Using Scheduled Discovery for Discovering Monitoring Gaps - A Crazy Idea
What do you do when you have nearly 11,000 nodes and 70,000 elements and someone ask you "How are you sure that you are monitoring all of the appropriate interfaces and volumes on those nodes?" We...
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Does SAM credentials support the .\Administrator or localhost\Administrator...
Embarrassed to say I'm just hitting our first large number of non-domain servers and would rather have one credential for all rather then way too many computername\username.
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Web Based Alert Manager - Painful
I am unable to see all of my applications and cannot create a trigger for a known application name. The drop down stops at the bottom of the screen. Unless I am not seeing something with this "White...
View ArticleAppstack - default layout
Hi,I created a new view the resources "Appstack Environment".by default, all objects are displayed. I want to hide objects with the status "Shutdown"I clicked on "View In Entire Appstack...
View ArticleChecking the Solarwinds environment
Hi, You know sometimes it seems that our Solarwinds Environment is sticked together with bandage and glue Don't get me wrong I am nor telling that Solarwinds isn't good I am just saying that I think...
View Articlebug while updating SAM
Hiwe changed the flag 'Count statistic as difference' in some components of some templates (e.g. 'Microsoft Lync Server 2013 (Mediation Role)') to true.While updating to a newer version - in this case...
View ArticleHP Hardware Monitoring via ILO4 Agentless
Hi All, Just wondering if anyone has experience monitoring HP hardware using ILO4 in the Proliant Gen 8's instead of HP SNMP management agents? From what i can tell , it works but I have to use the ILO...
View ArticleJob Engine v2: Worker Processes extremely high, how to reset and/or fix once...
Hello all, I'm using SAM to monitor around 400 nodes and the self monitoring template for Orion (downloaded the most recent version I could find in thwack). My counter for Job Engine v2: Worker...
View ArticleApril Fools Day 2015
It is just two weeks away.....what do you have planned? Over the years I have had way too much fun on April Fools Day. Since Radio Shack is closing a bunch of stores...I have been stocking up on stuff....
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JMX Bridge Stops
Hello All, My JMX Bridge service stops responding within 10 minutes of starting. I am running the following apps on a VMware VM running Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard:NPM 11.0.1NCM 7.3.2SAM...
View ArticleGet 2k thwack points and a sneak peak at possible improvements to the node...
Hello Everyone! I am looking for folks that use NPM today, to give feedback on new ways to possibly visualize interfaces data on a node details page. Just did a call withadatole and he liked some of...
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DPA AMI
I see there is an AMI for DPA in the AWS Community Market place. This seems to be a user submitted AMI [SolarWinds_DPA_9.1 (Build 9.1.85_56)]. However, there is also mention of an AMI on the solarwinds...
View ArticleSolarwinds Lab Environment
Hey All, We are looking for a lab for solarwinds were we can play with different features and upgrades before we push them to production. However we are told we need to to pay of ton of money for...
View ArticleNCM Configuration
Hi All, This question is regarding Network Configuration Manager. If i have SNMP community string read only + SSH Level 15 Privilege, so can i upload configuration to network devices or we need SNMP...
View ArticleTarget - Total Server Memory
Hallo All, At the moment I am adjusting the threshold for target server memory and total server memory . In SOLARWIND , if total > target means BAD ( indication of memory pressure ) but based on...
View ArticlePerformance counter for SQL can't be found
Hi all , I am SQL DBA and monitoring SQL performance using SOLARWIND . The performance counter shows up and a few minutes later shows DOWN and keep behaving like that .when the status is down ( it is...
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Storage Manager showing no data on server monitor
I have an issue on the storage manager, some of our servers are showing n/a on the server monitor page but we do not know why this was happening. Tried to check but the settings are the same across,...
View ArticleChild details in alert email
I would like to include some details of the child objects for when a parent node goes down.Is there a SQL statement or another way to get a list of child names? even just a child node count would be...
View ArticleHow to add a new TabMenu
Currently I have five Tabs (Virtualization, Home, Applications, Configs and Network) but I would like to add two more tabs so as to categorise and organise my views according to different enviroments.I...
View ArticleHOW TO ADD A NEW TABMENU
Currently I have five Tabs (Virtualization, Home, Applications, Configs and Network) but I would like to add two more tabs so as to categorise and organise my views according to different enviroments.I...
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