Re: Is there a best practice for installing modules?
Yes, I agree. It is definitely a sequence.1st make sure that the OS's are patched2nd patch the SQL3rd apply the modulesand always start with the primary engine, then any additional engines and finally...
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Re: Currently i am using NPM 10.7, if i am upgrading it to the version 11...
Extra disk utilization (capacity) should be negligible on both the NPM and SQL server. In terms of IOPs, there may be a small improvement in some environments in SQL utilization thanks to query...
View ArticleRe: How do I configure the SNMP community string for LEM?
We all have our favorite way of processing data and collecting it. Though snmp v1 is a bad idea. v2 and definitely v3 would be ok. At the switching level Access control lists can be implemented to...
View ArticleAlert Sharing - Alert Subject - Should it match name of the alert automatically?
I was configuring a new alert today and, like all good admins, I copied an existing alert to reduce my level of effort so I could spend more time trolling for Thwack points. As I was dutifully...
View ArticleRe: Will there be a Thwack Camp '14?
I think Leon Adato first official responsibility as a Head Geek should be Thwack '14
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Re: SAM 6.0.2 Hardware polling inaccurate on Dell m1000e Blade Center chassis
The APM_HardwareItem table contains the current state/status of each hardware sensor.
View ArticleRe: License Expired
Just as a quick addition to what scvvuuren said, once your maintenance expires. SolarWinds does not guaranteed your eligibility to renew and it is possible you might need to repurchase an out of...
View ArticleRe: PowerShell script won't return results
Update: It turns out my alternate poller is bad somehow. I thought I'd tested it out using each poller turned out to have tested it on the alternate twice.Switching it to the primary at least got it...
View ArticleRe: Whats wrong with the config templates
Hi, with a normal editor (vi or notepad or better one's) you can open the ncm-template files and should see something like in the admin guide...
View ArticleFinally taking time to check this out. Has anyone installed the FSD on the...
if so, how does your performance compare to what it was before?? is there a signicficant impact on performance??
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Re: SAM 6.0.2 Hardware polling inaccurate on Dell m1000e Blade Center chassis
Thanks! As I suspected, the APM_HardwareItem_Detail file is now summarizing the results at every 4 minutes because of the change I made to "Adjusted the statistics collection to every 4 minutes...
View ArticleRe: How can I change the server IP NPM sees?
Side note. I'm attempting to add a poller to all my Windows 2008 servers that show, in a line chart format, free disk space over time. Any idea what the OID is for something like that? I can't find...
View ArticleRe: How can I change the server IP NPM sees?
This is normally done using either SNMP or WMI to poll the disks individually. Are you looking to sum these up into an overall stat?
View ArticleRe: Personal Experience with/ Opinions on using Google apps for education
I don't have any of the certifications but yes I did use the Apps sync, it made things pretty easy. It really depends on how big of deployment you are doing. They have tools to import users.I'm...
View ArticleRe: How can I change the server IP NPM sees?
No. I’d like this information on a per server basis. I can find all sorts of charts and graphs that show the status of every volume on the host. I just want to see a graph of the c:/ of the node over...
View ArticleRe: Alert Sharing - Alert Subject - Should it match name of the alert...
Hi jbiggley , what you are saying is absolutely correct.1. When you copy a alert Alert Sharing tab will have the name of the alert from which it was copied from.2. Even though you change the Name of...
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Nice -- I had no idea it was that simple. That said -- it makes me wonder how many times we are going to have to do this.
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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....
View ArticleRe: Personal Experience with/ Opinions on using Google apps for education
Yeah, I’ve played with the import tool. It’s pretty nice. And that’s if you DON’T want to use AD sync lol. I’m not sure what their structure is going to be, but one of their images on the features...
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