Re: Monitoring Hardware Health & Asset Inventory on vCenter
Is your vCenter running on a physical machine? What is the vendor/make/model of the server if it is physical?
View ArticleRe: about merge NPM to SAM ( application and database)
Separating SAM and NPM from a single combined database into their own standalone installations is a fairly simple and straightforward process. However, combining two different databases (one SAM, the...
View ArticleRe: The death of SNMP
Note, even if Microsoft stops supporting SNMP out of the box there are third-party products like SNMP Informant that allow you to gather WMI information and return it via SNMP.
View ArticleRe: The death of SNMP
I agree, the wide range of ports used by WMI and RPC further cries for an alternative should MS drop it out of the box.
View ArticleRe: What tips and tricks do you have for networking?
All my tricks seem to be non technical ones 1: Commit to the idea that you might be wrong, and when you are fall on your sword because the 3 most important words in IT are "I don't know".2: Sometimes...
View ArticleRe: Phone-Friendly Reports
Thanks for the reply! I think that is overkill for what we're looking for. Or, at least, I hope it is. I'm just looking for a way to deliver a plain text report via email. So, for example, instead of...
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Custom Property multi-editor
Ok, So i have 2000+ servers that I'm Feeding through one at a time. im clicking edit node on every single one to change some custom inventory properties. is there a way i can bring up a group of...
View ArticleRe: I'd like to create an SQL report on collected WMI Collection stats
Let me elaborate a little further If I were to run the following: SELECT ID, ComponentStatusID, StatisticData FROM [dbo].[APM_PortEvidence_Detail] WHERE...
View ArticleRe: Switch hardware monitoring in NPM, occasionally get numerous sensor...
Unfortunately this is not a known issue. A support ticket would likely be the best course of action: SolarWinds Customer Support - We're Here to Help
View ArticleRe: Need help understanding Poller Stats
The interfaces you delete won't come back in discoveries unless you delete and re-add the whole node. If you have your discoveries set up to run every day and you tell them to import only new things,...
View ArticleRe: Alerting on Syslog
I am afraid that this is not possible in current implementation. My suggestion is to use Traps instead of Syslogs (if possible in your environment):Setup traps to devices (instead of syslogs)In Trap...
View ArticleRe: Need help understanding Poller Stats
An unmanaged node/interface/volume does not poll but is still in the database as a node/interface/volume. So while it is not currently creating load on your poller it is still counted as an element(s).
View ArticleRe: Some Windows 7 and Vista computers unable to download updates from WSUS
We are finding this problem on more and more computers. Attached is the WSUS log from another affected computer. 2013-12-03 10:07:45:136 5476 12a8 Misc =========== Logging initialized...
View ArticleUDT Port Usage Report
I'm trying to create a report (or query) that will list the number of ports being used per NPM node. Ideally this would only show the most current data and could be expanded or changed to show number...
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Re: Ticket Status that follows a workflow
Marking a custom field as required is not enough. There is already an open FR you can see it/vote it here (http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/1892) to increases the power of Custom fields. Yes you can...
View ArticleRe: issues with template Exchange 2007 - 2010 ESE Database Size-Whitespace...
here is the script: Dim objNamedArgsSet objNamedArgs = WScript.Arguments.NamedIf objNamedArgs.Exists(""wbohpexchmb01"") ThenElse WScript.Echo ("Message: Please set correct argument into counter's...
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Re: Changing Default Dynamic WMI Port's to Static Specific Port's Windows...
The first thing to be aware of is that if your target systems are all running Windows operating systems, then there is no need to configure ports on the Windows Firewall, you simply need to enable the...
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Re: SQL Report writing - How to Sort By columns?
The new Web Based Report Writer introduced in SAM 6.0 and NPM 10.6 does not allow for SQL based reports. The closest/best equivalent would be Custom SWQL, which is based on the Orion SDK/API. Also,the...
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