Re: What's better? Polling ESXi directly or through vCenter
I would usually recommend polling through your vCenter for all hosts that are associated. Some environments might have a random ESX lying around here or there that would necessitate polling the host...
View ArticleRe: Downgrading LEM appliance to syslog only server??
Check out Page 228http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/LEM/Docs/LEMUserGuide.pdf And for a better explanation check out nicole pauls response in this thread: Managing multiple LEM appliances...
View ArticleRe: SNMPv3 with ESXi?
Hi Chris, In my case we are using Windows 2008 R2 for our whole monitoring environment. -Phil
View ArticleRe: Is there a way to report nodes that have been down for over 30 days?
The problem you're going to run into is your event log retention (which also happens to be the alert log retention) is defaulted to 30 days. If you edit this, then the answer is yes. -ZackMLoop1...
View ArticleRe: Report for Database Transactions per Second
try this to find your historical data: select * from dbo.APM_StatisticsUsage where componentid in (select componentid from apm_sqlbbcomponentalertsdata where componentname like 'Transaction%')...
View ArticleRe: Test Failed with "Unknown" status on [SERVER] Invalid Class
Another setting that could affect this behavior is platform (change it from default x86 to x64) under advanced settings on application edit page.
View ArticleJuniper SRX Map
We have a map showing the VPN connections but when the primary node fails all the interfaces become unknown even though the node itself fails over correctly. Looking at the map builder it appears each...
View ArticleRe: SNMP vs WMI polling - pros and cons
Just adding the KB under the same post will help others. What polling method should I use?http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/3613/What+polling+method+should+I+use%3F
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Re: Process Monitor SNMP "Not all the processes were found"
After specifying some command line arguments all is working correctly.
View ArticleRe: What's better? Polling ESXi directly or through vCenter
I may be wrong, but I think you need to do both if you want to monitor the entire stack. If you only monitor via vCenter, I believe you loose the hardware visibility. If you only monitor via the esc...
View ArticleRe: FTP Voyager Scheduler Task will not stop executing
Does anyone have any more insight on this issue? This has started happening to us as well. It has proven impossible to stop... as soon as the scheduler is opened, the task goes into perpetual...
View ArticleRe: FTP Voyager Scheduler Task will not stop executing
We have had this happen to us as well. We had to restore the config from backup to get resolved. Sounds like that hasn't worked for you. Unfortunately, it seems like FTP Voyager development has...
View ArticleHas anyone found a way to pull part numbers, product descriptions and serial...
I have found this query "SELECT ServiceTag FROM Orion.HardwareHealth.HardwareInfo WHERE NodeID = xxx" will get the main serial number for a few types of devices, but it doesn't work for most. I have...
View ArticleSQL File Space Monitor not Populating Variables
I enabled the file group alert and we're getting emails with all the $ variable tags instead of data. Any ideas here? The database file "${PhysicalName}" is running low on space...
View ArticleRe: SQL File Space Monitor not Populating Variables
New problem - we completely diabled the montor and SAM is still sending us email alerts. How do you troubleshoot phantom email alerts for a monitor that is not enabled? Wonderful.
View ArticleRe: When will your SCP badge be added to your profile?
Hi,I still could not see my badge. How do I see it here in my profile? SOrry for myignorance.
View ArticleRe: What's better? Polling ESXi directly or through vCenter
Disagree, you wont loose hardware visibility when polling via vCenter, you can even monitor it even in ICMP polling method.And, if you do both, you'll end up having orphaned ESX's on virtualization...
View Articletrigger condition with multiple delay time
How do i create alert for below condition with multiple delay time in the alertBusiness hours notification threshold: · If CPU is higher than 99% for 1 minute, AND run queue is above 1.5...
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Re: .net runtime crashing on NPM 11.1
Yes and No... They did got back and got a very big SNMP walk file from my Juniper MX router.The solution in my case is OFF just can't run that production environment.The Layer 3 topololgy feautre is...
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