I am trying to have an alert trigger the execution of a program with variables. The problem I have is the specific variable for the program I cannot figure out.
Currently I am trying to use 2 variables ${IP_Address} and ${MAC}. Unfortunately the ${MAC} is not returning the MAC Address.
Here is the program being executed.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Toolset\WakeOnLAN.exe" -IP ${IP_Address} -MAC ${MAC} -EXIT
Is there a way to get the MAC address variable to work?
Thanks,
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This is for the Orion development team - I was wondering if there is a project going on at the Solarwinds to auto download/update the latest MIBs to be added to the MIB Database? Similar to the Windows update that we all Windows lovers/users go through every month or so.... This would be really helpful to keep the MIBs DB current and easy to maintain instead of downloading and replacing the .cfg file manually to apply the latest MIBs every week.
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Thank you in advance for your help.
I found a couple of nice docs that explain how to install the Solarwinds agent at first boot
The only issue I have is that, there is no reference of the PowerShell script that would initiate the agent install. Would anyone be able to provide an example, or something they have used in Dev/Prod ?
Almost everyday Orion/NPM is reporting "Network Discovery Failed".
While I appreciate this alert, it's rather useless. There is not apparent link to a log or a reason that I can find.
Where can I get more information on what the failure was? Where is the log file for this?
Any direction you can provide would be great.
Thanks!
I think I already know the answer but wants to make sure. Can you tell the polling engine no to poll all the devices at the same time? Let me clarify, Can I group all my devices into 2 or 3 different groups and then tell the polling engine to poll those at different intervals? i.e. poll group 1 every XX, group 2 every XX, and so on. I'm looking at this question from a network performance point of view, not the solarwinds server.
Hi everyone on Thwack,
What I would like to do is have a search that doesn't return "results like" but only return items that exactly match the criteria I am looking for.
We have a custom property called "Number" which is the number of the physical branch location.
So when I am searching for physical location 53, I don't want results from physical location 953.
I've looked for answers on Thwack and Google and couldn't find how to do this.
Any suggestions?
Jason
I need a few duplex mismatch alerts to send to specific distribution groups based off the custom properties, City, and Department. Out of the box Solarwinds uses an advanced SWQL query,
LEFT JOIN Orion.TopologyConnections tc ON (tc.SrcNodeID = Interfaces.NodeID OR tc.DestNodeID = Interfaces.NodeID) AND (tc.SrcInterfaceID =Interfaces.InterfaceID OR tc.DestInterfaceID =Interfaces.InterfaceID) AND tc.DestInterfaceID IS NOT NULL AND tc.SrcInterfaceID IS NOT NULL AND tc.LayerType = 'L2'
LEFT JOIN Orion.NPM.Interfaces i ON i.InterfaceID = tc.DestInterfaceID OR i.InterfaceID = tc.SrcInterfaceID WHERE Interfaces.DuplexMode != i.DuplexMode AND Interfaces.DuplexMode > 1 AND i.DuplexMode > 1
How can i add the City is "Denver", and the Department is "Accounting" fields to this query?
Thanks!
Hi
Can not find any comment about that in the release notes ?
Its part from NCM why is it on standalone NPM?
This article provides quick information about your current environment and health check , Further it will help you address the most common reasons of performance issues on to your server without sending the diagnostics to SolarWinds support .
In this article you can also Audit your own environment quickly if its been setup as recommended by the Solarwinds MINIMUM requirements or according to the settings eliminating bottlenecks creating performance issues within the set environment .
This article also help to save time to upload the diagnostics for Support where you have air gap between the server and you can check the basic health check on the actual server itself .
There are lots of other benefits to check the environment health within the internal due to security procedure not allowing uploading the diagnostics for Solarwinds support .
Your check list
✔Server Hardware
✔Total Elements (Nodes /Interfaces/ Volumes) been polled per server
✔Check free disk space on the Orion Server and SQL server
✔Check Your Server Polling Rate
✔SQL Server / Orion DB Size / Settings / Options
✔Check SQL Server Disk Performance
✔Orion Antivirus directory exclusion
✔Webpages Customization
Collect System diagnostics as below.
Navigate to Start -> SolarWinds Orion -> Documentation and Support
Launch the gray icon for Orion Diagnostics.> Click "Start"
This program will generate a .zip file as output.
( Unzip in a folder ) Right Click > Select Extract Here .
Server Hardware
Lets check your System Hardware first if this even near to the Solarwinds MINIM recommended.
Go to the SystemInformation folder > Open the SystemInfo.txt file
You will be able to find the System hardware specification below is an example where system is only assigned with 2 Physical CPU Sockets /
below is an example where the system is only assigned two CPU PHYSICAL SOCKETS which is below Solarwinds MINIMUM recommendation .
