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Orion Log Viewer the New and Improved Version of the Syslog and Trap Viewers
While the existing syslog and trap functionality that ships with the Orion® Platform has served us well over the last several years, there has always been some room for improvement. For example, we...
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DISKS SPACE TREND Report with SQL Reporting Services
I created a Solarwinds Disk Usage Report using MS SQL reporting service. The SQL query should work for Solarwinds Report Writer too. The report will collect fixed disk usage (%) information for all...
View ArticleUnable to edit views if column too wide
I have been struggling for a while now with editing a view. My work around was to create a fresh view from scratch each time I wanted to make an edit.I finally spotted what was causing the problem so...
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Auto-populating a list of Groups on a custom node property - to drive alerts...
I was trying to come up with a longer name ;-) I have a need to drive alerts filtered to only nodes of a certain group. The generally agreed approach for this is a custom property with the groups in...
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...
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Muted Nodes Resource
Muting of Nodes, Interfaces, and Applications is a great option added to Orion, but I've noticed that there wasn't an easy way to see these in a report. With that in mind, I added a custom report in...
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Adding 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...
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Custom Query resource with colors and styles
Many of you may be aware of the beauty of the Custom Query resource when it comes to customisation of the Web Presentation. Simply when a resource/widget is not available out of the box, the Custom...
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Group 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...
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Database transaction log is full - Recovery ( Simple Mode vs Full Mode )
Growth is either down to 2 reasons:1 NO DISK SPACE2 LDF Autogrowth restriction has been reachedFirst thing I would do is Change Recovery from FULL to SIMPLE if not done so alreadyDatabase recovery...
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Troubleshooting NCM performance for jobs /devices downloading configs failure
I will try to address most common issues with the NCM Jobs which you can troubleshot kindly check these areas of application before you open up the support ticket with Solarwinds Your check listNCM...
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How-To: Insert Google Charts (Pie Chart) within Custom HTML
I was recently talking with dgsmith80 in regards to showing the hover over values directly on the bar chart. He was able to get it working, however, as the conversation continued, and more folks joined...
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Node Uptime Report (swql)
Someone asked for a node up report and I came up with this one. The person asked for the ability to search for vendor as well as node name and IP address. And duration in a easy to read format....
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Custom Query resource with colors and styles
Many of you may be aware of the beauty of the Custom Query resource when it comes to customisation of the Web Presentation. Simply when a resource/widget is not available out of the box, the Custom...
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