Re: Do you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations...
While I can easily argue the pro's and con's of both agent and agentless monitoring, in the end I almost always prefer agentless. I dislike agents for many of the reasons already mentioned here by...
View ArticleRe: Do you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations...
Ohh, very good point. I don't think APIs were mentioned at all in this thread. I see only a little uptake, and of course usually only for very entrenched products. Seems like a great field that is...
View ArticleRe: Alert for sum of EIGRP neighbors
As I can see on your advanced alert screenshot you are using ANY (Trigger alert when ANY of the following apply). That means the alert is triggered for all custom pollers where the custom poller name...
View ArticleRe: Is there any way to determine if polling has failed?
You can also create Custom SQL Alert and check if Nodes.LastSystemUpTimePollUtc is up to date. If not, it usually indicates SNMP polling does not work.
View ArticlePolling hours / Exception polling periods
Good Morning Thwack-Folks! I was wondering if there is a possibility to specify the polling times?What I am able to handle now is to set the frequence intervall (e.g. every 10 minutes). But what if,...
View ArticleDameWare MRC v6.1 does no longer work on client computers
Good Morning,I have been using DameWare MRC for quite some years now and all of a sudden I get the following error: Winsock Connect Error:System Error 10060System Message:A connection attempt failed...
View ArticleRe: Reset license
Surely- the license is perpetual, but if out of maintenance it's tied to the last version released while you were under maintenance. Here's a KB on how to use license...
View ArticleScheduling on-call issues
Ok - we have three groups that we are evaluating this server for. Each group has a different number of members and a different schedule. Group 1 - on-call duties rotate monthly (3 engineers, on call...
View ArticleRe: Map password - what if I don't have it anymore?
Any way you can post this for others to use? I have the same problem... Thanks,Wade
View ArticleRe: License resets and moving NPM to another server
Surely- the license is perpetual, but if out of maintenance it's tied to the last version released while you were under maintenance. Here's a KB on how to use license...
View ArticleForcing FQDN for dynamic IP resolution in NPM
I'm using the dynamic IP option in Orion but I've run into an issue. We've moved a few servers around that had DynamicIP enabled but the poller is not able to see them. Pinging from the poller with the...
View ArticleRe: Why Didn't We Know About This?
As one of my coworkers like to paraphrase "nothing ever gets safer until somebody dies."I believe the same is true for any monitoring system. A number of different metrics may go unmonitored until...
View ArticleRe: Universal Device Poller stops
HI! Did you resolve your issues replacing the sdf files?I have the same thing happening to me. I am getting lots of false alerts![ScheduledOperations] ERROR...
View ArticleRe: Beta is OK
Yes, I have some comments now regarding errors in the beta. RDP: I was unable to connect with error "Failed to establish a connection to the server!". Tried several Windows hosts, and my integrated...
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Re: When monitoring multiple sites, how do you handle the collection of data...
Being a healthcare environment pretty much all our data has to be protected. So our monitoring traffic also benefits by either going across dark fiber or site-to-site VPN tunnels. Redundant...
View ArticleRe: Cisco 3850 not recognized as WLC
3850 support is certainly on our radar. Please see this Feature Request voting item to vote for support: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/2373
View ArticleRe: Access to path 'enuphon.dat' is denied DataPortal_Execute method call...
One thing that might add some additional light. When I removed the files with the L&H directory it works fine. There would seem to be an issue with the "&" symbol in the directory name.
View ArticleNCM connection refused to device
I've got a weird issue I haven't seen before. I'm trying to set up config backups to a device and ultimately set it up for realtime change detection, but i'm unable to get NCM to SSH to the device to...
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Re: Alert Suppression for time period
Surely- you could create a new alert that includes the custom property, and change the "Do Not Trigger..." time frame to 10 minutes. On your existing node alerts, create logical exception for the same...
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