IIS monitoring not seeing some performance counters
I am using the IIS template to monitor a couple of web servers. The first server is an old 2003 server and it works fine. The new server is 2012 R2, and SAM is not able to retrieve several perfmon...
View ArticleHow can SAM monitor whether or not a drive is present but not monitor the %...
Greetings: I have some drives that I need to know that they are up, but they are full and no more data is being written to them. I would like to exclude them from the list of Volumes with High % Usage....
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
View ArticleHow do you monitor file shares without the out of the box templates?
Hey Guys, I have a questions I'm trying to figure out what is the best way to monitor enterprise level file shares without having to drop a file in every share in my environment which is hundreds. And...
View ArticleSwitch Port, Server is Connecting
We are implementing NPM and SAM. My IT manager would like to know which switch port does server is connecting.For switches, we know there is a topology detail to show how they are connecting to each...
View ArticleSNMP alerts and actions
I'm working on setting up some SNMP alerts based on traps received, specifically for problems with physical drives. Is there a way for me to pull individual information out of the trap details...
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 ArticleUnable to Export Monitor Templates in SAM to File
I have a customer who is running Orion 2012.1.0 and SAM 5.0.1 When he attempts to Import/Export -> "Export as File" he reports that the system prompts to him that it is "Exporting to thwack"...
View ArticleReport writer-web report question combining years into report.
Hey Guys, I hope this is the right forum to ask the question and not an NPM question? What I would like to do or what management would like to see is a Fiscal year end report for the Component and...
View Articlestats-only monitoring with no alerts: how?
I'd like to monitor a few processes for statistical purposes only. If they are down, it's OK - they aren't "critical" or "warning" or anything like that. E.g. whether a certain application was active...
View ArticlePrevent component from turning application/template red even when down
I am monitoring three in-house applications, AppA, AppB, and AppC. I have them in a template, AppsTemplate, that is assigned to each of the nodes I'm concerned with.I'm interested in monitoring AppA...
View ArticlePowerCLI VMWare - PowerShell
I want tho monitoring my ESXi-Servers, but I can't import the PowerCLI-Module installed on the Orion Server using Powershell, using SolarWinds SAM. If I enter this command in a new SAM-Template, I...
View ArticleService polling and server rights
In setting up SAM I've found ways around giving accounts full admin access to the machine except for polling service information. Is there a way to poll service information without administrator...
View ArticleNo need to show Application or Component as Down
We are currently using SAM 5.0 to monitor some custom .exe's on a server to determine how much of the processor and RAM they are using for historical purposes. These .exe's are triggered to run...
View ArticleHow to set up an account to monitor Windows 2012 domain controllers that is...
This seems like something that must be out there already but I've been googling and searching thwack and can't find it. I am looking for a step by step walk through for setting up an account to use in...
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