OS watchers alert in Solarwinds
Hi All, Could someone please help me out with how is OS watchers alert is configured in solarwinds.  We have been receiving many flap alerts from Solarwinds regarding OS watchers. It will be a great...
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BUILD, Rules, drag the failedauthentication event, specify the event count and the sliding time frame. Use the tiny icon next to the time frame to bring up the advanced options editor and drag the...
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Hi If you ping url and not the IP it could be DNS.
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FYI I did open a support case 630538. They are researching how to increase this length. In the mean time I may have found my own fix. This page is poorly designed for large node or interface counts....
View ArticleProblem upgrading additional poller to NCM 7.3
Hi there, I have updated my primary and one other additional poller to 7.3 but I have one other additional poller that presents this error when trying to upgrade "Solarwinds NCM cannot be installed on...
View ArticleRe: NOC View Hack
Mostly through custom resources, we upgraded recently and there are a couple new ones I didn't know about that make a big difference.
View ArticleRe: What does the Thwack (Back)Pack Look like?
hmm, how heavy can it be?How many 14" screen laptops can it accommodate? I'd have loved to see the different side views to imagine how big it can grow with load.
View ArticleRe: What does the Thwack (Back)Pack Look like?
prowessa wrote: hmm, how heavy can it be?How many 14" screen laptops can it accommodate?I've put 2 X 14" and my 12.5" one and it wasn't full at all. I don't think you can really fill it up to the point...
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Re: What does the Thwack (Back)Pack Look like?
OKay, lets figure this out. I'll order a backpack from the store, and you send me 20 14" laptops (i'm pretty sure it wont hold that many) and I'll see how many I can fit in my backpack. I get to keep...
View ArticleRe: WHD not processing tickets
That sounds like perhaps a bug. I'd suggest raising a ticket with Solar Winds. Good luck!
View ArticleNode resource list update
I recently upgraded a site and after the upgrade the IPs to the router and layer 3 switch were swapped.  More specifically, before the upgrade IP 192.168.xx.2 used to belong to the router and ..xx.1...
View ArticleRe: OS watchers alert in Solarwinds
Can you provide a screenshot or what you're seeing and additional details? I'm afraid I'm not sure exactly what you are referring to by "OS watchers".
View ArticleRe: network mapped drive not showing in Win32_Logical disk
Mapped network shares are mounted under the user context of the account which mapped the drive. These drives are not shown/available at the system level for all users to see. This is what allows...
View ArticleRe: SAM PagerDuty integration issues with volume names
The variable not being properly escaped is an issue in the JSON post method PagerDuty provided as the downloadable trigger action for Orion. The variable is populating properly, but the code they have...
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Re: check_msa_hardware, a pearl plugin running as nagios plugin against some...
As seen in the screenshot you attached, a numeric value of some form or type must be returned as part of the output of the script. Message text is optional, but a numeric value is not. Here you can...
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Re: Powershell script modules
Is it safe to assume that these are 64bit cmdlets? By default SAM runs all PowerShell scripts in a 32bit process, which cannot load 64bit cmdlets. To change this behavior on a per-application basis,...
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Re: network mapped drive not showing in Win32_Logical disk
Symbolic links and mount points in Windows are very different. SAM can monitor mount points natively for nodes that are managed via WMI, but symbolic links are an NTFS attribute that most applications...
View ArticleRe: Can Solarwinds be integrated with Zabbix?
Integrated in what ways? Certainly the two can be integrated, but it's far more common that SAM replaces Zabbix than is integrated since there is a fair degree of overlap between the two. What exactly...
View ArticleRe: SAM + Orchestrator = The Sky is the Limit
Honestly that's pretty amazing. Out of curiosity, what was the alert action used to interact with Orchestrator? Can I assume it was "Execute an External Program or Script"?
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