Re: Rookie SolarWinds question
When you create tabs and want to remove something from a tab layout, don't hit the 'X', DON'T HIT THE X I SAY. That will remove it from your "Available Items". You can re-create it, but it will remove...
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Re: Receiving website errors "Maximum request length exceeded"
Jim, any word back on this issue from SW support. I have over 66K elements being polled and am running into this issue as well.I'll try your config file edit as a workaround, but a simple Web page...
View ArticleRe: SQL Named Instance Monitoring
Wow, I would imagine the polling interval would also need to be adjusted to accommodate that large of an instance as well since 5 minute intervals are probably too aggressive to query so many...
View ArticleRe: Hourly SQL wait time question
I'm happy to see good answers already posted here. Jim Thompson is right. Multiple threads executing in parallel is the answer. As far as what is happening, I see a locking wait type which jives...
View ArticleRe: Instance CPU Utilization SQL2005
The reason it requires 2008 is this metric is being gathered from the ring buffer which is part of extended events and that didn't come out until SQL 2008.
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Re: SQL Named Instance Monitoring
To that end I would recommend using the application templates below, assign them individually to each named SQL instance. For multi-instance SQL servers multiple templates may be applied. SQL Server...
View ArticleRe: Orion Service Processes
If all your alerts have been properly migrated from the legacy Win32 Advanced Alert Manager then this service can be stopped and disabled. It should no longer be needed. It remains solely for...
View ArticleRe: Self-Monitoring and MSMQs... Or, how do we watch the watcher?
Orion ships with an out-of-the-box alert titled "Alert me when a polling engine has not updated the database in 10 minutes" which exists solely for this purpose. Since the Alert Manager runs...
View ArticlePause alert actions does not seem to be working
paused active alerts but still getting email actions sent out.
View ArticleRe: Hourly SQL wait time question
Hi Brain, thanks for quick response and the information provided. I know the Multiple threads executing in parallel is the answer on this question. Could you please explain how can a sleeping process...
View ArticleRe: Hourly SQL wait time question
It could be a couple of things. It could be that it's waiting on a sleeping thread that is sleeping because it's waiting on another thread... which may be sleeping for the same reason etc. If you...
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Re: I am confused on how to properly deploy QoE. I can't seem to find a video...
If you are running NPM 11.5, it should autodiscover nodes and applications for that traffic, otherwise we would need to manually specify which nodes / applications to filter:
View ArticleRe: Alerts don't start if node goes down before custom alert time
This should work for you. It works for me. You should've got an email at 6am stating the node was down. I did a test where I copied my node down alert and changed the alert time frame. So when I turned...
View ArticleIs there a way to have an e-mail created and sent to an external address when...
Hi All, I am looking to see if there is a way that WHD can automatically create an e-mail and send when I change the status type. What I am dioing is creating a ticket that passes around different...
View ArticleSRM or STM?
I'm new to the Solarwinds community and have been tasked with setting up monitoring for our SAN. I'm not very familiar with SAN technology and I haven't found out how large our SAN is yet either. I've...
View ArticleRe: OrionWebBackup compatibility (backup from NPM 10.5 restore to NPM 11.0.1)
If so, the only way is to upgrade the originating NPM to 11.0 and then backup the webconfig? is SQL tables structure similar so we can export the views and accounts from DB and insert them in the...
View ArticleRe: SRM or STM?
Hi mikegale, I highly recommend this to read as a first pass: Dreams Come True - Storage on Orion is now in Release Candidate! If you're still confused after reading that, please let me know so I...
View ArticleRe: Best Practice for 100% Backup Coverage?
This is what I do. I add all my devices (the ones where I want to backup the config) to NCM. Then I've created a job that backs up the startup config. Then 1 hour alert I run another job that backs up...
View ArticleRe: BDF protocol ?
if you mean BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection) then there is a MIB (currently an internet draft) that you can use for monitoring it (on Juniper routers), and there are SNMP traps from it (which...
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