wrosecrans

The recurring unmanage is great to hear. We've been in the process of rolling our own because it would be such a handy feature. (100+ scheduled reboots in a week) If I manage to finish our version before the official one gets rolled out, it'll probably get posted in the content exchange.

Orion wouldn't really be able to overwrite most things in the databse when it restarts because the only place it stores that data is in the database. It would need an additional database full of information to copy from if it wanted to clobber your database.

If you have a poller at an external site, and it has a VPN connection to the "inside", it should be able to monitor the website and communicate with the solarwinds DB. You just need to make sure that the second poller uses an external route to get to the website, rather than an internal one through the VPN.

We use Nagios to monitor our SolarWinds systems. IIRC, SolarWinds APM has a built-in thing for monitoring SQL Servers, so you could use that. But since our SolarWinds is considered very important, we wouldn't want to risk expecting a partially functioning SolarWinds to notify when part of itself goes down. For the actual…

In my experience, when the 30 days run out, you turn to a coworker and say the following things, "hey, you installed the permanent license, right? ... No, I thought you were going to. ... How much time have we got left? ... Oh."

I don't have an exact answer for what you want, but what we do here is mostly just monitor SNMP traps on the individual interfaces, rather than active polling. Alerts on the traps are run through a script which queries a table in our database that we populated with Switch,Port#,ServerName assignments. It then queries the…