Aug 21, 1pm CT - Server & Application Monitor 6.0 Sneak Peek
Join us August 21st at 11:00am CST to get the details on SAM’s next release. It’s jam-packed full of features: Deep SQL monitoringIT asset inventory dashboardStatistical thresholds generated from...
View ArticleRe: How to Avoid "Monitoring Spam"
One thing I have seen (with varying degrees of success) are event aggregators that attempt to do root cause analysis and suppress downstream events. e.g. if you lose a hub WAN link and are thus unable...
View ArticleRe: How to Avoid "Monitoring Spam"
That's a really good idea for a feature addition to NPM. Create sites, tie the sites together, create rules around site alerting. I would think it might be easy to define a "site" structure and have...
View ArticleRe: How to Avoid "Monitoring Spam"
Absolutely. I don't know how much capability SW NPM has in terms of grouping alerts or rolling them up in some way, so I threw it out there anyway. Even on a site basis though, if you can't reach the...
View ArticleRe-certified again!
Hi all, Just wanted to let you know that I passed the exam and have renewed my cert that expired in April, 2013. Overall a great testing experience, and my 1st with MyTest.com. The 1st time I was...
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Monitor Vcenter with Engineers tools set
HI All I'm new to Engineers tools set and I would like to receive all Events that vcenter gives out. our vcenter is hosted on a physical machine that is being monitors on NPM . How do I configure...
View ArticleRe: Another report writer problem
Hi,Can you post your query which will never end in Orion Report Writer to be able look at it?
View ArticleRe: Issue with export to PDF not including all charts
I saw it once and by deep investigation I found, that it sometimes can happens when Orion server is under low available system resource or bigger load. Sometimes when is very huge amount of recources...
View ArticleRe: Customizing the UnDP Summary Chart Bubble
Hi Zbynek,Thank you very much for your help.The query worked but selected the RAW values rather then the transformed values that I need. Please see the screen shots where the values I'd like to keep...
View ArticleRe: Customizing the UnDP Summary Chart Bubble
Hi Zbynek,Thank you very much for your help.The query worked but selected the RAW values rather then the transformed values that I need. Please see the screen shots where the values I'd like to keep...
View ArticleRe: VPC / LACP
Do you see one active endpoint connection or none at all? We see only one for either LACP or network fault tolerant active/passive nics.+1 to see Solarwinds figure out how to reconcile UDT and...
View ArticleRe: PortStatus in UDT_AllEndPoints for Reporting
+1I just had this happen and could not find a workaround without copying the SQL out and back into a custom SQL report and adding portstatus (operationalstatus) by hand.
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Re: Show us a NOC view and get 500 thwack points!
Here's a dashboard we put up on portrait LCD near the cubes... all the details are on are other summary pages.Names have been changed to protect the innocent, etc, etc...
View ArticleRe: How to search for VLANs by Switchport Interface?
Late to the post but beside being able to search by VLAN in the UDT search field you can also make a report for it - here's a quick one I created that you can add a where vlanid = 'xxx' at the end to...
View ArticleRe: Enable SNMP Red Hat Enterprise
1. Installation : Run command yum install net-snmp-utils. It should install net-snmp as a dependency 2. Configure : Backup the snmpd config file. mv /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf.org...
View ArticleRe: Helpdesk Error
Alright - I've answered my own question. I've also found a bug: The word "Startup" or Start up" can not be included in the Subject line when creating a ticket. You will get this error otherwise.
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My experience: Prod SAM 6.0 RC2 Upgrade from 5.5.0
Today I was finally able to upgrade our Orion SAM server to 6.0 RC2. I did not install the first RC and installed the upgrade directly on SAM 5.5.0 (which has been upgraded since 4.0 or so). The...
View ArticleRe: Improving From Failure
Quoting from Hamlet is auspicious and foreboding start to this thread. The last royal screw-up I've been solely responsible for was in preparation for a DR exercise. I vMotioned some hosts to...
View ArticleRe: How to Monitor Effectively
I'm in the habit of watching the Top 10 % Utilization very closely throughout the day. I care more about Data Center than WAN, so I'm looking at interface utilization for hosts more than other...
View ArticleRe: Is QoS one of the killer OpenFlow apps?
+1. If you're concerned about capital costs and training, moving your entire campus to Openflow is probably a bad idea. If you're looking to benefit from Openflow's feature set, and understand that no...
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