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Java 7u10 mystery directives in package boot

January 11, 2013, 2:28 pm
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The package boot config for the Java 7u10 (x86 for x64) package (both the install and the upgrade versions) contains a few directives that aren't in the straight x64 and x86 packages. Does anyone know what they are for and why they are only in that package and not in the other two java packages?

 

In the "Before Applying Package" section are three directives that aren't in the other packages:

  1. A directive that terminates processes with open handles to  a long list of dlls from the JavaHome directory
  2. An MSI uninstall for product code {26A24AE4-039D-4CA4-87B4-2F83217007FF}, which appears to be 32-bit Java 7u7.
  3. A directive that runs the command line "/c %MODULEPATH%\make_mod.cmd". This appears to be a batch file that updates the registry to change the system profile path for the local system account from %systemroot%\system32\config\systemprofile to %systemroot%\syswow64\config\systemprofile

Finally, in the "After Applying Package" section is another batch file that changes the systemprofile path back to %systemroot%\system32\config\systemprofile

 

I gather that the batch files u10 mustery package ppt are a workaround for some complication when installing a 32-bit application on a 64-bit system, but what about the first two? Why does only this package need to close a bunch of file handles when the others don't? Why is 32-bit Java 7u7 singled out for uninstall, and shouldn't that be handled by the 7u10 installer anyway?

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Hardware Monitoring

January 11, 2013, 1:53 pm
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I'm pretty sure this isn't exactly unique to the beta, but it's where I noticed this. For the machines that I am monitoring with WMI (mainly Hyper-V hosts), I only get a small subset of the hardware monitoring that I would get if I were monitoring with SNMP. We're using Dell servers with OpenManage installed on them.

 

This may be another case of "I wish you could do both SNMP and WMI monitoring on one host." Is there a way to get full hardware monitoring with WMI hosts?

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SAN monitoring using WMI on Hyperv environment

June 26, 2012, 1:37 am
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Hi There,

 

I need to monitor SAN drives using WMI for HyperV Environment. Kindly share your thoughts.

 

Also please let me know if any other way is also there to do it?

 

 

Regards,

Nitin Saini

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Alerts - Email notification messages

November 21, 2012, 9:48 am
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This is a general question for all.

Our company has decided that it wants to send out e-mail notifications based on alerts.  We have started to play with this feature but are overwhelmed with the amount of data that can be sent out.  We are looking for some good ideas based on more experienced users.  What events do you e-mail about and what data do you send in your emails.  Simply stating a node is down doesn't really play well for upper management

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Pet Peeve

November 14, 2012, 12:37 pm
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Just wanted to bring up some thing that is kind of a pet peeve of mine.  When ever I download a trial of one of the Solarwinds products, I get bombarded for the next two weeks by calls and emails from the sales staff.  This usually starts within 30 min of the download.  Now I know that times are tough with the economy being what it is but this kind of bombardment is at the very least irritating.  It's gotten to the point that almost hate to download any thing from the site.  To make matters worse I never, ever, ever get calls from the same sales person twice.  It's like there's this constant churn of sales contacts.  I'm old school in the networking business, I want a consistent relationship with the companies I do business with.  I don't want to be treated like the next cold call victim.

 

Now I really hope that management in Solarwinds pays attention to Thwack and this feed back.

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what is need for automatic graph monitor??

January 12, 2013, 2:09 am
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what is need for automatic graph monitor??

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Advanced Alert Frequency

February 24, 2009, 12:21 pm
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Is there a way to have an advanced alert trigger it's action every n cycles?

 

We'd like to get notifications every hour of nodes down, but would like to get the first notification immediately.  I'm concerned that setting :check this alert every 1 hour: will delay our initial notification of a node down.  However, setting it to 1 minute means we're notified... every minute.

 

How are people dealing with this type of issue?

