Do 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 ArticleBYOD, how does your company handle it ?
Everywhere you look it seems as though people are seeing two things... "Cloud" and "BYOD". So lets talk about BYOD... or Buy Your Own Device or Bring Your Own Dollars... however you look at it my...
View ArticleRemove Wireless Nodes from UDT
Guys, We have installed and being running UDT 3.0.2 for a few weeks. We used the discovery to add some switches but it appears that by default all of my Cisco Wireless APs were added from NPM. I now...
View ArticleRedis hit/miss rate application monitoring possible?
Hello, We have recently moved some systems to used Redis in favour of Memcache, for key -> value lookups. I notice you can monitor Memcahce and get things like "cache hit/miss rate". Is Redis in the...
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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 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 ArticleRemote network access: Commercial Solution or Roll your own ?
Remote management of workstations and remote networks has been something that IT staff have dealt with for a long time. Some IT staff simply need to management workstations from inside of their...
View ArticleTroubleshooting procedure for LDAP user experience monitor ?
Dear Sir or Madam - I am having problems getting the LDAP user experience monitor to work. Is there a troubleshooting procedure available somewhere ? I searched the website, but could not find...
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 ArticleWhen monitoring service uptime and availability, do you use geographically...
In dealing with availability monitoring, how many different geographic angles do you prefer to analyze from? Are the pros and cons to having too many or too few? I recently had a downtime problem with...
View ArticleServer & Application Monitor for Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5/5.10
Hi All,i'm looking for a solutions to local telco provider to perform some inventory on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5/5.10 platform. i need some input whether it does support on Solarwinds Server &...
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 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 ArticleRedis hit/miss rate application monitoring possible?
Hello, We have recently moved some systems to used Redis in favour of Memcache, for key -> value lookups. I notice you can monitor Memcahce and get things like "cache hit/miss rate". Is Redis in the...
View ArticleGetting Orion to Work with BMC FootPrints
Orion InfoOrion Platform 2013.2.0, SAM 6.0.0, NPM 10.6, IVIM 1.8.1 BMC FootPrints Version 11.6 Has anybody worked with or know what is needed in order to ge these two programs to talk with each other?...
View ArticleReport Customization for Groups with Members
Hello,Management is asking a report which include Server Group name and associated Server Menbers name with current up/down status as well as current resource usage. I been playing with the templates...
View ArticleSQL Agent Job Info - Status
Morning all, I have been using the AppInsight Template for SQL for sometime now but have experienced high load on each of the SQL Servers that this is applied too. We have realised that the SQL...
View Articleimport a MIB to solarwinds
Hello!If I have the MIB of equipment. What should I do to integrate them into the solarwinds?Thanks!
View ArticleWhen monitoring multiple sites, how do you handle the collection of data...
This is tied in to my last post "Do you prefer agentless or agent-based monitoring? Are there situations where you prefer one over the other?" I prefer agent-based solutions for monitoring to get...
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