Rsyslog relay to NPM issue: Logs show up improperly
I'm standing up an Rsyslog relay right now and would like to send logs to our NPM instance. I've tested this and logs show up in the Syslogger with the address of the Rsyslog box as the hostname and...
View ArticleHow to convert UTC date to local time in an alert message
What is the SQL syntax to convert a UTC date/time, such as in the datetime field for a unDP (universal data poller)? I keep getting: MACRO SQL ERROR - Incorrect syntax near '7'.for this...
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After many trials and errors, I found the solution. There's no need to concatenate using the + and the ''''' to get one quote mark. SWQL is already parsing and concatenating, so you just need to...
View ArticleCustom report only current events
Hello, is there a way to report only the current events a single time and the event is removed after it clears but only lists the events once? currently if i look at my events report page, alerts show...
View ArticleRe: Dependencies Slow...slow...slow...is there a fix
Hi,This is a known issue in some environments. While a simple "SELECT * From [dbo].[Dependencies]" will execute quickly in SQL Manager, the page will not load quickly because of the JOINs necessary to...
View ArticleRe: Custom report only current events
For Nodes: SELECT MAX(EVENTTIME) AS "EVENT TIME", n.Caption AS 'DEVICE', MESSAGE, n.NODEID FROM EVENTS JOIN Nodes n ON n.NodeID = NetworkNode WHERE NETWORKNODE IS NOT NULL AND...
View ArticleRe: Unreachable Status with Advanced Alert Rules
Top of my head: Reset Alert when ALL of the following apply: Node Status is equal to UP I'm not sure I follow the logic here. If you look for an UP status, when would you not get a valid alert...
View ArticleRe: Find all instances of a VLAN across network
2 ways that I can see immediately: If you added VLANs to monitoring during your initial discovery for NPM, you can go to 'Manage Nodes' and simply search for the VLAN # as an interface and you will get...
View ArticleRe: Custom report only current events
Big Thanks to Steven Klassen for cleaning this up! Here is a combined report if you don't want them separated: select * from ( select max(e.eventtime) eventtime, n.nodeid, n.caption nodename, null...
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Re: Alert report creation
Here is what I came up with using SQL Server Managment Studio. It shows Alerts by ObjectName and a count of the alerts. Our system only keeps 30 days of Alerts in the AlertLog table. I haven't figured...
View ArticleEditing a chart filter
Hello all, I added a filter to one of my Top 10 charts the other day. I'd like to go back and look at it for reference, my Edit button is gone. Only the Help button is available. First, is that...
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Alert against all Windows fixed disks except one
Hello all I am after some help creating an alert for whenever any of our Windows server fixed disks (except a particular disk) go over 95% capacity. All of our Windows servers are VMs and we have them...
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Check your account settings. Edit buttons disappearing usually means you lost privileges.
View ArticleRe: Alert against all Windows fixed disks except one
Add a custom property for all of your fixed volumes that you don't want to alert on and then use that as a limitation for your alerts Trigger Alert When ALL of the following apply Vendor = Windows...
View ArticleRe: Alert report creation
You won't get much more out of adding in the nodes/interface tables. AlertLog.ObjectName takes care of that for you. for reference, this shows all active alerts and joins multiple tables to end up with...
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Re: Alert against all Windows fixed disks except one
Thanks Zack Worked like a charm. In fact I just did the following in the end and it works without issues
View ArticleOrion Website error-the given key was not present in the dictionary
Hi There,I need some help or ideas. I imported some APM templates(MS SCCM 2012) from Thwack to our Orion console. I assigned it to some nodes. When I got to manage the applications, I get the error...
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Last Database Sync
Hello Everyone, Solarwinds newbie so I apologize if this question is stupid but here it goes. Currently using NetPerfMon to monitor local environment and when I view the polling engine details it...
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