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Modifying The "Windows Server 2008-2016 Domain Controller Security Template" / "Locked Out Users"

July 12, 2018, 10:18 am
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Hi Everyone,

 

I'm a little new to SAM and we are trying to modify this template "Windows Server 2008-2016 Domain Controller Security".

 

Specifically the Locked Out Users portion. We disabled everything else in the template.

 

How can I modify this so that I can provide a list of accounts we want to be notified if locked out? We don't care about the average user being locked out we just want a notification if one of our service accounts gets locked out. I couldn't find a specific template for just that so I am trying to see if we can somehow modify this one? I've already created a duplicate to work with and test.

 

I highly appreciate any feedback/assistance.

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linux command not working the same through SAM as on the server

July 13, 2018, 11:24 am
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I am trying to run the following linux bash script to monitor when an NFS mount is inaccessible due to issues like a networking outage to the share.

 

 

 

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read -t5 < <(stat -t "/<directory>" 2>&1)

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then

  echo "statistic: 0"

  echo "message: NFS Share is reachable"

else

  echo "statistic: 1"

  echo "message: NFS Share hasn't responded in 30 seconds, please investigate"

fi

=======================

 

this works great on the server, I blocked the outgoing IP to the share and it times out and give the statistic, but in SAM, it's as if it's disregarding the read timeout portion and just only attempts the stat part of it in which it just hangs until the template times out.  I'm not sure if there's a syntax change that I need to do or what.

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Linux script execution error. There was an error processing the request.

February 6, 2018, 8:11 am
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This scream for help could actually have one of two different err messages, I'll try to explain:

I'm attempting to execute a python script in a SAM template deployed to an agent running on Raspbian(Stretch).

python ${SCRIPT}

print "Statistic.Pressure: 14"

print "Message.Pressure: Pressure"

When I test from within the template editing process, I get this:

Output Result:ND Get Output Failed:{"Message":"There was an error processing the request.","StackTrace":"","ExceptionType":""}

When viewing the application monitor after a poll attempt, the err on the component is shown as:
"Linux script execution error. No fields were recognized in the script output"

When I look at the debug log for the application on the agent, I see this:

Which leaves me confused.

I understand the err on the application page, because the outputs(Static.Pressure and Message.Pressure) are not defined.
But I can't define the output within the template if the output is not returned.
The script seems as though it is being interpreted absolutely perfectly because in the debug file, the output is shown as expected, without error.

I just can't figure out why that output isn't *seeming to be brought back when editing the template.

Any thoughts, ideas, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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What We're Working On Beyond SAM 6.6 (Updated April 12, 2018)

May 15, 2015, 5:53 pm
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Server & Application Monitor (SAM) 6.6 is out, and you can now take advantage of the new features like Application Dependencies.   Take a look at the release notes for additional information on all the new features. As always, we continue to work on delivering new and enhanced features for SAM. Below you will see some those features we are working for future releases.

   

Application-Centric Troubleshooting

  • AppInsight for Active Directory – you are all familiar with our existing AppInsights for SQL Server or Exchange, this will be creating a similar view and experience for monitoring critical details of your Active Directory environment
  • Integration with AppOptics – Bringing application performance monitoring (APM) to SAM with an integration with AppOptics, that makes deployment of the SolarWinds AppOptics agent seamless and easy!
  • Applications on Orion Maps – support for showing application relationships within Orion Maps
  • Container Monitoring – this will be our entry point into supporting monitoring of containers and support for Docker, Kubernetes, and Mesos deployments

 

As Always, if there is something you would like to see on our roadmap, please make sure to submit a new or vote for an existing feature request.

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Application Templates Assigned to Group no longer updates with node assigned to group

June 16, 2018, 8:53 pm
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About a month ago, Applications no longer get assigned or unassigned when nodes are added or removed from a group.

I am using dynamic group with a dynamic query to assign node (works consistently) and a dynamic query to assign Application (suddenly quit working)

This is happening for 20 different groups.

No Orion updates have been recently applied.

I have tried rebooting the Orion server, restarting Orion services, and performed a manual DB Maintenance.

Applications can be manually assigned and unassigned to nodes without issue.

Verified SAM User Role

 

Has anyone else seen this issue?

 

(Case # 00110808)

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Which IP to use during Agents installation in case of HA.

July 9, 2018, 9:11 am
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In case we have High Availability deployed and have at least 3 IP addresses.

 

When we are installing Agent on servers which IP to provide during agent installation in case of Agent Initiated Communication in selected.

 

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Volume Type Definition Changes

May 16, 2018, 3:26 am
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We set up some alerts for 'Fixed Disks' earlier this year.

 

We than later upgraded to the latest release of SAM and had disks filling up without being alerted on.

 

Looks like there is now two similar options when configuring the alert with a volume type equal to:

The drop down list is showing:

Fixed Disk

FixedDisk

 

I've managed to work around this by changing to a 'Starts WIth' 'Fixed' filter.

 

Has anyone else come across this?

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How to get response time details using HTTP monitor in SAM.

July 6, 2018, 8:25 am
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Hi,

 

How to get response time details using the HTTP monitor in SAM.

SAM version we currently are using is 6.6.

 

As of now I am able to set the up/down status of the web URL.

I would like to view the actual response time details and the amount of data used.

 

If that is possible in current version of SAM.

 

Thanks and Regards,

Richa Arya

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Unable to Connect Error - Service Monitor

August 23, 2017, 8:49 am
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I'm setting up a new node in SAM for a Windows 2012 R2 server. I want to monitor some specific services. I've added the monitoring user to the admin group, and I've opened up the firewall for SAM to access. But I still get the 'unable to connect to <server> as user <account>. I'm not sure what to look at next. Is there anything in the logs that would give me an indication?

