Re: SAM Template Thresholds - Realistic?
Thresholds are based solely upon the application vendor's best practices. Microsoft in particular tends to have a ideological perspective when it comes to defining these "Best Practice" thresholds,...
View ArticleVCenter/VMware API Polling Issues
This is an issue we have been trying to fix for the past few months at least. I have an SR open with support that has still been pending, but thought I'd give this place a shot. We are having issues...
View ArticleRe: Can Virtualization Manager be multi-homed?
Hi Byron, OK, sorry had to look into this a bit more. It is not generally possible for you to bridge two unconnected networks with the single VMAN appliance. However, VMAN has Federated Collectors. You...
View ArticleRe: Are you KIDDING ME.....!!!
Alert for what? As mentioned, more info is required and also NCM is for config management. Solarwinds isn't just all marketing, it's a great tool. If you don't like it, then don't use it. That's your...
View ArticleRe: Are you KIDDING ME.....!!!
What are you attempting to alert on in NCM? The only alerting in NCM is for configuration changes. Have you performed the prerequisites? Configuration Change Alerts | NCM |SolarWinds
View ArticleRe: Are you KIDDING ME.....!!!
The irony being that affinnova is a product marketing technology firm...
View ArticleRe: Review Copies Available for-SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor:...
I'd also be interested.Email address is <damien>(DOT)<solodow>(AT)<harrison>(DOT)<edu>
View ArticleRe: Upgrading to 10.6.1
well i would like to say "it should work". I have been installing Orion a very long time and have had every type of experience in doing so...Would like to hear about your experience with this install....
View ArticleRe: Is Hyper V on Server 2012 R2 supported?
Interesting; SAM 6.02 seems to be reading my 2012 R2 Hyper-V server just fine. It will be interesting to see what the solution to the issues you're having is.
View ArticleRe: What do you expect from IP address Management solution? 250 Thwack points...
It didn't ask for a thwack username, so not sure how points will get awarded but will see.
View ArticleRe: Bulk Import ICMP Nodes with Attributes Help
To update the Captions, try this:***BACKUP YOUR DATABASE FIRST*** In Notepad++ (Somewhat quicker than Excel in my opinion, but you can use whatever you want to get to the end result)1) Copy Captions...
View ArticleRe: Don't Panic and Know Where Your Logs Are
cahunt It looks like your organization is improving on visibility and can give you guys better picture of what's going on. Interestingly enough that NetFlow was not originally created with security in...
View ArticleRe: Don't Panic and Know Where Your Logs Are
Aaron Denning Special ringtone is an interesting idea, but it may freak out me: I remembered many times my phone rang due to information security incidents right before 5PM on Friday. Even though my...
View ArticleRe: Exploring a new network from scratch
I think the worst part is Physical auditing... i hate that part.
View ArticleRe: Are you KIDDING ME.....!!!
If anyone has read my original post (Jan 15, 2014 3:44 PM) I clearly explained what I want to do and why I am whining. I have invested over 40+ hours just to get a basic group alert configured which is...
View ArticleRe: Reset Hyper-V Failed Resource Performance counter.
The visual differences you're seeing are because you've chosen to edit the assigned application. The screenshot I provided was editing the Template itself.
View ArticleRe: How to monitor AS400
Have you considered reaching out to COMTEK? They provide an SNMP Agent for IBM AS/400 iSeries servers, and have assisted a multitude of SolarWinds customers with monitoring them using SAM and/or NPM.
View ArticleRe: Separating Department Access in Web Helpdesk
We actually have 4 instances of the system two of them are for non IT departments. Our maintenance team was looking to get a full blown school dude type building management system but was rebuffed, so...
View ArticleRe: AppInsight for SQL
Indexes can be excluded based on size. To your point, smaller indexes can and do fragment quickly. Filtering out indexes smaller than 1MB, as in the example below should remove those from view.
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