Application custom properties in advanced alerts
I have been using ${Node.blahblah} and ${Volume.blahblah} lines for quite some time in my various advanced alerts. Most notably, I use them as dynamic email destinations. Just use...
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How to disable some component monitors for Appinsight for Exchange
I have SAM 6.1R3 installed and added our exchange servers. We are receiving a lot of alerts and wondered how to disable alerts for some component monitors.One example is that we have a database that...
View ArticleImplications of Switching from primarily SNMP to WMI?
I am curious what the implications are of switching monitoring for around 500 Windows nodes from SNMP to WMI based nodes for monitoring in Orion? I know WMI is a significantly slower protocol so I am...
View ArticleDeep dive knowledge on creating custom application monitoring templates
We are looking at creating some custom application templates in SAM to monitor GOTS. We are looking at the Solarwinds documentation, but majority of the existing documentation library is using COTS...
View ArticleSQL Help on Interfaces
I am trying to write an SQL query to show all my interfaces that have a status of down or warning.The following works:SELECT InterfaceID, StatusLED, FullName, StatusFROM...
View ArticleService Control Manager
I am new on here and I am setting up a test environment for SAM. While testing some of the different features highlighted the guided tour I cam across Service Control Manager. I have several types of...
View ArticleHow to get live data from SolarWinds
Hi All, I am new to SolarWinds. I am working on a project which requires all the data related to monitoring. That means whichever device is being monitored(irrespective of the parameters that are being...
View ArticleCalling all AIX Gurus
Hello, We are in the process of a huuuuge migration of our existing Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) environment into SolarWinds. Windows and Linux appear to be moving pretty smoothly with the exception of...
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Check Windows process running as a specific user
Hello, I need to check if a process is running on a Windows server but I also need to ensure it's running as a specific user. Is this possible? WMI and SNMP are both options. I can use an existing...
View ArticleAdvanced Alerts for Volume Fragmentation with Orion NPM
Hello THWACK Community, I have been working on creating custom alerts using the Advanced Alert Manager in Orion NPM and wanted to know if it's possible to create an advanced alert that monitors the...
View ArticleHow to run inventory report of only physical servers?
I need to run a report that lists physical servers. I need something similar to the default report named "Inventory Fixed Asset Report" but I need to leave out all virtual machines. There doesn't...
View ArticleSAM 6.1 RC3 Errors
We have setup Appinsight for Exchange on two of our DAG's and are getting errors after successfully configuring the template. Under DAG info we are seeing: PowerShell script error. An Active Manager...
View ArticleBasic Alert Definitions
Can someone please send me a definitions file for Alerts on SAM? The advance Alert manager seem to ask for me to define the messages that will be attached to an email. Any help will be appreciated.
View ArticleSAM, How to show last x number of statistic messages
I have created a powershell log parser application, with a 'number of newly found strings' component.I am using a script that actually extracts the line of text from the log file and return this in the...
View Articlenode goes continuously up and down according to Orion
We have a node here running Windows XP SP3 that we have on Orion server monitoring.Sometimes, Orion will continuously report that the server is down and then a minute later that the status has been...
View ArticleASSET INVENTORY REPORT - Where are the Security Patches
Asset Reporting in SAM 6.0.2 Brilliant ..... However. Started with SNMP connectivity, and got all of the software installed on Windows Boxes, but No Publisher or Version.... Quite essential if you are...
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HTTP Monitor throws 500 error
I'm trying to set up a basic HTTP monitor check for a website. I have the URL set to "http:// ${Node.Caption}:${PORT}/" and when I run the test against it it fails with the error "Test failed with...
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