Custom Maps for Group Details Page
I have spent time with multiple customers who are looking to create custom groups, maybe in a situations such as school districts or hospital systems, and would like to have individual maps for each...
View ArticleScoreboard
I needed to display basic information in an easy to view/understand format for a NOC screen. The best way that I found is by using a scoreboard. 1) Create custom property Count2_Up, Count3_Warning,...
View ArticleAlerting on Volume Thresholds
Back in April of 2015, NPM 11.5 was released and with it came a brand new Web-based Alert Engine in the Orion Platform. At the time, and ever since, one of the most valuable capabilities of this new...
View ArticleVolume Report - Fixed Disk - Available - Size - Used - overall volume...
SolarEGGs lol that always makes me laugh anyway, Â Here is a report for a question that i wanted to answer and i know that before i post this i have wayyyyyy OVERÂ thought this and yea sure it can be...
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 ArticleSyslog Priority Table
In looking at the raw syslog messages, there is a priority code which is listed as the first field (<134>). Sometimes we need to decipher this quickly, so that we can attach a LEM connector to...
View ArticleWhat We're Working on for NPM (Updated December 4th, 2017)
NPM 12.2 has shipped and we're hard at work building the next release. Here's what we're working on, in no particularly order. Network Insight for Cisco Nexus - Covering things like FEX, VPCs, VDCs,...
View ArticleMonitoring Disclaimer
 Disclaimer     No representation is made that the quality of the Monitoring services to be performed is greater than the quality of Monitoring services performed by others.
View ArticleIntegration with PagerDuty
PagerDuty has developed and provided a very nice integration guide for SolarWinds. However, in my experience, it goes a little too far by requiring extra custom properties and VB script execution via...
View ArticleGroup status bar gauges
Here's the source code/implementation for the bar gauge version of the pie charts and bullseye charts first mentioned in this discussion and later elaborated upon here. PrequisitesYou must know the...
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