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Awesome -- thanks rschroeder​.

I recently rebuilt Orion (npm, sam, ncm, nta, ipam, srm) with the latest versions and hotfixes -- took quite some time. I ended getting the main standby HA server up and running by uninstalling the hotfixes it pulled over and manually installing all the hotfixes. Then I ran the config wizard and all was well. Turns out the…

I had an issue yesterday where I couldn't get an alert to notice a custom property. It kept saying it's not in the format necessary. I double, triple checked everything and it was driving me nuts. Ended up restarting the Orion module engine on the primary, and ape. That resolved the issue -- bizarre! That though caused…

That's a very cool way of doing it on the nodes page. I may have to play with that for some of our devices. Nice use of stensils. Though... surely no simple task on a rack size MLXe or Cisco 9k lol. Dito what zackm has mentioned, as far as improvements around Network Atlas goes. Specifically being able to show interface…

So it's not ideal, but it works for me as I have a dedicated directory just for this. I changed it to just an asterisk. We'll see how this works.

Certainly would have to play with it more but hopefully this can get you possibly in the right direction. You may need to fiddle with the query more. I think it's very close to what you may need though. I haven't tested an actual alert on this also... just that the query data does show up and that it's valid SWQL.…

Kudos -- thanks for the share! I had the same issue and this fixed it.

SolarWinds runs all it applications as services so your assumptions are correct. That should be set to Background Services per Microsofts own recommendations. Think of it this way... would you like it better optimized for running your background services (such as SolarWinds services) or your web browser and other misc apps…

Sounds like you're using the free version of kiwi syslog server which comes with clearly many limitations... (After all it is free.) There's many ways to tweak and optimize your kiwi syslog server, namely log file rotation... but many others as well like creating rules for specific log matches and devices. However the free…

Did you happen to resolve this by any chance grantallenby​? Seeing the same issue now. Wondering if it's self-inflicted though.

It would certainly require some handy work but this seems feasible in theory. I use custom properties in my NCM jobs to determine which devices to run the job against, e.g. prod is nightly, most everything else is weekly and also site / specific location data provided in custom properties for the makeup of the file…

Hi Bryan, Here's some more info. When adding a subnet into IPAM, it'll auto-add IP addresses of the subnet to IPAM for any subnet size of /20 or smaller. See the screen caps below. If I wanted to add a /19 that is not subnetted, it would not populate automatically and the check-box is grayed out. Then afterwards these IP…

Now that's pretty cool.

Sounds like you’re getting stuck at creating a discovery is that right? If I’m reading this right you’re seeing an error for all the ‘IP Adresses’ you input saying unable to resolve: x.x.29.6.121 I’m not sure if that’s a typo in you post or not but x.x.29.6.121 has too many octets to be a valid ipv4 address. If it’s not…

Are you attempting this in a web report or in swql studio using swql?

Ditto what everyone has said. All the Orion environments I stand up are completely virtual -- never had an issue as long as you ensure provisions are adequate. In my experience it also is helpful from a management perspective to be able to utilize functions of virtual environments like HA, migration, snapshots (which is…

Yes it does. Here's a couple examples. SELECT sub.Caption, sub.Status, nc.LoginStatus FROM ( SELECT n.Caption, n.NodeID, n.Status FROM Orion.Nodes AS n ) AS sub INNER JOIN NCM.Nodes AS nc ON sub.NodeID = nc.CoreNodeID Here's another one too…

They ‘re UDP so they just dissolve into the network path and disappear. Regardless of if the network device sends the flow, if the server or service are not available to receive that data... it’s not going anywhere. I’ve sent the flows to multiple collectors before which is where HA could be a solution to this as well.…

I don’t think there’s a way to import/export (or easily backup) discovery profiles specifically. Though if you backup the SolarWinds database (as one should in an upgrade), that will cover you as all the configuration of the discoveries are in there...

Try ruling out SolarWinds and use powershell to test mail. Also might be worth looking into what versions of tls are enabled on each server (both smtp and orion). https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/network-programming/tls…

This is a great idea and would benefit multi-admin environments. I'd like to see audit events created for many aspects of the discovery engine, similar to how the alerting engine and node properties are. My thinking goes... each of the events below would trigger an audit message, tagged with username, timestamp, other…

Did you recently go through an upgrade? Curious what version you were on before because I’ve seen the behavior for a long time in versions ling before 2020.2 etc. It all depends on what the value is in the database. Have always had to account for NULL custom property values as far as I can remember even goong back to NPM…

Best way is what you’re doing. Edit an action (event log or email) from an alert of the entity {node, app, etc} that you’re trying to add or find a variable for and search for it there. E.g. insert variable and search. Other than that this is a reasonable set of documentation that you can reference otherwise. It’s not all…

Unfortunately no. The API doesn't allow for updates to Orion.Thresholds. You could either update it manually in the UI like one normally would or build a solution around updating the database directly for the [SolarWindsOrion.[dbo].[Thresholds] table. It's not ideal but works if you take the time to understand the typical…

Try changing the semicolon to a comma, That’s what Orion expects as a separator for multiple emails.

Have you tried going to the node details view and manually launching the real-time process explorer? Just a thought, but it could be a permissions issue.

Under preferences you can disable auto discovery of query parameters to get around this.

Assuming the default database name SolarwindsOrion.. I think it’s in the [SolarWindsOrion].[dbo].[Engines] table. I could be wrong though I’ll check this and circle back if I find out that’s not the case.

I've had to build a query like that before to sort through the nodes that should / shouldn't be in NCM and also verify that they are actually able to login. Much easier than any alternative of manually sifting through them in the GUI. SELECT n.NodeID, n.IPAddress, n.Caption, n.DNS, n.MachineType, n.Vendor,…

Is the account getting denied also added as an individual account? I think individual accounts take precedence over group accounts.