CPU load never shows the correct process
When I get an alert, for CPU Load, it never shows the process consuming all the resources. Here's an example: The CPU on mail2 is currently running at 88 %. The top 10 processes running at the time...
View ArticleWindows Server audit with Solarwinds
I have powershell script to perform windows server audit, which gather below information from selected serverI want to perform this within solarwinds node properties page. I have attached my script...
View ArticleApplication Template for Virtualization Manager?
We are in the process of rolling out VMAN and I realized that I don't really know how to monitor the viability of the application via SAM. On the master appliance there is the hyper9 user running the...
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Alert escalation
I was playing around with the alert and I notice that when when a trigger condition is already triggered if the changes to another trigger condition it will not alert again. See my example below The...
View ArticleHow are licenses consumed in SAM?
I am still confused regarding license consumption with SAM. The installation of Solarwinds we use has the following modules and licensing levels. NCM - 500NPM - 2000IPAM - Unlimited We want to...
View ArticleAppInsight SQL Alerts
Configuring AppInsight for so many servers with different needs is really challenginging when I cannot override or disable these monitors easily. Why is this tempalte so inflexible and so difficult to...
View ArticlePowerShell Credentials
I've created a Windows PowerShell Monitor that calls w32tm to check time source. My goal is to setup alerting if a server is using Free-running System Clock. $time = w32tm /query /source...
View ArticleLocation of script arguments in APM database?
Good afternoon, Where can I find SAM script arguments in the database? I notice the table APM_ComponentTemplate has the name, but none of the specifics. Where is that stored?
View ArticleIRS Computer Tips. How do you ensure your company's emails are safe?
Seeing as how the IRS had seven key hard drive "crashes" recently and coincidentally canceled their backup service at about the same time, I was thinking thwack may be able to offer some tech tips. So,...
View ArticleSolarwinds newbie here, and I'm working in Advanced Alert Manager.
I'm just trying to figure out what is being monitored by the default "Alert me when a component goes down." What component is this referring to? Is it any service or process that might be running on a...
View ArticleScript Monitor - Perl to List Certain Files and Sizes
We're trying to run a scrip monitor on SAM where we can monitor certain files and their sizes (particularly log files). We're trying to use the script below which we found in some forums. But we just...
View ArticleReport for Database Transactions per Second
Hi, I am looking for a min/max/avg type of report for DB transactions/sec. I was able to come up with this for current data, but no amount of digging thru the db can let me find where the history data...
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Polling engine installation
We have SolarWinds server in datacenter XYZ and default primary polling engine is installed in the same datacenter XYZ. We have purchased an additional poller to enhance scalability, and we need to...
View Articlecan I create any button to run any script as per our requirment
I have created one view, which show no of disconnected users for terminal severs. I want to create one button or link which run script to logoff that disconnected users from TS.I have checked that...
View ArticlePowershell script to monitor azure
Hello, I'm trying to monitor some windows azure components using powershell,The script is running locally on the SAM server. If I execute it in powershell shell it works. Here is the script...
View ArticleAppinsight for exchange stopped working
Any clue what would possibly cause my Appinsight for exchange to stop working?This happened to me at around 3pm yesterday, before that it was running fine.I thought WMI locked up.When I test the...
View ArticleHow to handle empty value in x component monitor?
Generally:Is there a way to handle if a component monitor does not return data, say, fiddling with the "Convert Value" feature to translate "no data"|NULL|"empty" to something tangible to set a...
View ArticleNot able to Poll the CPU through WMI
for few servers which has been added through WMI, not able to see the CPU and Memory details on Node Details page...
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