High CPU usage since 5.2 upgrade.
I am just wondering if anyone else has noticed higher CPU usage on their polling engines since the update to 5.2? Our polling engine was sitting about about 50-60% usage and has been in the high 90's...
View ArticleWMI polling in 5.5
Hi there, I have been reading about all of the new features in 5.5 - and they all look great! Our production Solar Winds environment is all SNMP polling, not WMI. My questions are: 1) To benefit from...
View ArticleBasic OS monitoring via SAM
Hi I am new to SAM. We want to monitor Disk space utilization, Event ID's and few services for up/down status. We did the following 1) Added the Servers via Node management2) Created application...
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Rogue Application - Unknown Location
Hello all, New guy here and new to Solarwinds. I am looking for a rogue application that is broadcasting emails to certain users from time to time. It's a printer application (Ricoh) that was installed...
View ArticleServer & Application Monitor 5.5 Now Available - Latest Version Information
SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor 5.5 has been officially released and is now available for download. All SAM customers under active maintenance can download SAM 5.5 from the customer portal....
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Application Monitors Stuck in Unknown State
I recently started haveing issues with a couple of my HTTPS application templates. They have been workign flawlessly until today and now they seem to be stuck in a constant unknown state as shown in...
View Articleveeam backup and replication
we are using veeam to backup and replicate our virtual servers is there any way to monitor the veeam jobs to get alerts if they complete/fail?I call myself searching for the answer and i have not found...
View ArticleBlackberry Enterprise 5.0.1 Cluster montior
Has anyone developed a template to monitor a Blackberry Enterprise 5.0.1 cluster that they wouldn't mind sharing? Right now, I'm just monitoring both servers, but whichever is not the primary always...
View ArticleHow do I monitor network shares?
I have a requirement to monitor a certain network file share to ensure files are not stacking up in this share. There is currently only a monitor available called "File Count" this template requires...
View ArticleSCP exam overview - my perspective
I like to take tests. I'm just weird that way. At one of my jobs, they actually put "exam hamster" on my business cards. For me, It's like doing a crossword puzzle and most of the time I don't have a...
View ArticleCant have periods in alert central email!
When I send email alerts from Orion, and if the subject line has periods in them, alert central doesn't get it at all. Same email, if I remove the periods, it picks it up. Is this a limitation? Has...
View ArticleEarn points by engaging with our Ambassadors!
Interacting with our Ambassadors will be rewarded with 50 points! Each week we update the Home Page with new blogs from our Ambassadors for you to jump on. Points will be added to your thwack profile...
View ArticlePercentage and Alert triggers
Hello, I have difficulties how to handle one thing in NPM. I have a remote site where a Customer wants to monitor nodes by response time and he wants Alert to be triggered if more than 50% of nodes...
View ArticleExploring a new network from scratch
One of the biggest challenges I face working for a managed services provider is mapping out the networks of new customers. Sometimes we get lucky, and their previous IT person or consultant has left...
View ArticleParsing Emails -- Why can't we all just learn Regex?
I'm working on setting up my first Email parser, and I've hit parsing limitations. Our WAN is managed by Verizon, and we get Emails when a new ticket is opened, status update emails, and resolution...
View ArticleWill Orion be able to monitor HP openVMS ( digital VMS operationing system )
We have a new HP Integrity VMS server can NPM and SAM monitor this type of OS.
View ArticleImporting XML Rules in AC
To speed up creating rules, can I export a rule in XML, update it and reimport? Do I have to change the guid of the rule? Does it matter what I change it to if that's required? -=Dan=-
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You do love oncall duty, don't you?
Hi folks, Robert Novak back with you for another Monday morning and I'm seeing that bumper-to-bumper traffic.Okay, that's not exactly true, but oncall shifts can feel like that, and yours truly is...
View ArticleFailed to notify user about an unhandled alert was assigned to them
Hi, I'm trying to get Alert Central up and running, and all my alerts are throwing this message: 'Failed to notify user about an unhandled alert was assigned to them' Even when I manually create an...
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