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Which interfaces do I really need to monitor?
I'm new to SolarWinds and in the process of setting up SAM, NPM, and NTA. During the Network Sonar Results Wizard, on the Interfaces tab, it finds 694 interfaces. Obviously, I don't want to monitor all...
View ArticleAccount limitations - interfaces on restricted nodes
I am having some trouble limiting accounts in the way that I need it to work. As an example... I have a customer, Acme, for whom I am monitoring a bunch of devices. Each device has a custom property...
View ArticleAre you responsible for keeping AD up and running? Would you show us how?
Are you the person responsible for the performance, health and availability of Active Directory? If so, we here in UX would love to do a 30 minute (to an hour) virtual "show me" session of how you keep...
View ArticleAlerting - can this be done? Alerting based on "milestones"?
Have had an unusual request and am trying to figure out how to potentially accommodate it. We recently had a mistake happen where it cut off a bunch of nodes at once and Orion alerted on them just...
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How do I?...
I'm trying to embed (not sure if this is the right term), an external webpage into the ORION dashboard. The content shows the outage map for our area and will be helpful to correlate it with network...
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Maps - MPLS - Link utilization
Dear SW community, After many years we finally started to use MAPS in NPM. Like most organizations, we use multi point WAN solutions (e.g. MPLS) and discovered that whilst using Atlas and connect MPLS...
View ArticleDNS Fail - Transaction errors when using hostname only
We have some recordings that monitor internal websites, which users access by host name only (not the fully qualified domain name). These transactions fail intermittently on the first step, the...
View ArticleUpgraded NCM
When I upgraded our NCM to the newest model i have a message Orion User Account Limitations will be applied in NCM Jobs should i do anything extra?
View ArticleEmailing Captured Events In PDF Format
Inside LEM verison 5.7. When generating nDepth queries, I can export the results in PDF format. However, when emailing, there is only one option of sending it via a .csv file. I was told by LEM support...
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Programmatically detect Wireless Access Points
Hello All, I am using DiscoverInterfacesOnNode (from Orion.NPM.Interfaces) and adding all the discovered interfaces to the node via the REST api. However, I have found that Wireless Controllers are not...
View ArticleHow to make status lights reflect CURRENT status?
I want to be able to provide a "dashboard" for my management, based on server and application status in SAM. However, right now, it looks downright SCARY! If I fix a problem (or adjust a threshold to...
View ArticleDFS Application Monitor Template--Anyone using this?
I had been having quite a few DFS replication/synchronization issues, and frankly, SAM wasn't much help in identifying and troubleshooting problems. I think I finally fixed the biggest issues, so I...
View ArticleManagement console is crashing as soon as Java is installed ---
We were able to correct his last time by adding our website to the Java exception list -- this time it is crashing the entire page ... 0-5: set trace level to...
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SAM 5.2: MYSQL ( Data source ERROR.)
Hello I'm trying to monitor my MySQL server through the MySQL template via SAM. It gives me the following error, can't get around it. Testing on node 10.x.x.x: failed with 'Down' statusData source...
View ArticleA word of thanks to SolarWinds about WWWO section
Hello, This is a simple letter with one single goal; to thank SolarWinds for the creation of the What we're working on section. It is very refreshing and commendable to see the level to which...
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HOW TO MONITOR HARDWARE HEALTH IN ESXI 5.5 HOST?
I already added vmware node by snmp and poll for esx,but don't show hardware health item,who can help me to do ?npm version is 10.4. thank you very much.
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WAN - Double-link Failure - Advanced Alerts
Hello, I have a doubt about the advanced alerts. I want to monitor my 2 WAN links using OSPF because the interface status maybe up but protocol down. I´m using Routing Neighbors to monitor individually...
View Articlecreate a node in SAM datatabase getting the data from out cmdb via Automation...
Need guidance on how to create a node in SAM datatabase getting the data from out cmdb via Automation ... help ? I have been tasked to Automate in getting new nodes and removal of nodes from out CMDB...
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SQL Report
Hello Everyone, Was wondering if you could help with an SQL query I have. I would like to create a report that collects the below. - IPSSerialNumber- IPSSigExpiry- IPSSigVersionWould like to include...
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