 

Thanks-

Kevin

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Suppress Alerts unless site is and up and down often

January 12, 2013, 11:33 am
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I am monitoring about 1000 devices or so.   These devices are in rural areas that run on generators and satellites so it is very common for them to go up and down.  Because of this, I have a 30minute delay on all alerts, or I would be flooded constantly with things I dont need to worry about...   But when a site is going up and down constantly I, of course, dont get an alert about it.  I'm trying to find a way that if the site goes up and down 3 or 4 times within the 30 minutes, I get an alert.  I have no idea where to start or if thats even possible, any ideas? Thanks for any help or advice

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Top-N Vm Memory Underallocated

January 12, 2013, 3:57 am
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   Hi,

 

Just getting to grips with Virtualization manager and it produces some out of the box reccomendations one of which is Vm's that have underallocated memory.

whilst I appreaciate vmware can handle more than 4Gb the recommendation from this report is to increase the memory to more than 4GB on quite a number of Vm's 95% of which are using running a 32bit OS, this to me is incorrect and wasteful. Currently running 5.1 (latest version)

Am I just reading this wrong or am i mistaken in some way?

 

Thanks Mike

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Universal Device Poller - Counter not working as expected

December 4, 2012, 1:14 pm
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I'm trying to create a performance graph to show HTTP connections per second on our F5 LTM appliances. The OID (1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.1.2.1.56), reports the running total of HTTP requests. The actual value means very little to me since there is no defined time. The running total probably began last time the appliance was rebooted.

 

I need the ability to get the delta between value of the current poll and the value of the previous poll and then divide by the interval. This would give me the number of requests per interval. I can then use a Transform to convert to requests per second. For example:

Poll 1 (at 11:00am): 1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.1.2.1.56 --> 1230000000

Poll 2:(at 11:02am): 1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.1.2.1.56 --> 1230360000

Delta = 1230360000 - 1230000000 = 360000 requests

360000 requests / 2 minutes = 180000 requests per minute or 3000 requests per second

 

When I added the poller and checked the data, it showed the actual raw values from my F5 appliances. I thought setting the MIB value type to Counter would report the delta between the values but it doesn't. I played around with the different settings but couldn't find any option that would help. In the documentation, there is a speedometer example under the Counter section:

As an example, a Counter value corresponds to the value, in miles, returned by a car odometer. To produce results equivalent to a speedometer‑type rate poller, create a clock poller that returns another Counter value, in hours, and then create a poller transform that divides the result of an odometer poller by the result of the clock poller.

 

Applying that example to my case, I have the value in miles returned by the odometer (total HTTP requests). I have no clue what a clock poller or what the rest of that example means.

 

Here is a snippet of my poll below:

 

<CustomPollers version="9.0">

  <CustomPoller UniqueName="sysStatHttpRequests" Description="The total number of HTTP requests." OID="1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.1.1.2.1.56" MIB="F5-BIGIP-SYSTEM-MIB:sysStatHttpRequests" SNMPGetType="GetNext" NetObjectPrefix="N" GroupName="F5" PollerType="C" Parser="Counter" IncludeHistory="True" Unit="" TimeUnitId="0" TimeUnitQuantity="0" DefaultDisplayTimeUnitId="0" Formula="" LabelType="" LabelDetail="">

    <Enumerations />

  </CustomPoller>

</CustomPollers>

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SolarWinds Information Service using self signed certificate

January 12, 2013, 3:37 pm
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I'm tryig to use the New-WebServiceProxy cmdlet to connect to the information service on 17778. It seems to connect, but the cert if self signed and not trusted. I added the cert to the trusted root certificate authorities but it still fails.

 

The certificate is issued to "SolarWinds-Orion" and since the cert isn't issued to "orion1" either by short name or FQDN, it is untrusted. I'm not really sure how to reissue a proper cert to the Information Service. I supposed I could trick it by creating a DNS entry for SolarWinds-Orion that resolves to the server, but there should be a nicer way of getting this to work.

 

New-WebServiceProxy -Uri 'https://orion1:17778/SolarWinds/InformationService?wsdl'

New-WebServiceProxy : The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS

secure channel.

At line:1 char:10

+ $Orion = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri 'https://orion1:17778/SolarWi ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (https://orion.c...ionService?wsdl:Uri) [New-WebServiceProxy], WebExcept

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    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewWebServiceProxy

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Orion SDK Powershell and Windows 8

January 12, 2013, 3:20 pm
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I registered the C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion SDK\SWQL Studio\SwisPowerShell.dll on my system, but when I went to add the snapin, I get this error:

 

Add-PSSnapin SwisSnapin

Add-PSSnapin : No snap-ins have been registered for Windows PowerShell version 3.

