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Hi Denys, I can't find the SWIS logs in the said location. I am using Windows 7.

I was also stuck at the same point. Where to get this documentation to find the necessary arguments for SwisVerbs?

I didn't try with Engineer's toolset since we don't use that tool extensively. However if you are also using NCM, you can have a custom report generate these details for you. You would have to perform a full inventory prior to running the report.

Oh, I assumed the NCM account was also privileged account, since in most scenarios NCM is also used for config deployment. Looks like you will have to wait for the regex fix. I will post the solution if it is found :)

I have set the template to Adaptive Security Appliance now, let me see if the subsequent config downloads don't have this issue. Any reason why you suspect this to be the problem?

Richard, Thanks a lot for the links. I remember going through similar struggle when setting up FOE. And it is re-assuring to know that someone got everything working together. Anyway looks like I have to fix FOE first and try upgrading application component or applying OS patches and test rollback.

Yes, I think simple approach is better than trying to devise a complex solution which can account for bursty behavior as well as seasonal trends. Instead Solarwinds can leave the facility in place and let the user decide which criteria to consider for baseline violation. Practically it means, NPM should allow us to define…

Yes, I know. But that doesn't counter anything I said. A product such as Solarwinds has advantage over open source tools in terms of manageability & scalability but my point was that, the maturity of API's & modules in current open source projects is closing that gap.

I found that CPULoad_Detail table gets periodically updated whenever there is a successful SNMP poll, so I am thinking it should be a custom SQL query based alert. I am no SQL expert but this is what I want it to look like: SELECT Nodes.NodeID AS NetObjectID, Nodes.Caption AS Name FROM Nodes inner join CPULoad_Detail on…

Here is the case number: Case #337228

I also ran in to the same problem and changed the logon to use a user account. I wonder why LOCAL SYSTEM account could be a problem, when it was running fine without any issues for more than a year. It would be nice if Solarwinds can explain the reason behind this behavior.

I recently added a custom property through Custom Property editor. But it doesn't show up in NCM GUI so I am unable to use that custom property in defining scheduled jobs. NCM Version 7.0.2

Yeah, I agree we both are talking about the same thing but the nomenclature is different. In your terms, the word trend is about forecasting whereas I look at it as representing the past behavior. Anyway it is good that you guys are having serious thoughts about this. It would not hurt to refer to some ideas implemented in…

thanks! That worked like a charm :)

Thanks! That clarifies it!

Hi Denys, Since you are asking me to collect logs, I assume you find no bugs with the script that I am trying to use? I tried the same script again after disabling Anti-virus but still no luck. Orion Diagnostics is a large file and contains sensitive data from our deployment, I would much prefer to share the Swis V2 logs…

We do have a complete FOE setup, but so far it has only complicated our upgrade process. We recently performed a major upgrade and hired some professional service to execute it. As per their advise, we shutdown the old FoE standby nodes and proceeded to upgrade the active nodes. And they advised to build new VM's and…

Thanks! I thought there is some tool in Engineer's toolset to bulk export certain MIB tables to Excel or other formats for analysis and reporting.

Oops! I am not yet on NPM 10.4 so no hardware monitoring :) I am looking for other ways...

That depends on whether Polling read/write is the only DB activity. If I am to shutdown the DB for maintenance, is it sufficient to suspend the polling? On a similar note, I am curious what happens if the DB is down, would NPM stop storing all polled values or would it queue up? Say if the DB is not down, but the…

No, you don't need to execute that command. If you are using the correct template, Solarwinds itself will run that command before initiating the config download.

Thanks! Let me try this at work next week.

It would be good if you marked the original answer as Correct answer instead of marking your thank you note as correct answer :)

bump!

At least Trap viewer should allow us to define some format for each kind of traps so that we can generate meaningful alerts. See this opensource SNMPTT tool for example

No we don't have repeating alerts. I am talking about one-time alerts and even they are way too many during such incidents. Last week I was creating a Custom SQL alert which had a small bug in SQL query that matched all Custom Poller objects, and by that I mean each row of a Custom Poller table. We ended up receiving 3000+…

OK. Now I got it. I understand which button you were talking about. Is it doable from GUI? I would also like to do it from Powershell API that would give me more flexibility for scripting.

OK, that was very silly of me. The custom poller id returned is expected to remain the same indeed, but I didn't replace the node ID with the variable ${Node.NodeID}. It did work properly earlier, but while fiddling with the alert settings, I replaced it with a static value and didn't realize it. Thanks Jiripsot!

I don't think this is a fair assessment of NPM product. Many of the areas that you dismiss are indeed the strong areas of Orion. It is just that you are more used to the idiosyncrasies of one product while abhorring the other. Not to mention, you are only focused on server monitoring while Orion covers much bigger ground…

I have used and modified my fair share of open source tools. While they don't come close in terms of breadth of coverage of tools like Solarwinds, they key to operate them is to keep them simple & manageable. And no they aren't more expensive if you don't pay for it and have the appetite to tinker around with the innards.…