You must have to have MINIMUM 4 PHYSICAL CPU SOCKETS here .
System Type: x64-based PC
✘Processor(s): 2 Processor(s) Installed.
[01]: Intel64 Family 6 Model 45 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~1600 Mhz
[02]: Intel64 Family 6 Model 45 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~1400 Mhz
Total Physical Memory: 49.082 MB
Available Physical Memory: 39.408 MB
Virtual Memory: Max Size: 56.250 MB
Virtual Memory: Available: 45.376 MB
Virtual Memory: In Use: 10.874 MB
Now open the SysInfo.csv file and check the further current CPU load on the System and CPU GHz level .
Below in an example where the CPU load in around 70% on the current system due to two main reasons .
Parameter | Value |
OSVersion | Windows Server 2012 R2 (Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0) |
CPUInformation | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2420 0 @ 1.90GHz |
CurrentCPUUssage | 70 % |
TotalPhysicalMemmory | 49152 MB |
FreePhysicalMemmory | 39802 MB |
FreeVirtualMemmory | 45843 MB |
FreeSpaceInPagingFiles | 7109 MB |
CurrentTimeZone | xxxx Standard Time (UTC+01:00:00) |
Low Physical Sockets assigned
Low CPU power less then 3.0 GHz
You should be able to see MINIMUM 4 Physical Processors Sockets as below .
Strongly recommend : NOT to use lower then 3.0 GHz processor you will never get the performance what you are looking for even the Host and Guest wont show the CPU is busy .
Most likely you will see CPU spikes / Orion Services consuming High CPU and Memory . Once you will move the same VM to higher then 3.0 GHz process all the above symptoms will be resolved.
With lower then 3.0 GHz processor there might be other issues such as SQL Server TCP connections TimeOut Errors and High amount of data stored under MSMQ on the system .
Make sure you have MINIMUM 3. Ghz host with Hyperthreading Active it will improve the Guest performance significantly and you will have full performance out of Solarwinds application
This is how you setup your VM in ESX
Here is an Example when you assign the numbers of CPU SOCKETS to the VM
System Model: VMware Virtual Platform
System Type: x64-based PC
✔Processor(s): 4 Processor(s) Installed.
[01]: Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel ~3493 Mhz
[02]: Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel ~3493 Mhz
[03]: Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel ~3493 Mhz
[04]: Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel ~3493 Mhz
BIOS Version: Phoenix Technologies LTD 6.00, 4/14/2014
Further check how much memory is assigned and available for the system and check the TaskManager which application is consuming high memory .
In above case the System Hardware is not even near to the recommended SolarWinds production deployment therefor the CPU load will remain high therefor System resources.
The following table lists minimum hardware requirements and recommendations for your SolarWinds Orion server.
Installing multiple SolarWindsOrion Platform products on the same computer may change the requirements.
Hardware requirements are listed by SolarWinds NPM license level.
These minimum requirements are for the Orion Platform. Products that run on the Orion Platform may have different requirements, such as different OS or memory requirements.
Consult your product-specific documentation for the exact requirements.
| Hardware | SL100, SL250, SL500 | SL2000 | SLX |
|---|---|---|---|
CPU speed | Quad core processor, 2.5 GHz or better | Quad core processor, 2.5 GHz or better | Quad core processor, 3.0 GHz or better |
For more details see below guide
NPM 12.0 system requirements - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support
Check free disk space on the Orion Sever and SQL Server
Make sure you have Good free space available on the Orion Server disks C Drive and installed Directory .
Make sure you have Good free space available on the SQL Server where the actual DB is stored.
Total Elements (Nodes /Interfaces/ Volumes) been polled per server
Go to folder "DB" > Open file "AllEngines.csv"
Check how many Elements you are polling per server
EngineID | Elements | Nodes | Interfaces | Volumes |
1 | 15828 | 934 | 6823 | 1071 |
2 | 16084 | 202 | 1305 | 77 |
With only SolarWinds SLX license you can montior up to 12000 Elements and beyond this you will need an Additional Polling Engine to monitor.
More Details see the Server Sizing guide .
Use additional polling engines for 12,000 or more monitored elements
If you plan to monitor 12,000 or more elements, SolarWinds recommends that you install additional polling engines on separate servers to help distribute the work load.
I would also strongly advise you to check the blog post for any other questions if you are polling beyond 12000 Elements with single SLX Server.
Boost your server polling capacity with Stackable Poller license
Check your Server Polling Rate
Go to Settings > Polling Engines .
Check if any of the Polling Rate is increased ?
