Re: Reporting updates?
Sounds like a use case perhaps better serviced by SolarWinds Patch Manager: http://www.solarwinds.com/patch-manager.aspx
View ArticleSQL 2008 R2 Express problem
Hello,We are experiencing a problem trying to move our Orion database from the SQL 2008 R2 Express instance to a different SQL 2008 server. We were told that would alleviate some of the network...
View ArticleRe: Custom Hardware Report
Hi Mark - Since we just released a bunch of features we didn't get a chance to enhance reporting. However, if you notice in my What we're working on post , we have enhancements to reporting as one of...
View ArticleRe: SQL 2008 R2 Express problem
Long story short? Painfully. Here are a couple links that will assist:The database was backed up on a server running version 10.50.1600. That version is incompatible with this server SQL SER…How to...
View ArticleRe: Monitoring active/passive interfaces -- hiding 'down' interfaces
Ahhh, I can't remember if this will stop them from showing up in the active alerts view, but it will not send a notification. Check the "Unpluggable" checkbox in the interface details for both...
View ArticleRe: How to monitor Services on Servers
SAM already includes out-of-the-box alerts for notifying you when a monitored service is not running. This can be found under the "Advanced Alert Manager". To start monitoring services that are not...
View ArticleRe: Re: SAM 6.1 Beta 4 Now Available
Can you expand upon that a little? What is it that they're not seeing, or are unable to monitor using existing Application Templates and AppInsight for Exchange?
View ArticleQuerying phantom snapshot files
We seem to be in a situation where a large number of phantom snapshots have accumulated on some of our datastores. I would like to be able to run a query or report which shows the list of orphaned...
View ArticleRe: Re: SAM 6.1 Beta 4 Now Available
Hi, I have installed the latest version of Server & Application Monitor 6.1 Beta 4..I am looking after the configuration which needs to be performed on mailbox server to fetch the information from...
View ArticleRe: Monitoring active/passive interfaces -- hiding 'down' interfaces
Correct. By setting the interface to display as unplugged it shouldn't trigger the down interface alert (assuming the trigger is "Interface status is equal to Down" and not "Interface status is not...
View ArticleRe: Want to prepare and send daily node down report with the event time from NPM
To be clear- you are looking for the last time the node went down?
View ArticleRe: How do you configure NPM to automatically Detect Wireless AP plugged into...
Imagine you did not have NPM, how would you solve the problem?Now the question becomes how do you use NPM to automate the solution to the problem. The reason I phrase it like this is that every...
View ArticleRe: Anonymous Access to a View
I use a NOC view for DirectLink users: Here is the link I have setup for them... http://YOURSERVER/Orion/SummaryView.aspx?ViewID=224&isNOCView=true?AccountID=DirectLink&Password=PASSWORD After...
View ArticleRe: Orion Advanced Alerts: Alert based on Team (group)?
I like this idea, but I can't seem to make it work. I can get the additional custom property to show up on the node details, but my advanced alert manager does not show it as a condition to base my...
View ArticleCustom SWQL resource
Hi, Cross posting as didn't get a response in NPM area: Custom SWQL resource Thanks Stuart
View ArticleNCM DB Migration from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2012
Is there a document for the NCM DB migration like there is for the NPM (the NMP Document is called Moving Your Orion NPM Database.pdf). This document is perfect, so I am looking for the same type of...
View ArticleRe: Orion Advanced Alerts: Alert based on Team (group)?
Try opening Advanced Alert Manager with "Run as Administrator". I've found that occasionally the alert manager cannot see the custom properties unless you do this. An optional extension of this alert...
View ArticleRe: Advanced Alerts : manage groups
The "Digest" email is something we are looking at for the future. You could hardcode the message body at present, but that can be a pain to manage at scale. There may be some fancy SQL we can look at...
View ArticleRe: Group member alert
If you're alerting on Group or Group Member objects, there won't be node properties available for alerting. You could use Name or URI to get the NodeID.
View ArticleRe: Maximum number of concurrent log on web sessions for solarwdinds
Ermagerd, I didn't even think of this. I'm creating views and accounts for people and didn't account for max logins. Thank you!
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