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You are absolutely right Josh and I do feel bad complaining sometimes. I think the biggest thing that aggravates me is they do take a long time (if ever) to incorporate the little features and fixes, like fixing the Discovery Import Filter, updating the Manage Nodes page to include Volumes data and to allow grouping by…

Our company is moving more and more things to Dynatrace because of this. While Dynatrace is mainly a DevOps monitoring platform, its Infrastructure Monitoring does most of the important things that SolarWinds does too (CPU, Memory, Interfaces, VMWare, etc...), but it does it better. Its Dynamic Baseline Thresholding…

I don't necessarily mean all perfmon counters. I'm specifically talking about the Polling Rate counters for each module. Regardless, even if it were for all perfmon counters, it'd only show up in the database if you had component monitors that were looking for those perfmon counters, so them having the perfmon counters…

Yeah, I've been on calls with SolarWinds product managers and stuff. They just don't work that way. Even on those calls you can't get that kind of info. They like to stay flexible. Like I said, it's annoying but that's just the way they work. Always have and probably always will.

Now maybe I'm not understanding you fully, but you absolutely can add your own variables into labels on the map. So if you have a Node, Interface, App Monitor, or any other monitored element on the map, you can edit that element's label and add in different variables (aka Macro's) so that it shows the stats you want. I'm…

Instead of embedding the report, we use the Custom HTML Resource to display links to a report. If I really need to put something custom on a page I just build that item in a Custom Table or Custom Chart. The problem SolarWinds would have with putting Custom Web Reports into resources like they do with Report Writer Reports…

Ahh, OK, gotcha. While I am all for functionality to be moved into the web console, Network Atlas is one place I've never really consciously wanted that. I mean, if the full suite of current editing functions plus any new functionality could truly be performed inside of the web console then I guess I'm all for it, but I…

I don't think you can do "SELECT ${fromtimeutc}". I've only seen the ${fromtimeutc} macro used in the WHERE clause, never in a SELECT statement. I wouldn't think it matters, but it probably does. Plus, it doesn't really make sense to select the ${fromtimeutc} variable, since what the Custom Chart is looking for as a time…

For those still wondering this, I think the answer is still No. This data isn't anywhere in the database that I can find...

Well, I think the reasons are as I stated in a reply to someone else a little bit up in this thread. A Web Based Report isn't a single object, it's more like a View in that it can contain several different objects within it. Whereas the old Report Writer reports were just a single table of data for each report, a Web Based…

Gonna have to completely disagree with you on Web Reports. I took a while to actually start using them as I was quite proficient with Report Writer, but once I started using Web Reports I wouldn't go back to Report Writer if you paid me. The ONLY thing that Report Writer can do right now that Web Reports can't is to allow…

Just gonna link to some other similar, duplicate, or related requests others have made. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO GO VOTE THESE UP: SolarWinds does listen to Feature Requests. Just middle-click on each of the below links to open them in a new tab and vote them up. * Dynamic Custom Properties * Node custom properties in…

Just gonna link to some other similar, duplicate, or related requests others have made. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO GO VOTE THESE UP: SolarWinds does listen to Feature Requests. Just middle-click on each of the below links to open them in a new tab and vote them up. * Dynamic Custom Properties * Node custom properties in…

While Palo Alto does have a large share, Cisco ASA's are still the dominant force and are actually on an upward trend from where they were just a couple of years ago. I definitely think that Palo's marketshare is large enough to warrant it's own Insight though: • Global security appliance market vendors' market share…

Yep, that's the workaround we use, but it still doesn't offer the dynamic color coded links. However, I know you guys are well aware of this and I hope that this is the first feature you guys update in the Network Atlas re-vamp. If it isn't I think many here on Thwack could even riot ... As far as the variables, what would…

Nice! I am content then. Thank you much!

What do you mean "embedded report"? When I click on my links as in my example above it takes me to a separate page with the report just fine. Also, be careful putting the "http://solarwinds.aeo.ae.com" in your links in Orion since if you ever change that DNS entry in your environment all of your custom links like this will…

Yep. While a name change for Orion is probably quite rare and you probably don't foresee ever doing it, if you ever do it'll almost definitely be very far in the future and you won't remember all of the custom internal URL links you created, so I just make sure to follow this best practice now, while I do remember. That…

Just gonna link to some other similar, duplicate, or related requests others have made. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO GO VOTE THESE UP: SolarWinds does listen to Feature Requests. Just middle-click on each of the below links to open them in a new tab and vote them up. * Dynamic Custom Properties * * Additional Dynamic Query…

You need to get your Report ID's for the Reports you want to link. The link is always "/Orion/Report.aspx?ReportID=YourReportIdHere". You never want to put your server name before the "/Orion/" because if you ever change the name of your Orion server it will break all custom links you have made in the past. Instead just…

Well now you can add statistics for Components, but the problem is you can't add Components as individual entities (they don't even show up in the Entity Search section...). You can get to them via expanding applications, but if a Component is a multi-value statistic, like that of Script monitors, it doesn't display the…

Here here! We try to have only one type of alert for each type of object in Orion (so 1 Node Down alert, 1 Interface Down alert, 1 Node High Response Time Alert, etc...). When building an alert we point the Trigger/Reset Conditions at Thresholds instead of static numbers (so an alert would never have a Trigger Condition…

2 years down the line, does anyone know if it still isn't possible to use IAM Roles for SolarWinds monitoring?

I'm definitely not a fan of IBM, but the Director software does have full disk array support in their WMI providers. I was surprised to see that.

Just gonna link to some other similar, duplicate, or related requests others have made. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO GO VOTE THESE UP: SolarWinds does listen to Feature Requests. Just middle-click on each of the below links to open them in a new tab and vote them up. * Dynamic Custom Properties * Node custom properties in…

Well, we can agree to disagree then because, as I said, a few percentage points is a ton of business. 

Yes, a Volume Filter would be great, as well as adding the ability to bulk-edit volumes in Manage Nodes like you can with Interfaces. The new per-Volume threshold feature is worthless without bulk-editing ability, so we still use custom properties for Volume Thresholds. I also want an improved Interface Filter in the…

I know AppInsight for AD was originally on the roadmap a long while back and I even think I recall a blog post or two showing off some of its new features. Did the dev team run into some roadblocks that have prevented them from rolling this out? If so can you comment on what those may be? Just curious because I know this…

As others have already stated, a big must is the ability to add multiple objects at once. Also, finding objects is really hard. We can only search for them. There is no ability to group/filter entities based on system or custom properties. For example, I want to add all nodes at a certain site that is labelled by a…

Just gonna link to some other similar, duplicate, or related requests others have made. PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO GO VOTE THESE UP: SolarWinds does listen to Feature Requests. Just middle-click on each of the below links to open them in a new tab and vote them up. * Dynamic Custom Properties * Node custom properties in…