AppInsight for SQL database object
We recently setup the AppInsight for SQL and everything seems to be working except for one thing. By default there is a table called All Databases and it shows the status and size of each database on...
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Hardware Health showing Disc as off/Critical when disc no longer exists.
Working with NPM 10.6/SAM 6.0. Polling a Dell server via VMWare VCenter for Hardware Health. We received an alert on a disc that is off putting it into a critical state, but the disc is no longer...
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SAM Report Manager
I have a question concerning Report Manager - I have several reports that run at various times. The reports attach either an HTML or PDF copy of the reports and e-mails them to my management and my...
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Error Starting SAM 6.2 Module
Earlier today one of my technician's installed Mobile Admin (trial version) to see how well it would work. The installation was done on the same server running SAM 6.2. Later, I discovered that the SAM...
View ArticleSysAid Ticketing Integration
So we have a ticketing system, SysAid, that we use to create incident tickets. Currently we are manualy copy/paste the information in. Is there any way to export the data automatically into the ticket?...
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Hardware polling failed
I have begun to get an error during hardware polling on one of my physical servers. It has been polling fine with the assigned credentials up until this point (roughly 2 months). Below is a snip of the...
View ArticleSQL 2012 Parallel data warehouse
_lHas any one on the Thwack community setup SolarWinds monitoring with the SQL PDW?1. did you pull data direct from the PDW with SQL queries?2. did you have the information copies to another SQL...
View ArticleRDP End user Experience
Greetings One of our potential customers wants to monitor the time that takes you for establish a RDP session, after you put your credentials by using MSTSC command. We tried to find a way for get that...
View ArticleAppinsight for Exchange Certificate error
My appinsight has done this twice. i'll receive an error stating that its status is unknown because the server certificate has expired, after troubleshooting i am unable to clear the error, but when i...
View ArticleHardware Health Monitoring
I understand you require SAM for Health Monitoring servers in NPM. We have SAM installed but only the 150 license, does enabling Hardware Health Monitoring use up SAM licenses and if not is there...
View ArticleResource Active Alerts - Amount of items listed
Hello Thwack-Folks! I do have a trivial question about one resource or resources in general.Resources can be flexible added or moved, in one case we use the resource active alerts which per default...
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What We're Working on For SAM
If you're interested in what we're working on for SAM, then head on over to my blog post at the link below. Server & Application Monitor - What we're working on beyond SAM 6.2
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Custom reports on SQL Performance Stats/Creating custom reports
Hello all! Does anyone have any reports they have written around gathering MSSQL perf stats? I realize this is a broad question but I want to see what others are doing around custom reporting...
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Appinsight for SQL
I have been having issues with Appinsight for SQL displaying a down status on one of my databases (all other databases are fine) on my monitored SQL server. The error on all downed components is...
View ArticleA deleted node is sending Down Alerts
i deleted a node from the solarwinds monitoring site, and now I'm getting endless alerts that the node is down. I tried to add it back and delete it again and that had no effect. Any ideas on how to...
View ArticleSAM not seeing the 5% superuser reserve
I just discovered that many (probably all) Linux machines are reporting a capacity that is missing 5% for the superuser reserve. Has anyone else noticed or tweaked to get around this?
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Reoccurring SAM 6.2 Agent Status Issue
I seeing an issue with the new SAM 6.2 Agent. I have it installed on several nodes now. When I'm noticing that on a frequent and reoccurring basis the agent status changes to "Reboot is required to...
View ArticleMounted Volume utilization differences.
One of our users sent me an email saying that they got a notification email that a mounted volume has XX% space left. They went to the physical server and it showed a different percentage of free...
View ArticleSAM 6.2 Powershell Script Monitor Run As has no effect
Hello, i want to run a Powershell script on the poller Server, under a specific account. However it looks like that the script is always executed as System not as the specified user.verified with...
View ArticleGetting RHEL with Net-snmp to show the OS and version correctly?
With the default config on RHEL 6.5 I get the machine type as net-snmp and no information in the OS section. I can certainly get it by using scripting but I was wondering if I am missing something...
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