Linux Disk IOPs with SAM
I'm trying to figure out how to do disk IOPs monitoring with SAM. I've come across sysstat package but I'm wondering if there is an easier way. With sysstat I'll have to do some fancy grepping to get...
View ArticleProblem using new module
I installed the NetApp DataOnTap toolkit on both of my pollers. I can use the dataontap module no problem on the pollers, but have issues in SAM. If i try to import in a SAM PS component, i get an...
View Article% Processor Time vs CPU Utilization
What is the difference? I have a Windows 2008 R2 x64 virtual machine (VMware). Orion NPM says that the CPU has not gone over 25% in the past day. Orion APM, Windows 2003-2008 Template, says that %...
View ArticleServer and Application Monitor causes High CPU - wmiprvse.exe
Anyone else experiencing High CPU on Windows 2008 servers since implementing SAM with WMI polls? We are seeing the wmiprvse.exe service consume a lot of processor since starting to use SAM. I've...
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Real time process - IIS worker processes
We would like to pull the following info from the real time processes and have that as a custom object in a custom page. Is that possible? Or is there another way around to monitoring multiple IIS...
View ArticleAPPInsight for SQL template question
After applying the APPInsight template to a couple of SQL servers for evaluation I have noticed some strange (to me) behavior. 1) The resource "All Databases" is sometimes populated and sometimes not....
View ArticleMonitoring IIS App Pools By Name
Hello, I saw this post Re: APM - Process monitor unable to find w3wp.exe processwhere it was mentioned that by putting the name of the app pool in the command line filter, you could monitor that...
View ArticleApache template problem
Hey all, not even sure that I am posting this in the right place. Has anyone seen a problem with the built in Apache ServerUptime component in SAM 5.5? The check is giving an 'unknown' status even...
View ArticleApplication Monitoring Template for Windows Server 2012 DirectAccess
Hi, Has anyone tried to create an application monitoring template for Windows Server 2012 DirectAccess? As I would like to be able to monitor some of the more advanced features of DA which is available...
View ArticleLSI MegaRAID controller
Hey everyone I am pretty new to Orion and I am getting into monitoring our current servers on the network. I have a Windows 2012 JBOD box that has a LSI MegaRAID controller in it. I'd like to manage...
View ArticleExchange 2010 Remote monitoring with WSMAN
Wrote a script that works swimmingly on the exchange 2010 server, but when I run it in the SAM Template I get this error: MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus : Value cannot be null. Parameter name:...
View Articlecustom property field - content deleted
We use a custom property field to group nodes to specific applications so our alerts are easier to manage. The value in one of these property fields was somehow deleted for one node. That node failed...
View ArticleHow are you handling IIS App Pool alerting?
Using SAM 5.2, our organization is monitoring each separate app pool on each separate Windows Server. But every time the app pool recycles, it can take anywhere from 5 minutes to 25 minutes for the app...
View ArticleCisco UCS server blades not showing Hardware Health of Servers option in List...
I know that UCS blade chassis' are managed through the FI's but with no link back to the FI from the production IP monitored node (Windows 2008 R2) in this case then I am too far removed from the...
View ArticleDo you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations where...
When I’m evaluating a monitoring system, one of the first things I check for is if it is agent-based or agentless. The use of one method over another doesn’t necessarily spell disaster for the project...
View ArticleServer & Application Monitor Master Application Directory
Application Template NameComponentsActive Directory 2003-2008 Services and Counters32Active Directory 2008 R2 Services and Counters29ALERT CENTRAL (GENERAL STATISTIC)12ALERT CENTRAL (JMX)40AIX10AIX...
View ArticleUsing IBM Director 6.3 for Hardware Health/SNMP & WMI.
I am using IBM Director 6.3 to monitor Hardware Health on our IBM servers. My coworker tasked me with finding out why drives would not show up in our hardware health. I found out that if we polled the...
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