Way to monitor health on Barracuda WAFs?
I'm looking for the ability to monitor the hardware health on our Barracuda Web Application Firewalls. I currently only see a SAM template for the Barracuda Spam and Antivirus Firewall. Curious if...
View ArticleSAM Agents & Reboots
I've started deploying agents as they really seem to work better than standard WMI monitoring - for example, one of my application monitors, for reasons that I can't explain, absolutely refused to get...
View ArticleCommVault 10 Templates?
Hi,Has anyone used or succesfully created any CommVault templates. We currently have a mix of v9 and v10 but will be all v10 soon. Wasn't sure if there was anything out there yet. Didn't seem to find...
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The SQL behind the Performance Counter Details - Total Size
I need to write a report that will extrapolate database growth for the coming months so I would like to start with the existing data we have gathered through the SQL performance Counters within Orion....
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Restarting Services via An Alert (I have Questions)
How can I verify the Service Restarted Successfully programatically? My first thought is having the Regular restart service Advanced alert that tries to restart the service. Then have a second...
View ArticleSome thoughts on working with AppInsight and SQL Clusters
I am hoping that my trials and tribulations will help someone down the line. For several weeks I had been trying to add SQL nodes to SAM with AppInsight for monitoring, all of which belong to a...
View ArticleMonitor VMWare NIC Usage
All of my VMWare NIC's are listed in SolarWinds. Does anyone have any idea on how to create a custom view that I could add to just see these NIC's that I am concerned with? I would like it to show %...
View ArticleAppInsight for SQL Permissions
AppInsight for SQL PermissionsThe minimum SQL permissions required to use AppInsight for SQL are asfollows:Must be a member of the db_datareader role on the msdb system database.Must have VIEW SERVER...
View Articlecustom template to pull hard drive information
I was looking on solarwinds and could not find a way to pull hard drive information. I opened a case with Solarwinds who stated they had no template to do so but said it might be possible. I was...
View ArticleMonitor SQL w/o app insight
I am very new to Solarwinds and my goal as the DBA is to monitor my SQL Servers. I have been given access to solarwinds where the nodes are added, but SQL is not being monitored. I need to mention...
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Trouble installed SAM
Good morning, I am trying to install SAM and when I do I get this error message. I already have NPM, and have restarted the server several times. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
View ArticleEvaluation Installation
Hello, Need your suggestions and inputs. Do let me know whether evaluation installation copy can be used in production environment with our own sql... Thanks,Tahseen
View ArticleErrors in Event Log from servers with > 32 logical CPUs
I have been noticing a lot of EventID 2006 entries in the Application Event Logs of our 40 core Dell R910 servers. These machines run Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise SP1. "Unable to read Server Queue...
View ArticleError adding node.
Hi All, Got an error while adding a node, the error reads "Node was added, but there were some issue. More info is available in a log file." So my question is what log file and where can I find this...
View ArticleWould you watch a SolarWinds reality TV show?
Before you answer, consider the reality shows out there already:Duck DynastyHoney Boo-BooStorage WarsSwamp PeopleIce Road TruckersFinding BigfootAx MenAfter interacting with all of my co-workers and...
View ArticlePass credentials in HTTP POST
Hi All,I'm trying to use HTTP POST to post a few variables from an alert, but the URL that I am trying to post to requires authentication. Can someone please tell me how to pass the credentials n the...
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Install of agent using mst/transforms failing
Good afternoon, We are having an issue with automating the install of the agent on our servers, and would like some insight into what could be happening and any possible resolution. We can manually...
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AppInsight IIS 'Site Stopped' Alerting
If I am monitoring 300 IIS servers and 10 of them have an IIS site stopped by design how can I override those to suppress alerts? I'm afraid I already know the answer.
View ArticleSolarwinds Custom Status and Applications
I have a particular requirement to mark a node as being down when an application is either unknown or down.The trigger condition is set to application/application availability is not equal to Up and...
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