Re: Do you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations...
I would also say that if you have an agent, you should show why that is superior to polling mechanisms leveraging SNMP. Often I don't see a clear advantage to agents except push based network mechanics...
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Yes, that's my biggest concern with agent-based monitoring is making sure that it's light weight and won't cause issues. If an agent is crashing, that's just bad form.
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It annoys me to no end when a network enabled device does not support SNMP. That's just not excusable if you ask me.
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Yes, credential management for agentless (or rather, SNMP agent based) monitoring is a total pain, often breaking the central monitoring system if it can't handle multiple strings, or multiple...
View ArticleRe: Nexus 7k Core switches - what do you monitor?!
I just checked and was surprised to see we are just getting temperature for Hardware Health on our 7k's running 6.1 and 6.2 - anyone seeing powersupplies etc?
View ArticleHow to monitor the polling server is up
Hi, I am stuck with this problem where one of my polling engine is down (but the services are all running). How could I monitor that the server is up? I do not want to monitor all the nodes for the...
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Re: How to monitor the polling server is up
This is the purpose behind the "Polling Engines" property type in the Advanced Alert Manager.
View ArticleRe: NCM credentials problem in NPM
When you are in NPM, have you confirmed that you are logging in with your domain account? It shows you current logged in user in the top right hand corner. It should show as domain\useraccount. And...
View ArticleRe: How long each interface or node was down.
Hi Gob, If I input 10 it is ok. It would get those events where the node went down with 10 minutes or more. However we would also like to display all those event that went down below 10 minutes ( 9...
View ArticleRe: Server and Application Monitor causes High CPU - wmiprvse.exe
The Windows Server 2008-2012 Domain Controller Security template is comprised of two PowerShell component monitors and several Windows Event Log Monitors. Can you try either disabling just the...
View ArticleRe: DHCP User Experience Monitor for a different segment?
The DHCP User Experience Monitor functions no differently than a workstation configured to use DHCP. That is to say, we are bound by the same RFC limitations as any other DHCP client. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleRe: Automatic template import/update from one SAM instance to another
Have you considered exporting the modified template from the Dev SAM instance and importing it to the Prod instance?
View ArticleRe: Using IBM Director 6.3 for Hardware Health/SNMP & WMI.
The issue with the IBM server not showing all hardware information via SNMP could be that the SNMP agent on that server needs to be restarted. This is a common and well known problem with IBM's...
View ArticleRe: How are you handling IIS App Pool alerting?
Both SAM Applications and individual Components Monitors can be included in groups, and groups can be dependent upon other groups. This means you can use both groups and dependencies together to...
View ArticleIn Cisco devices, the Total Memory report incorrect
Hi, I realized that the Total Memory value in Solarwind reporter are incorrect. And the percentage of MEMORY Utilization may be incorrect also, because it take value of Used Memory divided to wrong...
View ArticleRe: Nexus 7k Core switches - what do you monitor?!
I Might compare notes with you on your version and settings? I'd like to see ps also ;-)
View ArticleRe: Unexpected behavior in "Manage Nodes"
I've tried reproducing this issue using SAM 6.0 RC3 and NPM 10.6 RC3 without success. While I don't discount this issue is occurring in your environment, this is not a expected behavior nor a known...
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Can't log into Alert Central with any user other than Admin
After building Alert Central we tested it out with a few local users. Set up alerts and groups with escalations. All seemed to work as expected.Then I integrated with AD groups. I added our...
View ArticleCan solarwinds receive SMTP alerts as well as SNMP traps?
Hi, In the environment I am supporting we have some custom applications that only support sending of e-mail alerts instead of SNMP traps. We are currently integrating NPM and SAM for the whole...
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