'duplicate and edit' option, but be sure to give it a new name AND watch out for alert actions that get…

Which component of the DHCP User Experience Monitor is showing as failed? Can you resolve that specific failure or adjust its threshold to something that fits your environment?

Unfortunately SW has not provided the ability for us to selectively disable component monitors in the AppInsight templates. The closest we can get to customizing these is thresholds. For component monitors within the AppInsight templates, if there is a threshold set, you can generally customize it. However, components like…

Wow, that's surprising my Synology NAS has an SMI-S provider than can be installed. I've never tried it out, though.

BTW, please vote for this feature request, if you haven't already! https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/NPM-Feature-Requests/Support-Win-RM-for-node-details-polling-in-NPM/idc-p/599161

Please be aware that there are suggested limits on how many nodes you enable application dependency mapping (ADM) for. If you have more than this amount, it could conceivably be the reason for your unexpected data. That said, I would open a support ticket to find out for sure. From the SAM administrator guide: Recommended…

Now if you are using SAM 2019.4 or newer, there are two different methods that you can use to poll for WMI data (now using the term CIM data may become more accurate). I'll get into the weeds just for fun, but first agree of course that Marc's advice is correct--the SW engine initiates the poll, or query, and the endpoint…

I think the "added automatically" part may be where the gap is. @"rd2627", are you talking about nodes already in NPM or nodes that have not yet been discovered? Either way, like Marc said, you'll need to specify "ICMP" as the polling method. Also, at the risk of wearing my Captain Obvious hat for the day, ICMP polling…

It sounds like you need to just monitor each ESXi host directly. You can do this through NPM using 'add node' or by using network discovery. After discovering your hosts, edit each ESXi host's node properties in Orion and change the polling method to "VMware, Hyper-V, or Nutanix entities." And farther down in the node…

I read the same article, and love that someone thought to ask the question here. I have an idea for a script monitor and hope to make something usable by the end of the week.

While all of the above have been relevant, one of the biggest pain points has been safely providing physical equipment for employees to use at home.

Hammock straps would probably get you off the ground. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=hammock+straps

I don't have a direct answer, but would check: * Do those nodes have the "Dynamic IP Address (DHCP or BOOTP)" box checked in their node settings? * Do your servers have the old DNS suffix manually specified in their network adapters' DNS client settings? Do they have the "use this connection's DNS suffix in DNS…

The percent sign at the end of your LIKE statement is causing this. In SQL and SWQL, % is a wildcard character that is equivalent to how an asterisk might be used elsewhere. It can represent any amount of characters in that position. If you want an exact match on 192.168.1.19, your query should be the same, but without…

These are great! Thinking about taking NPM soon, so I'll definitely be using the cards. 

Your screenshot looks like it's from a Windows server management console, so I would use WMI query or a PowerShell script monitor to get that information. (See Get-DedupStatus at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/deduplication/get-dedupstatus?view=winserver2012r2-ps.)

@"designerfx" has a great walk-through for using the API poller on Citrix Netscalers (ADCs). Check out his post at https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/SAM-Discussions/Netscaler-polling-Solarwinds-API-Edition/m-p/148781.

Do you want to share some screen shots of the template and of the application template assignments? Maybe something will stand out to one of us here on Thwack.