Dear All SolarWinders,
I would like to kick off an exciting series of articles around monitoring workflow that I have created for the past few month.
A year ago I have discovered SolarWinds product (actually - platform, not just product) and it simply blew me away. I could not believe what these guys at Austin TX have done. This Thing Just Works! ... and with a bit of imagination and persistence from my side this platform would do virtually anything what I had my mind up to. Now, I am at the stage of my second breakthrough in working with SolarWinds - I have discovered the power of SQL scripts... and I just simply can't stop scripting...
I hear some of you are saying - "Hell no, SQL sounds like too much. I better stick with NEXT > NEXT > CLICK > CLICK > DRAG > DRAG = DONE". And you would be absolutely right. I was thinking the same. Besides - I have never done any SQLing in my life before and on top of that SolarWinds Product Team already does pretty awesome job of enabling you to not to go beyond GUI and still achieve extraordinary results anyway. Why on earth would you start SQL scripting?! ... However, just watch this space and you will be amazed by the power of SQL scripts (I would add basic SQL scripts) that you can deploy in your environment.
Here is a quick preview of few articles that I will strive to publish at least once per week - first one is out there for you to get your hand on right now
- Prerequisites...
- Automatically Update World Map Points Based On Custom Property Value
- Resource To Display All Your Components With Problems
- Resource To Display All Your Problematic Nodes With Any Columns You Like (Any Custom Properties, Last Up, Status, etc)
- Resource To Display Last Triggered Alerts On Landing Summary Pages For Any Object Type (Nodes, Volumes, Apps, Components, Interfaces)
- Robust Solution to Segregate Nodes Into Different Environments (zones, scopes, areas of responsibility... call it whatever you like)
- Get Your Alerting Mechanisms In Place - Unified Advanced Alerts To Handle Virtually Any Event, Consistent Email Body With Dynamic Support Info, etc
- Find Any Objects With Polling Problems
- Manage Node's Response Time Thresholds Better By Accounting For WAN Latencies
- Know Your Routing Neighbours Problems
- Manage Volumes Space Thresholds Based On Percentage And Megabytes Values
- Manage Volume Performance Thresholds Based On Global Values As Well As Ability To Override Per Disk
- Manage Interface Utilisation and Performance Thresholds Based On Global Values As Well As Ability To Override Per Interface
- CPU Alert Based On CPU Average Over Period Of Time - Global Thresholds As Well As Ability To Override Per Node
- Segregate Your Nodes And Escalation Points Into Different Zones/Areas For Different Teams/Regions/Sites/etc
- Get Centrally Managed Information About Your Customers, Clients, Locations, Sites, etc Straight On The Landing Summary Page Of Your Nodes
- How On Earth All This Fits Together - Dashboards, Resources & Alerts
- ... any many, many more
Thank You,
Alex Soul