pause or stop Solarwinds while in maintenance?
A quick search didn't produce a quick answer: if I intend to do firmware, driver, Windows updates that will require a restart or two on the Solarwinds server, how do I pause the thing, i.e. stop...
View ArticleWhat is the hardware requirement for 1 SAM instllation10K monitoring
We are looking for monitoring 10K monitors using one standalone SAM6.1 additional poller. What should be hardware requirement for this?I referred the hardware specification mentioned for SLX in the...
View Articledelete entries for free Wake on lan app
i have old entries that i want to delete in my wake on lan free app from SW. how do i accomplish this?
View Articlewhere is the link to edit alarm templates in SolarWinds
hi, where is the link to edit alarm templates in SolarWinds thanks,
View ArticleServer Manager Not Responding when Expanding Features tree
Hi all, first post, long time reader.The issue is happening on one of our Windows Server 2008 SP2 servers. Its a DC, Print server, and File server.Has anyone got some ideas on how to diagnose and...
View ArticleIBM ServeRAID-MR10i SAS/SATA Controller
Good afternoon Thwack-Folks! I do have a question about the "Current Hardware Health"-status of one of my nodes. Under the sensor name "Array" it shows me: IBM ServeRAID-MR10i SAS/SATA Controller /...
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Linux Drive Monitors not Accounting for Reserved Space
As I'm sure a lot of you are aware, net-snmp doesn't play nicely with the reserved space on some volumes. This results in a disparity between the readings for % Utilization inside Solarwinds and those...
View ArticleDo you monitor your systems bidirectionally? Ingress and egress traffic to...
This question is a near kinsman to my last question "When monitoring service uptime and availability, do you use geographically diverse monitoring stations? Can you have too many?" The reason is that,...
View ArticleComing April 8: Windows XP Rundown
The end of Microsoft’s support of Windows XP is a big deal, and we want to know how you feel about it. Are you rejoicing in the imminent death of XP on April 8 or are you hanging on for dear life? Do...
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WSUS on Server 2008
I have a 2008 server configured with WSUS. I have a number of Windows 7 clients that will not check in and these clients report the Last Status as "Not yet reported." I have found documentation that...
View ArticleDo you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations where...
When I’m evaluating a monitoring system, one of the first things I check for is if it is agent-based or agentless. The use of one method over another doesn’t necessarily spell disaster for the project...
View ArticleOrion Server Backup questions
So we had our homegrown network monitoring server die with it's backups being saved to itself... Anyway, we have since implemented Orion and want to make sure the same thing that happened to our other...
View ArticleService CPU use v System CPU use
We have a standard general set of monitors for all Windows servers, one of which monitors system CPU. If the CPU usage is over 90% for a period, the top 10 CPU bound process are returned in an email...
View ArticleFalse APC UPS reboot messages
Why am I getting false messages that my APC UPS' have rebooted? From: NIDDK Network Group Admins Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 1:07 AMTo: NIDDK Network Group AdminsSubject: Node B5-4-R2-5K-UPS-2 has...
View ArticleVBScript issue running command remotely
I've created a vbscript monitor template that executes a sqlplus command on a remote windows server.Running the vbs script locally, with modifications for local paths, works just fine.But when executed...
View ArticleHP Tools on Hyper-V Server 2012 to manage RAID
Hello... I have Hyper-V 2012 server and need to understand ways to manage RAID like HP tools, has anyone got experience on installing this on hyper-v 2012 server. Can anyone share instructions,...
View ArticleMonitoring Linux hosts - Disk, Memory, CPU - Help
I've spent the better part of this week learning, and researching how to configure my environment (RedHat/CentOS) in SolarWinds Orion. There are a few things I can't seem to figure out. All my work...
View ArticleNOC Dashboard
My company moved from OpsView (Nagios) to Solarwinds recently. Opsview offered a nice rolled up View of all my nodes and services like attached and I find it perplexing that this isn't readily...
View ArticleIBM ServeRAID-MR10i SAS/SATA Controller
Good afternoon Thwack-Folks! I do have a question about the "Current Hardware Health"-status of one of my nodes. Under the sensor name "Array" it shows me: IBM ServeRAID-MR10i SAS/SATA Controller /...
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WSUS on Server 2008
I have a 2008 server configured with WSUS. I have a number of Windows 7 clients that will not check in and these clients report the Last Status as "Not yet reported." I have found documentation that...
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