Stored SNMP Credentials SAM
Hi, I am currently in the process of deploying SAM within our network. We only use one single SNMP string for all of our environment. I am finding when I do the scan of complete subnets using network...
View ArticleHow to manage active directory objects and resources ?
Hello, Is there an effective way to manage user account groups with SolarWinds other than using AD integration. We want to be able to set accounts for external clients and use Groups such as...
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 ArticleExtend Volume in Windows Server 2008 R2 with VMware
I used vSphere to expand the size of the virtual disk on one of our Windows Server 2008 R2 servers.When I went to expand the drive from within the OS per articles such as this oneHow to Extend a Disk...
View ArticleCan 401 errors in HTTP:// or HTTPS:// be considered valid?
I'm building URL monitors for a client for both HTTP:// and HTTPS:// with credentials that are not on the server, so of course, they are failing with a "The remote server returned an error: (401)...
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 ArticleRemoving a node from a application monitor
How does one remove or delete a node from a application monitor with out copying the application deleting the application of the monitor one wants to delete and re-adding the desired application to the...
View ArticleL2 Error Reporting from Juniper Devices
I am having some issues when it comes to the reporting of L2 errors from Juniper devices. These errors are ones that happen daily and tend to clog our monitoring for interface errors. For the time...
View ArticlePatch Management solutions for Linux Servers?
Are there any plans to develop a Patch Management tool for Linux Server?
View ArticleP95 utilization report for core business hours
I'm looking for an p95 utilization report based on core business hours. I'm not a SQL expert, so am using the interface built into reportwriter. There is no P95 variable available in the list of...
View ArticleInstalling Hotfixes
Please forgive me, this is probably a very basic question. I am fairly new to Orion and have been tasked with upgrading our versions next week. My question is regarding hotfixes. Under my company's...
View ArticleSOAP XML Monitor is failing
Hi, I created a new SOAP Monitor in SAM. Under "SOAP XML Request" it is set to "Manually enter SOAP XML Request". When it runs it fails with this error message. The remote server returned an error:...
View ArticleSTM Documentation
Hey Thwackers, Anyone know where the admin manual is for the STM Profiler? We'll probably be migrating to the new SRM Orion Module before too long, but right now I need documentation of the reporting...
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 ArticleDoes Patch Manager work with OS updates (Linux/Unix)
Our Oracle team wants to have the Oracle servers allowed through the firewall with unrestricted access to allow for automated patching of the Linux OS straight from Red Hat. I generally consider this a...
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...
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 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 ArticleHOST-RESOURCES-MIB Flooding /var/log/messages
Quick question for the SolarWinds PROs out there.... In all of my RHEL6 Machines, snmpd is flooding /var/log/messages with this,"snmpd[51263]: -- HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPath.814" There are...
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Error communicating with Orion Server
Hello Okay I get this error. And I've made sure that the services are running. What could be wrong?
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