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">adatole, below, gave some detailed instructions on how to create a batch file and an example of what to put in it to use as a test. Try those instructions as they shoudl get you started.

The actions you have in the original attachment are literally executing "C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe". Can you extract the rules you changed (per Craigs post above) to wrap the commands in batch files and re-post/attach the rule?

Also: had the issue again this Sunday afternoon. It fits into the "Possible speculative cause #3:", part "c." New info: This time I was barely able to log into the system and do a "netstat -a" to confirm the connections issue. I was able to eventually shut down the SolarWinds services (via the Orion Service Manager) and…

The only other gotcha I can think of is if you are using the "Test" button to test the alerting. This button is not to actually test alerting as its more of a "test to make sure the trigger condition and SMTP server are working" and not much else. If you are *not* using this button and letting Orion itself trigger the…

Just a clarification, since you mention you *could* turn on windows based authentication: Are all of the nodes with issues Windows servers, Linux/*nix servers, or "network devices" like routers/switches/UPS's, etc?

"However, I think it really comes down to server load." Agreed. this is why I took IPAM out of my NPM (and other modules) installation and run it standalone. We weren't using any of the "integrated" stuff in the tools and IPAM was basically being used as a standalone app. Pulling it out and running it separately has saved…

Thanks for the info! I *definitely* want to try the "You could do a step-upgrade from UDT 3.2.4 to say 3.3.1, and then from there you can upgrade to 2020.2 (skipping over 3.4)" as I'd love to stay on Win 2012 for the rest of the year. I'm planning on doing Win OS 2012 -> 2016/2019 updates later (if I can wait just a little…

Thanks for the info!

Thanks! I had not seen that link. To summarize if anyone sees this: It appears to be mostly for network topology related "things", and nothing much deeper. It seems topology will *try* to be collected on all nodes configured to use SNMP, WMI, or SNMP (basically all nodes) where most of the the topology polling is via SNMP.…

Thanks for the info/workaround! When I checked on it this morning everything was working ok. Given your post, I'm betting that: - Someone removed a device with a poller attached - They then tried creating a new poller (possibly of that same type of device?) - They got the error and called me. I reproduced the…

Awesome. Thanks!

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I use them for this as well, generally for re-wording into readable English what the resource is filtering its data on. It works well when the filter is long, mysterious, or very specially written. Since the Title is a larger font/bolder than the Subtitle, the Titles look "clean and readable", and the subtitles are enough…

"because I'm a packrat, and maintain on-disk copies for just this eventuality" I do this both at work and home. I always feel bad about doing it (wasting both my time and disk space) and then once in a blue moon it really pays off nicely. I really wish vendors (everyone who releases code) would always provide a way to get…

Thanks!

ha, one more: SAM, for what it provides IF you use it, is relatively cheap compared to other solutions. I don't know of any SAM templates that need to be purchased. For other vendors, *some* app monitoring may be free out of the box (and anything custom is usually free that I'm aware of) but there are…

I left out a little from my first post, but this is one of the driving factors for re-IPing my Orion server: I found this doc: Which IP address is used as the source? - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support which indicates that you can choose a VIP that causes all polling to come from the VIP and not the active…

not knowing how many scripts you have running all the time.... your environment, etc ... and just thinking out loud... - Obvious "solution" create more accounts with admin privs, then hand them out to specific people/machines. Eventually lock out the admin account and see who complains . But probably looks good on paper…

Check out that last link. It's a thwack idea and I think its a good idea that people vote/comment on it

Update: I did find some docs indicating how to delete the HTTPS listener via this command, run in an elevated cmd window: winrm delete winrm/config/Listener?Address=*+Transport=HTTPS then I used the "Configure Server" button in the template to see if it would "reset" things and get it working. It DID perform some work by…

My Bad, it's a typo . It's Exchange 2010 on Windows 2008 R2. 

I tried your suggestion and it worked great. Interesting the UI works the way it does. It's like it doesn't know that it's scoped to Node objects so it just inserts the fully qualified object/variable name for all variables regardless of context set in the trigger action. Do you (or anyone) know if there a reference doc on…

That's what I would do...if I knew how to do it .

May be of use? Ephemeral Port Monitor

Using the SolarWinds provided (in the NPM install) "snmpwalk" executable: Due to all the data in a full SNMPwalk and all the redacting I would have to do, I walked just a portion of the OID's under .1.3.6.1.4.1.20542.9.1.1.1.: Here's that data surrounding the "261" OID I'm looking for: .1.3.6.1.4.1.20542.9.1.1.1.259.0 =…

Actually, since you posted about comparing installer experiences.... . My 2 cents... I just upgraded from 6.2.4 -> 6.4.0 and the "new installer" kinda caught me by surprise. I downloaded just the "Solarwinds-Orion-SAM-6.4-OfflineInstaller.exe" and when it ran it basically wanted to upgrade all the Orion modules I had to…

Thanks! Just to clarify to make sure I understand: If the polling runs for awhile and the data point returned per each poll is: poll 1: (no data returned, NULL, or empty string) poll 2: (no data returned, NULL, or empty string) poll 3: (no data returned, NULL, or empty string) poll 4: 3, "some error string" poll 5: 5,…

well...I may have an odd issue then . After digging around it appears some of my Orion metrics (like CPU usage and Disk throughput/IOps) but not all of the metrics (like interface utilization, memory) is populating data in the UI one hour *into the future*. I checked the data in the UI and it appears that this jump…

Found what it is/was: You HAVE to have a Common Name (CN) field set or the Config Wizard will not allow you to pick the certificate for HTTPS. Additionally, from (Configure the Orion Web Console to use SSL - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support ) , the Common Name has to be certain variants of the server hostname…

Short answer: Nothing shows up in the IIS drop down...so I did some troubleshooting, and now I can see my cert in the IIS drop down, but not in the Config Wizard drop down (even when "run as" admin). Long answer: Apparently part of the IIS cert validation (to have it show up in the list) is that the certificate has to have…