Re: Newbie question: Upgrading to SAM 6.0.0
epenney, an 8 hour upgrade is extremely unusual. If you'd like to determine why the upgrade is taking so long, I suggest opening a case with support. We'd be interested in looking a diagnostic before...
View ArticleFOE for three or more servers in a single environment
Hi everyone I'm interested in installing FOE in a DR topology with three NPM servers located at three seperate sites (each having a different public address, of course). Only one server would be...
View ArticleRe: Do you monitor your systems bidirectionally? Ingress and egress traffic...
we monitor on both HUB and spoke sites. this is to ensure we get the correct readings and that there is not a one way issuethis ensures that the hub and spoke agree upon stats
View ArticleRe: The death of SNMP
Perhaps the death of SNMPv1 and 2c. But net-snmp, or v3, will live on. It's a little like IPv6, in that it's been around for years (I wrote a paper on SNMPv3 for SANS 10 years ago) but it's still not...
View ArticleRe: The death of SNMP
Until there's an alternative to SNMP that is just as simple and universally supported, it can't just go away. It's the one protocol I expect to be present on every device I manage. And the data to be...
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Re: What tips and tricks do you have for networking?
Great advice! I like to pair that with a healthy dose of "don't try to fix anything until you understand the problem." Too often I've seen engineers flail about trying to resolve an outage by issuing...
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Re: Bought some SolarWinds swag from the thwack store? Show us!
I tagged the laptop that I carry in my Thwack Camp bag. I am wearing one of the 30+ Solarwinds pins I have collected. "No the network is NOT DOWN" Monitor everything!!
View ArticleRe: SolarWinds Reporting
Nick, What further information would you be looking to include in the report?
View ArticleRe: Can't monitor multiple events in taskscheduler log?
Just found out this is a bug, and was fixed in 5.5.0 SP1. I am running 5.5.0.
View ArticleRe: Can't monitor multiple events in taskscheduler log?
SAM 6.0.1 is out. Time to upgrade SolarWinds SAM 6.0.1 Release NotesSolarWinds SAM 6.0 Release Notes
View ArticleRe: VMWare DPM - How does VMan deal with this?
Hi Simon, NPM, SAM, and VMAN are 3 different products in the SolarWinds portfolio. The alerting and collection engines between the products are different and one product does not (generally) tell...
View ArticleRe: Removing Stale Email Addresses
Hey guys! Would you mind voting on this idea http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/3102 requesting a more friendly solution? Thanks for this workaround!!
View ArticleWhere can I see the message returned by my linux shell script?
Hi All, I am completely new with SAM and I have been asked to monitor a linux process in SAM by writing a script. I have manged to to get it running and working and SAM does displays the status of the...
View ArticleRe: I can't see my "custom properties" in Advanced Alert Manager
Jimmy, In AAM- it appears under "Type of Property to Monitor" we have "Interface" selected, but are looking at "Network Nodes" custom properties. Node CPs won't be available for the interface object...
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Re: Where can I see the message returned by my linux shell script?
The Message variable is seen on the "Components" Resource on the "Application Details" view, as well as the "Component Details" resource on the "Component Details" view as pictured below.
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Re: NetFlow Stopped Exporting from a 6509
I don't think this is going to work; it looks like you're running a Supervisor 1A/MSFC2. That supervisor went end-of-life in 2004 and end-of-support in 2010. I'm pretty sure NetFlow v5 requires at...
View ArticleRe: Orion Advanced Alerts: Alert based on Team (group)?
I second the warning about using the suppression tab. The problem is that suppression conditions are always evaluated independently of the trigger condition and kills the trigger. So in your example...
View ArticleJuniper Interface no longer exists. Data collection terminated.
I started moniting Juniper switches this week and now I am seeing this error on multiple ports "Interface no longer exists. Data collection terminated" I am using NPM 10.6 and SNMP to pull the...
View ArticleRe: Re: I'd like to create an SQL report on collected WMI Collection stats
What about this? SELECT n.[SysName], a.ID as AppId, a.Name as AppName, c.ID as CompId, c.Name as CompName, csd.[TimeStamp], ped.AvgStatisticData FROM APM_PortEvidence ped INNER JOIN APM_ComponentStatus...
View ArticleRe: UDT Port Usage Report
I think I'll go with that, after a few minor alterations. SELECT Nodes.Caption , DateTime ,PortCount as 'Port Count' ,ActivePortCount as 'Active Port Count' ,(PortCount -...
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