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Re: How to monitor an Oracle RAC setup

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Thanks but I just had a DBA go over it this morning. It's looking like the only way to do this is assign multiple Oracle templates (if that's even possible) to the same server with each template having a different DPN specified.


Re: Two Part Question on Orion Training

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Thanks so much. This number worked!

Re: NPM newbiew question

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My team also need some begin training on Alerts and creating Maps.

 

emmab

Re: Custom Tabular Universal Device Poller Labels

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Any resolution to this?  I am attmpting to do the same thing.

Re: LEM agent question

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I am new to LEM. This morning I was with this lady from Solarwinds told me that SPOP folder contains certificates.

So for example, if i push an agent to computer A and then that computer's IP or name changes for some reason and it shows as disconnected. Then we have to stop the solarwind agent services on that PC and delete the spop folder. After that, restart services again and fresh spop folder will be recreated. Repush the agent on that computer and it will show as connected. So SPOP actually communicates with LEM manager for certificate purposes.

 

 

This product is so complicated and confusing to work with though.

Re: Copy View with Left Navigation enabled

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Not at present, but definitely a known FR. Tracked internally as #251292.

Re: Alert when ESX Status in equal to UP

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Looking for the same (similar) alert.  What I found was thought the Custom sql alert is there, you still have your hands tied a bit.  The Custom SQL Alert limits what databases/tables you can query.  Only there WHERE is available, Select and FROM are restricted.  I want to alert on Operation Status != Connected.  I found the db where that data is [SolarWindsOrion].[dbo].[VIM_Hosts].  This specific table cannot be queried from the Custom SQL Alert.  The following select statement works in SQL managment studio.  If you are not the VMWare admin talk to them.  vCenter can be configure to send SNMP trap to Orion and you can alert off of those.  I opted to just let vCenter send an email alert and by-pass Orion.  (hint-hint nudge-nudge towards SolarWinds to work on ESX Host Alert templates ;-)

 

SELECT [HostID]

      ,[HostName]

      ,[VMwareProductName]

      ,[IPAddress]

      ,[ConnectionState]

      ,[OverallStatus]

      ,[NetworkUtilization]

      ,[NetworkUsageRate]

      ,[CpuLoad]

      ,[CpuUsageMHz]

      ,[MemUsage]

      ,[MemUsageMB]

      ,[VmCount]

      ,[VmRunningCount]

FROM [SolarWindsOrion].[dbo].[VIM_Hosts]

WHERE (OverallStatus != 'green' OR ConnectionState != 'connected')

Re: Does Anybody Actually Use the CLI?

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When ever it is available, I use the CLI.  I have noticed that when you use some GUI's it makes odd automated choices and tends to make the text based configuration more difficult to read (i.e. asdm).  CLIs are require much less bandwidth for administration - so you can say, put SSH to these addresses in CoS1 and not worry about taking much bandwidth from priority apps and you are able to connect easily even during congestion.

 

When doing a mass configuration, I would rather prepare the configuration in excel or notepad, then paste it in instead of clicking through it.  I recently had to deploy WAN accelerators that I had to create the tunnel through the GUI in order for it to automate the key exchange.  Steps were scroll to the bottom, click add, type in name, Tab, Tab, Tab, Type in IP, Tab, Down, Down, Tab, Space - Repeat that sequence 45 x 44 (44 tunnels on 45 devices)!  No fun... The company has an automation tool, but it is at a cost and I had to beg and plead, kick and scream to just get them to approve the purchase of the devices (my work pinches pennies, sometime to a fault).  Although the rest of the configuration could be done in the CLI and took 30 seconds to set the rest of it up (find, replace, copy, paste, done!).

 

I must have all firewall changes documented, approved, and implementation validated.  To document a change using the GUI, one would need to use screen shots and/or video recordings, but a good change validation is usually done through text comparison which does not translate well to screen shots, so a CLI is a must here.


Re: InterfaceName property

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Thanks for posting this! I have to make an IP-helper change on some Cisco switches, and this will help me out a bunch.

Re: disk monitoring with mount points

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weird, what version are you using?  Do you have SAM, or just NPM? (I think you need SAM to do this).

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Re: Does Anybody Actually Use the CLI?

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Even in Windows the Comand Prompt is my 3rd most used program. Right below notepad and RDP.

Re: No CDR data returned from server

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I have been working at this for a while. What I've found out, is that CDRs store the timestamp as UTC, and therefore, depending on your local time zone, there is a time gap between the time stored on the CDR, and the local time. In my case is 5 hours, since I am in the (UTC -6) Central Time (US, Canada),

time zone. I am five hours behind UTC because of the current Daylight Savings Time.

 

So, two options:

Either wait at least the amount of time delay from UTC to get Call Detail Record Tracker to display data. (I left my ftp server loading CDRs overnight, and ran CDR Tracker in the morning, and data started loading. That's how I noticed the time difference).

Or, manually change the time on your server computer to the UTC time to get CDR Tracker to start loading the latest data.

 

Obviously, the desired fix for this would be to get CDR Tracker to adjust the UTC timestamp in the CDRs to the local time, but I don't see any settings anywhere in the program to allow for this. If anyone knows how to fix it, please post.

 

Thanks,

Carlos.

Re: [BUG?] Orion variables not showing up in AC's web interface

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I'll give it a shot.  Should I use Sys.SysName or Node.SysName?  Is this a bug, or have I been using the wrong variable?

Re: LEM agent question

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Sorry this is my first go around with any type of agent issues as well.

Re: [BUG?] Orion variables not showing up in AC's web interface

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Bah, change to {Node.SysName}.  Sorry about the typo.


Re: LEM agent question

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Why don't you try to uninstall using the remote utility and see if you can do it.

Re: [BUG?] Orion variables not showing up in AC's web interface

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Can you try changing the property in the alert shared tab from ${NodeName}  to ${Node.SysName}?  I replicated the behavior on my own setup with an interface down alert and changed to use the Node.SysName prop and it worked better.

 

I think the problem is that orion is not setting the NodeName property value for the alert. Let me know if my suggestion worked or not.

 

Thanks.

Re: Assistance Needed with Windows Monitors

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Perfect...   That did the trick.  Thanks for the assist.

Re: NetApp Disk Failure Alerting

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Hi eloyramirez,

 

Go to the Event Monitor and then select Severity -> Information in drop down and see if the alerts are appearing there:

 

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If you see the event there and then wish you change the status, click on the little pencil icon in the Edit column, which will open up the edit dialogue. There you can change the severity of that alert going forward:

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Re: Does Anybody Actually Use the CLI?

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Same here flobb, except I stopped using Notepad a long time ago for most text editing, I currently use EditPad Pro. And while I’ve almost been forced (ok I’ve been forced) to add PowerShell to my list of scripting languages, I still get a lot of mileage out of cmd.exe and batch scripting.

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