At line:1 char:1

+ Add-PSSnapin SwisSnapin

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (SwisSnapin:String) [Add-PSSnapin], PSArgumentException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : AddPSSnapInRead,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.AddPSSnapinCommand

 

Is there some trickery I need to do to get this to work with the newest version of powershell? I assume I would get this error on Windows 7 if I upgraded the WMF to verison 3.0 also but I haven't tested that.

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Network Atlas - ConnectNow!

January 19, 2011, 8:27 am
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I understand that the ConnectNow feature is supposed to work with both Layer2 and Layer3.  For Layer3 - does it understand ATM, Mulitlink PPP and/or IMA Circuit connections?  I am having a issue that connectnow is not connecting my routers, and Im wondering if its because they use a Multilink PPP connection (4x T1's).

 

I am going to run a new discovery on those nodes just to make sure, but Im sure I have done this before.

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did not receive expected response to command "aaa"

January 13, 2013, 8:08 am
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I would like to add "aaa" command into my device, but it keep failed to enter the "aaa" .

 

It keep display the error message - did not receive expected response to command "aaa". 

 

After the aaa command, it stop to send the other command. Kindly advice me how to send "aaa" command by using cat tools.

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how to auto daily report??

January 13, 2013, 7:08 pm
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Getting error using LEM Reports

January 10, 2013, 2:04 am
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This is the error I get when I try to start any report (see attached picture).

We have LEM registred and licensed and since Reports are basicaly separate app, the question is do we have to register/buy/get licence to use Reports or what?

One thing that may have something to do with our problem is that we have licenced LEM on one computer, and I'm accessing LEM console from another (the error is the same no matter if I access LEM console from web browser or from desktop app).

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Windows Event View Logs

December 20, 2012, 3:02 pm
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Hello,

 

I've purchased SAM, NTA & NPM products. Can some please explain the stepts to have errors in windows event viewer sent to a report or displayed within the orion web console.

 

Ultimately i'd like to have a daily report produced that shows all errors on our windows servers that are in event viewer.

 

Do i need extra software than the products i've purchased?

 

Thankyou

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What we are working on post NPM 10.4

January 14, 2013, 12:54 am
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As always, since NPM 10.4 has been released recently we are already working on the next release of NPM. Here is a preview:

 

  1. Support for routing information including alerting for major routing protocols (RIP v2, OSPF v2,v3, BGP).
  2. UI improvements for interface discovery filtering (possibility to select interfaces bease od Regex).
  3. New reports with charts, web based.
  4. Multicast traffic information monitoring and alerting
  5. Performance enhancements
  6. Interface auditing/logging
  7. Spanning tree & VLAN information

  

PLEASE NOTE:  We are working on these items based on this priority order, but this is NOT a commitment that all of these enhancements will make the next release.  We are working on a number of other smaller features in parallel.   If you have comments or questions on any of these items (e.g. how would it work?) or would like to be included in a preview demo, please let us know!

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Repeated installation of patch KB2798897

January 15, 2013, 12:04 am
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After recently getting my Patch Manager server up and into Production, I discovered the update KB2798897 kept re-installing on my PC's. It would install successfully but a few seconds later it would be there again. This was happening on all PC's (only 4 'cause I've only just started migrating)

 

So, looking into various forums I find a few techniques that may help in certain scenarios but weren't helping me. Obviously my issue was different. So I log into the WSUS console and check the patch in there. What I find is that there are two identical patches, but one is expired.

 

So I resolved the problem by declining the expired patch.

 

Here are some thoughts on the issue.

1. The Server Cleanup Wizard only declines expired patches that are not approved for deployment. Why not decline all expired patches ? All expired patches have a successor.

2. When I tried to automate the declining of expired patches in Patch Manager using "Decline (scheduled with rules)" I found the rules were not flexible enough to pick the patches based on "Publication State". Maybe I'll raise this as an enhancement request.

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Filtering canned reports to a timeframe

January 14, 2013, 8:43 am
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I'm new to seum.  I like the canned reports, however, I was wanting to narrow down the timeframes to only report 6am-11:59pm.  Is there an easy way to do this?

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