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Hehe, Dont be Elderly! Too funny.
View ArticleRe: Check Windows process running as a specific user
You might want to start with the following as a script: get-wmiobject win32_process|where{$_.name -eq "explorer.exe"}|select name,@{n="owner";e={$_.getowner().user}}
View ArticleRe: FTP Voyager Scheduler and Network Shares
Hi Ron, please note as KB article states: NOTE: Windows System Services cannot recognize mapped network drives by letter. Any network location specified must be placed in UNC format (\\server\share)....
View ArticleRe: IBM Director Common Agent - SNMP Hardware Status Polling Failing
Jbiggley, yes I checked and you are correct thanks for the heads up, for us its a livable situation for now as these servers are to be virtualized at some point in the near future.
View Articleedit details page not working as previously">10.7 RC - testing SNMP "reachability" from node -> edit details page not...
I have a ticket open on this and overseas indicated no workaround....587456.Basically, I used to be able to go into edit nodes, assign a different polling engine and "test".This would test SNMP...
View ArticleRe: PURGE DATA SOLARWINDS LEM
cmc::acm# diskusageChecking Disk Usage (this could take a moment)... ....oo.Partition Disk Usage: LEM: 100% (3.0G/3.0G) OS: 40% (1.1G/3.0G) Logs/Data:...
View ArticleRe: Unable to poll processes via WMI on Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter
After doing quite a bit of research we finally found the solution to our issue. We are still researching the exact cause but do believe it’s related to VMware tools. So, here is what we did check to...
View Articleedit details page not working as previously">Re: 10.7 RC - testing SNMP "reachability" from node -> edit details page not...
In 10.6.1 it did not work that way. I had to change the polling engine then go into edit properties and test. If you have the toolset installed on your polling engines then you can use it to test snmp.
View ArticleRe: Dynamic Query (REGEX) help
Hi Jan,thanks for the reply. That doesn't work either. Are you sure the UI recognizes the "|" symbol? If I just use brackets I will catch nodes with IP addresses that meet the character class...
View ArticleRe: Advanced Alerts question regarding hyperlinks in triggered action e-mail
yep, easy. copy a working link from an interfaces details page or whatever page you need.paste that in the alert (which you'll select email type HTML) http://<your server...
View Articleedit details page not working as previously">Re: 10.7 RC - testing SNMP "reachability" from node -> edit details page not...
guess it just always worked on "other" when migrating in the past...I suppose I should pass the pipe now... Thanks!
View ArticleRe: Is there a way to pull software product license keys and activation status?
I have not but most key are scrambled in the registry and you have to apply the "formula" which will not work unless your going to apply the math afterwards. Not sure if that is hard requirement....
View ArticleRe: Where does WMI get the location data on a windows server?
This information should be queryable from the client/end-point based on Microsofts references but it does appear from my own investigation that you may be correct. It look as though this value is only...
View ArticleIs it possible to display the WebHelpDesk dashboard in NPM?
We've got a large screen in our IT support room displaying a Map from our NPM installation. I used to display the Stats regarding tickets there as well. I don't want to us a tech licence purely to show...
View ArticleRe: Perl script to parse SNMP trap and set VarCustom01
I tested it and made some changes accordingly, I also went with VB because I didn't even have Perl installed on that server which is why nothing was passing. Took me a second to realize that. Below...
View ArticleRe: Viewing All Tickets For Your Company
I would suggest making them a Client Admin for the location(s) for that company. Give them access to "View" the tickets for their location. Then they can view the tickets under the History tab when...
View ArticleImport subnets spreadsheet does not add the IP addresses
Hi, I understand that when importing a spreadsheet of multiple subnets, the IP addresses are not populated; but, I don't understand why when manually scanning the imported subnets, the IPs are not...
View ArticleRe: Orion.Events TimeStamp field is.. Binary?! :s
Not sure why that is showing up as "System.Binary". In .net terms it is a byte array. That field corresponds to a SQL Server "timestamp" column. It is essentially a last-modified time for that record,...
View ArticleRe: Can NCM Real-Time Config Change Backup and Notification be Delayed?
You could do this from the Syslog server that forwards the messages to NCM, IE Kiwi. You could create a custom script for the forwarding with a delay. Outside of that, NCM has some delay implemented...
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