Date/time format for different regions (Orion)
Hi all, We run the full Solarwinds Orion suite for our global business. One thing that is very annoying is the date format constantly being American. Our database is hosted in the American datacentre,...
View ArticleAny SolarWinds newbs out there who use multiple products?--We want to talk to...
Hi everyone, I'm Kellie with the SolarWinds User Experience (UX) group. Our job is to make our products easier to use, more useful and more efficient fro our users. We rely heavily on involvement...
View ArticleRemoval of Hardware monitoring from NPM
I am guessing this was removed in one of the later builds of NPM but hardware monitoring used to be included with NPM and you did not have to by SAM to get this feature for servers, when did this...
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TIPS & TRICKS: Custom Property "Policies" using Alert Manager
The new web based alerting introduced in NPM v11.5 / SAM v6.2 is really cool (Great video available here to learn about Web based Alerting). One of the new Alert Actions is to set a Custom Property...
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NPM 11.5 RC2 Now Available
With NPM 11.0 just barely in our rear-view mirror, it is our great pleasure to announce NPM 11.5 has reached RC2 status. NPM 11.5 RC2 delivers on a ton of feature requests driven by the Thwack...
View ArticleTrying To Create A Custom HTML Resource That Acceses Web Page And Passes...
I am trying to get an internal web page to be seen in NOC mode. I have created a custom html resource that works , but I don't know how to pass the username and password to the Windows Security...
View ArticleSolarWinds takes a long time to respond
I was running some tests on the NPM where I shut down a device and would wait for the alert.My polling times for alerts is 1 minute It took 11 minutes after shut down to receive the alert. When I...
View ArticleSWQL query to show status icons for polling engines
I have a web page dedicated to the monitoring applications my team uses (monitoring these monitoring applications--of which SolarWinds is one). I've added the resource 'Polling Engine Status' but...
View ArticleI am confused on how to properly deploy QoE. I can't seem to find a video...
is the network sensor supposed to installed on the workstation that serves as the mirror destination? Any idea how?
View ArticleMAPS
Hi, I would like to create a map to show all nodes that are down in a specific group OR show down nodes with a filter. If I add all our remote sites to a MAP, it is to much to fit into one or two maps....
View ArticleCan't change IP on Solar SQL Server after IP scheme change
Hello everyone, We have recently changed our IP scheme to another one and even after running the configuration wizard I can't seem to get the Solarwinds Orion's site up and running.After following...
View ArticleDatabase Consistency Check Failed with Errors in MapStudioFiles Table
We just found our that the weekly SQL consistency check on the Netview database failed with errors in the "MapStudioFiles" table. Has anyone had this happen before on their database? I did a search...
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Desktop Notifications for Orion
I personally find these a bit more interactive and useful than e-mail notifications: A simple click can take you to the element's details page... If anyone is interested I could be persuaded to provide...
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Date time stamp
When I download files with FTP Voyager 16.2.0.328 the folders date and time stamp are the date and time on my system. As I read the FTP Voyager help under File Handling it discusses an option to use...
View ArticleHuawei AR & NE Routing Platforms - NPM/Network Atlas
Hi, We have a mix of Huawei AR and NE routers, while NPM correctly identifies the router model and interfaces , correct L2/L3 topology and we get some performance counters, Network Atlas knows nothing...
View ArticleNPM 10.7 monitor AD Groups for changes
Hello and Good day, Is there anyway to monitor say our Domain admin group (2008 AD) with NPM for any changes? Example, I add a user to this group and NPM detects and alerts me I need to know if it will...
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Can't Poll EXSi Hosts....
Hello Everyone, I am still having issues polling my EXSi hosts. With that being said I have no errors which is really strange. When I go to the node details and test the VM credentials it passes....
View ArticleESX hosts losing association with DataCenter/VCenter
I have 3 ESX hosts that continuously lose association with their VCenter. The ESX hosts are in the nodes table as is the VCenter, but within the VIM_Hosts table, the NodeID for these hosts is NULL. I...
View ArticleUCS monitoring in Orion - credentials not working
I can't seem to get SNMP to work. I'm not sure what credentials to use. I've tried several credentials on the UCS and Orion doesn't recognize them.
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npm 11.5 All Alerts this Object can trigger - An error has occurred.
just upgraded to npm 11.5. I've added "All Alerts this Object can trigger" to the node summary view but there is nothing in the box. An error has occurred is all I get. I have several alerts setup and...
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