NCM 7.3.1 Additional Poller installation process
Background: Our SolarWinds installation has a primary SolarWinds server (IIS/poller), two pollers, and our database server. I've recently upgraded our primary installation to NPM 11.0.1, and NCM...
View ArticleRe: Re: Down Nodes with Unacknowledged Alerts
Now, we are getting a little fancy Add a Custom Table resource. For the data source selection, change the first drop down to 'Advanced Database query (SQL, SWQL)' and switch the radio button to 'SQL'...
View ArticleProcess count script
Trying create a alert/monitor from the following to work. I'm not a scripting person count=`ps -ef|grep -c xxxx | grep -v grep` if [ $count == 7 ] then echo "$count" else echo "count is not 7" fi...
View ArticleReport for Tickets per Day
Hello All, I'm looking for a report for how many tickets were submitted per day. Preferably, I envision a report that will show "X tickets on 9/2", "Y tickets on 9/1", etc. Maybe for a week or so....
View ArticleRe: Process count script
Looks like a linux/unix script monitor: count=`ps -ef|grep -c xxxx | grep -v grep | wc -l` if [ $count == 7 ] then echo "Statistic:$count \n";echo "Message: Count is at $count and looks good \n" else...
View ArticleRe: SNMP getting blocked by ASA recently
Assuming the ASAs are allowed to communicate to the SolarWinds server (EX: snmp-server host inside 10.1.1.1 community YourSNMP_RO_String) the next most likely culprit would be the Barracuda if you are...
View ArticleRe: Books: Learning Wireshark...
I'll keep the review limited: The book covers the basics well -- you get a rather nice (highly informative for the newbie) explanation of TCP/IP and various protocols that go with it. You learn to...
View ArticleRe: Solutions for when we WANT an interface to be down.
Yup, this should take care of it.
View ArticleRe: Do you have a USB drive loaded with your favorite tools? What is your setup?
1. Portable Apps, which I plug in once a week to get app and virus definition updates.2. A TrueCrypt volume with a large number of config's and config templates.3. Malware Bytes and CClean freeware...
View ArticleRe: Solutions for when we WANT an interface to be down.
I'll give it a try tonight and see what it looks like on a few devices in the morning. I'll rate as correct answer if it works. Thanks a bunch!
View ArticleRe: Only active Alert report
Thanks for the shout-out, HolyGuacamole . That article is an oldie but a goodie!
View ArticleRe: ReportWriter Report Definition Issues - Correct Data Reporting?
Hi,I was right. 'Transmit Bandwidth', 'Transmit % Utilization', 'Receive Traffic' and 'Receive % Utilization' are constant because you take them from CurrentTraffic...
View ArticleNo Solarwinds support
Hi, I have tried 3 times to contact Solarwinds support for a ticket update today that has been outstanding for over a week now and have just been in the queue for over 30 minutes each time with no...
View ArticleRe: WPM creating 'excessive' amount of TEMP folders? Why ..?
Hi Daniel,can you try to switch WPM to use local accounts instead of domain ones to check if the issue is still there? Otherwise I suggest opening a support case so that we cam look at log files.
View ArticleRe: SolarWinds Database Monitor DB2
You could try one of the free Oracle or SQL Server Express editions - but they do have limitations (e.g. max DB size ~10Gb etc). If you are unfamiliar with them, I'd suggest SQL express on a windows...
View ArticleRe: Windows SA monitoring
Leon AdatoaLTeReGowtrinh Thank you all for your very quick responses you're all spot on with what I require! I will have a play around today and get back to you with either a "correct answer" tick or...
View ArticleRe: Timezone differences in SWQL in Custom Query in SAM?
Hi, the information service is designed to return the data always in UTC regardless on the storage (it knows if it's UTC or local in the DB per schemas) and that's also what the resource returns. If...
View ArticleRe: WPM creating 'excessive' amount of TEMP folders? Why ..?
Morning... I opened case 677000 yesterday evening & support have already come back with some thoughts/ideas on this.. (have to say, my experiences with Solarwinds support have always been really...
View ArticleRe: Software Inventory Report
How are you forming your report to get a list of applications and install count? When I create a query to list all workstations, select the inventory info etc all I get is a list of all the software...
View ArticleAny way to export web-base reports to a different Orion install?
Hi all - we are in the process of building a parallel install of NPM/NCM on new platforms, and for various reasons we don't want to export/migrate the database across. The olny stumpling block we've...
View Article