Upgraded to new release of NPM 11.5.1 last night
So after upgrading the primary , secondary poller and additional web server on recommendation from support to address the multiple of bugs I am having - I know see this error from time to time (...
View ArticleDid not receive expected response to command: show running-config
Hi, I have scheduled Device.Backup.Running Config activity for our network devices. All devices are working perfectly fine except ACE(load balancer module) and this is not continuous. I have around 8...
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Not sure who has the messiest desk in the office?
Let us be the judge. You've seen that messy desk in the office - whether it's covered in dirty mugs, inspirational Star Trek posters, or the entire team of Marvel bobbleheads, you can't miss it. To...
View ArticleAuto Rename works with manual download, doesn't work with scheduler
I've added the auto rename to the site profile and if I download manually it's no problem it renames the file. If I run it through the scheduler it doesn't rename. I've started, stopped, saved,...
View ArticleSAM Application Monitor behavior
I have set up an application monitor to watch for Acrobat Reader, and if it's CPU usage stays above 18% for more than 10 minutes, to set an orion alert and to send an e-mail out detailing what server...
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alerts for (interface status change) events that happened long ago
Getting strange alerts from NPM (starting with 11.5): "5/1/2015 12:46 AM Interface Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Network Connection · x100 on Node AAA changed to Warning at 2/7/2015 12:19:00 AM". Note how the...
View ArticleMonitor/alert for process ID change
I have found a couple of posts about alerting for a process ID change to indicate an application crash, but they were all at least a few years old and I wanted to see if there has been any progress...
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ESX Hardware Polling
Orion seems to think that it's polling ESXi hardware status; however, I continue to get caught by hardware problems that Orion is not catching. Below you can see the screenshots of what vCenter is...
View ArticleIs it Possible to Customize the Interface and not just the Login Page
I have a nice customized log-in page but once logged in you get the "really nice" Serv-U themes and logos. Is it possible to customize the color schemes and logos inside the site?
View ArticleNPM 11.5: Alertstatus.notes
Anyone know where the alertstatus.notes field ended up in the database. I've spent 30 minutes looking around the tables, and it's not obvious to me where they got moved to: Here is the SQL query I used...
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ESXi Status Alert
I am trying to setup an alert in Orion for when my ESX hosts are not in a good state. Orion will show the ESX status as down (as seen in the screenshot below) when there is a problem. This value is...
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EXCLAIMER Signature Manager Template
Hi Thwack Community: On my very first post I wanted to share a TEMPLATE I created for an specific need. For those using the mail signature management application called Exclaimer this might be...
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Download configs from Juniper SRX
Need some assistance on configuring NCM to download configs for Juniper devices I have tried creating a Connection Profile, but keep getting the following error: ----- Connection Profile: Juniper...
View ArticleUsing a Stored Procedure in UnDP Transform
I have created a UnDP that returns 10 rows of "status" values on each query. These values are 1 thru 7. What I am trying to do is get a count of rows that have a status value of 4. (4 = "installed...
View ArticleUDT Safelist
Hello all, I am not quite sure how to go about getting an accurate depiction of my network through the use of UDT. Since not every device on the network is monitored as a node (1000+) not all of them...
View ArticleNeed help trying to add a node to a group container using Perl
Thanks to some examples you've posted here, I've been able to add a new node and to unmanage a node from a perl script. But now I want to take a node I've added and place it into a pre-existing group....
View ArticleFeature request - Copy Custom Properties from another node
Hello - It would be very nice if when adding a node I could select another node to copy custom properties from. We have about 10 different properties we apply to each node in the datacenters, and...
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Active v.s. Consumed Memory in SAM v.s. VMan
Hi, Apologies in advance for sounding ignorant to SAM's functionality v.s. VMan, as I am a few years/versions behind on Solarwinds. I was approached with a problem this morning that I am having...
View ArticleDefault email alerts don't work
I seem to have found an odd one. I am configuring Alerts, and twice now, I have not been able to trigger an email using whatever trigger action was in that template. What I did was, I copied an...
View ArticleDelete a Collector from Virtualisation manager
I have had issues with a collector in Virtualisation Manager and have had to re add it with a different name. How do I delete the original one from the system as it is showing as offline as it no...
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