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I've seen companies that do something like this and to be honest I find it a tremendously horrendous system. Naming conventions like these make everything harder, because now you have to learn the meaning behind the names. In my mind the best way to name devices is to use a clear cut naming scheme where the meaning is easy…

Thank you for your reply. Sorry though, I'm not completely understanding what you mean by "Instead of a True/ False property, use some meaningful name" and "You can go into Manage Nodes and sort by custom property, which then effectively sorts by your groups if your groups are dynamically defined.". Also, as I stated in my…

I still have this issue to this day unless the services have been restarted recently. If it has been even just a few hours since the Orion services have been restarted, I get this error in the MIB browser in both the UnDP application and in the Web Console until I restart services. Then, everything works fine for a while.…

You mean NCM 7.5 I'm sure, since NPM doesn't do config backups. But NCM 7.4 and earlier has F5 backup templates as well, NCM 7.5 just adds a special binary config backup feature that handles devices like F5's and the sort much better than traditional NCM device templates have in the past. Also, while the link Jiri provides…

Old post I know, but that link Jiri is to compliance reports, not device templates...

So my idea of using the certificate to decrypt the password won't work you think?

Well yeah, I know how to use all that stuff. My question isn't about that. My question is if there is a way to use the Credential object for that component to pass to the Get-Service cmdlet, or, if not, then is there a way to call their program that drives the Service Control Manager feature in the Orion Web Console and…

I do have a case in now and I'm waiting to hear back. However, there definitely is something different in the way that VMAN 8.1/8.2 polls datastore latency metrics versus VMAN 7.1. To verify this I downloaded and deployed a VMAN 7.1 appliance and gave it the same vCenter and credentials as our production Orion VMAN 8.2.…

Yep, I figured this out and posted replied on another post today that I mentioned this issue, just forgot to come back and update this post as well. Thanks tdanner.

I'm no CSharp developer, but the CSharp Samples seem a bit lacking. I tried searching for C Sharp stuff here on Thwack but searching for "C#", "C Sharp", or just C is a bit tough, as it is just a letter and a symbol or word... Any other good links, articles, posts, that anyone could recommend for understanding the basics…

This is fantastic Jan. I was really dreading working on this today and now I'm excited. I assume the $requestUrl variable should be changed to our SolarWinds server? I also like how you wrapped it all in a function already, so that really makes my job easier. I REALLY appreciate this. I'm sure it wasn't easy, so thank you…

Any suggestions on how to tackle this then? Is parsing the Scope element of the XML condition via PowerShell the best way you can think of, or do you have some other ideas that might be easier? I was thinking of creating a custom property called AlertsInScope and having the PowerShell script output to that property by…

Great, thanks for the info. I did get it to work and yeah, the QUERYPLAN function doesn't produce a helpful diagram like viewing the Query Plan in SQL Server Management Studio. You mention that the only thing usable for me in this case will be the output query to SQL. What do you mean by that? Do you mean I should manually…

ALT-F-R? What is that supposed to do? ALT-F brings up the Find box and ALT-R refreshes the page. ALT-F-R does nothing. 

I appreciate your response but those instructions are incorrect. When you uninstall the SolarWinds agent software this removes the "SolarWinds Agent" entry from the Certificates snap-in, so there is no way nor need to delete them manually. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the SolarWinds Agent software several times on this…

Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to open a case too, can't get it figured out. If you can, please comment back here as to what your solution was as it may be helpful to me or others in the future. I'll do the same. Thank you!

I'm trying to get a report of all of our Events for a certain time period. If I try and run the query in SWQL I have two issues: SWQL Problem 1: If I query it in SWQL for more than a few days back then I get an Out of Memory Exception. If I run the query in SQL for the last 2 weeks (which is what I need) then it takes 66…

I've not found nor heard of an explanation yet...

I don't think SWQL supports CAST. It has special functions like TOSTRING and stuff like that. I don't think there is a SWQL Function for what you are talking about (but I'm not sure). My question would be why you need to display it in the SWQL Studio? That type of conversion would be better suited for the presentation…

This query is only pulling from the Active Alerts table though, so it won't tell him historical data (in other words, if an alert triggered and reset it won't show here unless its currently triggered as well). You would need to query from the AlertHistory table to do what he's wanting. This can be done with a SWQL query…

I can not imagine how much work that took. We tried this at one of my old employers and realized after a few hours that not only would this take forever to create, but it would also be a nightmare to maintain over the long term. Then we realized that we owned APC's StruxureWare DataCenter program and that it would do all…

Ahh, OK, so I can just send a group of URI's to the verb as long as the same properties and values are being set? So the script would need to go through, evaluate all of the objects and determine what properties and values need to be set, then group the objects based on this and set them in groups. OK, so there is no way…

I'm not sure if you meant to say a big *miss by SolarWinds or if you actually meant to say mess, but either way it sounds correct. I'd like to hear from someone at SolarWinds to know if this is just an oversight or if this was done deliberately for some reason? Also, I'd like to know if they could recommend some kind of…

NPM 12.0.1 and NCM 7.5.1 have only been out for a few days. Are you sure you don't mean NPM 12.0.0/NCM 7.5.0 or do you mean you've been running the Release Candidate versions of 12.0.1/7.5.1?

For those getting the "Test Failed. Timeout" error when testing a device in the device's Edit Properties page, you can click the "Expand credential login details" link directly underneath the error message and scroll through the text that NCM received when testing the device. When you click the "Test" button NCM is simply…

Comparing monitoring software for businesses to a sports car is not an equal comparison at all... The two have nothing to do with each other. SolarWinds is a tool and like all other tools it has to be customized to your environment. SolarWinds support will also help you if you call them. There is no way SolarWinds can…

Hi LadaVarga, I created a similar Query to what you have here (wish I would have seen this first, would've saved me time), but as my post I just created here states, how can tying the AlertHistory table to the AlertObjects table be accurate when the AlertObjects table contains currently triggered alerts but the…

OK, thanks for your response LadaVarga. That was fast. Why you can't use "SolarWinds Alerting" <-> "ServiceNow incident system" and skip that SNOW Event Management? Well, like I said in my post, having a monitoring system bypass Event Management and start creating tickets itself goes against the whole concept of Event…

Ok, well, that's unfortunate for the short term because sifting through over 16,000 results is just not doable... That's promising for the long term though. When you say it will build relationships with a high degree of accuracy I assume that means it isn't going to see just any traffic between an app server and a DB…

Late reply here, but I still don't fully understand the difference between the Aavg and Bavg. I understand the difference between Avg and Peak, that is pretty self-explanatory, but the Aavg and Bavg differences aren't quite as obvious. Are my and my co-worker's assumptions in my edited section above correct, or is Aavg vs.…