 

Thank you,

Tom

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Nested Menus

July 16, 2018, 9:49 am
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Hi All,

Question: is it possible to create nested menus in the Solarwinds console?

Background: in the IT operation that I support we have a large number of Perfstack projects created for the operational teams (Active Directory and Exchange).

Working with the new features that permits sharing a Perstack project and then incorporating that URL into a menu item.

So far so good. Next step: I want to create a menu item under My Dashboards >> Applications and call it 'Perfstack Projects'.  I would like to then place my 20+ projects under the sub-menu for the operations teams to access.

I have poked around the online documentation and 'manage menu' facility, but I don't see a way to create a nested menu.

Can someone advise if it is possible to create nested menus in the Solarwinds console? If there is a good document out there I'm willing to do some reading.

Thanks in advance for your help.

P.S. I have posted this to the SAM forum.  Understood that the question has to do with menu building in general, not necessarily SAM specific.  Let me know if this question should be posed on a different forum.

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SWIS and SCOM integration

July 16, 2018, 10:26 am
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Hi All,

I am relatively new to Solarwinds SAM.  I have background in SCOM, NetIQ AppManager, plus a fair amount of SQL.

Starting to work with SWQL/SWIS.

My shop runs both Solarwinds and SCOM.  We have been pulling some perf data into Solarwinds via WMI or Agent.  Using this data to build dashboards and perfstack projects.

However.  We also collect perf data with SCOM.  Management starting to question why we are pulling the same data with 2 different programs.

Problem in a Nutshell:

SCOM collects a rich collection of perf counters from servers.  However, SCOM reports are ugly and the report writer difficult to work with.

Solarwinds has great looking reports and consoles and easy to use report/console creation.  However, we may be facing limitations on pulling perf data from servers directly into Solarwinds.

So, looking to perhaps use SWIS to pull perf counters from SCOM (Operational Database or Data Warehouse) into Solarwinds and use that data to create consoles, reports, perstack projects.

Can anyone offer some guidance (maybe even examples ) on the best way to pull performance counters from SCOM into Solarwinds?  Thanks in advance for your help.

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Looking for a way to perform a health check on a SFTP server.

July 16, 2018, 8:12 am
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I would like to have solarwinds perform and authenticated SFTP login if possible. We have 2 SFTP nodes and a NetScaler VIP that the customers use. I didnt see any application templates related to SFTP so wanted to check here if this is possible with solarwinds?

 

Thanks

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Serv-U MFT setup

July 15, 2018, 11:33 pm
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We are trying to setup Serv-U MFT with a gateway. We are having an issue. I can see the server is communicating with the Gateway without any issue. We do have a 1-1 Nat from an external IP to our DMZ gateway server. We have allowed all the services such as FTP, SFTP, HTTP and HTTPS on our firewall. But for some reason when I try to connect from outside I do not seem to get through. Not sure if there is any other setup which is needed to get this working. I have even allowed these ports on the DMZ VM which hosts the gateway product. I am able to connect internally without any issues. Any guidance would help.

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Shoretel App Monitors

July 16, 2018, 11:45 am
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I was wondering if anyone has setup a Shoretel App Monitor that would monitor a voicemail box and send out an alert when it gets close to 500 voicemails?  I have the Shoretel SAM App monitor downloaded from THWACk but it just monitors services.  We had an issue where our call volume jumped and need something besides keeping the Shoretel App open to see when the vm gets close to 500.   Thanks!

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Is this normal for ODP.NET?

April 6, 2018, 5:40 am
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So  have been having some issues with monitoring Oracle for a while.  I am attempting to install ODP again as I can't see it was ever installed on the typical directory of C:\ProgramData\Solarwinds\Orion (though I swear I installed it on the solarwinds box)

 

 

 

 

 

 

So I am wondering if this is correct, because from what I can remember, I swear that it didn't look like this last time.

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Monitoring Windows Activations in SAM

March 25, 2014, 9:05 am
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Hello,

 

Is it possible to monitor the Windows Activations in SAM?

I would like to know if it is possible to check the current status of Windows license (not activated or activated) and if possible to compare it with the number of available activations.

 

For example my company would have 30 activations available for Windows 7 and I would like to know how many is used (the utilization).

 

Working on a non activated Windows is not exactly a standard, however it would be nice if SAM could group it.

 

Kind regards,

Marcin.

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How to install Orion NPM / SAM Agents using SCCM

July 16, 2018, 11:50 pm
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Is there a way to deploy SolarWinds Orion / NPM / SAM Agents using SCCM silent installation, any specific command where we can supply Orion IP, Orion username and password.

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TCP port monitor behaving fishy

July 17, 2018, 4:54 am
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I am creating a TCP port monitor to monitor ports on Red hat servers using SAM 6.6.

 

But the monitor is behaving weird as it is showing down while the Port on the server is reachable.

 

Any idea about this behavior.

 

Regards

Richa Arya

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HTTP Monitor - 503 is UP

January 20, 2016, 2:10 pm
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Is there a way to change the HTTP application monitor to report UP if HTTP 503 is returned?

 

In my situation, the monitor is testing www.netflix.com and HTTP 503 means that our URL filtering is working correctly.

 

I've seen other mentions of accomplishing this using powershell, but haven't been able to find real examples or documentation.

 

Thanks!

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Report Designer - Advanced SQL - Node Custom Properties

July 17, 2018, 4:54 am
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When using Advanced SQL in Report Designer, how do we pull through the Node Custom Properties?

 

I've searched high and low, a couple of similar unanswered questions so still getting a SQL Error when trying to use the names of the Custom Properties.

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