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Well, it is true that the documentation says that... Whether it is true or not that it works is a different story of course...

I found the fix for our particular instance of the problem. Whether this works for you or not, I don't know, but it's worth a look and seems to be quite a simple fix. After running the Installer and getting back the error about not being able to connect to the internet, I went and looked in the Event Viewer and under the…

Did you change "Interface Name" to "Interface Caption" yet? Because from what I see that is the only problem with your alert syntax.

And yes, I wasn't saying anything about using Interface Name and Node Name, I got that part. What I was saying was that from the screenshot you shared it looks like the Scope section is showing specific Interfaces selected, and then you are using using the "Interface Name" and "Node Name" Contains rules in the Trigger.…

Did you change Interface Name to Interface Caption? That's the main thing that is keeping your alert from working. Interface name is "Serial 0/0/0". The word Qwest can't be found in it. The word Qwest is in the Description, which will be in the Interface Caption. So you can change the alert to read either "Interface…

Fantastic! Thanks. I'll try this out this week and see if it doesn't damage any WPM reports.

Ahh, cool Ciag, so it sounds like you are following some good practices. I used to automate my custom properties using the alerts too, but the big problem I came across is that it generates a ton of noise in the alerts and events tables, making searching, querying, sorting, and filtering alerts (both active and historical)…

Are there any plans to allow the ${DNS} or ${Node.DNS} macro instead of just ${IP}? If I use an IP it doesn't work but if I use the DNS name it works. Unfortunately it looks like only the ${IP} variable works and I don't want to go into the 20-something more monitors I have and manually update each of their settings...…

Why were you not able to create a script for this? It actually works quite easily... What I did was create a Node custom property called “A_AlertsMuted” (by the way, the “A_” is part of a naming scheme we use for custom properties in which different categorizations of properties are prepended with a letter that stands for…

Regarding the issue you still have with Config too short and the abilitity to download/not-download your running/startup configs: That sounds like the Device Template you've assigned may not be using the correct and/or best commands for that device type and OS version. If you are using the out-of-the-box templates or even…

I'm currently experiencing this same exact issue (we are still on NPM 11.5.3, won't be able to upgrade to NPM 12 until either this or next weekend). Did you ever get a fix for this? SOLVED: Well, not really solved I suppose. More like, figured out. When the Trigger Condition is a custom SWQL condition, SQL macro variables…

OK, so that is by design. I'm gonna have to respectively disagree with leaving that function out though because, as I pointed out, sometimes a TOP is not possible in the query to allow it to work within the confines of the custom chart and I need the Top XX filtering done at the application layer. I think that is…

There is no way to pull the whole table. It will always expect a single value, so what mesverrum's fix is saying is you will need to put the full OID for each and every row of a table that you want to pull data from. This means browsing the table to see what each Row ID is and adding that to the end of the table OID. It's…

12.0.0 definitely has some bugs though. One major bug that really stung us with 12.0.0 that is now fixed in 12.0.1 is custom SQL reports/tables were broken in NPM 12.0.0. This killed us because we had several reports emailed daily that included Custom Tables with custom SWQL/SQL tables as their data source. We had some…

Hmm, yeah there is: If you aren't seeing it then there might be an issue with your environment or something. 

Thank you for your reply GZhytar. We are just now getting a dev environment stood up so that we can test the new version fully before deploying it in Prod. We were one of the many customers who did ​not ​have a good upgrade experience during the NPM 11.5 upgrade fiasco and are quite gun-shy when it comes to another big…

Are you using the Scope section of the alert's Trigger Condition to filter the custom properties, or are you putting all of your filter values in the Actual Trigger Condition section of the Trigger Condition page? The "All Alerts this Object Can Trigger" widget relies on the Scope section of Trigger Conditions. If you…

I'm trying to do the same thing. Did you ever find the SQL/SWQL that runs the "Alerts this Object Can Trigger" resource? I feel like I'd seen it before either in one of the asp files in the InetPub folder of the website or in a log file, but I've tried turning logging up and dug through the files but I couldn't find a…

What about the new Binary Configs feature? Since ISE devices can be set to backup via FTP, couldn't we just setup the Binary Config feature to pull them this way? I don't know a lot about ISE devices, so maybe this wouldn't work...

Yeah, I looked, but based on the wording of this support article it sounds like the data is parsed when a new config is downloaded. I don't think it's parsed on the fly. My only other thought is that it's stored in a temporary file somewhere, but that seems like a bad practice if that's the case. Check the first line under…

Good thought, but yeah, we do. That's always checked by default and we don't uncheck it. I did verify it though just to be sure, but it is indeed checked. Still seeing 46,000% utilization spikes on these interfaces though in the real-time chart. Like I said, we aren't seeing these crazy numbers in the normal interface…

Awesome! Thanks Jan. This is what I was looking for. I honestly forgot that you can unzip ISO's, but even had I remembered that I doubt I would have thought to do that in this instance. I will definitely try this out next upgrade (after we take a snapshot of course) since it doesn't look like our VM team want to give us…

That, and like I said in my original reply. There really just isn't any reason not to upgrade. 12.1 fixes a lot of bugs and is way more stable. Plus, perfstack rocks (other than not being able to use the perfstack charts in other views and reports. That is a pretty big bummer.).

So I've figured out a little more, but I am still confused as to why it works this way and if there is a better way. Do you mind validating if this is correct and if there is a way to do it better? - The credentials should be the SCP server credentials so that when a Device Template has the variable ${SCPServerPassword} it…

Thanks for the reply rschroeder. So what you are saying is on the SCP Server Settings page I'm not actually telling NCM how to communicate with the SCP server, but instead I'm telling it what directory on each polling engine to use along with the credentials needed to access that directory? I definitely don't want to setup…

So what's the reasoning behind this? It used to be really handy to be able to report on what Nodes were using what Connection Profile and Device Template along with the Username/Password and other settings. But now, since those entities have been removed from SWIS I can't get that data... It wouldn't be a problem if the…

The only one you need to worry about is "C:\ProgramData\SolarWinds\Mibs.cfg". The rest don't matter.

Were any of you guys (paulrobbins, mbird, and mark.johnson@morningstar.com)having problem browsing the MIB library in either UnDP or in the Manage Pollers MIB Browser on the web console prior to installing the new Mibs.cfg file manually?

You get a chance to check the query out and see if there was something wrong with it, or is there an issue in SWQL?

Sure. I figured out a different way to do it (I noticed that the AlertObjects entity has a relationship with the Node entity, so really no need for a RIGHT JOIN now, but... The documentation says RIGHT OUTER JOIN should work and it doesn't, so the question is still valid I suppose). Here is the query I was trying, plus, a…