Convert UnDP to SAM
I have several UnDP pollers that I would like to convert to SAM templates. Most of them use GET TABLE to, for example, get the table containing disk status. Rather than add all 80 disks in our...
View ArticleMaking REST calls for URL monitoring
Hello! I have a task to monitor a URL but need to make REST calls and include two headers. How are others dealing with this idea? Can SW SAM 6.2 do this out of the box?
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Need SAM installation configuration help
I am new to SAM, and wondering if it would be optimal or overkill to install as follows:C: OSE: SAM SoftwareF: Inetpub folder I have a dedicated SQL server in place, we have pointed SAM to use it. I am...
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AppInsight for SQL Polling Frequency/Polling Timeout
I noticed our AppInsight for SQL Polling Frequency is set for 300 seconds but the Polling Timeout is set for 1200 seconds. These were configured by my predecessor or might be the defaults .. What are...
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AppInsight for Exchange: Exchange PerfMon counters getting disabled
I am using AppInsight for Exchange to monitor my exchange servers. I have 2 mailbox servers (both are VMs) set up in a DAG. The problem is that the servers are always in an UNKNOWN state, because the...
View ArticleCreating one alert to encompass any issues for a given node
Hello there.. I am just finally (i think) figuring out how to build alerts in SAM. It seems that I need to have multiple alerts for "core" conditions (i.e. cpu, mem etc..) But I also have applications...
View ArticleOracle Real Application Clusters (RAC)
Good day folks, My mission at work to create application templates for some of your apps continues. We have an Oracle RAC of three servers. I'm trying monitor its availability, if a host goes down, if...
View ArticleSAM Citrix monitoring vs EG monitoring
I would like to ask if we have any documentations that will compare the SAM Citrix vs EG.Is anyone here already used the SAM Citrix and EG monitoring tools at the same time that can able to share about...
View ArticleMonitor Processes with high CPU utilization on a Windows sever
I've been asked to set up an alert that triggers any time a single process consumes over 50% CPU on a Windows server. I can see this information with the real time process explorer but is there a way...
View ArticleTrace a specific account & all devices using this account for polling
Hi All, I have a situation wherein one of the active directory account used for polling few devices is getting locked out continously. I have the account name & source pollers from where the acount...
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Solarwinds Database question
One of my SQL engineers is asking what counters the top 2 tables (below) are associated with? There seems to be a lot of records so we need to verify if the application is purging old data.
View ArticleEvent 10009, DistributedCOM - Since upgrade to 5.2
Morning all, I upgraded from SAM 5.0 to SAM 5.2 yesterday morning and all went perfectly well. One problem though seems to be that from the moment the upgrade was completed we have started seeing...
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AppInsight for Exchange: Issue with Storage Performance Stats and Databases
I have just set up my AppInsight for Exchange in the last week for our Exchange 2010 installation and in general I am happy with the information that it is returning, I have however noticed two issues...
View ArticleSolar Winds Agent Icons
Can somebody tell me what the different icons mean for agents? I see that 2 of my agents have a little gray figure, but 2 of them have circles that are color coded. In the link below, you can see an...
View Articleways to add a bunch of servers in SolarWinds
I'm trying to add a bunch of servers using Network Sonar Wizard. The SolarWinds Engineer informed me that I should need to minimize all SNMPs (SNMP retires, SNMP timeout, Search timeout) in order to...
View ArticleAIX template
Been playing around with the AIX template. Noticed that there is a way to examine the "Top 10 active processes". This is encouraging, because what I'd like to do is count the instances of a specific...
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Volume Statistics Collection
Need a little clarification on Volume Statistics Collection interval... So if I go to the Orion settings page and look at the Orion Polling Setting I see this for Polling Statistics Interval: We have...
View ArticleFile & Folder Size Monitoring on Linux/Redhat
Hi There,Well I know there are templates to monitor file and folder size on Windows machines. How do I do the same for linux/ redhat machines?Thanks
View ArticleHow to list account used in all Application Monitors & their components to...
Hello Friends, I have a requirement to pull a list of all application monitors, node name, thresholds, components, query type (RPC, WMI etc), account used to poll the data. Can someone please help me...
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