historical bandwidth usage report after interface bandwidth change
Greetings. I assume the answer to this is 'no', but I wanted to be sure. I discovered that several of our interfaces had the transmitted and received bandwidth set incorrectly. I've corrected them, but...
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All of a sudden, none of the alerts in my system are being displayed in the dashboard. The only evidence I have that they are there, is the fact that I can use email and update them or close them....
View ArticleIP Monitor Changes tracking
Hello, How could I track the changes made to the configration of the IP monitor.e.g.: Change the IP of a Monitor on a server, web page, etc...Change to the port used to be monitoredChange to the...
View ArticleAlert on the number of running instances of a process
I'd like to be able to report and alert on the number of instances of a particular process that is running on a group of servers. We have an application that create a new process for every core in a...
View ArticleAUTO-RESTART THE WINDOWS SERVICE IN ANOTHER DOMAIN
I want to restart the windows services on a windows 2008 box that is located in a different domain than what the SolarWinds server is sitting in. I created a user account on the other domain, with...
View ArticleApplication Monitoring Template for Windows Server 2012 DirectAccess
Hi, Has anyone tried to create an application monitoring template for Windows Server 2012 DirectAccess? As I would like to be able to monitor some of the more advanced features of DA which is available...
View ArticleInclude VLAN ID in Top XX Subnets by % IP Address Used
Hi, I was asked to look into adding a column to the Top XX Subnets by % IP Address Used chart to include the VLAN ID since we have that information populated. It looks like this chart is fixed to not...
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vCenter connection failing again
So I've run into this issue again and support was not able to get it resolved for me this time. I'm hoping maybe someone else has also run into this.We had this issue a few months ago and the fix was...
View ArticleCustom email alert from Alert Central
Hi, I just installed Alert Central and in the testing process. I set it up so it will have Orion as the source of alerts. I noticed that all my custom messages (body of the message) from Orion are all...
View ArticleAdd new IP address to an existing Node?
I'm attempting to use the Perl SDK to add an IP address to an existing node: specifically the Orion.NodeIPAddresses. I'm getting an access denied error: <UserMessage>Access to...
View ArticleDisk space trending anyone?
Has anyone devised a decent way of trending disk space usage? Some goals would be: 1. When will I get below X free space (where you fill in X)? Or at least when will I run out of space?2. When will I...
View ArticleNPM Reporting Packet Loss After Web Server Migration
We recently migrated our NPM web server, going from a 32bit Windows 2003 server to a 64bit Windows 2008 server. After the migration we have noticed that almost all our nodes are reporting a lot more...
View ArticleHTML Report Emails not running
I have reports that are emailing PDF now. If I change them to sent printable version of HTML report, the task won't even run. Any Thoughts?
View ArticleCreating alerts for dependencies and groups
Hello, currently we do not have any groups, so of course when a router or a ISP goes down, we get alerts for every server. So I created a dependency for one router, and assigned it a group...
View ArticleWhere security and failure meet.
Over the past few weeks, I've been talking about how failure, in broad terms, affects our roles. Most of our discussion has focused on a mistake that causes an outage. However, I'm honestly surprised...
View ArticleOrion NPM Architecture, Speed, and SQL
In my last post, "What NPM Tips and Tricks do You Have?" I asked about tips and tricks, expecting a mashup of different things from all over the NPM world and to a certain extent that's what happened....
View ArticleQoS designs and network borders in a BYOD, bandwidth hungry world
Taking a step back from internal QoS designs, one thing that I have worked on for a large portion of both my professional and consulting career is border queuing. To take a walk down memory lane and...
View ArticleNPM give false positives on various nodes and devices all over the...
Being an old SCOM guy, I'm not used to dealing with having to fix the product. But we are getting false positives whenever SNMP service restarts, or the status changes. Especially with network devices,...
View ArticleServer restarted even when no restart option was selected in Solarwind patch...
During patch install via Solarwindpatch manager in 'No pre-reboot/Post-reboot" option,we found one servers got rebooted. On check found the restart source"MSiInstalle r".Desc"Windows installer...
View ArticleSCP Branded Shirt Interest?
As a result of recent interest in SCP branded polo shirts, I've been discussing the idea with a vendor to offer them up for sale to SCPs. The idea right now is to offer a male and a female version,...
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