Brocade SAN switch(SN6000B) CPU and memory metrics
Hi All, Just found the proper OID to monitor CPU and memory for Brocade SAN switch(SN6000B) so thought of sharing it. I was able to bring up a custom poller and also matching with details captured from...
View ArticleGroup status pie charts
Here's the source code/implementation for the pie chart version of the bullseye charts first mentioned in this discussion and later elaborated upon here. PrequisitesYou must know the Group ID of the...
View ArticleSolarWinds High Availability - HA - In a WAN Environment!!!
A Disaster Recovery StoryOnce upon a time there was a product called Fail Over Engine... This product was to allow companies a real disaster recovery option. The community that used it was less than...
View ArticleWhat We're Working on for NPM (Updated December 5th, 2018)
NPM 12.4 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 Palo Alto firewalls - Monitor site to site VPN...
View ArticlePLAN FOR A PRODUCTION INSTALLATION / UPGRADE / MIGRATION
PLAN FOR A PRODUCTION INSTALLATION / UPGRADE / MIGRATIONWhy should i upgrade ?We strongly recommend you to upgrade to NPM 12 this Orion NPM introduces a number of significant enhancements to improve...
View ArticleVolume Report - Fixed Disk - Available - Size - Used - overall volume...
SolarEGGs lol that always makes me laugh anyway, Here is a report for a question that i wanted to answer and i know that before i post this i have wayyyyyy OVER thought this and yea sure it can be...
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 ArticleNode Downtime with Duration and Minimum Length Filtering
**REQUIRES ORION PLATFORM 2018.2 OR ABOVE** I had assembled this based on a much older SQL report, and then updated it to SWQL, then added some more intelligence to it so you can filter it based on the...
View ArticleAlert 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 ArticleExternal Nodes are never out of reach
When you think of adding a Node, you think you have to be able to ping a device to get meaningful information. External Nodes were created for devices we didn't want to actively monitor, but set as a...
View ArticleBuilding Simple PerfStack Project Lists With SWQL
In my opinion, PerfStack is the best new thing SolarWinds has given us, since the last best new thing they gave us. PerfStack already has plenty of things going for it, even in its infancy. There are,...
View ArticleBuilding Simple PerfStack Templates With SWQL
As the title states, I will attempt to show you how to build quick, and simple, PerfStack templates using SWQL queries. My intent is to keep it simple here, so I will NOT be going into anything that...
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