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Yeah, I never used the Bundle installer, that is the one I was talking about in my post where even a SolarWinds support person said those were junk. The new All-In-One installer though seems good and I've had no issues with it in all 3 of our Orion environments so far. But yeah, I think you should use the All-In-One…

Yes rschroeder. I really hope that's what this entry on their roadmap means: * Faster and web based simplified product upgrades and installation of hot fixes

I don't know how automated it will be, but it looks like they are working on making upgrades easier: * Faster and web based simplified product upgrades and installation of hot fixes I am guessing it is an expansion on the admin console that they introduced for service control in NPM 12.0.1. I'm loving being able to control…

Prep prep prep. Everything is downloaded/prepared ahead of time. I make sure to download, Unblock, and Unzip all of the files to each of the servers ahead of time. Then, I also make sure to get the DB backup and Polling Engine VM Snapshot done before starting (the snapshots are great for if something goes wrong halfway…

Why so long? We have 9 Polling engines with 10 Orion modules plus VMAN and DPA. It took us a little over 6 hours. That includes running into a few small hitches here and there. It would have been faster had I followed the Upgrade Advisor path a little more closely, but I went rogue and it cost me a little bit of time.

@designerfx, @jbiggley To be more specific though, the number of elements actually doesn't matter when you have an Unlimited license. The only thing that really matters is your polling rate. Depending on what your mix of element types are and what your polling settings are, you may only be able to get 8,000 elements out of…

@prawij No, there wasn't a "High polling throughput" version. There has traditionally been only one APE type. What they are working on though is 2 things: - 1:) Increasing the maximum amount of elements that can be polled by a single polling engine (it was on their roadmap, not sure what happened to it). Currently with an…

Not sure what you mean by "SNMP TRAPS AND SYSLOG TRAPS CAN RAISE a ALERT". This can and always has been able to be performed by Orion for years now... Yes, it's separate from their web alerting system, but the Syslog and Trap alerting are extremely strong and quite powerful. What I would really like to see is the full…

Of course you're right in that you'll never get it perfect. No software developer ever will. It's just a huge pet peeve of mine in that it seems like a relatively simple thing to do (I'm sure it is actually more complicated than one would think, but all of the code already exists for sorting and filtering in website tables…

Yes, I never update custom properties in the add-node/edit-properties page. I always just add my node(s), then go to the custom property editor, which I love by the way. The custom property editor is so very flexible and I get upset when using other tables in Orion like the Manage Nodes table or the Manage Pollers table as…

SNMP Traps and Syslog alerts integrated into the Alerts manager used to be on their roadmap, not sure what happened to it...

Well, it sounds like your idea of easy and mine are very different. As far as models, yes, the Machine Type isn't the best system. What we do is use custom properties heavily. You can either script data to be imported into custom properties from a CMDB (if you have one, we don't unfortunately) or come up with a good custom…

Why would you build an entirely new report when they ask for this?? Just create a global, unfiltered report, then copy it whenever a filtered version of it is needed, edit the data source, change the name, and your done. Is it as fast as the filter-on-demand idea and is it accessible to non-admin users? No, which is why I…

Well, in my opinion the Report engine is great, but to each their own. I think the problem is that Orion's report engine isn't really geared for the average user, at least that's the way I see it. It's up to us, as admins, to create the reports that users want. And as an admin I can literally create a report on anything in…

They used to gripe about it, but now they just continue to assume there is no reporting in Orion.... That's a pretty poor and uninformed assumption on their part. Orion has one of the strongest reporting engines of any monitoring product I've used. It's a good feature request sure, but the lack of this feature hardly makes…

@ enderaz while I agree that the filters (called "Data Sources" in Custom Charts and Custom Tables) need to have the ability to be saved and be re-usable in other reports (which would essentially solve part of what you are wanting), and I really like the idea of being able to apply a filter on-demand when you run a report…

The Network Insight feature is exciting if it's even half as good as SAM's AppInsight feature (I really hope NPM and ALL Orion thresholds begin working the way SAM thresholds do, which is not just when over/under a value, but also when over/under that value for a specific amount of polling cycles. That feature HAS to make…

Ahh, OK, running it as an Alert Action, got it. That makes sense. I will probably add to it to loop through all of the nodes and volumes that it pulls back so that I can run it as a scheduled task. The problem I found with using alerts to make updates like this is that it adds a bunch of events and alert history entries to…

This is great! I've tried to think of a way to do this and couldn't figure it out. Looking over the code I have a few questions. I see no looping in the code, how do you run this against multiple nodes/volumes? In general, what's the way you created this code to be ran? As a scheduled task, or just a module that people…

Not sure where you got the "NodesData_Category" and "EffectiveCategory" properties from, but there are no default properties like that for nodes in Orion. To be able to filter, sort, and just in general organize nodes, volumes, interfaces, and application monitors in Orion you need to use Custom Properties. Create a Node…

I think I can speak for most people when I say that the Orion SRM support is what's critical at this point. At least for new customers. Our new data center has SVC's, so it looks like we are good to go there, but what is the word on IBM v9000 support? I see v7000 is now included by the way (somehow I missed that when it…

Are there plans to do a Beta/RC with the release containing XIV? Our storage team is chomping at the bit to replace their current storage monitoring system and I fear if I can't tell them Orion SRM will support XIV soon then they are going to pick something else. Since we have NPM, SAM, and VMAN I really don't want to miss…

Old thread, I know. But, we are currently getting critical and warning statuses for some sensors on a few of our hosts and, after following the troubleshooting steps in this article I've seen that the API is indeed reporting these sensors as Critical/Warning even though in the actual vCenter Web Console it reports these…

I posted this on the weekend while frustratingly attempting an upgrade, so here is a Monday bump. Bump.

I'm revisiting this for a new batch of devices and still have no clue how this works... So, bump. Does anyone know what Manage Pollers (aka Device Studio) matches on when scanning a polling package against nodes? My custom Cisco Nexus Node Details poller I built matches on every single SNMP Node in our environment, yet…

I personally don't 100% trust the Product Advisor. I've had it give me incorrect info in the past. Having said that, it doesn't mean that it is or isn't wrong here. If you want to be extra sure, you can toss an eval of NPM 12.0 onto a test machine you have somewhere and then install VNQM 4.4 and see what happens. However,…

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Since this got a couple of hundred views and several comments, I wanted to let you know of something else I have found. We were having several weird issues with the web console MIB Browser and the UnDP app on our Orion server. I checked the newest MIBs.cfg file in my Customer Portal and noticed that it is…

While you definitely should read up on the basics of alerting on Orion, to more specifically answer your question I would need to ask what you mean by suppressing alerts in Orion? Do you mean there are too many of the out-of-the-box alerts triggering and you want to reduce the amount of them, or are you asking how to…

This seems really cool. I would love to see something like this but for ServiceNow Event Management. We have the ServiceNow Incident Management but we can't use the SolarWinds Integration feature because we use SNOW Event Management in between our monitoring systems and our Incident Management system to help control the…

I second husum182's question, as I am also seeing this error while experiencing some issues with vCenter polling. Did you ever get this resolved or find a workaround? Or did anybody find a way around this?