What official SolarWinds virtual classes would you like to see?
So i've heard many rumors of additional classes being added to the SolarWinds virtual classrooms for SolarWinds customers. I'm not totally sure which products they are being added to, but I'd love to...
View ArticleHow often do you replace your UPS batteries?
I've seen UPS batteries last ten years, I've seen ones guaranteed for five years that have died in two years. How long do your batteries last? Do you have a pro-active battery replacement program? Do...
View ArticleNeed to monitor APC battery backup in solarwinds
Hello Team, I need to monitor APC battery Backup in solarwinds. So how do i configure SNMP string on it. Also after we add it how can i set up Alert for it. Thanks,Jayesh
View ArticlePublish Database Schema
You've rolled out NPM, then SAM and maybe you've added in NCM and VMAN. You are thinking about DPA and NTM/SRM, especially when they are fully integrated into the Orion framework and suddenly you...
View ArticleDocument the Database Model for the tables exposed through SWIS
It takes a lot of guess work to use the Orion SDK to extract, update, and delete information about the nodes in NPM du to the fact that nowhere near all the relationships are obvious. As an example,...
View ArticleDOCUMENT THE DATABASE MODEL FOR THE TABLES EXPOSED THROUGH SWIS
It takes a lot of guess work to use the Orion SDK to extract, update, and delete information about the nodes in NCM due to the fact that nowhere near all the relationships are obvious. As an example,...
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Powershell Exit Code 1 = Get Output Failed
I having a tough time getting my script to correctly report the exit code to SAM 6.1.1. I have read The Basics of PowerShell (part 3) and I am using the required Message, Statistic and Exit codes. My...
View ArticleNPM F5 info
So here are a couple of needs/wants in regards to F5 load balancers. The current F5 page on NPM show a List of Virtual Servers but this is not a complete picture. F5 load balancers have the...
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NCM job completion notification emails not being received from 2 pollers
we have network devices dsitributed across 4 pollers ( 1 primary and 3 additional). we are running a NCM nightly backup config job daily to download the running config from devicea dn job completion...
View ArticleCustom fields
It would be great if there will be an option to add custom parsing fields,in example our email alerts contain both SEVERITY and STATUS so it can be "Critical" but status "Recovery" or "OK". Since there...
View ArticleAbility to customize additional Orion properties that appear in email...
Some people have Orion custom properties that describe more information about the alert that might be useful to have in the email notification. We made an assumption that you'd use the AC web interface...
View ArticleNode names changing to polling IP
What would cause node names to randomly change from a friendly (and sometimes manually set) name to the polling IP? Happens across 3 separate NPM environments. Persists through multiple versions of...
View ArticleCan we create custom SWQL chart on view
Can we create custom SWQL chart on view ? We can create Custom SWQL table on Nodes View like below. Please help me to create such chart, I want to create custom CPU,memory chart.
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure Monitoring
With the adoption of cloud computing on the rise, it's high time that SAM expand its monitoring capabilities to natively support monitoring services such as Azure natively and agentlessly via the Azure...
View ArticleIf...Then...Else statements for Alert Manager
I think it would make managing alerts much easier if we were able to build an if-then-else statement into the actions for an alert. My example...I create an alert for a particular set of criteria, but...
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Bring back old TraceRoute
10.8 Traceroute is awesome. And suddenly it has been changed it to regular traceroute in just like in windows without a warning. Not Cool. Traceroute in 10.8 looks like this It has SNMP features and...
View ArticleWhat happens after SolarWinds is acquired by Silver Lake Partners and Thoma...
A couple of weeks ago, SolarWinds publically indicated changes were coming... Yesterday, the official acquisition information was announced. Just curious as to what you think this means for the...
View ArticleBulk Action Bug - unable to save action to update Asset Type
Wonder if anyone has the problem: I need to set a list of asset to a new Asset Type which I have just created. For example, currently I have Monitor 17", Monitor 19" etc etc... as asset type. I have...
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Thwackology
How many Thwackologists do you have in your shop? Most of us have attained at least some level of proficiency in Thwackology, but how many are true Thwackologists?A Thwackologist is certified as an SCP
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