How to clear an alarm on a SQL HA Cluster Component Monitor?
We are showing a critical alarm on both nodes of an HA sql cluster...however the cluster is healthy. The fault is from the last failover event which occurred during maintenance due to installing...
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 ArticleAppInsight for Exchange issues
I am receiving the following error when trying to configure AppInsight for Exchange: So, I went to change the bindings, and the HTTPS binding is set to all unassigned address on port 443 with a valid...
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 ArticleNumber of Newly Found Strings
So I am using this component to search for a a keyword in a log file and it does it every 30 minutes. After it found the keyword it alert me but I thought it would reset itself after the next poll...
View ArticleDNS User Experience Monitor
Hi,Does anyone know what sort of syntax APM is looking for inthe 'Expected DNS query results' field for the DNS User Experience Monitor?I have captured response packets and put the exact syntaxfrom the...
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 ArticleBest practice to restart SAM server and its backend DB server ?
We have the IT policy to patch servers and restart every two months. We have a SolarWinds SAM server and a SQL Server backend server . both are VMs. Do you know what's need to be done before I reboot...
View ArticleGenerate MAC Address for server ports
dear experts, i am new in using solarwinds, i would like to ask is there any way for me to generate a report of mac address of the discovered servers using solarwinds products? thank you
View ArticleMulti Chart Error
I've had this issue with trying to save the Multi Chart after configuring it for some time now, but never really pursued fixing it. According to this post: Is it possible to build a multiple...
View Articleis there anyway to have the DetailsURL use the full FQDN and HTTPS?
So I have SAM sending alerts to Alert Manager I have the option to include the original alert and in the original alert it includes the details URL but it just does http://computername/view.aspx...
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...
View ArticleWhere does Volumes global threshold values are stored in database?
Hi All,I am looking for a location (database table name) where I can find global threshold value which is set as per screenshot below from Admin Settings Thank you,Alex
View ArticleHow looks your MS Lync IT environment?
Tell us how (if) did you installed/integrated MS Lync in your IT environment.
View ArticleMonitoring Un-cached web pages
I am using SAM 6.1.1. Is there any way to use an http or https or some other monitor to check the un-cached webpage? I have searched for more than an hour and have not seen quite the information I...
View ArticleServer Hardware Health Disappears
I have 2 HP servers that whenever I reboot them the hardware health monitor goes from up to unidentified. The only fix I have found for this is to uninstall the HP hardware software and reinstall, then...
View ArticleHas anyone collected S.M.A.R.T. statistics?
If so, how? I presume for Windows servers, you could do it via Event Viewer, but I was hoping for something a little more universal. Thanks,/jh
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