SAM 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 ArticleMonitoring SQL Server Error Logs
I am an SQL DBA and Solarwinds newby and looking for a template that will monitor my SQL Error Logs, Agent Logs and Audit logs. I am also interested in mitigating several STIG checks that require...
View Articlethe sqlservr.exe shows down in Solarwinds Real-Time Process Explorer but it...
I opened a ticket with Solarwinds. After check, they told me that "window Task Manager should provide a Command Line value for every process. but it missed for sqlservr.exe. it returns with null value....
View ArticleAppInsight for SQL - The process was not found.
All of my AppInsight for SQL instances show my SQL Server / SQL Agent as down with the message ' the process was not found' All the other meters and charts on the page are showing data collection, just...
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In Agent Management, how do I "manage as node" multiple nodes?
I have an interesting situation where I have systems that are shutdown, deleted and rebuild in our development ennvironments. If I do not delete the old one when the new one comes up the node it not...
View ArticleSQL Server Edition Query
How do I get the SQL server edition without using AppInsight or PowerShell? I'm looking for the least intrusive method. AppInsight requires the credentials be added to the database. Powershell requires...
View ArticleUsing variables in WMI queries?
Hello, Question: Is it possible to use variables in WMI queries when creating SAM WMI monitors? Here's an example of my query: Select * from Win32_Service where State = "Running" and Name = "XXX...
View ArticleCan SAM parse XML output from a web site?
Can SAM parse XML output from a web site? Here is an overview of what I am trying to do.1. Log into a web site 2. The web site returns XML output3. Parse the XML output for certain text and if that...
View ArticleAlert Reporting on an Event
Hi, I need to create a report for Windows Logon Failure event 529 (Windows 2003) that runs and create a report every morning. As a test, currently I'm using an Application monitor template (Win Server...
View ArticleCan I suspend a component counter during a maintenence windows
I want to know if it's possible to suspend a performance component counter and\or Application Monitor during a predefined maintenance window. For example, we receive a lot of Page Writes/sec alerts on...
View ArticleRecycling Application Pool Directly From Server Works Fine, But From SAM Does...
Hopefully just a simple question needing a quick and simple answer. Orion Platform 2015.1.2, NCM 7.4, NPM 11.5.2, DPA 10.0.0, QoE 2.0, IVIM 2.1.0, SAM 6.2.2 On the main poller/webserver, through IIS...
View ArticleScript Output Identifier
I seem to have found undocumented character limitations in the unique identifier for script monitors:Doesn't work: Statistic.this.is.my.identifier: 1Doesn't work: Statistic.this-is-my-identifier:...
View ArticleDo alerts filter themselves based off of Scheduled Tasks
As some of you may have in your environment, you schedule regular reboots of your servers and sometimes you get alerted that the node is down. I was wondering if by enabling WIndows Schedule Tasks...
View ArticleApplication Templates on Oracle OHS Server?
Does anyone know about configuring application templates for Oracle OHS web servers?
View ArticleRabbitMQ Per Queue Messages
I was going to upload this as a template, but - after looking through the template - it made 0 sense to do as a template. I will, however, give a script for monitoring how many ready messages are...
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