Test failed, invalid unit
I'm using a nagios script monitor to do a more detailed web check against one of our servers and getting "Test failed with "Unknown" status on hostname. Invalid unit." It's a simple curl call to a...
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Custom Properties - Bulk Import Values in Drop-Down Lists
If you've been following along at home you know that I've spent some time getting to know the CustomPropertyValues table lately. Data integrity is a big deal for us and we spend a fair amount of time...
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SAM URL configuration
Hi All, When the email report schedule runs it tries to access the SAM report via the http://<serverName> which is not configured to work - we normally use an A record to access SAM eg:...
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PSEXEC to start remote process
This is a sequel to this post where I used Powershell and WMI to call a remote process. This use case was needed since WMI would create the process in the background. The executable that I needed to...
View ArticleSAM Alerts display wrong website URL links
I've changed the URL in our database's "Websites" table to be "http://orion.abc.com, the URL that we want users going to. NPM alerts now show this URL correctly in the URL details, acknowledgements,...
View ArticleSince we cannot user wildcards in Application Monitor Templates...
Since we cannot user wildcards as part of the name of an application or service in Application Monitor Templates, has anyone else figured out a clever way to basically accomplish this goal? I have a...
View ArticleView filters for Down Applications
Hello this is my first post on Thwack. I have searched on this topic and did not find anything that would help. My issue is we have QA nodes in Orion and have configured SNMP process monitoring Java....
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2000 thwack points for UX feedback
Hello! I’m on the User Experience team here at SolarWinds, and we’re looking for people who can give us feedback on infrastructure monitoring. We’re looking for people who work for Managed Service...
View ArticleSolarwinds Classroom Training
Has anyone gone to a classroom training class for Solarwinds NPM/SAM/Orion? If so where? was it worth while? I found two 3rd party places that offer a class on solarwinds all advertising that classes...
View ArticleSee job logs of polling engine polling a specific server?
We've had an issue pop up on a linux server where the snmpd service became overwhelmed causing the box to stop processing its normal job function. The logs for snmp requests show the correct IP for...
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Can't activate license after upgrade to latest versions
I'm working with support on this as well. They had me reset all of the licenses but now I can't activate any of them. I had all of them licensed except for NPM to begin with. The system does not have...
View ArticleFairly new to SolarWinds? Have opinions about ways we can improve upgrade?...
The SolarWinds User Experience (UX) team is in the process of gathering feedback on the upgrade experience and how we can make it better. We’ve got some ideas about how, where and what we message...
View ArticleSetting up multiple alert tiers
How would I go about setting up multiple alert tiers? Right now, I have three tiers of disk space alerts set up - Low, very low and critically low. I have low set to 'Alert' Severity, very low set to...
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Hardware Health - Disk & Array missing
New member here with an issue with Hardware Health items missing. I recently updated several hosts to ESXi 5.0 & 5.1 and all them are no longer showing Disk or Array in hardware health. This is one...
View ArticleAssistance with setting up SQL database Monitor
Hello all,I am looking at monitoring a SQL database. Some background -the database size has suddenly grown from 5mb per day increase to over 5gb per day. (which oblivious made us run out of disk space...
View ArticleSolarWinds agent starts then stops
Hi, I have two SolarWinds agents that up until yesterday were operating as expected but are now down. The Windows SolarWinds Agent service starts up but then stops shortly afterwards. The agents...
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