Re: Do you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations...
Yes, that's my biggest concern with agent-based monitoring is making sure that it's light weight and won't cause issues. If an agent is crashing, that's just bad form.
View ArticleRe: Do you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations...
It annoys me to no end when a network enabled device does not support SNMP. That's just not excusable if you ask me.
View ArticleRe: Do you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations...
Yes, credential management for agentless (or rather, SNMP agent based) monitoring is a total pain, often breaking the central monitoring system if it can't handle multiple strings, or multiple...
View ArticleRe: Nexus 7k Core switches - what do you monitor?!
I just checked and was surprised to see we are just getting temperature for Hardware Health on our 7k's running 6.1 and 6.2 - anyone seeing powersupplies etc?
View ArticleHow to monitor the polling server is up
Hi, I am stuck with this problem where one of my polling engine is down (but the services are all running). How could I monitor that the server is up? I do not want to monitor all the nodes for the...
View ArticleRe: NCM credentials problem in NPM
When you are in NPM, have you confirmed that you are logging in with your domain account? It shows you current logged in user in the top right hand corner. It should show as domain\useraccount. And...
View ArticleRe: How long each interface or node was down.
Hi Gob, If I input 10 it is ok. It would get those events where the node went down with 10 minutes or more. However we would also like to display all those event that went down below 10 minutes ( 9...
View ArticleRe: Server and Application Monitor causes High CPU - wmiprvse.exe
The Windows Server 2008-2012 Domain Controller Security template is comprised of two PowerShell component monitors and several Windows Event Log Monitors. Can you try either disabling just the...
View ArticleRe: DHCP User Experience Monitor for a different segment?
The DHCP User Experience Monitor functions no differently than a workstation configured to use DHCP. That is to say, we are bound by the same RFC limitations as any other DHCP client. Unfortunately,...
View ArticleRe: Automatic template import/update from one SAM instance to another
Have you considered exporting the modified template from the Dev SAM instance and importing it to the Prod instance?
View ArticleRe: Using IBM Director 6.3 for Hardware Health/SNMP & WMI.
The issue with the IBM server not showing all hardware information via SNMP could be that the SNMP agent on that server needs to be restarted. This is a common and well known problem with IBM's...
View ArticleRe: How are you handling IIS App Pool alerting?
Both SAM Applications and individual Components Monitors can be included in groups, and groups can be dependent upon other groups. This means you can use both groups and dependencies together to...
View ArticleIn Cisco devices, the Total Memory report incorrect
Hi, I realized that the Total Memory value in Solarwind reporter are incorrect. And the percentage of MEMORY Utilization may be incorrect also, because it take value of Used Memory divided to wrong...
View ArticleRe: Nexus 7k Core switches - what do you monitor?!
I Might compare notes with you on your version and settings? I'd like to see ps also ;-)
View ArticleRe: Dell m6220 - Did not receive VTY entry prompt from device after CR
Hi, Can you please show me the passwords tab details? Thanks,Nanda
View ArticleRe: Is there any way to determine if polling has failed?
You can also create Custom SQL Alert and check if Nodes.LastSystemUpTimePollUtc is up to date. If not, it usually indicates SNMP polling does not work.
View ArticleDameWare MRC v6.1 does no longer work on client computers
Good Morning,I have been using DameWare MRC for quite some years now and all of a sudden I get the following error: Winsock Connect Error:System Error 10060System Message:A connection attempt failed...
View ArticlePolling hours / Exception polling periods
Good Morning Thwack-Folks! I was wondering if there is a possibility to specify the polling times?What I am able to handle now is to set the frequence intervall (e.g. every 10 minutes). But what if,...
View ArticleRe: Block List has non renewed domain names
We are checking the possibilities to include "web.com" in DNSstuff "Spam Blocklist tool". Thanks,Maran.
View ArticleRe: Different Polling Time
Is it not the manual process each day?we need So availability for each node is monitored automatically based on its operations time..
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