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vCenter versus Orion Cluster CPU?
Below are graphs of the Cluster CPU utilization for the same cluster for the past 7 days. One graph is from VMWare and the other is from Orion. Clearly these two are not at all the same, any ideas...
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Reporting Instance for Long Term Retention
Has anyone created a second copy of their Orion DB for reporting? I'm looking for a way to have my main instance keep our standard retention period but then ship off nightly copies to a second...
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NCM7.3 upgrade question
The NCM admin manual says (p. 17) Note: Because SolarWinds NCM 7.x shares common components with all Orion Platform products, the process of installing and configuring SolarWinds NCM involves shutting...
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EOC 1.6 Beta Now Available
EOC 1.6 Beta 1 is now available to try - sign up today by taking our survey! New features include:Aggregation of Virtualization (VIM) dataConfiguration Option to open Orion in a new windowMap fix for...
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Solarwinds orion module engine service missing
Hello Experts, I'm trying to install Solarwinds NPM. http://www.solarwinds.com/network-performance-monitor.aspx The installation appears to go smoothly, however, the installation won't install the...
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Solarwinds Certification help ?
Hi All, I am new to this blog and want some help in getting myself prepared for Solarwinds Certifications.Appreciate your help in finding docs to get prepared for Exam.
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Orion Database Server Configuration Question
I have seen the best practices document (http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/OriondbBestPractices.pdf) and would love to follow it. The problem is I am limited to a single server with...
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Grayed Out VMs
Hello, I am pretty new to monitoring hypervisors. Currently i have an implementation for VMWare when i click on a VCenter Host, and drill down to a Host within one of my clusters i see virtual machines...
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assign scheduled task template to multiple nodes
Hi Folks New to the forum but already found plenty of useful stuff on here so thanks in advance! My Scheduled Task monitoring was not working for any nodes as it was complaining that no credentials...
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unexpected error occurred, invalid query
Hi, I have a Print service monitor in place across 10 Citrix servers & on 9 of these, it reports perfectly into Solarwinds, this is great! However, on one, all I get is "unexpected error occurred,...
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SCP taken and passed
The exam guide along with real-world experience was good prep for the SCP exam. All questions well written and a good balance of npm vs basic network troubleshooting.Good times.
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Show throughput of a conversation (e.g. XMbps)?
Hello, Is it possible to show the throughput of a flow in NTA 4.0? I find a conversation with NTA between A and B and using a Top XX Conversations resource I can see the ingress bytes, egress bytes,...
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Can we do ping or snmpwalks through the API?
My pollers are in secure networks. It would be ideal for me to write tools to test if an IP can be ping'ed through a certain poller. Perhaps other basic tools like traceroute or snmpwalk would be nice...
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Event Messages: "Job Engine v2: Worker Processes"
I'm currently evaluating Solarwinds Server and Application Monitor, (among a few other SW modules), and have noticed that I keep getting continuous alerts related to "Job Engine v2: Worker Processes"....
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Custom Reporting with SSRS
Hi All, My company is now starting to offer Managed Services as an offering and we are looking into creating a custom report with Microsoft Report builder that hooks into the Orion db to pull data....
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Bought some SolarWinds swag from the thwack store? Show us!
There has been some conversation sparked about how people are using their SolarWinds swag. Whether it's stickers, a laptop sleeve, t-shirts and polo's, we wanna see it's new home! Post away.
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Send alert in fahrenheit instead of celsius
Hi,I would like my temperature alerts to read in fahrenheit and not celsius.Everything shows fahrenheit but when alert is sent out the temperature shows in celsius.Can anyone please help me to...
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Orion SDK Information
Thank you for your interest in the SDK.You can download the SDK 1.9 here (SDK 1.8 here / SDK 1.7 here / SDK 1.6 here / v1.5 here / SDK v1.4 here) What's new in SDK v1.9? New chapter added documenting...
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Where is the Status alert variable for AppInsight for SQL alerts?
In Advanced alerts I can see that the APM: Application property has a Status variable, but I do not see the same variable in the AppInsight for SQL: Application property type. Is Availability the one...
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