Re: You do love oncall duty, don't you?
In my team there are 4 of us that rotate a oncall roster. Starts on a Monday and finishes the following Monday. It's 24x7 support. We also use an external monitoring company that monitors all our...
View ArticleRe: Cataloging network discovery information
As our network is fairly large (Australia wide) we have drawings for each site which contain all the information we need e.g. IP addressing, link ID's etc. Then we have some other drawings which show...
View ArticleRe: Error 401 with recordings using Windows Domain credentials
The local users accounts created by the WPM Player are named "SEUM-User-1", "SEUM-User-2", etc.
View ArticleRe: What I need in an Email Alert Source
I just can't find a good use for this feature without more reformatting capability, and duplicate suppression. I may take another run at Orion Alerts, but requires duplicate effort in both advanced...
View ArticleScan for Active Interfaces Only
How do you scan for only Active Interfaces? (first time scan)
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Re: Orion alerts and email not consistent
I have seen some inconsistency as well. Not sure how to really monitor the product, besides rebooting it. I use a tool from Plixer called Scrutinizer. It has a page called Vitals that shows key...
View ArticleRe: IVIM versus Virtualization Manager
I don't run them side by side but my understanding is that Virtualization Manager provides a much deeper dive on the virtualization stuff including vm/host/storage mappings and such. Orion NPM is much...
View ArticleTrying to Get Linux to report without root privilege account
Hi All, I am running into an issue where I am trying to get hd stats from an ubuntu server but apparently the command used, hdparm, requires root level privilege. I do not want to give that level of...
View ArticleRe: New Google Map Resource for Orion (Beta)
We've had several Thwack users contribute GoogleMaps integration packages, and Brandon had one as well....
View ArticleRe: Trying to Get Linux to report without root privilege account
use sudo(8) to allow the user to run hdparm as root (but nothing else.) Allow A Normal User To Run Commands As root Under Linux / UNIX Operating Systems if you don't have sudo installed, then you...
View ArticleHow to monitor a service that is not Windows base services for SAM?
I am trying to find a way in Solarwinds to monitor a third party services that is running in Windows. I was curious would it show up in the web interface as enabled or disabled? I had searched every...
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Re: How to monitor a service that is not Windows base services for SAM?
If you're running SAM 5.5 have you tried using the Service Control Manager to start monitoring these services? If you're still running SAM 5.2 you can also use the "Browse For Component Monitor" wizard...
View ArticleRe: Failover engine Installation issue
Kiranas far i can see you are suing LOCAL SQL Express edition which is not recommended in FOE I would advise you to use Technical Support in feature for such issues as we do need to review FOE...
View ArticleFilter Request Type Based On Department
I was curious if it was possible to filter the list of request types based off the selected department. Our maintenance department would also like to use WHD for ticketing, however, without a way to...
View ArticleRe: Powershell - Test failed with "unknown" status
Upgrade to SAM 5.5.0 seams to have fixed my problem, the monitor now reports status of up.
View ArticleHow to monitor a particular application service in windows Server 2008
Team, Please suggest how do i monitor a particular service in windows 2008 , these are the versions of module that i am currently running. Orion Core 2012.2.1, SAM 5.0.1, NCM 7.1.1, NPM 10.4.1, NTA...
View ArticleRe: Interface Availability graph Issue
Try doing the same graph but using today's date. If it shows more informationm, then as mentioned you need to check your data retention settings.
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