List of Muted Nodes
NPM 12 introduced 'mute alerts', but no way to use 'group by' to view the nodes affected by mute alerts, This short SWQL will display the nodes affected by mute alerts. select n.caption as [Device],...
View ArticleBoost your server polling capacity with Stackable Poller license
Overview This article provides information about FAQs asked by the customer based on the environments combined. Environment Orion Platform versions above NPM 10.6Strongly recommended to have latest...
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 ArticleMy Orion Website & Server is very slow / CPU & Memory Spike what should i...
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 ArticleThe Ultimate CPU Alert - Reloaded!
When adatole posted his The Ultimate CPU Alert we all cheered. His alert successfully paired CPU utilization and CPU queue length to accurately measure true load on a Windows server. His alert...
View ArticlePie charts using PowerShell
In some instances pie charts are better suited than line or bar. And it just looks cool. We can use the built in charting of PowerShell to query Orions's database for infomation then powershell...
View ArticleAlerting with Custom Properties - Trigger Action - Default Email
I wanted to outline some additional ways to help with cutting down on alert noise with Orion. I'm building off this previous thwack post. This post talks about using a Custom Property to define the...
View ArticleMonitoring 101
Despite the relatively maturity of monitoring and systems management as a discrete IT discipline, I am asked - year after year and job after job - to give an overview of what monitoring is. This...
View ArticleWhat We're Working on for NPM (Updated March 17th, 2017)
Since the release on NPM 12.1 we've been hard at working building the next round of exciting functionality and improvements in existing functionality. I'm pleased to share the following list of items...
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