Orion - Windows Service Monitoring - WMI Vs. RPC
Hey, In my environment i'm seeing multiple timeouts when polling for windows service states via WMI... eventually things will work, but i consistently get an "Unknown" state on my service monitors....
View ArticleUp to date variable reference
I am configuring Alerts for AppInsight for Exchange and am using the default ones that have been installed to begin with. I notice all the default ones DO NOT include any properties so I am currently...
View ArticleManipulating SQL on Canned Report
Hi, I would like to manipulate a report to only give me stats on specific interfaces referenced by a custom property. I have a custom property called "Important_Interfaces" and the value is "WAN" This...
View ArticleHow do I view historical SAM information
Hi all. New to the forums. I've had a look but cannot find a similar post. We have to provide availibility statistics on key applications, this is a relatively recent thing. Our DBA guys have written a...
View ArticleAppInsight of SQL - SQL Agent Job Component
I am working with AppInsight for SQL template, and trying to adjust component thresholds to reflect our event management requirements. One item that is particularly frustrating is the SQL Agent Job...
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SQL Auto close alert not passing ${DatabaseName} in alert message
I created a component monitor in a SAM template that alerts when it detects a SQL database on a given node has Autoclose set to true=Critical, then built the associated advanced alert using property...
View ArticlePolling procs via net-snmp = high cpu usage
Ok, so I've got a Linux server running a boatload of different processes (approx 1200-1300), and when I try and poll even one process (tried with command line filtering on and off to see if it made...
View Articleimport custom properties solidworks from vcenter
Hello, I have NPM 10.6.1 and vcenter 5.1Do I have the option to export the description invcenter to solarwinds to add a description to servers? Thanks
View ArticleWindows Scheduled Task Monitor.apm-template missing
I can assign the template to a node, but cannot view the resulting app monitor.Template has no default details view.When I edit the template, there is no option or dropdown to select a default details...
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HTTP Monitor with Bad IL Range Error
Hi, I find an error for HTTP monitor recently. When I assign HTTP monitor to an external node, it comes the following error: But when I assign this monitor to a node with the same settings, it works...
View ArticleQuestion: SAM Hardware monitoring and a P2V
I have two hosts that were physical servers with hardware monitoring, they were migrated to VMs, as such we wanted to keep the history of the machines, reconnected the volumes, changed the IPs etc etc....
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Force Headers Column Width For Custom Properties
Hi, Is anyone able to help me with the following - I probably need some HTML hack. Is it possible to force 1st column width with custom property names to ALWAYS be of a certain size? I don't want names...
View ArticleDouble Check Application/Component/Node Status Before Reporting Down State
Hi all, Some of my applications occasionally report false positive blips. I am not quite sure yet why it happens, presumable some network latency, heavy VBScripting or whatever... anyway - it doesn't...
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Help Needed With SQL Macro and HTML Tags for The Alerts
Hi All SQL gurus, I am using Alert Editior and SQL macro in the message body. I am trying to simply grab a text from database and inject this text into an alert. It work, but NOT for HTML format....
View Articleresetting Component Status
I currently monitor the Solarwinds NTA components on my NPM server. I recently added alot of new devices to Netflow. Some of these devices were exporting flows which were not being monitored in NPM...
View Articletable name data base
What are the necessary tables for the customer to make direct changes to the database in a script? This user is crendetial in more 700 templates.
View ArticleScript monitors no longer work after upgrade
I recently upgraded to NPM 10.7 and SAM 6.1.1. After my upgrade, none of my script monitors (linux script monitor and windows powershell monitors) work. They all report the same error Unexpected error...
View ArticleManipulating SQL on Canned Report
Hi, I would like to manipulate a report to only give me stats on specific interfaces referenced by a custom property. I have a custom property called "Important_Interfaces" and the value is "WAN" This...
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Knowledgebase: How to create a non-administrator user for SAM polling.
SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: How to create a non-administrator user for SAM polling. This knowledgebase article is extremely confusing!!! Has anyone got it to work? I have followed the instructions...
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