My Solarwind NPM cannot recognize CheckPoint Hardware Appliance
Hi Forum, I has added one node, Check Point Appliance. But the Solarwind did not recognize its Vendor and Vendor Icon. It show some kind of default: net-snmp LinuxWhat I have to do now to make the...
View ArticleCustom reporting
New to SW, so please excuse the noob question. I was looking to create a custom report and am not having any luck with it. I have around 50 sites accross the US that I use SW to monitor. I like using...
View ArticleView Limitation Not Working - Security Holes??
I'm new to the NPM product, so apologies if I'm over looking how to properly lock a view limitation down. I'm getting highly concerned about my decision to purchase this product after my own problems...
View ArticleWindows 2008 64 bit and IIS 7
Hi all,If you move to Server 2008 64 bit, you may run into an issue where it appears IIS in missing. Orion requires you to run IIS in 32 bit mode on 64 bit machines. This is accomplished in advanced...
View ArticleSAM and Custom Property Editor
This may be a relevant feature request, but maybe someone can shed some light on a method to modify custom properties based upon the APM assigned to a node. My scenario is this:100+ servers that have a...
View Article[Orion 9.1] Directlink and Windows Passthrough authentication
Hello,I have enable the Windows Passthrough authentication and it's working perfectly (<= just one things pitty is that we need to create the account in Orion).But, I have create a DirectLink...
View ArticleWindows Trap Viewer and Web Traps tab flawed
solarwinds badly needs to do a rewrite of their trap handling within the Web interface and within the Windows Trap Viewer application. Please log a bug based on this. I have done a lot of regular...
View ArticleDiscovery Script to Only Monitor Interfaces With Descriptions Matching A String
Hello,1. I'd like to implement some type of discovery script that daily re-discovers the switchports in a network and only monitors the ones with a certain string in the description. Is this...
View ArticleHere is my very painful upgrade procedure. Any thoughts?
This procedure is necessary due to a bug in Solarwinds since NPM 10.1.0 and possible future versions up to and including version 10.5.0.My setup is a separate physical DB server and everything else is...
View ArticleMonitor a Node via WMI
Could someone guide to a document that show you how to setup a node to be monitored via WMI? I've read the admin guide for SAM & NPM and see a lot of "references" but nothing that clearly walks you...
View ArticleSQL Question on comparing Custom Poller table values
Has anyone been able to create a SQL query that compares the current polled values of a custom poller table and historic values then report when any of the values of the rows have changed? I've been...
View ArticleDynamic Query for Group of ThinAP's
I am trying to find a way to create a Dynamic Query in a group to find ThinAP's (Wireless Access Points) attached to a cisco wireless lan controller. I have no option to even select them for group...
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Why nodes are showing down in solarwinds NPM even though the ips are...
Dear Admins,Greetings. As i am new to solarwinds, Some ips are suddently showing down in our solarwinds monitor even though the ips are reachable from my pc.After one hour the issue is clear.My...
View ArticleNPM 10.1 - how users can change password in this brave new world?
Now that we've implemented NPM 10.1 and integrated it with Windows AD, we're enjoying the ability to manage users in AD, while assigning a single group to SolarWinds.One challenge is that we have a...
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Upgrade SW apps to 64-bit
Howdy, It seems to me that it is well overdue for SolarWinds to migrate all their applications to 64-bit. Yes, these work just fine in 32-bit mode on our 64-bit servers. However, it is just not the...
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Question on 10.5.x Discovery
I am getting ready to upgrade my systems from 10.4.1 to the newest version of 10.5, and one of the questions the users have asked me was filtering a discovery. I have seen some information in the white...
View ArticleAlerts - Percent variable being displayed as a variable
Some of my alerts display their received and transmit statistics in what appears to be an exponent.It should be displayed as a percentage.Any ideas on why and how to fix this?Hee is an example: Alert:...
View ArticleHow to add a group of similar devices to send an email alert
We have lot of networking devices being monitored by Solarwinds, an email is sent to a group when any device fails. In addition to our existing any/all device email notification, I want to create an...
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Report Writer - Summarizing Disk Usage Over Month
I'm having trouble configuring a new historical volume usage report to display the information that I need. I need to be able to show the total amount of disk space used for a group of volumes between...
View ArticleNPM 10.5 - Adding bulk nodes - Non-responsive
I know how to add nodes using the discovery tool, but now I need to know how to bulk-add devices that are unresponsive due to maintenance. For example, is it possible to import devices using a...
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