SQL Server database recovery model
What recovery model do most users utilize for their solarwinds databases? Does Orion prefer one model over another? We are using full recovery and have been told that it should be in simple. Thank you
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Alert Suppression
So what are the gotchas with using this function? I know improperly configured conditions can prevent alerts from coming in. Do these look like they will cause issues? Physical Memory:CPU Utilization:
View ArticleNetwork Monitoring Software
We are a small private school looking for a network monitoring solution. We need something that will scan our network and find rogue devices and problem areas. We do not have a network engineer on...
View ArticleWDS Slow TFTP PXE boot
Not SolarWinds related but hoping someone can help out Issue- When PXE booting, the TFTP transfer of the boot wim is very slow. After the boot wim is transferred the rest of the image deployment...
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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 ArticleLinux monitor services - a SAM componant to respont to the output of a linux...
Does anyone have a SAM component template for monitoring the output a Linux command? We have two Linux servers we have configured to use SSSD authentication to an AD server with LDAP and Kerberos. For...
View ArticleThe Observer Effect – Agent vs Agentless Monitoring
If you were a Star Trek fan like myself growing up, you might remember a funny device called the Heisenberg Compensator. It was used when transporting people to account for the affects of a theory...
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 Passthrough authentication, IIS settings
We enabled passthrough authentication some time ago and it was working fine. At some point it stopped functioning correctly, it may have occured during one of the many patches and updates, but we...
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Remote WMI - Access Denied
I have been working to turn on an event log monitor and service monitor for the past few days. I noticed when I would test it would fail the test. After some troubleshooting I found that I can not even...
View ArticleEMC Data Domain and Storage manager support?
We are running SolarWinds Storage Manager 5.1.2 and would like to report on our DD650 and DD140 Data Domain models. I have opened a case with SolarWinds, but they tell me that this on the road map,...
View ArticleLinux process restart
How does one restart a Linux process with Solar winds? The process is being monitored in SAM. If it fails or stops we want NOC to be able to start it them selves from a solar wind window or view. Or...
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 ArticleDo you have a trouble ticketing system ? Should you?
This week my question isn't direct tied to Remote access, however I think it plays a big part when companies decide to implement a remote access solution, especially for troubleshooting and ease of...
View ArticleUpgrade from 6.1.1 to 6.2
According to this article -> SolarWinds SAM 6.2 Release Notes NPM needs to be upgraded first. If it is installed on a separate server, do I still need to upgrade NPM? NPM is running 10.3.1.
View ArticleUse HTTP monitor with Host header
I have searched around the community and not found an answer to this question. We have serves with single IP addresses but several web sites being hosed on these servers. Using host headers to get to...
View ArticleWhere do you house your system design documents?
So everyone has awesome documentation of all of their systems, right? Where do you keep them so they stay alive and where admins will go to update them? Example of use:If a new tech needed a password...
View ArticleSophos Agent
Hello all, I am trying to configure LEM to log with Sophos Ent 5. I read the published doc on kb1581 but i do not see the Sophos enterprise connector?
View ArticleAccess RSA Appliance via SNMP
Hello Thwack-Folks! I would like to retrieve some information of my RSA Appliance (am-7.1 SP4 P26).SNMP is activated and the IP adress of the polling server is added. MIB Tree starting OID I would like...
View ArticleInstallation and servers
We just purchased severa SolarWinds products. Each product has individual server requirements . Does anyone have recommendations for which products can or should be installed on the same server and...
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