Make sure none of the Polling Rate exceeded above 100%
| POLLING COMPLETION | 100 |
| ELEMENTS | 225 |
| NETWORK NODE ELEMENTS | 18 |
| VOLUME ELEMENTS | 50 |
| INTERFACE ELEMENTS | 157 |
| POLLING RATE | 2% of its maximum rate. |
| ROUTING POLLING RATE | 0% of its maximum rate. |
| HARDWARE HEALTH POLLING RATE | 0% of its maximum rate. |
| VIM.VMWARE.POLLING | 2 |
| F5 POLLING RATE | 0% of its maximum rate. |
| WIRELESS HEAT MAP POLLING RATE | 0% of its maximum rate. |
| WIRELESS POLLING RATE | 0% of its maximum rate. |
| UNDP POLLING RATE | 0% of its maximum rate. |
| SAM APPLICATION POLLING RATE | 170% of its maximum rate. |
If you have any polling rate increased above the 100% you will notice high CPU / Memory Utilization on the System which could effect the System and application Performance .
Orion DB Size and settings
Go to the DBInfo Folder > Open DatabaseInfo.csv file
Check the Database Recovery Mode
Check the Total Database Size
Default DB Recovery should be SIMPLE (Strongly recommended)
name | db_size | status |
SolarWindsOrion | 889274.25 MB | ✘Recovery=FULL |
For more details please see the post below and follow all the steps one by one to check your Orion Database Health and settings.
This guide will help you address the most common questions and issues related to the Orion database performance check and configuration without using the SolarWinds Database Administrator (DBA).
Quick Orion database health check guide
Check SQL Server Disk Performance
Orion Antivirus directory exclusion for NPM
Web pages recommended settings
Still have any question / need assistance ?
Please feel free to submit a new support ticket in relation to your question/error. Our support lines are available 24/7.
http://www.solarwinds.com/support/ticket
You can also contact the support by 24/7 phone support .
We are using NPM 12.2
When creating a node using: https://server:17778/SolarWinds/InformationService/v3/Json/Create/Orion.Nodes with a payload of:
{"EntityType":"Orion.Nodes","EngineID":1,"ObjectSubType":"SNMP","SNMPVersion":3,"SNMPV3Username":"********","SNMPV3PrivMethod":"AES128","SNMPV3PrivKey":"***********","SNMPV3PrivKeyIsPwd":false,"SNMPV3AuthMethod":"MD5","SNMPV3AuthKey":"*******","Caption":"PSA000404","IPAddress":"1.2.3.4"}
The checkbox for Privacy Key is Password does not disable in my created node.
Is there a way to disable the Private Key is Password flag in the SNMP credential?
Thanks!
With latest combination of NPM and NCM solarwinds can discover context and list them all in admin context. We tried after upgrade and admin context only list one context from the list of 60 context on that firewall.
Any one with same issue, is product working on some hot fix?
Guys, can anyone give me areal example of the usefulness of DPI? An engineer enabled it across the board on our agents but the info it provides to my eye is pretty useless. It seems to tell you things like 'traffic to Active Directory is slow' but o what! No detail on what process, what type of packet etc. Seems useless. I used Splunk stream and its free and much more powerful. Maybe I'm missing something?
Wrote a query to trigger the alert only during the specified time
Query getting failed on the timestamp,
On removing the time stamp, query is getting accepted. Below is the query, kindly suggest
SELECT Nodes.Caption, Nodes.NodeID FROM Nodes
Join AlertLog on Nodes.NodeID = AlertLog.ObjectID
Where (City = 'London' and TimeStamp < '10:00:00' and TIMESTAMP >'11:00:00')
Looking to potentially upgrade a legacy SolarWinds Orion v10.5 up to v12.2
The Upgrade Advisor currently only shows up to SolarWinds Orion v12.1
Ok.. this is going to be a simple request. If I can click on any page and create a NOC view out of it in NPM. And I can go to the Admin page and pull up pages that have a NOC view in a single window. Why can I not be able to create NOC views of my existing pages and then put them together in one view without having to redo the pages that I want in the same NOC view. This to me would be the same as the options we have to create individual tool bars.
Just think this would be great!
Bill
Hi everyone on Thwack,
What I would like to do is have a search that doesn't return "results like" but only return items that exactly match the criteria I am looking for.
We have a custom property called "Number" which is the number of the physical branch location.
So when I am searching for physical location 53, I don't want results from physical location 953.
I've looked for answers on Thwack and Google and couldn't find how to do this.
Any suggestions?
Jason
Anyone else having issues displaying custom properties using variables on maps after 12.2 update?
We have a large Citrix farm deployed using Citrix provisioning services (PVS) that we'd like to monitor.We are using NPM/SAM and generally we do everything agentlessly using WMI/PSRemoting. However, we do use event subscriptions quite a lot also. As the PVS targets are stateless I'm assuming this will not work with them as the subscriptions would have to be made in the master image before being deployed out and this is not practical. SO, just wondering if anyone was using the agent with PVS targets and if they had any feedback to share?