SNMP Basic Monitor
Hello, I am new to Orion and I hope I am in the correct group in asking this question. When you add a Windows server to the manage node and it is monitor with SNMP. I know it will monitor the basic...
View ArticleHP Agentless Management System - Gen 8 Servers - Suggested config for SW
I am not sure how many of you out there are using or have been suing the HP Agentless Management System that comes built-in to the iLo firmware on the latest Generation 8 HP servers. I was wondering if...
View ArticleHelp clarifying "additional pollers"
I seem to be getting conflicting information from support. As I have mentioned in a different post, we are moving from a stand alone NPM and SAM to combining NPM and SAM on one server. In one call I am...
View ArticleBuilt in alerts - how does it send email alerts when not added as trigger...
There is a built in alert called "Alert me when a node goes down". The only trigger action defined out of the box is: NetPerfMon Event Log: Node ${NodeName} is ${Status} But it also sends an email...
View Articleperl script is running and logging command in the history
Here is an example of a perl script that is ran on the server every 3 minutes (sfa_fileage.sh). Solarwinds is logging the commands in history. Is there away to not log this information? 997 sh...
View ArticleHow to write an alert which repeats with updated statistics?
I have an advanced disk space alert that checks volumes with less than 5% free space left (tirigger condition). If the condition is met it sends an email notification (trigger action). The...
View Articleunable to add esx hosts
We recently stood up a new Orion server after a failure of our last one and have been having some weird issues since then. Our latest issue is recieving an error message when attempting to add a new...
View ArticleUSE CONTENT OF EMAIL TO TRIGGER EVENT
Can anyone tell me if I can use the content of an email as the input for an event. The idea is that email alerts generated by a 3rd party application are monitored by SolarWinds which then takes...
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Known bug when disk space is completely full?
Looking at one of my server nodes under disk volumes, one of the drives was low on space and reporting size, space used, and the percent bar graph. Eventually all the space was consumed and the volume...
View ArticleDomain Account Is Not Working Properly
Hello, For some reason I cannot get the domain account to work on SAM Polling Method. Even if I added the account to the local admin on the target machine. It still unable to poll. The test fails. If I...
View ArticleMonitor MSMQ Queue Sizes
Hi All,New to Orion, and working to get it setup in our environment. Google hasn't helped much with this one. Can anyone suggest the WMI Namespace that I would need to add to look at MSMQ Queue Sizes?...
View ArticlePulling poll history for a URL
Good Morning Thwackers! I am looking for a way to pull the polling history for a URL that we have in monitoring. I need to be able to find out how many times said URL has been polled for the current...
View ArticleSAM and Solaris Containers
Hi everyone,In our UNIX environment we are almost completely virtualized with Solaris Containers. I have a question about how the Solaris Application Monitoring Template works in a virtualized...
View ArticleSQL filter on group membership
So I am trying to create an Application view of a group of nodes. Meaning, I want to see a list of all applications being monitored by nodes in a group. If I create a summary view, open SAM...
View ArticleIs there a good way to direct server alerts to different users based on the...
Currently I have all server node triggered alert conditions emailing the IT server group. Depending on which department or group the server belongs to I want to send the alert to an appropriate...
View ArticleSetting up alerting for MSMQ
Ok, I have the template to set up the monitoring of MSMQ, and we have what we need there, but I am a novice when it comes to setting up alerting for non standard alerts in the Advanced Alert manager....
View ArticleVMWare datastore reports
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to generate a report on free space on my ESXi datastores. Is there any way to do this in SAM? I can see the datastore names and sizes, but not the free space. Any ideas...
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Setting up an alert for SSL -
First of all thanks to all the help with the SSL Cert monitor - you guys are great !!! I have been working on the alert and email out to the systems team ... but not sure if I am heading down the...
View ArticleAny export tools available ?
Dear Sir or Madam - We would like to automatically export both SAM templates and alerts. We undertstand that this can be done manually via the user interfaces. We are trying protect against cases of...
View ArticleFinancial Institutions Polling Credentials
I am wondering how any other Financial Institutions Poll SNMP or WMI. In our continued battle with our security, they are wanting us to monitor our servers without SNMP and with WMI credentials without...
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