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It sounds like you are making progress If there is anything I can help with, please just ask. 

Have you read the SAM manual: https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/sam/content/sam-linux-unix-script-monitor-sw3260.htm It's a really good place to start If you're still stuck, post the problems you are having and we'll see if we can help.

You're going to have to provide some more details, as there's not much to go here. Can you give an example of the URL to the dashboard (obscure anything sensitive) or an example of the code (again obscuring the API key)?

Hi Domex, Firstly you will need to ensure that you have the service(s) monitored, with a SAM Application, using a "Windows Service Monitor" for each service you require. Once you have this in place, you can then use the "Build Dynamic Query". All Settings--> Manage Groups --> Add New Group. Giver it a name and description…

Danny, This is the perfect place to use custom properties. Set up a new node custom property, such as "node_flapping" and and assign it to all your flapping nodes. Then add this condition to your alert, so that if node_flapping = true (or 1 or whatever) then the alert is supressed. A much easier way, than having to detail…

Jason, I see what you mean now. I don't believe there is such an undocumented switch, but I'd wrap the execution of the external program into a PowerShell script to deal with such formatting in the caption. Then call the PowerShell script from the alert action. From my previous PowerShell example: $string3 =…

I would have to agree with Kevin, though I love Python, Powershell is the easier language to interact with the Orion API.

Hi Jason, Using the Powershell syntax, the ` (backtick) character to escape special characters: $string1 = "Hello there" echo $string1 $string2 = "`"Hello there`"" echo $string2 Hope it helps, Rich

Local and AD Groups work fine, you can test the user by logging in to the GUI. If the user logs in with Orion admin rights you'll be good to go.

We don't have these devices but after a quick search I found two SNMP tables that might be of interest to you: isdnBearerTable: 1.3.6.1.2.1.10.20.1.2.1 cpmDS1ActiveDS0s 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.10.19.1.1.9.1.3 You will want to test between the CLI and SNMP and check that the numbers do add up correctly. 

Here's a simple python example, the username (at least in our environment) needs the domain, such as domain\username and the user needs to be a SolarWinds admin user. from orionsdk import SwisClient npm_server = 'solar01.domain.net' username = 'domain\user' password = 'password swis = SwisClient(npm_server, username,…

Hi there Jamie, Are you using the SDK with PowerShell or Python, or are you trying a straight GET request? You can pass the authentication via the url: https://username:password@example.com/ Though I would recommend either using Swis-Connect (Powershell) or SwisClient (Python). Regards, Rich (yaquaholic)

Yup 

Try the DNS resolvable hostname for your Orion server, or the IP address.

You could have a look in C:\Program Files (x86)\Syslogd\ there are several log files in there, but I could find none with web access details/problems. But if this is new installation I would either reach out to SolarWinds Support for their assistance, or re-install the application. 

There's a database update you can do to fix this, have a look at https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Changing-the-server-name-now-results-to-multiple-primary-pollers?language=en_US 

Have you searched the community pollers, to see if anyone has done this before, for you UPS type? https://thwack.solarwinds.com/t5/NPM-Documents/tkb-p/npm-documents/label-name/universal%20device%20pollers?labels=universal%20device%20pollers 

It's not generally NPM not supporting it, but the UPS not providing it (via SNMP). If the SNMP agent presents the data (OID) then NPM can collect it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Ooooh, you have made the BBC news.... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55265442

Por teléfono 

Yes you can. We recently re-configured our test VSX system to use a dedicated SNMP daemon for each virtual instance, and it works pretty well. Further info: https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Logging-and-Reporting/How-to-monitor-virtual-systems-on-VSX/td-p/2305 yaquaholic

Hi MD.J, Have you had a look at this posting: https://support.solarwinds.com/SuccessCenter/s/article/Reset-Kiwi-Web-Access-User-account-password?language=en_US ? Yaquaholic 

Hi Rehan, Navigate to Manage Reports and you'll find an import/export button Rich

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Hi, sorry been a really busy few days.... Event without the SWQL Studio - https://github.com/solarwinds/OrionSDK you can use the built in Orion SWQL tool. Point your browser at https://<your Orion server>/Orion/admin/swis.aspx any you'll get a basic SWQL tool, where you test/play. If you can find Orion.VIM.VirtualMachines…

I have taken the SQL, cleaned it up a little bit more and wrapped it into a report for you. Down nodes - demo report.xml I was also looking at events table and resolving misisng data for ICMP polled nodes, by using the node down event timestamps. But, in the meantime, this will get you started.

Out trigger ended up looking like this: SELECT E0.[Uri], E0.[DisplayName] FROM Orion.NPM.CustomPollerStatusOnNodeTabular AS E0 WHERE E0.[CustomPollerAssignment].[CustomPoller].[UniqueName] = '<poller name goes here>' AND ( E0.[RawStatus] = '4' OR E0.[RawStatus] > '129' ) And as we were getting a bit of alert noise, we set…

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Try using one of the other macros, I would guess that ${Node.DNS} would be the best, as I seem to remember the hostname needs to match DNS for the commandlet to work. From: Best practices for SAM templates Use SolarWinds macros When using SolarWinds macros, consider assigning them to named variables in your scripts. The…

I must admit I just ticked the box and left it on the defaults. I have just checked my ILO Health template and mine looks like this: