Alert Prioritising Dashboard (SWQL) for Problematic Nodes (Servers)
Here is an example to use SWQL to build a view to display problematic nodes (servers) with issues from one or more flowing areas: • Node Status (column name: CONN) - (1 UP, 2 Down, ignore other...
View ArticleAdding Live Weather to the "Worldwide Map" Resource
Adding Live Weather to the "Worldwide Map" Resource Summary: This will allow you to add live weather to the worldwide map based on the OpenWeatherMap project (free).Limitations: The map must be on a...
View ArticleSecured WAN access with additional web server in DMZ
As i have seen many customer accessing the web console directly outside through WAN IP configured the NAT to LAN directly exposing the network for outside potential threat .So i have just created a...
View ArticleMy Orion Website & Server is very slow what should i check quickly ?
This article provides quick information about your current environment and health check , Further it will help you address the most common reasons of performance issues on to your server without...
View ArticleRepetitive Email Alerts (Noise) - MUST HAVE REPORT!!!
< BACK TO TO THE MAGIC OF SQL SCRIPTS SERIES LIST My Dear Thwackers, If you are sick and tired of having to deal with continuous noise from hundreds of alerts and customer complaints due to missed...
View ArticleDependencies using custom properties
Creating dependencies using groups is a long and tedious process. The problem with groups is that it already uses dynamic queries to define the members using CP. So why even use the groups - just use...
View ArticleSolarWinds NPM - Tutorial on how to use SNMP traps in alerts
IntroductionA long journey ended when the proper syntax was found (Thank you, Thwack community) to correlate certain SNMP traps received with other alert values. Here is a short guide on how to use...
View ArticleAdd “Search for Nodes" element in every Solarwinds Webpages header with ‘hit’...
I have added some codes in “C:\inetpub\SolarWinds\Orion\Controls\PageHeader.ascx” which adds the 'Search for Nodes' element on every SolarWinds webpages in the page header. In order to prevent form...
View ArticleInterface Count (nodes with no interface monitoring)
Hi All I've seen some interface count reports on thwack, but I don't believe it's accurate, as they are using joins. When doing this, it excludes nodes with no interfaces. This is what I have been...
View ArticleQuick Disk performance check for SQL server
Recently someone asked me how you check the disk performance on the SQL as its outside the SolarWinds support however Tech support may concerned about this when having performance issues, I am just...
View ArticleHow to create a simple custom view of multiple interfaces' bandwidth utilization
I've used custom views to show clients and my Team many different things that NPM monitors, and those folks really appreciate the service. You can be a rock star in their eyes when you give them...
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