AppInsight 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...
View ArticleServer & Application Monitor Master Application Directory
ReleaseApplication Template NameComponents4.2Active Directory 2003-2008 Services and Counters325.0.1Active Directory 2008 R2 Services and Counters29xALERT CENTRAL (GENERAL STATISTIC)12xALERT CENTRAL...
View ArticleAppInsight not showing all databases
We are using AppInSight to monitor some SQL databases on numerous different SQL servers the problem we are having is that AppInSight doesn't show all the databases on any given server it will show some...
View ArticleServer Rack Diagram for SAM
I am looking to make a server rack diagram in SAM. I'd like to gather some ideas from all of you to get started. Have you setup a server rack for your application monitors? If so how do they work and...
View Articletransfer SW license / database to another server
We have an older SW NPM server on WS2003, and a newer one (SAM), on WS2008r2. The older one is largely dormant but still has some active alerts and a collection of node and interface data that I'd like...
View Articleunexpected error occurred, invalid query
Hi, I have a Print service monitor in place across 10 Citrix servers & on 9 of these, it reports perfectly into Solarwinds, this is great! However, on one, all I get is "unexpected error occurred,...
View ArticleApplication Monitor question.
I have only been working with SolarWinds for a short while, I am really from the Mainframe world but I have found myself in this position and I am trying to do well. Being able to do well is being...
View ArticleGetting started.
OK. I have my newly acquired NPM and SAM software installed. I've learned that just using network sonar discovery gives me WAY too much data. So, just from the SAM perspective, where should I start...
View ArticleExchange Pressure Alerts
Is there a way to set up an alert and/or Template to notify when Exchange performance is being affected by low disk space or I/O? if so how would I go about doing that? or would the best bet be to open...
View ArticleVmware disk latency
Is there a way through templates in Sever and Application Monitor to monitor Disk Latency of the VMware hosts through vCenter and then have an alert sent out if its threshold is too high? I know...
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DHCP User Experience Monitor Service : DHCP Server didn't respond.
I had a DHCP server was running fine and monitored fine by SAM last week. It had one and single interface 20.20.20.10 (for example only) which was serving IPs to client and was in use for all purposes....
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What is "APM_Port_Evidence_Detail" used for?
I have noticed that the table, "APM_Port_Evidence_Detail" is the largest table in my SW database after roughly two weeks of monitoring approximately 3800 monitors. What data is stored in this table and...
View Articlehostname change results in "There was an error communicating with the Orion...
My coworker updated server's name via registry w/o a restart. The polling engine was still displaying the old hostname in SW web console. After a restart, I got this when trying to navigate to SW web...
View ArticleAggregate Disk Allocation for multiple hosts
I'm a SAM noob. Our SAM administrator is a contractor, so I'm trying to figure this out on my own, since it doesn't appear that SAM comes with this out of the box. Basically, I'm trying to find out...
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Issues Monitoring a specific EventID in a specific Log
It's been requested of me to specifically monitor for EventID 1201 out of the log Microsoft-Windows-FailoverClustering/Operational - but somehow my configuration in the SAM template just will not...
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Is it possible to build a multiple component view, similar to what is shown...
I am asking for assistance in attempting to set up a view for our team. Take a look at the screenshot below:This is from an AppInsight for SQL view. The component is listed on the left, with the...
View ArticleOrionPlatform 2014.1 SQL 2012 SP2 HotFix is now available
ReadMe:SolarWinds Orion Platform 2014.1 SQL SMO 2012 SP2 Hotfix - Release Date: 8/14/2014----------------------------------------------------- This hotfix addresses an issue where the Configuration...
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